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Got this boy this morning on the northern Montana plains. We had three bucks in front of my buddy and I at 130 yds. He took the one on the left with his Ruger #1 in 45-70 and I the one in the middle with my Model 94 in 30-30. BOOM, BOOM, DRT.  | ||
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Congrats and good shooting. NRA Life Benefactor Member, DRSS, DWWC, Whittington Center,Android Reloading Ballistics App at http://www.xplat.net/ | |||
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I find I am doing more and more hunting with 3030 and like it! | |||
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Well you just figure out what many of us old curmudgeons have known since childhood..Ive used the m-94 in 30-30 and 25-35 on elk and deer..Still do from time to time..I have 3 30-30s and 2 25-35s. I really enjoy hunting with old lever actions..You have to hunt, not just shoot.. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Nice work, and tasty results! I like Ray's comment too: "You have to hunt, not just shoot" | |||
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Good job, classic rifle and classic territory. Tenderlion time. Would have been very easy to envision yourself back 120 years or so taking that one. Steve........ NRA Patron Life Member GOA Life Member North American Hunting Club Life Member USAF Veteran | |||
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Honorably taken sir! Well done. There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. – John Green, author | |||
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Very well done. I still would have used my ahr 375 h&h but that is just me  Mike | |||
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Ive shot more than a few deer with my Texas Ranger grandads early 94 Win Trapper model serial number 24xx first year of production, a few antelope and 3 bull elk over my lifetime...So has my daughter... The 30-30 kills elk very well indeed as long as you don't try and stretch the range..I like a max of 200 yards for elk and 300 yards for deer broadside. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Well done. Classic Americana and some good meat for the freezer. | |||
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Well done. I shoot a lot of 30-30. | |||
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Well done young lad Mike  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Thanks all, A couple of years ago I decided to put aside the bolt actions and scopes, and do all of my hunting with lever actions. Anymore, it's not about getting that trophy buck, I have a barn full of antlers, but it's all about the rifle I use and the limitations that using that rifle impose on me. The country we hunt is north/central Montana right against the Saskatchewan border. We don't hunt tree stands, there are no trees, it's all cut wheat and prairie grasslands that have been chewed to the nub by cattle. If you haven't been in country like that, picture the scenes in the movie Dances with Wolves. Most all of the hunting is spot-and-stalk, with a little jump-shooting in the coulees. We get our deer, both Mule and Whitetail, and our Antelope in the same country. This year's deer and Antelope were taken with a 30-30 and a 45-70. I've never seen fur fly off an Antelope like it did when hit with the 45-70. The one big problem I have is deciding which lever to use next year, I have 18 or so to choose from. | |||
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Sounds perfect to me.. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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congratulations , well done | |||
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My all time favorite hunt is Mule Deer and coues deer horse back (or mule back) in those high mt. rimrocks, all jump shooting..You push the high coolies and tight rimrocks, A buck jumps up and you bail off and shoot off hand, its fast and furious but the range is not long but you have to be damn quick as they go over the hump and they are gone...I grew up hunting in this method and to this day its my far my best hunt, followed by cape buffalo a close second..Love to hunt the black bulls..My choice of rifle for that deer hunt is my 30-30 or 25-35 win. iron or peep sights.. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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