ORIGINAL: TEmbry
ORIGINAL: Rory/MO
Trevor, I only gun hunt with a ML anymore. Rifle hunting didn't bore me, it just got old. I needed a change, and I'm real glad I switched. Probably never going back to the .308
Yeah, the thing with me is, I started out opposite than most...My first deer hunting gun was a slug barrel for the shotgun I already had. We were robbed and it was stolen that winter. We didn't have money to blow on a deer rifle with other priorities, so Dad bought me a ML on clearance for $85 that next summer. Ive hunted with it ever since. Only 3-4 years after I started deer hunting did I buy a high powered rifle. I went from ML to High powered rather than high powered to ML. I killed one deer with my .270 (at 30 yards) and that was the year before I started bowhunting...now, I doubt I'll ever use my deer rifle again.
I've always hunted with a ML inplace of a rifle, it's just the way we did it.
A ML these days IS a rifle, heck they are good to 200-250 with the right load....I just liked that smoke cloud and waiting for it to clear in order to determine success.
You got that right. I don't hunt anywhere that I can shoot past 90 yards anyway though, so it wouldn't be a handicap anyway[8D]. That's one of the neatest things I've ever seen, watching the smoke clear and a deer running from behind it. Something that will stay in my mind forever for the 2 deer I've killed with a muzzleloader so far.