cas rifle & deer seasion

[Buffalow Red]

 dont know if this is on right form butttttttt
took my cas rifle 44mag with black powder & got a doe today, the ghost ring sight was great , my brotherin law shot an 8 point saturday. there havenot been many shots fired this year, within our hearing range. normaly opening morning sounds like a small war.
was 65 degres this morning a 5am & 80 yesterday noon here in sw mo.

[Dick Dastardly]

Ho Red,

I'll be walkin' that same trail come Thursday.  I'm takin' my Browning 92 44 Magnum and Big Lube™ Holy Black charged ammo to the woods.  That gun started it's life as a deer killer.  Still is.

DD-DLoS

[Cuts Crooked]

I've taken a few deer with my old .357 Rossi down in Mizzora and one with my .45 Rossi in southen Iowa. They werk great fer the job. (coursew the ones with the .357 wuz with smokeeeless )

[Wills Point Pete]

 I've used both my rifles for deer, the .45 Colt '92 clone and the .357 Marlin 1894C that rode in the trunk of my county cruiser for half my career. I did "cheat", though, both rifles are always charged with hot smokeless JHP loads unless I am at a CAS shoot.
I have taken deer with BP .45-70 and cast bullets but for the revolver cartridges in a long gun I want all the power the round will give. I figure I owe the critters a quick death if I'm going to shoot them.

[Delmonico]

Be sure to check local Regs first, some states have a Foot Pound requirement.  Ours needs 900 FPs engergy at 100 yards.  Black Powder loads in pistol calibers don't cut it and don't think the Conservation Officer won't know or ask.

[Dick Dastardly]

Last I looked, Wisconsin allows anything center fire .25 Cal and up.  I kin just see some hunter blazin' away with a lil .25 ACP pocket pistol.  Why,  he might even scare the deer a little.

DD-DLoS

[Delmonico]

I'd be in trouble up there, ,My Savage 99 is in 243, funny, the deer down here never seemed to care.

[Dusty Morningwood]

Last I looked, Wisconsin allows anything center fire .25 Cal and up.  I kin just see some hunter blazin' away with a lil .25 ACP pocket pistol.  Why,  he might even scare the deer a little.

DD-DLoS

This is where your skills as a hunter come into play.  With the .25 ACP you have to sneak up and shoot the deer right behind the ear at point-blank range.  Thrilling!    And I live in a county here in WI that is shotgun only.  So I wonder what the conservation officers would say about my single shot Husqvarna 20 gauge rifle?  It is a 20 gauge afterall, just rifled like a slug barrel.  Shoots a .662 dia RB.

[Dick Dastardly]

Howdy Dusty,

I have a Remington Rolling Block that I can shoot the identical projectile from that I shoot from my Thompson Center Seneca front stuffer.  The difference to the deer would be moot point, but one's legal in Dane County, the other isn't.  Yet, I can legally go fox hunting right after deer season with a banana clip .223 semi auto.

Fox hunters are able to use anything they carry to the field.  Not so for deer.

The Wisconsin DNR is simply clueless.

DD-DLoS

[Delmonico]

The 223 is leagal here, works OK with a good bullet and care.  Myself I use a Barnes X bullet in my 243, makes a marginal rifle into a good one out to about 300 where the velocity drops off too much for my taste with that small of a bullet.  When the throat is gone on it I'm gonna have it rebored to 7-08 though.

I do want to see what my 330 HP Gould bullet out of the Sharps will do sometime, Ol' Elmer swore by it for deer out of the 45-70, good enough for me.

[SFT]

Howdy folks!

I'm writing an article on using your CAS guns for hunting, so any detailed info and pics if you can manage them would be greatly appreciated.

Either reply here or PM me.

Many thanks;

SFT

sft1985-public@yahoo.com