Addicting
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I thought you wanted to shoot one with a Creedmoor a few post ago. https://www.hunttalk.com/threads/new-to-this.287233/
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VikingsGuy
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Taking a .22LR for Cape Buffalo on my SA trip.
Addicting
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It’s all about shot placement when you step down to a 22LR and don’t use a 22mag. Doable though.
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BuzzH
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According to my notes, I shot this deer at 80 yards broadside with a .22 magnum behind the shoulder. Deer went about 25 yards and that was that. Only deer I've ever shot with a rimfire. I also found the bullet a CCI hollow point under the hide on the off-side, expanded to about the size of a dime.
The same day my buddy shot one with a 25/20 lever action and IMO, the .22 magnum worked much better. That being said, they both worked just fine.
The same day my buddy shot one with a 25/20 lever action and IMO, the .22 magnum worked much better. That being said, they both worked just fine.
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To much gun
warmer
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Post the video, can't be much difference from a cape buff and a muley doe.
Jape
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The .06 seemed to be a forgotten caliber when I got my first rifle, 300 win mag, whether that was misperception or not. Wonder how popular/unpopular it is today?
BuzzH
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I shot quite a number of elk with a 30/06 in the 80's through about 1993-94. The last one a few years back with my Dad's pre-64 model 70 Winchester. Shot it with a 180 grain nosler partition....about 150 yards away.
Worked just fine.
Worked just fine.
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It just needs a catchy new name and some marketing to re-invent it
The new 7.63 Martin. Comes with a flat brim hat and rebate for coldsmoke...Shot quite a few whitetails with the 06 and always did just fine if I did my part. Probably my favorite memory was a small 8pt buck the day after Christmas 1995, he stepped out in a cut bean field about 30 min before dark and I was toting the M1 Garand and dropped him at 120 yds. Never forget that white racked buck.
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Interesting graphic by Christensen Arms on the most popular rifle chamberings coming out of their shop in 2017 and 2018. We all know the .06 will get it done all day, and this is data from a single manufacturer, but still kinda interesting.
https://christensenarms.com/blog/most-popular-rifle-chamberings/
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https://christensenarms.com/blog/most-popular-rifle-chamberings/
2018 in Review: Most Popular Chamberings - Christensen Arms
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Tikka06
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Started with a 30-30 and worked my way up to the magnums over the years. Finally came back to the 06. They all kill stuff. Tried to figure up what all calibers I've killed deer with, I think 6 or 7. The 06 and the 7-08 are the only non heirloom rifles that really get any time out anymore. Shoot what makes you happy. I personally love the old 06.
BrentD
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According to my notes, I shot this deer at 80 yards broadside with a .22 magnum behind the shoulder. Deer went about 25 yards and that was that. Only deer I've ever shot with a rimfire. I also found the bullet a CCI hollow point under the hide on the off-side, expanded to about the size of a dime.
The same day my buddy shot one with a 25/20 lever action and IMO, the .22 magnum worked much better. That being said, they both worked just fine.
Where was that?
BuzzH
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Any reason you need to know?
BrentD
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I don't NEED much of anything from you. Just curiosity? Any reason why that seems bother you?
Buzz- I am way jealous of my lack of picture taking ability through the years. You have some great documented memories!
BuzzH
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Yes, there is a reason...tired of the Barney Fife internet deputy crew thinking that anyone that has success in hunting, must be doing something wrong. That combined with the propensity of same, to report their "sleuthing" to the various GF agencies and waste a bunch of time for all involved. Insecurity and jealousy are a lousy combination.
For the record, there wasn't then, and still isn't any caliber restriction in Montana that I'm aware of. I also don't intend to ever shoot another deer with a rimfire.
To answer your question, it was on the largest private ranch in Blaine County Montana. Shot it on November 8, 1997. Shot a 5x4 mule deer buck the next day, November 9, 1997 with a 25/06. The only deer I've ever shot with that round, also one of only 2 bucks that I killed on that ranch over the ten year period we hunted there.
BrentD
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I wasn't searching for your honey hole. Just putting a place with the time - which I reckoned to be closer to 30 yds bp than 20.
Did your buddy shoot his .25-20 deer with a commercial jacketed bullet or cast lead and what was so unsatifactory about the result?
My name is Brent, not Barney Fife... Trust me on that.
OverlordBear
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Try completing a midnight cell shakedown for contraband and throwing out half the inmates’s commissary for facilities’ rules violations.
