I am goingt to be allowed to hunt an area this year that has quite a few homes in the area. the community is relativly small and i will be the only one for years allowed to hunt in the area.
I dont want to belt out magnum rounds on sunday mornings during deer season so i am thinking of what type rifle and in what caliber i should get that is relativly quiet. ill be hunting from a climber mostly but the bottom area i am going to be allowed to hunt in echo's like crazy.
I was thinking something easy along the lines of an NEF 44 mag or 45 LC and load the rounds to 1K MV or so. any other ideas would be helpfull.
thanks

Lots of homes? Um, how about bow and arrow?

A heavey 44 bullet and a long barrel is nice and quite try 8 grs of herco I shoot a 310 hard cast out of a 14 inch contender and is fairly quite a longer barrel would be more so.

Another vote for bow, once you kill a big game animal with a bow, using a rifle seems like a piece of cake.

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Originally posted by Kamo Gari:
Lots of homes? Um, how about bow and arrow?

the homes are not in real shooting distances they aree within earshot.
i'm not really into the bow thing. i'v got one, i just dont hunt with it.

See if a silenced 44 Mag is legal to hunt with in your area. Shootersdepot.com has one for sale.

KSTEPHENS, I'm not sure what kind of shot distances you anticipate, but I have a Henry rifle in 45 LC that is quite accurate (with irons) out to 50 yards. It is pretty quiet, I'd put it on a par with a 22 long rifle for report.

It is a ton of fun to shoot, it's fairly heavy, and recoil is nonexistant, and I'm sure it would be effective on whitetails at that range. I haven't even paid attention to whether or not you could scope it if that would be a concern, but I'm sure it could be done.


Good Luck--Don

You've already nailed it. There's a guy who shoots at the same range where I go that loads 300 grain 44 mags subsonic and has taken lots of deer with it. He says it knocks them down just as fast as any other gun he's used, only quieter. Keep the distance reasonable, know your backstop, load your freezer!

Normal rifle - only shoot once

Most won't hear in the morning - anyone who does will say 'what was that' when they hear nothing else they'll forget about it.

99% of UK stalking is done within earshot of houses. I now use a moderator but that's for my own ears - very very rarely had any comment prior to that.

If you do shoot be circumspect about recovery of the carcass - anyone who did hear and didn't twig certainly will if they see a full camo rig with a buck on the fender!

If you really are paranoid about noise use a normal rifle and IMR SR4759 - most 308/06 sized rounds with normal bullet weights work with about 23gr. Sounds like a 222rem.

KStephens,

Do you own a MLer?

I have an older CVA #11 inline w/ 26" bbl from when CVA 1st entered the inline game. That rifle does quite well with one 50 grain pyrodex pellet pushing a 240 grain hard cast .430 bullet in a green knight sabot. Low report and plenty accurate at 100 yards. Shot through 2 hogs with it one day in one shot.

Also had good accuracy in that rifle with a .429" 200 grain HDY xtp in a green knight sabot being pushed by 2-30 grain pellets of pyro. Shoots around 3" at 100 yards and the report is mild on that as well.

I used to hunt around alot of houses as well in one area I had permission to hunt. To be honest we used 30-30s and 308s when we hunted there and it was surprizingly quite. It was 40 acres of wooded land and we too hunted from climbers. Usually two of us hunted it at a time on each end of the property. When my buddies would shoot it was not that loud and when I shot they said the same. Depending on which direction they shot it was really quiet at times. We knew where the houses were and made sure we fired in safe directions. Took some nice bucks on that piece of land. Now it's a big subdivision I wish it were still woods and we were still hunting it, heavily populated with whitetails.....

If I wanted to go CF, I'd just get a 30-30 and hit the woods. I don't think you'd be able to distinguish much of a difference from a distance between the 30-30 and a 44 Mag. If you handload, you can load a slow cast in the 30-30 as well.

Another thing about the 30-30 is they can be had cheap at many pawn shops.

Good Luck

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