ORIGINAL: savage221
GUYS, GUYS, GUYS…easy!!!
Thanks again for the advice, I really appreciate all of it… well most of it. I’m not really sure where a few of you get off judging my shooting ability over the internet but maybe Viagra isn’t working for you and being a jerk on the internet gets you to your happy place, I’m not judging.
Anyway, to answer the scope question I'm shooting a 9/32 Nikon Buckmaster.
I’m not a guy that is afraid of magnum loads; the only thing I shoot out of my BPS 10ga are 3.5 inch mags and I run through about two to four boxes a season from early goose in September to the last days of duck season in December. I don’t have the flinch with the BPS but I do with the M77. My guess is that the scope on my BPS has never whacked me in the head…why… because it doesn’t have a scope on it
. Nothing to do with magmawhateveryoucallit.
I’m like my dog I guess; he ranges too far and I whistle him in. He comes back because he’s conditioned that if he doesn’t come back he gets a zap from the e-collar around his neck. I put the M77 to my shoulder and I’m already thinking I’m going to get hit in the head with the scope, I flinch and the deer goes jumping into the brush. Anyway, to all of you guys that have said I’m over gunned for white tails, I agree and that’s why the Ruger is going in on a trade. If I loose some money on it, oh well, at least I’ll hopefully have a gun I enjoy shooting. Thanks again for all the constructive advice. It’s cool that we are all a community of sportsman that can bounce ideas off each other. You are all tops in my book
Listen man, the facts just doesn't tell us this. You can spin it anyway you like, but if you have that much of an issue shooting a 140gr bullet from a 7mm mag, you won't be able to shoot a 180gr bullet from a 30-06.
I may be wrong, you sound like a once a year practice type of guy, with your one deer gun theory. I don't care what you get, if you can't handle a 7mm Remmag, you will have issues with most guns.
I know its no fun to hear it. But it is what it is. You come on here, and ask a pretty silly question, you already know the answer for. You get replies that are honest from some, and replies from others, that tell you to shoot the gun they shoot, and if its not what you want to hear, you cry foul.