troy fairweather
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i would think a fat point or hollow point would be best. i wonder if they will go through the shoulder plates.yeah should make a few good meals.
did pretty well with 38 special ballistics.
i would think a fat point or hollow point would be best. i wonder if they will go through the shoulder plates.yeah should make a few good meals.
did pretty well with 38 special ballistics.
I think they are shaped like a stumpy bthp to fly a little flatter. The hollow points are not a huge cavity. Since they are swaged from soft lead wire, I'd bet they expand pretty well.....can't rightly say besides brains were leaking out her ears....hate that smell.i would think a fat point or hollow point would be best. i wonder if they will go through the shoulder plates.
Haha, I get where you're coming from...MY only issue with shooting from a tree or ladder stand....is figuring out how to shoot accrately with my arms wrapped around the tree holding on for dear life.
Ive been shooting for nearly 3 decades, but I'll be bonest...Ive never been deer hunting. However, some friends are encouraging me to get into it.. Ive often tnought about how Id settle into it.. What usually comes automatically to my mind is to sit against a big rock or tree with a big camo pocho on and maybe a camo boonie hat or even a balaclava. Id just sit there with a 357 under the poncho near some grass where deer are likely to graze and wait. I realize when I finally decided to shoot the deer would be scrambling and id have to be quick. Id probably anticipate going for the neck in most cases. I used to have a friend who bow-hunted exclusively, and also seemed to go for the neck exclusively. He brought back many good kills that way.
The only sure way to kill a deer is shoot it in the heart. I am sure some disagree.
Of all the deer I have killed over the years, probably about 20, I have can only recall hitting the heart a couple of times.
Lungs are much larger target area and causes a huge loss of blood.
True. But you should use a fast expanding bullet. I am not sure that a .357 would do enough damage. I have only shot one deer with a .357. But you have a good point.
I agree.Uh....traditional black powder.....like sidehammer . 50 w roundball? That for me was an easy 100yd rig and shot em even farther. Would not use a .357 mag wheelie at such distance.
I've hunted deer with a handgun in the past, but found it limiting my opportunities to short distances and slow-moving animals.
Carry a good camera as your backup. That way you have photos if it's too far out.This is the exact reason I hunt with a handgun....same goes for my bow. I've gotten to the point in my life where taking a deer, any deer, regardless of size, at any distance I can see them at, is not a challenge, nor exciting to me. That is not to say I look down at folks that feel differently. A hunt is what we make it, and we get from it what we put into it. There was a day when coming home empty handed made me feel like a failure. Nowadays, letting a good buck pass because it's slightly out of range of my handgun or bow, but would have been a piece of cake with a rifle, makes my whole season a success. Used to be I thought I was a handgun hunter because I took a revolver along as a secondary weapon "just in case" I had a easy shot at close range. I still took the old ought-six for fear that the buck of a lifetime would appear just out of range and I would loose that opportunity. A decade or so ago, I put the ought-six away and haven't used it since(to hunt deer). That buck of a lifetime shows up now out of handgun range and I'll know I could have had him with it, just that it wouldn't have mattered that much. Others should not take my look at deer hunting as their own....they need to determine that factor for themselves. You have....good for you.
This is the exact reason I hunt with a handgun....same goes for my bow. I've gotten to the point in my life where taking a deer, any deer, regardless of size, at any distance I can see them at, is not a challenge, nor exciting to me. That is not to say I look down at folks that feel differently. A hunt is what we make it, and we get from it what we put into it. There was a day when coming home empty handed made me feel like a failure. Nowadays, letting a good buck pass because it's slightly out of range of my handgun or bow, but would have been a piece of cake with a rifle, makes my whole season a success. Used to be I thought I was a handgun hunter because I took a revolver along as a secondary weapon "just in case" I had a easy shot at close range. I still took the old ought-six for fear that the buck of a lifetime would appear just out of range and I would loose that opportunity. A decade or so ago, I put the ought-six away and haven't used it since(to hunt deer). That buck of a lifetime shows up now out of handgun range and I'll know I could have had him with it, just that it wouldn't have mattered that much. Others should not take my look at deer hunting as their own....they need to determine that factor for themselves. You have....good for you.