Last night I got a couple deer rifles out and fired them.
I usually have a few on hand for differing environments or specific weather conditions and purposes.
Some are old stand-by's that I always seem to gravitate to so I'm thinking this year I may choose some different ones that I haven't used as often as of late or would like to use before I wind up having to put them down.
I think I may just sit near some fields so two of them I zeroed at 300 yds. Others at 200,bush guns at 100 like some of the vintage stuff I like to carry about.
What are most running for opening day and how do you zero them for where your going to be?
I'm wondering what that looks like for people these days. I know Ar type rifles are popular with some of the modern chamberings but I use traditional cartridges for the most part.
How about ammo? Do you use hand-loaded cartridges or factory production offerings. I only use factory ammo in one bolt action rifle that Ill use.
I usually have a few on hand for differing environments or specific weather conditions and purposes.
Some are old stand-by's that I always seem to gravitate to so I'm thinking this year I may choose some different ones that I haven't used as often as of late or would like to use before I wind up having to put them down.
I think I may just sit near some fields so two of them I zeroed at 300 yds. Others at 200,bush guns at 100 like some of the vintage stuff I like to carry about.
What are most running for opening day and how do you zero them for where your going to be?
I'm wondering what that looks like for people these days. I know Ar type rifles are popular with some of the modern chamberings but I use traditional cartridges for the most part.
How about ammo? Do you use hand-loaded cartridges or factory production offerings. I only use factory ammo in one bolt action rifle that Ill use.
. Because handgun hunting (like archery hunting), makes deer hunting a whole new sport, with a different set of rules. And there's the rifled slug guns that revolutionized shotgun deer hunting, and came along at a time when their smooth bore and Foster slug predecessors were more likely than not to yield minute of trash can lid 50 yard groups. Minute of pie plate groups with smoothbore shotguns and Fosters were seen at the time as being some truly good slug shooters. And if you had one that could do better than that, toss your wife out of bed, and give said shotgun her pillow, because you had a real keeper. All in an era of nowhere near the numbers of deer that you see today.
