Great story! Similar to me, been 20 years since I deer hunted. Although my result was different. I got a 6 pointer. Day 2 the big doe got up , nose dived, got up again and I never found her.
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Nothing at all wrong with the 35 Marlin, but it does have its limitations and longer shots are certainly one of them.
Even larger calibers do if the wrong bullets are used. Chances are you were using round nose bullets in the 35 Marlin,
and with that style magazine it is the safest to use.
If the opportunity is there for longer shots by all means take advantage of it.
Take your time with your selection of a gun and cartridge.
Don't just jump on one because your familiar with hearing it mentioned.
By the way, in PA we train the young boys to piss more than 200 yds. lol
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Great story! Similar to me, been 20 years since I deer hunted. Although my result was different. I got a 6 pointer. Day 2 the big doe got up , nose dived, got up again and I never found her.
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Around here it's shotgun or muzzleloader. No rifles. Although I do want either a 30-06 or 308. Leaning toward the 308. I like shooting long distances. Unfortunately the local range only goes out to 200 yards. I'd like 500 yards, 300 would be nice.
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Like my friend Hanr3 said, here in Illinois only shotguns with slugs or a muzzleloader here. I myself am a muzzleloader fan and even thou I have both I only use my smoke stick. To me, you train yourself to be a better shot when you only have one but I have before shot reloaded and shot again end up having 2 laying dead in the field.
I do love the anticipation of waiting for the smoke to clear to see if I have made a good shot. As far the choice of dropping a deer in its track or not, I prefer to track a blood trail, I think it the second best thing of a hunt only to watching a deer working its way to you, but that's just me.
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had one or 2 leave for parts unknown after being clearly hit to never be seen again myself and not a drop of blood to be found
I have a video somewhere of a doe my friends wife shot with a 22 250 , I was on video that day and she shot it in the head at about 75 yards . it went down ,did four or five flips in the grass and got up running like the wind . We all sat there for a bit astonished and then went to the house to get all of our trackers and some short range weapons . so off we go into the brush and about 100 yards in we come up on her and she is laying down looking in our direction . at about 25 yards the man whos wife shot it the first time shot it in the head again with a shotgun and a slug !
that deer came up like a bolt and about ran me and another guy over , ran right between us so close I could have touched it !
we tracked her for about 2 more hours and never saw her again after the blood trail let up .
they have a will to survive that is beyond what is real for sure .
Huntinslabs nailed it..forget the see thru mounts....with practice a scope on a low power works fine.. The 308 is very efficient with bullets up to 180 gr. After that the 30-06 shines because of increased case capacity...I own three 30-06, and five 308s...you can't go wrong with either...
Your partly correct. The scopes you mentioned would be just fine, assuming you can see thru them.
Hunt someplace where snow is common, and it wouldn't take long to see the merit of having iorn sights as a backup.
I doubt see thru mounts or flip mounts were designed with southern hunters in mind.
Yes flip mounts, just grab the scope and push it out of the way.
Well we did not get to go again, but I have been assured next year, I can go whenever I want during season. I will have new rifle and probably a 4x4 side by side. Think the wife and I would enjoy that more than a regular 4 wheeler. I also may not have mentioned, but the limit in west Tn. was 2 bucks a season and 3 does a day. That's right 21 a week. Think they not thick. Mae and I went out just to look a couple days ago and we saw 14 turkey, 2 small bucks and 20 does in 30 minutes. I am already drooling for next year. haha
When season first opened, My step Brother and two of his friends came over to Site in their scopes using the Contraption that holds the Gun -- taking the human element out of the shot... they also had a range finder -- targets were set up at 25 -- 75 -- and 150 yards If you have never done this it will open your eyes to what the chart shows for the point of impact