ignorethefringes
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ajrcktts, thanks for the call out. I confess, I love to hunt with old guns or at least old cartridges, properly loaded even more than I like to prattle on about them endlessly.C'mon @BrentD bring the good stuff.
A "common sense" proposal that will piss off both sides
I have nothing of value to add lol.
I took my WY antelope last year with my son’s 65 Creedmoor. Not old, but many on here would consider it “odd”.
I have used 00 buck on deer twice. It is very effective.I’ve killed whitetail deer that were being run by hounds with 12 gauge buckshot. I feel like not too many people can say that anymore.
I am always attracted to wildcats and off beat stuff, bought some terrific rifles at auctions that others turned their noses up at. My favorites are a 350 Griffin & Howe (375 H&H necked down) that came in a 30 Remington express and a Turkish walnut stock, dies and some original Fred Barnes hand made bullets. A 350 Ackley on a 30 Rem followed. A 416 Hoffman that took an african trip (losing my ammo for a day until the luggage came was an issue- only took rifles that could be fed local ammo after that). 280AI, 7mauser AI, 257 Roberts AI accounted for many deer and a few elk. A 505 Gibbs on a magnum Mauser action and a 458 Lott on a pre 64 model 70 made many trips to Africa. Many prarie dogs and coyotes have fallen to a 556 Ackley and a 6mm PPC. All the rifles in the safe have accounted for at least 1 game animal and most several.For many years, decades actually, I hunted with both the 35 Whelen and the 6.5 x 55 Swede. I took many deer with the Swede and with the 35 Whelen took deer, elk and large wild boar.
When I got got my 280AI in a Kimber Hunter that replaced both of them. I have since sold the Whelen, and all magnums but kept the Swede and plan on using it for deer season next fall.
It's history offers something of value.
A friend of mine now hunts with a single shot Ruger in 30-40 Krag.