Deer hunting with no scope.
04-13-2007, 01:02 PM
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Spike
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Deer hunting with no scope.
Maybe this is a stupid question but I want to ask it anyway.
Does anyone hunt with iron sights anymore?
If you do hunt with iron sights could you tell me what rifle you are using and any other details of your hunting style you'd like to share.
Does anyone hunt with iron sights anymore?
If you do hunt with iron sights could you tell me what rifle you are using and any other details of your hunting style you'd like to share.
04-13-2007, 01:22 PM
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RE: Deer hunting with no scope.
ORIGINAL: martinc64
Maybe this is a stupid question but I want to ask it anyway.
Does anyone hunt with iron sights anymore?
If you do hunt with iron sights could you tell me what rifle you are using and any other details of your hunting style you'd like to share.
Maybe this is a stupid question but I want to ask it anyway.
Does anyone hunt with iron sights anymore?
If you do hunt with iron sights could you tell me what rifle you are using and any other details of your hunting style you'd like to share.
I like to keep my 270 7400 and my 45-70 lever, and percussion rifle unscoped just for my under 50 yards spots. All the others have 2X variables on. Some of my 300win's and STW's carry 3.5-10 for long range.
04-13-2007, 03:13 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 321
RE: Deer hunting with no scope.
One time in Pennsylvania, they had a special season on a red tag farm and you could hunt small game and deer at the same time.
I still had a deer tag and so I took my rifle.
All morning long, all I saw was pheasants.
So I took my rifle home and brought my Remington Model 1100 12 Ga.
The very first thing that I ran into - and you guessed it was a deer.
There was no time to change shells so I let it have it with all 3 shells of birdshot and it stopped the deer in its tracks.
I finished it off at close range and field dressed it and put it into my truck.
I then went back out and shot two fine looking pheasants.
All with the same gun and the same shells.
I tried hunting several times before that with a Model 94 Winchester 30 / 30 and a Model 99 Savage - 300 Savage and all I got was cold, tired and hungry.
I'm sure that if I had - to hunt with open sights that sooner or later I would have gotten one that was deaf, dumb and blind. But I could not get them if they were running like a bat out of hates, even if I had a machine gun.
I did get one doe that was gut shot and laying under a apple tree with that Model 94, but in my mind that doesn't count.
I still had a deer tag and so I took my rifle.
All morning long, all I saw was pheasants.
So I took my rifle home and brought my Remington Model 1100 12 Ga.
The very first thing that I ran into - and you guessed it was a deer.
There was no time to change shells so I let it have it with all 3 shells of birdshot and it stopped the deer in its tracks.
I finished it off at close range and field dressed it and put it into my truck.
I then went back out and shot two fine looking pheasants.
All with the same gun and the same shells.
I tried hunting several times before that with a Model 94 Winchester 30 / 30 and a Model 99 Savage - 300 Savage and all I got was cold, tired and hungry.
I'm sure that if I had - to hunt with open sights that sooner or later I would have gotten one that was deaf, dumb and blind. But I could not get them if they were running like a bat out of hates, even if I had a machine gun.
I did get one doe that was gut shot and laying under a apple tree with that Model 94, but in my mind that doesn't count.
04-13-2007, 04:33 PM
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RE: Deer hunting with no scope.
I only hunt with open sights! I just muzzleload so that's all I can do, but even if it was legal to use a scope I wouldn't. I just prefer the challenge.
You should give it a try. It'll make you feel better after the harvest. I shoot a TC Omega. It's a great gun!
You should give it a try. It'll make you feel better after the harvest. I shoot a TC Omega. It's a great gun!
04-13-2007, 08:06 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Huntin' In Colorado
Posts: 2,910
RE: Deer hunting with no scope.
ORIGINAL: The Rifleman
One time in Pennsylvania, they had a special season on a red tag farm and you could hunt small game and deer at the same time.
I still had a deer tag and so I took my rifle.
All morning long, all I saw was pheasants.
So I took my rifle home and brought my Remington Model 1100 12 Ga.
The very first thing that I ran into - and you guessed it was a deer.
There was no time to change shells so I let it have it with all 3 shells of birdshot and it stopped the deer in its tracks.
I finished it off at close range and field dressed it and put it into my truck.
I then went back out and shot two fine looking pheasants.
All with the same gun and the same shells.
I tried hunting several times before that with a Model 94 Winchester 30 / 30 and a Model 99 Savage - 300 Savage and all I got was cold, tired and hungry.
I'm sure that if I had - to hunt with open sights that sooner or later I would have gotten one that was deaf, dumb and blind. But I could not get them if they were running like a bat out of hates, even if I had a machine gun.
I did get one doe that was gut shot and laying under a apple tree with that Model 94, but in my mind that doesn't count.
One time in Pennsylvania, they had a special season on a red tag farm and you could hunt small game and deer at the same time.
I still had a deer tag and so I took my rifle.
All morning long, all I saw was pheasants.
So I took my rifle home and brought my Remington Model 1100 12 Ga.
The very first thing that I ran into - and you guessed it was a deer.
There was no time to change shells so I let it have it with all 3 shells of birdshot and it stopped the deer in its tracks.
I finished it off at close range and field dressed it and put it into my truck.
I then went back out and shot two fine looking pheasants.
All with the same gun and the same shells.
I tried hunting several times before that with a Model 94 Winchester 30 / 30 and a Model 99 Savage - 300 Savage and all I got was cold, tired and hungry.
I'm sure that if I had - to hunt with open sights that sooner or later I would have gotten one that was deaf, dumb and blind. But I could not get them if they were running like a bat out of hates, even if I had a machine gun.
I did get one doe that was gut shot and laying under a apple tree with that Model 94, but in my mind that doesn't count.
