"inapropriate" hunting weapons

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samsmix

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This was inspired by the SKS for Antelope thread. What Med. to Large game have you taken or seen taken with the "wrong" guns?

I personally have taken a white-tail with a 9mm Hi-power, and have seen an antelope taken with a buckshot loaded shotgun. I also took two mulie does with "00" buck, but was in the brush hunting whitetails at the time.

Everyone seems to know that an antelope rifle must shoot to half a mile on level sights, and throw rocks the rest of the way. That's why next this fall I will take my speed goat with a sidelock .50 and a round ball.:D
 
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Inappropriate for Antelope and other small game.

Although from what some are saying about wild pigs.

it might work.
 
samsmix said:
This was inspired by the SKS for Antelope thread. What Med. to Large game have you taken or seen taken with the "wrong" guns?
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Most folks forget that until the latter part of the 1800s all game killed in the world was taken with black powder and a cast lead bullet. I've seen elk taken with pointy sticks and a bent piece of wood and string. For many years, the world record grizzly bear was on the books, taken by a teenage girl with a .22 (thank God that worked out well for her).

In the '80s I did all my rifle hunting with a black powder rifle and a patched round ball. I got very good with that rifle out to 150 yards and if the game was farther than that, they were admired and let walk.

It ain't the gun, son, it's the person behind it.
 
Well said,i`ve kill hogs with 22rimfire to 50 BMG the results are the same dead hogs(and buckshot,slugs and buck and ball] SKS AKS AR15S work just fine just do not use FMJ.HOGSHOOTER
 
I think what should be looked at is "inapropriate" hunting by unskilled people! Almost any gun or weapon can be deadly in a skilled hunter's hands. Don't forget a .22 long rifle bullet can go thru 7 inches of wood under the right conditions! Many polar bears have been taken by native hunters with the 30-30 rifle. Its the hunter that makes the difference. That being said, the battleship would really only need one of those guns for most of my hunting requirements.:D
 
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Wood and blue rifles
Cartridges developed before 1950
Iron sighted rifles
rifles with 100$ scopes
rifles that your grandpa owned
Rifles that cool guys don't like
The rifle in your truck
The rifle you just bought.
The rifle you just asked about on a shooting forum.
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I shot up a flock of peacocks..

in "Nam, early '66, with a M-16 on full auto.

I was on a last light recon flight in a small helocopter (can't remember the model name - the kind used in the M*A*S*H* tv series). Just me (artillery Air Observer), and the pilot.

We were at about 1,000 ft altitude, and saw a cultivated rice paddy in an area of no known villages, so we figured VC were growing their own food supply. We decided to take a low level look see, expecting to find the "farmers" nearby.

At about 100 ft of altitude, on a glide path to the rice paddy, we noticed a flock of about a dozen peacocks in/on the rice paddy. My pilot, on the intercom, told me to shoot them and take them back to the mess hall cooks.

So, as we dove down in attack mode befitting a WW II dive bomber, I unloaded a 20 round mag on full auto into the unaware flock.

Knocked down one bird, reloaded with another 20 rd mag at the fleeing flock - hit nothing!

Then, there was the Air Observer who engaged an elephant towing a light arty cannon - shot at him with 8 inch howitzer - 200 pound bullet, 2 ton target. Actually, very appropriate, I think.

Never hit the elephant - he was a moving target. Had to wait 5 to 10 minutes after every shot for the elephant to quit running. After about 5 rounds, the cannon was all bent up from being smashed into teak trees when the elephant ran amok everytime one of those 200 pound shells exploded near him. Mission accomplished - one enemy field piece destroyed!
 
I guess I must be inapprpriate because I don't shoot my compound bow "all year long" In fact, I may go as long as 2 months in the middle of winter without shooting it at all. The rest of the year I might only shoot a couple times a week so every deer and turkey I kill must also be inappropriate............:eek:
 
DougU, I think he is talking more about people who bring it out a month before season and shoot it once or twice before they go out thinking it is a crossbow.

I do know a guy who sights his weapons on one day a week before season and that is it. He is in his 60s and spent a lot more time with them when he was younger. Once he shot a single shot with his muzzle loader at 125 yds, it was on target and he put it aside satisfied. He has hunted at least twice as long as I have been alive and no reports of him wounding anything that got away, so I can't judge. I know others who don't shoot well enough to be able to zero their shotguns at 45 yards with $50 worth of sabotted slugs.
 
Have not checked it out myself to find if it's fact or crap, but I hear Alabama has a spear season. I also know people who have hunted hogs with knives.

I think there is no such thing as an inappropriate hunting weapon, unless you go into the extreme overkill, like using a 20mm rifle for white tail.

There are, however, some inappropriate/irresponsible hunters out there.
 
Okay I shouldda been more specific. I meant marginally capable weapons NOT designed for hunting. Antelope & larger is what I meant by med to large game. Not peafowl, poodles, mice or bunnies.
 
I've known of some, and even seen it once, but I was thinking not so much of head shots as traditional heart & lung shots. Deer shot with .30 carbines, service pistols & service revolvers, prarie animals with shotguns or punkin' slingers...whatever.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, I hunted whitetails with my brother who took 3 that day with a .375 H&H. He brought it for bison, but then found out he could buy surplus deer tags. Well, dead is dead. Meat damage was not so different fron an '06, which is really exactly what I expected.
 
while tail with an AR15(not 6.8) I've committed blasphemy:eek: I'm also doing my spring blackbear with a 303 instead of 375 or larger...what can I say? I'm an unethical and heartless bastard
 
nope, you are a sane and sensible bastard.

Just kidding. Seriously though, I can't think of a cartidge much better suited to black bear than the .303.
 
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