NC whitetail killed last night. Crab claw 8 pt. Came out into a winter wheat field right at dark. The closer he got the better he looked. Watched him chase 3 does and make a scrape.
Any of those will kill any deer in NC at 200 yds or less. I’ve killed a pile of NC deer with plain old hornady 130 grain bullets in a 270. Also recently been using accubonds. They work well also and have not damaged a lot of meat.
Not sure what the definition of vintage is but here’s a 70 year old rifle with a 50 year old scope. Rem. 721 in 300 H&H from the 1950s with a Leupold vari-x 2-7 from the 1970s.
This was my late father’s favorite rifle. It originally had a weaver k4 but during a Wyoming elk hunt he missed his...