Why is there never a hunting thread on this board? I feel like

What kind of meat are we talking about? Had some deer jerky a while back, shit was good

>>31387240
Because they generally turn into look at my trophy circle jerks as opposed to the sharing of actual information.

That being said, what is everyone preferred caliber and gun for black bear?

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>>31387278
i prefer 45-70/44 magnum myself

>>31387278
12 gauge slugs. Thanks again I have never actually hunted black bear, just keep a shotgun at the cottage in case they get too friendly.

>>31387278
>That being said, what is everyone preferred caliber and gun for black bear?
44 magnum out of a lever gun, or 12 gauge slugs out of my Vepr-12.

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I like it, i havent had a lot of success but most of the time im just messing around and experimenting to see if my action changes the animals actions.

Most of the time animals really dont give a shit, as long as your calm about what you are doing a deer, coyote, cougar, or hog dont mind you. Its when you start making sudden movements do they run off.

I will give a quick anecdotal story about ballistics
>.300 savage
>Im just sitting on the ground watching a gut when it walks out of a thicket 7 yards in front of me.
>I aim for the lungs/heart
>bullet hits the shoulder
I didnt think about where the iron sights what distance the irons were sighted for.
>the deer goes down immediately
>it tries to crawl away but with a broken back, shoulders, and leg. it wasn't going any where so i walked up and slit its throat.
>The bullet hit the left shoulder
>fragmented or ricocheted
>went up and hit the deers spine.
>then fragmented/ricocheted again
>this time it traveled down the right leg hitting the inside of the right shoulder
>then it ricocheted/fragmented one more time and ran down to the knee cap.
>the knee exploded.

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>>31387398
A tried and true selection, a bit big for my opinion of BBs though.

>>31387423
You're instincts are pretty good then.

>>31387432
What type of lever gun?

Anyways, my choice is/has been 35 rem out a Marlin 336 RC.

>>31387527
>then fragmented/ricocheted again

You sure that wasn't 22lr?

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>>31387240
Here i go.
Killed this year last year December 5th 2015 saw him walk out, chasing a girl, he was on the cull list, so decided I would sit up in a blind and wait for him to come back out. Unfortunately the blind was inhabited by about 40 Hornets so I decided against it set up in the grass next to the blind and had a clear shot on to Sendero and which I thought he would return. Sure enough 10 minutes later he stuck his head out for the corn in the road I lined up the shot. Bang, Boom Done. Little 7 point. Tasty young venison

>>31387240
>Why is there never a hunting thread on this board?
People talk about hunting here casually all the time, without a dedicated thread.

Shit, I remember there being a big thread where we all talked about removing feral hogs the night before /out/ was created.

>>31387278
Why not something in the .308/.30-06/.270 class?

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>>31387240
Foggy morning in January waiting for cull dear to pop up when this 190 pound pig and his smaller red brother popped out of the brush. He was at the 150 mark standing in 200 yard visibility fog. My buddy and I made the decision we would not take either one of them for another 45 minutes or until the fog cleared completely. 46 minutes I lined up and took the shot on the big white and black one and this is the end result. He was a pre-cut pig that never develop tusks so he was very clean with little to no musk smell.

>>31387612
what caliber were you using faggot?

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>>31387240
Using guts of the pig prior to this post. I was able to bait in this little bastard. He was hot on the trail of a stinky new meal when I caught him with the Tavor at 1:56 am Sunday morning.

I don't hunt because:

>I don't need to

>I live in a country where hunting is regulated as fuck

>I don't want to hunt for sports just to kill animals without purpose.

>>31387694
30-06 150gr drt 265 yards

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>>31387278
>black bear
.357 Magnum from a +6" barrel

>>31387423
Just shout angrily at them, black bears are incredibly timid.

>>31387240
Pheasant hunting on a preserve in Nebraska that had a pig farm on it. Step off into what seems like solid ground only to end up knee deep in a collection pond of pig excrement. Not super exciting, but we still killed a good amount of pheasant that day between three of us and at least I didn't drown in poop.

>>31387657
Why not indeed? All of those work really well for BB. 270 tends to have a bit more range than is needed in my area for BB, hence the lever action carbine in 35rem. I'd prefer to have the heavy punch when my normal range is sub 100yrds.

>>31387559
>What type of lever gun?
Marlin 1894.

>>31387240
Because everybody here is a wannabe nigger hunter.

>>31387706
Nobody cares, you twink.

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>>31387278
>black bear
I don't shoot black bear. i don't even carry for black bear, easiest animal to scare off. not even that many in my part of the state anyway.


As for OPs question.

Dunno, most threads die after a dozen or two posts. not really as spicy a subject as a caliber war or shitting on other folk's raifus.


Personally, i prefer shooting pigs. Both with my flintlock and my SKS.

>at a restaurant, bunch of camo'd dudes next to us are making small talk with the waitress about how they hunted a bunch of grouse before coming here
>waitress asks how they taste, she's never had grouse before
>"beats me, i just shoot them and move on"

All of my whys

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>>31387667
A-anon is that an HCAR?

>>31387737
You did.

I take my .22 Cricket with me on hiking trips. Squirrel mixed with Campbell's vegie soup is tasty af.

I want to build a smokehouse and learn to butcher for deer and hog. Miss that jerky.

>>31387240
Because killing animals is wrong. If you want meat so badly be humane about it and buy it from the store or something instead of murdering animals in the freedom of the wild.

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>>31387240
Opening weekend of deer season spent the entire weekend watching large Young Bucks and young doe prance around in the recently corned roads. It was a good weekend to see what we had for the coming season. Unfortunately late in the evening on Saturday all of the beauty and Grace I want animal was shattered by the charging herd of feral pigs running off all the deer near the feeders. I didn't waste any time taking aim and eliminating the largest and most prominent sow in the sounder. 135lbs nasty as fuck but made decent chili meat.

>>31387803
Go to any YouTube video about hunting. There are really people who think like this...

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>>31387240
Just last Monday went coyote hunting came across female nilgai we ran her down shot her with 9MM handgun was surprised to see her drop. Shot placement is everything.

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>>31387755
Indeed

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>>31387803
I know this is bait and all but

>Freedom to die in some of the worst ways imaginable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__6Q5KAvFDk

>LOL so funny XDDD reaction image
>hurr everyone noguns faggot
So you shot a squirrel for the first time and want acknowledgement on a mongolian rice seasoning board

>>31387840
>nilgai
They let you have handguns in poointheloo land?

>>31387742
:( What a shame. They're pretty tasty too. Sigh

Season starts soon, can't wait

>>31387912
There's a small feral population in Texas, which is where I assume he is

>>31387240
Probably because hunter have a tendency of being huge antigun fudd faggots with lines such as :

>HURR YOUR PLASTIC GUNS ARE SHIT, ONLY STEEL AND WOOD IS GOOD
>DURR .223 WILL MAKE ANIMALS EXPLODE, BETTER USE 30-06
>HERP NO ONE NEEDS MORE THAN 3 ROUNDS
>DERP ASSAULT WEAPONS SHOULD BE BANNED, YOU CANT HUNT WITH THEM

I hunted almost my entire life until about five years ago, I still like to duck hunt every now and then, though. Just got tired of tracking and hunting, paying for tags and all that, just to get stuck with maybe a deer a year (farmers are ruining all of the good hunting grounds around here). Not to mention, every time someone posted a picture of their kill or bragged, someone from town always threw a shit fit over trophy hunting, even though literally No one around here hunts for trophies.

Hunting is a dying art. Farmers and businesses destroy hunting grounds, faggot ass, city fucks looking their shit over an animal that will probably be killed by a car and wasted anyways,
It's sad really. Something once considered by all (still considered by most) to be a staple in self reliance, is now "evil" and "disgusting".

I really wish I could go out west to Montana or Wyoming...

>>31387931
you're hanging out with some annoying hunters hombre

Wait, no you're not, you're just regurgitating warmed-over fudd hate because you've never held any of these conversations in real life

>>31387932
it is sad, but I hope the renewed public interest in self-reliance will extend to hunting. I think that urbanites who are suddenly interested in vegetable plots and chicken coops might be interested in harvesting game as well. One can dream

>>31387931
Not all hunters are like that, those are just radicalized ones lol. But seriously, there are plenty of hunters who are completely pro-2nd with regard to 'salt raifus and high-cap clipazines.

I'm going to try to go hunting this year. I don't have much money so its not gonna be fancy and I think processing is gonna be a bitch. I'm paying with leftover college loan money so hopefully I can get my spring loan pretty early to get more shit. So anyway I've been wondering a few shits.

I'm picking up a 1895 I've heard plenty about the Remington/Marlin/Freedom Group bullshit. I'm hoping its a newer production model and I'm gonna strip it down and work on it and hopefully its not fucked. So if its fucked I guess I just keep it and keep sending it to the manufacturer until they unfuck it? Its only like $560 at a local place NIB. Any recommended deer loads?

So I heard the best way to make the meat good is keep it on ice with the drain plug out and just keep icing/draining. I live in an apartment so I guess I can go over my dads house and do that shit in the yard or in my bathtub. I was wondering how much fuckin ice this would take if I wanted to bring ice with me and camp out? Could you do it with snow if it was pretty cold and snowy and you just change the snow? I was kinda wanting to do something with the skin myself too, brain tan that shit. So I could sit out there purging the meat and fucking with the skin and snacking on deer kebabs. Retarded?

>>31387931
Maybe deer hunting..

Most people I've met and seen, who hunt things like hogs, coyotes, and other varmit game, use guns like AR pattern rifles. The thing most forget is, is that a lot of people don't hunt with .308 or .223, they use rounds that usually don't come in a semi-auto, tactical loadout or they're too expensive to warrant buying when a bolt action will do the same job. Most common hunting cartridges work better in bolt/lever platforms rather than a semi-auto too.

>>31387890
Thank you for posting that I was going to say something along the same lines people who say this have never spent two days in nature or watched an animal be eating from the ass while it's still alive. Nature is cruel, proper shot placement is Mercy.

>>31387278
Use a .280/7mm, as fast as a 30-06 but a bit lighter

>>31387925
You are correct sir yes South Texas is riddled with nilgai.

>>31387890
I-is it biting his balls..?

>>31387931
Pretty sure this is mostly just a 4chin meme. I have never met a hunter who wasn't pro 2A. Nor one who thought a .223 would blow up a deer.
Most I ever got was distntrest in my AR cause it isn't a sub MOA bolt action.

>>31388028
I used to think they were just memes but then I met a geriatric veteran in my LGS who gave the whole "M16 is a Mattel toy, M14 was always better" rant that people on here mock, almost verbatim.

>>31388023
And with gusto, it seems.

It's common for animals to go for the genitals. one of the easiest ways to get a mobility kill. and to cease a struggle.

>>31388002
There are tons of .308 bolt actions. Tons. of. them.

>>31388096
That's not what I said, I said .308 isn't an extremely popular hunting round.

Which it isn't.

>>31388109
For some strange reason. We buy boxed ammunition off the shelves 308 30-06 basically the same damn bullet until you get to the hevier gr stuff. The difference between 308 and 30-06 is when you are reloading your own ammo, that extra case length goes a long way.

>>31387738
I mean, I don't shoot them for fun, I shoot them for meat.

Woods bear is 200% tasty.

>>31387742
Fuck those guys. They are ruining the sport for everyone. Like it or not, we need to win hearts and minds.

>>31387932
I'm sorry it is that way for you mang.

>>31387978
Light loads with 350 Hornday round nose. No reason to go above 2000FPS for deer at close range with a bullet like that.

>>31388011
7mm Mauser or 7mm mag?

>>31388109
I know plenty of people who use 308 for white tail.

>>31387250
everyone at work is your friend when you have deer jerky

>>31388109
>which it isn't
it's only second to the .30-30 in popularity. though as of late cartridges like .270 have been gaining popularity.

>>31387840
this thing looks pretty tasty we should finish off the hogs and let these fuckers breed

>>31388227
30-06 is way more popular than .308 when it comes to hunting.

>>31388281
I really don't understand why either. It's short-action and in commercial loads the power difference is negligible.

>>31388251
Oh they are. Taste like beef no joke.

>>31388325
Because there's zillions of guns and zillions of rounds and zillions of reloading kits in 30-06.

About to go on my first bow hunt. Should I take a revolver for defense or is that paranoid?

>>31387278

Anything you'd take deer hunting. My friend recently shot a 6' bear with a .30-06. 180 grain ballistic tip. The bullet broke a rib, destroyed both lungs and badly damaged the opposite shoulder on its way to a complete pass through.

>>31388357
Which is also true of .308 and milsurp ammo can be had for cheap in .308 for range fun too. I'm not knocking the .30-06, I have a Model 70 chambered in it, but if I were to recommend one hunting rifle for general use, it'd be chambered in .308.

>>31388369
Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.

>>31387742

I hate this. I run into this bullshit all the time.

>>31388369
Check your local laws.

Some states don't let you carry a gun that's not allowed in the season, even if it's not for the hunt. (eg, a gun during bow season.)

>>31387931

You're creating a bogeyman in your head.

That said once I started getting serious about backcountry hunting, my taste and perception of firearms did change. ARs etc seem more like a novelty gun now.

>>31387240
I go dove hunting but I want to try deer only problem is that it's very expensive. I got the rifle but no money

>>31388357
>>31388325
It also has more case capacity for handloading.

Otherwise I personally think .308 is better in every way.

>>31387240
What, you aren't a noguns faggot? Fuck off then, this board belongs to us

>>31387611
pretty sure.

>>31388002
Pennsylvania hunting laws suck ass. I just wanna hunt with my Sks

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>>31387640
>tfw no way to remove bacon because they're not in your area

What caliber will kill a crypid

>>31387240
Go back to your containment board >>>/out/

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>>31389595

>>31389365
Just travel down to Texas and sign up for a hunt or something, people will thank you for doing your part, they're a pest.

>>31389582
What kind of cryptid

>>31390041
Bigfoot for sure.
If it's goatman you're dead tbqh

Will 7.62x39 take a deer? Noguns here just bought my friends SKS and want to take it hunting.

>>31390053
well, depends who stories you believe.

if you're one of the cocksuckers who think he's magic, there aint shit you can do short of holy water.

if you think he's just a giant ape, use anything people use on grizzly

>>31390259
Sure, as long as you use commercial soft nose ammo and don't take uberlong shots with it. It's like a 30-30 with a light slug.

>>31390259
Fuck yes. Comparable to .30-30. Which has taken more deer than you have facial cumshots

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>>31390053
.300 Winchester Magnum

>>31390259
Yes, it's a good deer cartridge, not terribly far off from .30-30, which is a renowned deer cartridge.

>>31387871
Tell me all about it, never known of someone owning one.

Reliability, accuracy, weight etc

I'm a huge fan

>>31388078

I believe you. Here in California even the gun store employees are full of Fudlore