On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 5:40:23 PM UTC-4, Califbill wrote:
F*O*A*D wrote:

On 9/2/14 3:49 PM, wrote:

On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:21:41 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:



What the hell would a great white hunter like you be going after in this

country where he would require a big, heavy, rifle to shoot offhand? My

lever action rifle will easily drop a deer and it weighs about 6.5 pounds.





I bet your .357 carbine does not meet the minimum ME for taking a deer

in Maryland.

My .44 barely made it and you needed hotter than normal ammo.

I did know a game warden up there who said more deer were taken with a

22rf than any other caliber but it was at night, at close range with a

spot light.

I am sure your .357 would kill a deer eventually but you might be

following a blood trail in the woods for a while.

I have no interest in killing a deer these days but when I did, I

wanted them to hit the ground dead, not run around wounded for a

while. The adrenaline screws up the meat.







My .357 rifle won't be killing any deer so long as I own it. I don't

shoot critters. I have read, though, a number of articles on the potency

of the .357 round when fired through a rifle. It almost matches the

.30-.30 up to 100 yards.



I understand the .357 round, however, is the perfect tamer for rampaging

tea party zombies.



A 30-30 is actually a minimum deer round. Ok if in short ranges.

Correct. We call a 30-30 a bush rifle, good for deer stands back in the woods. When hunting an open field, you want more than that. I haven't hunted in a few years, but my last deer was taken at 150 yds with a Ruger M77 stainless in 270 Winchester caliber. An 8 point that dropped in his tracks.