About your hunting rifles

[longcruise]

Tried to get better picture, but lightning is not cooperating.

The background is too light in contrast to the rifles. The camera is adjusting for the light reflecting from the wall.

Look at the picture in the post quoted below to see the difference.

I'm working on turning this into a beater. I built it for hunting as well as fondling. No game has been taken with it yet. I still need to learn to engrave so I can complete that part and then "age" it a bit.

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[olskool]

i let a nice 6 point go this morning, had him in the bad 40 cal. sights and lowered the gun, just felt like i had to give something back. might sound crazy but i did it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[Nor'Easter]

i let a nice 6 point go this morning, had him in the bad 40 cal. sights and lowered the gun, just felt like i had to give something back. might sound crazy but i did it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Sounds like you guys have a nice sized deer herd there. They are few and far between up here. I've passed on a few immature bucks in the past and had people say it was crazy. But I felt good about it. I stumbled on a bruiser buck last two days of the season last year. This year I have permission to go down in the thick stuff he's hanging in. Hopefully the wind will cooperate .

 

[hanshi]

I no longer hunt any game. I once hunted all through the seasons and had a few rifles I used for large and small game.
Most of the deer I killed over the years were taken with this little plain .45 longrifle. I never found the .45 lacking in power and accuracy. This rifle's my "pet".

I killed this deer with my (only) smoothbore using a .600" patched ball. I really like this gun.

This .36 TVM "Southern" mountain rifle was my favorite for small critters.

 

[aussie pete]

I'm working on turning this into a beater. I built it for hunting as well as fondling. No game has been taken with it yet. I still need to learn to engrave so I can complete that part and then "age" it a bit.

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That's some lovely work there! Attention to detail is stunning - the wood to metal fit is precise; painstaking application for sure. Congrats!
It's wonderful that it's going afield - it'll just get better and better. Would love to see a repost in about five years!

Pete

 

[Mgbruch]

My hunting rifles. Both built from a blank by myself.

"Miss Sally", my Southern Mountain Rifle, has a 44" swamped Colerain barrel in .50 caliber. The lock is a Chambers Late Ketland. She's my primary hunting gun, and has helped put deer meat in the freezer.

The early styled plain gun has a 43" .58 caliber barrel by Rice. The lock is a Chambers Early Ketland. I haven't hunted with this one yet... or taken the time to work up a load. I was going to sell it, but then I lost my old .58 in a fire. So I'm keeping it now.

 

[tom mesa]

I have to show my hunting rifles. That's all I can do anymore, show them. I have holes in both retinas. Having injections ,monthly in left eye, every 12 weeks in the right. The specialist give me some hope of recovery. God knows what's best ,and I leave it in his hands.

 

[wattlebuster]

Im gonna pop a doe for some jerky an stew meat first off this yr with this one. Its a .54 Don Bruton that I finished




Next up will be this .62 Jud built a couple yrs ago


Then the Schell woodsrunner .62 is batter up


And of course the king on the hill is Samson my Don Bruton .62 he is an old friend