Caliber of choice?
09-15-2011, 08:51 AM
#91
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 1,926
Doesn't matter to me
Once sold guns in a gun shop some years ago. All the deer rifle calibers in the shop worked on deer.
So when a hunter made his choice, I'd say to him, "Now that's an excellent deer caliber."
They were all different calibers, and not one hunter came back to say it didn't work. Of course I'd remind them that they'd first learn how good the rifle shot, out at the rifle range.
So when a hunter made his choice, I'd say to him, "Now that's an excellent deer caliber."
They were all different calibers, and not one hunter came back to say it didn't work. Of course I'd remind them that they'd first learn how good the rifle shot, out at the rifle range.
09-17-2011, 11:16 AM
#100
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 78
Went over to the gas station, across from work, to get some smokes and a cup of coffee. I asked the old boy who owned the station how his deer hunting, with his son was going. He said, "Guess I'm going to have to get a new deer gun, probably one of those .243's like my son has. When he shoots them they go down right now. I shot at one last night 50 yds. away and we never did find it."
When I asked what he was using, and he said it was an old Enfield 30-06, I was surprised, until I saw his ammo. It was some old Winchester ammo, don't recall the specifics right now but, somewhere in excess of 220 gr. I ran back over to the shop, got a box of core-lokt 150 gr., and gave them to him.
The next morning, when I stopped for more smokes and coffee, he was grinning from ear to ear. "Guess I'll keep the ol' girl," was all he said.
I mostly bowhunt, these days, but when I do take a gun its either my A-bolt (25-06 Hornady 117 gr BTSP) or my 636 (.357 158 gr fp). Not because I think these are the
"best" calibers but just because I like the guns, themselves. They'll pretty much all do the job, under the right circumstances. Just look at how many deer are jacklighted with
.22LR.
When I asked what he was using, and he said it was an old Enfield 30-06, I was surprised, until I saw his ammo. It was some old Winchester ammo, don't recall the specifics right now but, somewhere in excess of 220 gr. I ran back over to the shop, got a box of core-lokt 150 gr., and gave them to him.
The next morning, when I stopped for more smokes and coffee, he was grinning from ear to ear. "Guess I'll keep the ol' girl," was all he said.
I mostly bowhunt, these days, but when I do take a gun its either my A-bolt (25-06 Hornady 117 gr BTSP) or my 636 (.357 158 gr fp). Not because I think these are the
"best" calibers but just because I like the guns, themselves. They'll pretty much all do the job, under the right circumstances. Just look at how many deer are jacklighted with
.22LR.