Hunting Season 2008

[sanjuancb]

I 2nd the Dove Season anxiousness! This not being able to hunt in the summer thing drives me crazy.

I did use one of those worthless SR9s to harvest a "trophy"...a 18" American Bullfrog from about 10 yards.

[PegLeg45]

I think squirrels are legal at the end of August here in GA.  I always clean out some of the excess from my yard with my Weihrauch HW77 air rifle in .22.   With the 15x scope it's not really fair, but then they've had all summer to frolic and play in my yard.  Eat my bird seed and tear up things on my back porch. 

You got any 'Piney-wood rooters' up your way?
I love to hunt wild hogs...and we got a plenty down here on this end of the state. Last year I could sit on my pool deck in the back yard and watch them in the neighbor's field. My A-Bolt in .308 at about 200 yds worked wonders on them. Of course, a .44 mag from a blind at close range (35 yds) put a good thump on them too......I'll have to try and find the pics.

Good luck to all you hunters and hunt safely.....

[TAB]

I won't get intrested til duck season...

[DesertMarine]

Dove season starts Friday and quail around Nov 15.  We are lottery system state for deer, elk, orxy and over-the-counter for other animals.  I did not draw out on deer or elk, so I'll be doing dove and quail.

[shooter32]

You got any 'Piney-wood rooters' up your way?
I love to hunt wild hogs...and we got a plenty down here on this end of the state. Last year I could sit on my pool deck in the back yard and watch them in the neighbor's field. My A-Bolt in .308 at about 200 yds worked wonders on them. Of course, a .44 mag from a blind at close range (35 yds) put a good thump on them too......I'll have to try and find the pics.

Good luck to all you hunters and hunt safely.....

PegLeg,
I wished we had wild hogs out my way!! As far as I know there aren't any
So doves,ducks,geese and elk will have to do

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[shooter32]

Well, hunting season essentially has arrived (depending on where you live), and I thought I would start a thread so that everyone can share their stories and photos for the year.



I went on Saturday and got my 7-Mag sited in and am planning on doing my first deer hunt of the season this Wednesday ...... Yeah, I can hardly wait!

ericire12
How do you like your 7mag? I will be handing down my 30.06 to one of my sons and I'm thinking about a 7mag.
Two of my hunting buddys have them and just love them.

[ericire12]

ericire12
How do you like your 7mag? I will be handing down my 30.06 to one of my sons and I'm thinking about a 7mag.
Two of my hunting buddys have them and just love them.

Mine is a Remington 700 and I like it a lot. Its great because where I hunt (open farm land) I mostly am looking at having to make 225 to 300 yard shots. It is very flat shooting. I have it zeroed in at 250 yards and with that caliber I can shoot from 15 yards out to 300 yards with no hold over. At 325 yards there is a 6 inch drop.



Here is what the ballistics look like for 150 gr bullet:

Yardage   Trajectory
15   -0.65
25   -0.14
30   0.11
40   0.57
50   0.99
55   1.19
75   1.87
90   2.28
100   2.49
115   2.74
125   2.84
150   2.9
175   2.65
185   2.47
190   2.36
200   2.1
210   1.79
225   1.21
250   0
260   -0.59
270   -1.25
275   -1.6
290   -2.75
300   -3.61
325   -6.03


It has a pretty good bit of recoil - Probably along the lines of shooting a slug gun.... so its definitely not really meant to be a plinker. I try not to shoot it more then 5 or 6 shots in one sitting. Anything more then that and I notice that I am starting to anticipate the shot and I really don't want to get to the point of developing a flinch. Other then sighting it in, its basically something I only shoot when I got a nice whitetail in my scope.

It certainly does the job for deer, and can also take game up to Elk size, but it really all depends on what is best for you and your particular hunting situation.


*As a side note...... Remington is also now making reduced recoil loads for 7mm Mag that ballistically makes it perform exactly like a .270

[shooter32]

Thanks,
I am also thinking about the new 338 Fed. Read lot about both and am limited on the 338 as far as gun makers go. Price is about the same also. Ammo is alot less than the 7mag. I don't reload, "yet" and have heard the 338 Fed is tuff to get reloading supplies.
With two other guys in hunting camp with 7mags going with it might be smart in case of a shortage of ammo.

[DDMac]

Marshal'ette, change guns.
Just a suggestion, mind you.
Mac.

[PegLeg45]

PegLeg,
I wished we had wild hogs out my way!! As far as I know there aren't any
So doves,ducks,geese and elk will have to do

Heck, we hunt just about everything you can think of here in Ga.....except the really big north American stuff like elk and moose.
They even tried to bring in some blacktail deer a while ago, but I've never seen one here.
We have some really nice whitetails though and it's been a while since I got one. My son got 6 last year.

We even have a bunch of wild turkeys taking up along the creek about 500 yds behind my place. I took pics this past spring of one about 100 yds behind the house.

Maybe I can ship you some hogs.....