Author |
Message |
< 16ga. General Discussion ~ Big game hunting |
|
Posted:
Sat Jun 01, 2019 12:53 pm
|
|
|
Member
Joined: 09 Dec 2009
Posts: 1370
Location: Cheyenne, Wy
|
|
Cheesy, OK, i'll bite. "Shot the donor" What in the hell does that mean?
I am old, need interpretation .
Dale |
_________________ One man with courage makes a majority.
...Andrew Jackson... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted:
Sat Jun 01, 2019 1:02 pm
|
|
|
Joined: 08 Feb 2009
Posts: 1310
Location: Western WA
|
|
Did someone say BIG game?
16 ga over 8x57JRS 196gr 2487fps
All in a 6 1/2 lb package.
The black bear around here run to over 400 lbs, though most are 250.
Cheers,
B. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted:
Sat Jun 01, 2019 3:25 pm
|
|
|
Member
Joined: 15 Apr 2007
Posts: 9464
Location: Amarillo, Texas
|
|
Quote: |
Bought it for the FN action and was going to do a ‘custom’, likely in 6.5x55 as I already have dies for it and no rifle chambered. Then I shot the donor. It’ll likely stay a .30-06 for quite a while.
|
The donor is the FN actioned rifle in 30-06 that WAS gong to have the barrel removed, but shot soooooo well that he will leave it alone for not |
_________________
,
USAF RET 1971-95 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted:
Sat Jun 01, 2019 8:25 pm
|
|
|
Member
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Posts: 989
Location: Las Vegas
|
|
I've killed deer in northern Nevada and Elk in Colorado. Both with a Winchester model 70 in 30-06. Lost my taste for it lately. But I miss the elk meet!
Focusing on training a new. French Brit this summer to hunt over in the fall.
Matt |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted:
Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:02 am
|
|
|
Joined: 30 Dec 2012
Posts: 269
Location: Chocolate City, Florida
|
|
skeettx wrote: |
Today was a different kind of hunting
22 inch Walleye and 13 inch Crappie
Lake Meredith 60 miles from Amarillo, Texas
|
Love them specks!
Shameless plug for another Site that's civil and family friendly, Crappie.com
I'm there as Yonder, Florida Fourm
I get some of my jigs from a fellow in the Lake Palistine, Texas area.
Great folk...... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted:
Sun Jun 02, 2019 1:24 pm
|
|
|
Joined: 08 Mar 2016
Posts: 120
Location: South Dakota
|
|
I did quite a bit of research before putting in for the pronghorn tags and decided to just go for doe tags so we will see. Cheesy that is a nice rifle you have there and congrats on your elk hunt.
I’ve been looking for some nice wood stocked rifles to match my gran lighting but still unsure yet. I would like to get something unique and reload for it and all that but shotguns just seem to have more pull on me. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted:
Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:32 am
|
|
|
Member
Joined: 09 Dec 2009
Posts: 1370
Location: Cheyenne, Wy
|
|
skeettx wrote: |
Quote: |
Bought it for the FN action and was going to do a ‘custom’, likely in 6.5x55 as I already have dies for it and no rifle chambered. Then I shot the donor. It’ll likely stay a .30-06 for quite a while.
|
The donor is the FN actioned rifle in 30-06 that WAS gong to have the barrel removed, but shot soooooo well that he will leave it alone for not
|
Thanks Mike, I get it now!
Dale |
_________________ One man with courage makes a majority.
...Andrew Jackson... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted:
Mon Jun 03, 2019 3:07 pm
|
|
|
Joined: 28 Oct 2015
Posts: 166
Location: SWMO
|
|
The JC Higgins Model 50 (FN commercial action, High Standard barrel) in a Model 51 stock I bought off another forum. Yes, shot too well as a .30-06 to use as a donor for a 6.5x55, for now. Under $500 in the entire setup including Leupold 4x scope, mounts, Timney trigger, and better stock. Or I could have bought a Savage Acis or Ruger American for similar money....
Also bought this Kimber .30-06 to be a donor for a 7x57. Shot it as well. It will not remain a .30-06.
I’m in my 30’s, but don’t really fall in with what my generation seems to be buying. Price point guns with plastic stocks don’t get a second look from me. Oddball cartridges that are often 100 years old are what I gravitate to in wood stocks. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted:
Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:41 pm
|
|
|
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
Posts: 694
Location: MN
|
|
I shoot and reload too many calibers but gravitate to the Euro types like this 9.3x74R...286 grains at 2400 ft/sec....a real thumper. Have shot hogs, deer and even fox....nothing really goes to far after impact...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted:
Tue Jun 04, 2019 4:11 am
|
|
|
Joined: 22 Jan 2015
Posts: 345
|
|
I primarily hunt with the 284Win which I reload for. Have been yearning for a commercial BRNO mauser action model in full length stock, set triggers, chambered in 7x57...just because. Something like this:
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/815935429 |
_________________ 1929 Thomas Bland 16ga SxS 28"
1947 Browning A5 16ga 28"
1948 BRNO 16ga SxS 27.5"
1949 Stevens 530 16ga SxS 28"
1950 Stevens 311A 12ga SxS 30"
1952 BRNO 12ga SxS 28.25"
1963 Superposed O/U 12ga 27"
1968 V Bernardelli SxS 12ga 28" |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted:
Tue Jun 04, 2019 4:52 am
|
|
|
Member
Joined: 02 Feb 2007
Posts: 371
Location: mpls mn
|
|
Cheesy
That's a nice rifle |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted:
Mon Jun 10, 2019 7:11 am
|
|
|
Joined: 13 Oct 2015
Posts: 151
Location: SE Ks
|
|
Cheesy and I both tend to favor the older stuff. My favorites for a while have been a 1953 M99R Savage 250-3000, a 1975 Ruger Tang Safe M77 250-3000, and a Ruger 77MkII 257 Roberts. For plinking and small game I favor a family heirloom, 1906 M94 Marlin 25-20WCF shooting home cast bullets.
Here is our Wyoming hunt from a couple years ago. Took my older Granddaughter for her first out of state hunt. Heavily hunted public access, last week of the season, nothing huge but we had a ball.This year we hope to draw tags in the same unit and get her younger brother on his first goat. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted:
Mon Jun 10, 2019 9:21 am
|
|
|
Member
Joined: 15 Apr 2007
Posts: 9464
Location: Amarillo, Texas
|
|
Great picture!!
Love the tent
Mike |
_________________
,
USAF RET 1971-95 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted:
Mon Jun 10, 2019 9:22 am
|
|
|
Joined: 16 Jul 2015
Posts: 2126
Location: Hudson,Wy
|
|
Bird hunting sort of cured me of big game hunting long ago, but I have taken a friend out on a couple of successful elk hunts. About the only rifle "work" I do anymore is for coyote fur, and even then I can't stop thinking that I am missing out on a day of bird hunting.
[img[URL=http://www.jpgbox.com/page/57133_640x480/]
[/URL][/img] |
_________________ Only catch snowflakes on your tongue AFTER the birds fly south for the winter... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted:
Mon Jun 10, 2019 11:18 am
|
|
|
Member
Joined: 09 Dec 2009
Posts: 1370
Location: Cheyenne, Wy
|
|
ole_270, cheesy, make that three of us. I have an old Savage Mod 1899 take down in 250-3000 an original Win light rifle in 45-70, a Win m95 that was once a 30-40 Krag, but I had rechambered and rebarreled to 405 Win, and an old Remington rolling block in 7x57 mauser. I also have a Win m94 in 25-35 Win.
I enjoy wood stocks, don't really like the plastic generation, guess that comes from being an old man!
I have many other rifles, but the above seem to get most of my attention.
I even have a couple of plastic stocked rifles, and they do shoot well, but there is no chemistry in me for them.
Dale |
_________________ One man with courage makes a majority.
...Andrew Jackson... |
|
|
|
|
|
|