36 caliber deer hunting

[Sparkitoff]

Somebody pointed out to me that Buckshot is around .36 depending on how many "O's" is has. People use that for deer where legal. I wonder how many ball aka pellets hit the deer on average?

 

[Gordoncourtney]

I am not going to do this, and I am not asking if you think it's a good idea. I just want to know if anyone has used a .36 rifle for deer hunting and how that turned out. The details of the load and shot distance is helpful.

There are some deer species where the .36 might be the bomb, like Muntjac, Chinese Water Deer, Pudu, Brokett Deer, and some deer-like antelope like Reedbok and such.

Any used the .36 rifle deer hunting?

I am not going to do this, and I am not asking if you think it's a good idea. I just want to know if anyone has used a .36 rifle for deer hunting and how that turned out. The details of the load and shot distance is helpful.

There are some deer species where the .36 might be the bomb, like Muntjac, Chinese Water Deer, Pudu, Brokett Deer, and some deer-like antelope like Reedbok and such.

Any used the .36 rifle deer hunting?

The .36 is very interesting to me as I have a .36 double rifle , by the long range rifle company Birmingham. No police permit to fire it . And no info on it , think it’s midland gun company but their factory and records was obliterated by ww2 bombs Sights go to 400 yards rifling twist to fast for balls so the choice is sizing down .375 bullets or jacketed Sierra bullets. 180g bullets seem perfect but only produce like 1400 max ft lbs, so you need 240g to get over 2000 ft lbs. A bit of a tall order with BP as the official power with a bull it is 960 ft lbs , I even paper patched .308 jacketed bullets and have ,36 sabots

Without range time I am at a loss to make constructive suggestions but a ,375 magnum rifle will take down elephant let alone small animals . I think it all comes down to lead balls or conicals. And dream
on !!! Photo with extra 28g shot barrels