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Deer hunting with no scope.
Maybe this is a stupid question but I want to ask it anyway.
Does anyone hunt with iron sights anymore? If you do hunt with iron sights could you tell me what rifle you are using and any other details of your hunting style you'd like to share. |
RE: Deer hunting with no scope.
ORIGINAL: martinc64 Maybe this is a stupid question but I want to ask it anyway. Does anyone hunt with iron sights anymore? If you do hunt with iron sights could you tell me what rifle you are using and any other details of your hunting style you'd like to share. I like to keep my 270 7400 and my 45-70 lever, and percussion rifle unscoped just for my under 50 yards spots. All the others have 2X variables on. Some of my 300win's and STW's carry 3.5-10 for long range. |
RE: Deer hunting with no scope.
Open sights is the only ethical way to hunt. Scopes are cheating.
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RE: Deer hunting with no scope.
One time in Pennsylvania, they had a special season on a red tag farm and you could hunt small game and deer at the same time.
I still had a deer tag and so I took my rifle. All morning long, all I saw was pheasants. So I took my rifle home and brought my Remington Model 1100 12 Ga. The very first thing that I ran into - and you guessed it was a deer. There was no time to change shells so I let it have it with all 3 shells of birdshot and it stopped the deer in its tracks. I finished it off at close range and field dressed it and put it into my truck. I then went back out and shot two fine looking pheasants. All with the same gun and the same shells. I tried hunting several times before that with a Model 94 Winchester 30 / 30 and a Model 99 Savage - 300 Savage and all I got was cold, tired and hungry. I'm sure that if I had - to hunt with open sights that sooner or later I would have gotten one that was deaf, dumb and blind. But I could not get them if they were running like a bat out of hates, even if I had a machine gun. I did get one doe that was gut shot and laying under a apple tree with that Model 94, but in my mind that doesn't count. |
RE: Deer hunting with no scope.
I did it for years in the hunting woods and the military untill my vision started to go south!:)
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RE: Deer hunting with no scope.
I only hunt with open sights! I just muzzleload so that's all I can do, but even if it was legal to use a scope I wouldn't. I just prefer the challenge.
You should give it a try. It'll make you feel better after the harvest. I shoot a TC Omega. It's a great gun! |
RE: Deer hunting with no scope.
It's alright I guess as long as you can see good.
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RE: Deer hunting with no scope.
Peeps work for me on my GPR or my Win 94
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RE: Deer hunting with no scope.
ORIGINAL: The Rifleman One time in Pennsylvania, they had a special season on a red tag farm and you could hunt small game and deer at the same time. I still had a deer tag and so I took my rifle. All morning long, all I saw was pheasants. So I took my rifle home and brought my Remington Model 1100 12 Ga. The very first thing that I ran into - and you guessed it was a deer. There was no time to change shells so I let it have it with all 3 shells of birdshot and it stopped the deer in its tracks. I finished it off at close range and field dressed it and put it into my truck. I then went back out and shot two fine looking pheasants. All with the same gun and the same shells. I tried hunting several times before that with a Model 94 Winchester 30 / 30 and a Model 99 Savage - 300 Savage and all I got was cold, tired and hungry. I'm sure that if I had - to hunt with open sights that sooner or later I would have gotten one that was deaf, dumb and blind. But I could not get them if they were running like a bat out of hates, even if I had a machine gun. I did get one doe that was gut shot and laying under a apple tree with that Model 94, but in my mind that doesn't count. |
RE: Deer hunting with no scope.
iron sights on the old 30-30 and peep sights on a 300 savage
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