Vintage Hunting and NCOWS

Rowdy Fulcher · September 05, 2015, 12:42:23 PM

Howdy
What's your favorite shotgun for Vintage Hunting . A old trusty single barrel . or a hammered double . Maybe a lever or pump action shotgun .

Rowdy Fulcher · October 01, 2015, 09:59:24 PM

Howdy
In 6 weeks Rifle season opens . I can't wait . My biggest problem is which rifle to use ? The 76 in 45-60 or the 73 in 44wcf . Plan on shooting this weekend . Need to be at the top of my game on opening day .

Rowdy Fulcher · October 20, 2015, 04:26:00 PM

Howdy
I went muzzle loader hunting last weekend . I spotted a nice Buck but didn't get a shot at him . Sure hope he's still there in Rifle season .

Rowdy Fulcher · October 31, 2015, 07:29:05 PM

Howdy
Rifle season for Deer is almost here . I have scouted and the Deer sign looks pretty good . Here is a few of the Tools I use .

Rowdy Fulcher · November 22, 2015, 08:56:26 AM

Howdy
The 2015 Deer season was a tough hunt . Mother nature was doing her best at being nasty . Wind and heavy rain are never a hunters favorite weather . BUT we will be there regardless .

pony express · November 22, 2015, 06:26:37 PM

I've been able to go out 4 days so far, sometimes with the '94 38-55, sometimes modern. So far, only things I have seen while on the stand: 1 possum, 1 armadillo, multitudes of squirrels, and several turkeys. Only deer I have seen were either going to the stand, or coming back, and they never stayed around long enough for a shot.

Rowdy Fulcher · November 27, 2015, 08:48:10 PM

Pony Express
Hope things are going good for your Hunting .

pony express · November 27, 2015, 10:21:07 PM

Been kind of alternating going out with the '94 and "modern", so far the old '94 has been skunked, but got a big doe with the .308. Still have a week od doe season, so all hope is not lost. Then there's the "alternative methods" season in Dec. Used to be for Muzzle loaders, but now it includes cartridge handguns.

Rowdy Fulcher · December 02, 2015, 04:43:41 PM

Howdy
This weekend Turkey season will be in , wanting to use my 87 . But it has the short barrel and open choke . Which means I have to get em close . Who has taken Turkeys with a 87 .

Rowdy Fulcher · December 10, 2015, 04:54:11 PM

Howdy
This Saturday is Muzzle loading season . I plan on smoking me a nice Doe . If I am successful that will be my 21 Deer with that muzzle loader . I sit back and listen to people say you can't kill Deer with those old round balls . What are these people thinking ?
Oh well , Hope everyone has a SAFE and successful hunting season .

ira scott · December 11, 2015, 10:49:48 PM

Hey Rowdy! I hate to publicly admit this, but the dozen or so deer I've smoked here in Nebraska have all been taken with modern inlines, saboted bullets, and after the state made it legal a few years ago a 3x9 scope. OH THE SHAME!! Please don't give me too much of a tongue lashin! I shot my sidelock today with a patched RB and holy black in preparation for a hunting trip next weekend. Quickfire and I will try to make you proud. Will a RB penetrate both sides of a Nebraska sized deer if you shoot it in the shoulder (scapula)? I'm shooting a 50 cal. 180gr. RB with 100 grains of FFG., seemed to group pretty well, a couple inches at 50 yds. off the bench.

Rowdy Fulcher · December 12, 2015, 02:57:03 PM

Ira
You won't have no problem shooting through your Deer . Unless you try a Quigley shot . I usually shot Deer at about 50 yards , I hunt in the thick part of the woods and that is about as far as you can see . As for the inlines I have NO PROBLEM with them . I'm just a lover of the old ways . I shoot 90 grains of powder . Good luck and Happy Hunting .

Cholla Hill Tirador · December 13, 2015, 08:28:10 AM

Quote from: Rowdy Fulcher on December 02, 2015, 04:43:41 PM
Howdy
This weekend Turkey season will be in , wanting to use my 87 . But it has the short barrel and open choke . Which means I have to get em close . Who has taken Turkeys with a 87 .

Years ago a well known outdoor writer prophesied that someday the choke of a shotgun would be "built" in to the shotgun shell. He, Jack O'Connor, was exactly right.

Several years ago I guided a spring turkey hunt in which I carried an old Fox "B" in 16 ga. "just in case". I assumed it was choked modified in the left barrel and full in the right, just as most all the old long barreled doubles were. So I grabbed a handful of W-W 1 1/8 oz. of #4's and off we go. As luck would have it I was able to call in a Tom for the fella I was guiding and also for myself. I killed mine clean as a whistle and thought nothing of it.

A couple of years later I was measuring the chokes on a couple of shotguns and measured the old Fox. Much to my surprise, the left barrel was choked IC and the right somewhere around SK. I'd shot that Tom at a pretty fair distance with the right barrel.

The moral of this story is the quality of the shotgun shell used can overcome the degree of the choke. Too, large shot, say from #4 or #5 and up, pattern much more evenly with open chokes.

So load or grab some shells loaded with good, high antimony shot, buffered if possible, and go hunt up a Tom!

CHT

bear tooth billy · December 13, 2015, 04:42:41 PM

Here in Iowa we can't use centerfire rifles for deer so I have a rifled barrel shotgun. Last Saturday
was opening day and I shot at a nice doe at about 90 yds. it turned and walked straight in front
of me at about 100 yds, it stopped so I shot again thinking I missed the first shot. It dropped on the
second shot. Alas when I was skinning it there were 2 holes through it 1/2" apart. The proof will be
in the sewn holes in the buckskin.

BTB

Rowdy Fulcher · December 13, 2015, 05:53:07 PM

Billy
Is that going to be MY new shirt

John Smith · December 14, 2015, 07:19:35 AM

Quote from: bear tooth billy on December 13, 2015, 04:42:41 PM
Here in Iowa we can't use centerfire rifles for deer so I have a rifled barrel shotgun. Last Saturday
was opening day and I shot at a nice doe at about 90 yds. it turned and walked straight in front
of me at about 100 yds, it stopped so I shot again thinking I missed the first shot. It dropped on the
second shot. Alas when I was skinning it there were 2 holes through it 1/2" apart. The proof will be
in the sewn holes in the buckskin.

BTB

What's the difference between a rifle and a "shotgun" with a rifled barrel.

bear tooth billy · December 14, 2015, 04:21:27 PM

A rifled barrel fits on a shotgun and shoots a sabot slug. The original intent was to limit
the range of the bullets from flying very far in populated areas, but with technology some
of these are accurate out to 200 yds. Mine doesn't like the fast slugs, when I could get federal
slugs with Barnes expanders it shot a 3 shot 1'' group at 100 yds. They no longer make those and I'm still
searching for something close to those, now probably 3-4" group.

BTB

Rowdy Fulcher · December 14, 2015, 05:33:04 PM

BTB
I have a 87 with a 20 inch barrel I have always thought that would make an excellent slug gun . A lever action slug gun sounds fun ?

Pitspitr · December 15, 2015, 07:38:04 AM

What qualifies as "Vintage?"

I shot a nice doe this year with my M-1898 US Krag. Funny thing, our soldiers thought they were under armed with the Krag, but that doe didn't. She went down like a ton of bricks and never even twitched.

I went out Saturday with my T/C Hawkens and never got a shot, but to be honest, I'd made up my mind to be really picky on what I shot since I already have meat in the freezer.

John Smith · December 15, 2015, 08:16:47 AM

Quote from: bear tooth billy on December 14, 2015, 04:21:27 PM
A rifled barrel fits on a shotgun and shoots a sabot slug. The original intent was to limit
the range of the bullets from flying very far in populated areas, but with technology some
of these are accurate out to 200 yds. Mine doesn't like the fast slugs, when I could get federal
slugs with Barnes expanders it shot a 3 shot 1'' group at 100 yds. They no longer make those and I'm still
searching for something close to those, now probably 3-4" group.

BTB

I know what a "slug gun" is, my question is since the barrel is rifled, why isn't it a "rifle"?