Opening day Success!
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Opening day Success!
I Got out for the opener of CT rifle season to a neighbors woodlot in back of their beef pen.
I used my 45/70 Marlin cowboy with the 300 gr Ranchdog over 50 gr of Reloader 7. It was impressive and cut a 1.5 Inch hole through his heart. Blood trail was very good but very short
Not the biggest buck but work is iffy after Feb 1st and I am thanking the Lord for his provision.
Also they drag easier!!
I used my 45/70 Marlin cowboy with the 300 gr Ranchdog over 50 gr of Reloader 7. It was impressive and cut a 1.5 Inch hole through his heart. Blood trail was very good but very short
Not the biggest buck but work is iffy after Feb 1st and I am thanking the Lord for his provision.
Also they drag easier!!
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Congrats. Well done. That will eat right nice
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Re: Opening day Success!
You done good.CDL's needed in S.E. N.M.
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Good hunting, Edin!
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Nice deer!! I have been out a few time but nothing yet. Saw a few does in buck only area and just buck scrapes and no does in the anything goes area. I'm off next week so I hope for better luck.
By the way antlers don't even make good soup.
By the way antlers don't even make good soup.
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Great gun, great deer, congrats.
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Congratulations. Great photo and glad to see the 45-70 is still helping to stock the larder.
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cedars and a magnificent Whitetail buck framed in the semi-buckhorn sights of a 120-year old Winchester.
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Congrats!
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+1Dave wrote:Congrats!
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Good work...! Nice to see the Marlin Cowboy put to use.
You can't kill a deer with a .45-70 in Indiana. . .
. . . unless it's fired from a pistol...
You can't kill a deer with a .45-70 in Indiana. . .
. . . unless it's fired from a pistol...
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Re: Opening day Success!
Meat in the freezer!
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Contests Ed! Are those vintage wool bibs?
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Re: Opening day Success!
AJMD429 wrote:
You can't kill a deer with a .45-70 in Indiana. . .
. . . unless it's fired from a pistol...
I lived in Indiana Doc and I believe that a .45-70 shot from a rifle will kill Indiana deer just as dead as it will from a pistol...just ain't legal though
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soon 2 retire wrote:Contests Ed! Are those vintage wool bibs?
Bob in Friday Harbor
I meant congrats Ed, not "contests" dang auto correct.
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nice deer
nice rifle.
nice overhauls.
nice rifle.
nice overhauls.
careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
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out here that's not a deer that's a caribou
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Auto-Correct is your worst enema!soon 2 retire wrote:soon 2 retire wrote:Contests Ed! Are those vintage wool bibs?
Bob in Friday Harbor
I meant congrats Ed, not "contests" dang auto correct.
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Soon 2, Not sure if I would call the bibs vintage but I paid 25.00 dollars for them at a store that was closing when I was a young man. I bought a new Woolrich coat for 72.00 around the same time. I replaced it with a Johnson 10 years ago that was 170.00 Times they are a changing
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Actually I had a friend 20 years ago who was a very ethical hunter and conservationist, but refused to hunt with anything other than some rolling-block conversion or whatever that was .45-70; he used black-powder loads for the 'aroma and sound', and even drilled a hole to keep a ram-rod in so it would look 'legal' during muzzleloading season.soon 2 retire wrote:I lived in Indiana Doc and I believe that a .45-70 shot from a rifle will kill Indiana deer just as dead as it will from a pistol...just ain't legal though.
I never heard the gun go off but it always made me wonder what it is that makes black powder muzzleloading guns sound so distinctive - the powder, or the absence of a cartridge case and lower pressures, or what.
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Re: Opening day Success!
I'm jealous....Season opened here today as well, and I was not able to be behind my rifle.
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