Hunting w/ military rifles

[longtooth]

Anyone else hunt regular w/ your military rifle? Picture & comments.
I hunt w/ my SA M1A. Keep the battle sites on it. Am completely comfortable w/ it out to 175 yds. Would take the right shot at 200.
The battle sites definately cut down the hunting hours but I dont mind watching w/o having to shoot.

[Tactical_Texan_CHL]

LT, I hunt ALOT with my AR's: deer, hogs, rabbits, coyotes, even feral dog population control out at the pit. I've also hunted with an SKS, M1A (a personal favorite and on my wish list), a Mosin, and a Mauser. I love the old military rifles. I've got a friend who coyote hunts with a Sprinfield 30.06 quite often, but I don't remember the model number. He'd rather hunt with that than his newer .270. Have another friend who hunts coyote calling contests with his Mosin. I'll see if I can scrounge some pics of my friends guns. You've already seen my AR's.

When I was 18, a friend, his dad and I were hunting hogs on the Pecos River near Iraan. We both had SKS's and his dad had a .308 bolt rifle, I don't remember what it was. Jake and I came across a GIANT sow and boy, she didn't like us one bit. We hit her a few times, but she apparently didn't notice. Luckily, we were right by an old pump jack and we ran up the ladder! After a few more shots each, she finally went down. But Jake and I were so scared, we stayed up there for 15-20 minutes! His dad STILL laughs at us about that.

[longtooth]

I have seen a few of the Mosens at the range & thought they would make some excellent open site hunting rifles.

[Tactical_Texan_CHL]

Hit "submit" a few minutes ago accidently before I put down my little story. The Mosin's really do make a pretty good hunting rifle. You can even get pretty decent ammo for them, and even reloading stuff for the 7.62x54.

[melkor41]

According to the guys on ARFCOM the .223 in vmax fragments right after it hits and shreds the deers lungs giving it insane stopping power for such a tiny and light round.

There is a pretty good long picture thread about deer taken with .223

[jimlongley]

Took a northern Whitetail Deer in 1965 with my M1903-A3 Springfield (unmodified) near Greenville, NY, just east of Basic Creek. About 135 yards, with battle sights sighted point blank at 200 yards, held a little low and dropped him with one shot. Western Super X 180 grain Power Point .30-06.

I never took another deer with that rifle, but only because I never tried, but I did shoot a couple of woodchucks with it just for fun. I also used to shoot long range matches with that rifle and it never let me down.

[dukalmighty]

I have hunted deer with my eagle arms AR10 .308 and my AR15 with a 7.62x39 upper,im kansas you couldn't hunt deer with less than a .243 so no shooting deer with the .223.The .308 is overkill at the ranges we shot at in kansas but the 7.62x39 124 grn soft point whacked them good.

[The Annoyed Man]

I haven't had the chance to use it for this yet, but I bought my Bushmaster Varminter specifically for hunting coyotes. It's the only "military" style rifle I own - unless you can count a Remington 700 VSF in .308 with a heavy fluted 26" barrel on an HS Precision stock as a military rifle. I have gone deer hunting with that one.

"Military" or not, that Remington makes for a dandy deer rifle out to almost any distance you have the optics for.

[melkor41]

The us armed forces have used the 700 as an official sniper rifle so I think that counts

[Tactical_Texan_CHL]

Annoyed, that is a very cool rifle! And , it counts! My brother has the Remington 700 LTR and it's his deer rifle too. It's pretty darn close to the same rifle you have.

[TDDude]

I took my first deer as a kid with my dad's M-1 Carbine and I still use it today if I'm hunting in wooded areas where the range is short.

I guess my 700 BDL would count as well although it doesn't look all that scary.

[melkor41]

stick a black skeleton stock on it and a bipod and you would have an "EVIL sniper rifle use for only killing innocent people" if you beleave the news media.

700 is a wonderful platform.

[Armed-Texan]

i use a remy 700BDL .308. love it. shoots minute of nickel groups. i covered a three shot group with a nickel last time i sighted it. though i have heard people say they are inaccurate out of the box. mine belonged to my grandfather and it is still in pristine condition, and has fed the family many times...

[iratollah]

I hunt with my HK91, it's a very accurate rifle even though the trigger is heavy. First time out, I got laughed at. But when the ranch manager decided he wanted to shoot it, you could see him shaking because for some reason he was very intimidated.

[melkor41]

I hunt with my HK91, it's a very accurate rifle even though the trigger is heavy. First time out, I got laughed at. But when the ranch manager decided he wanted to shoot it, you could see him shaking because for some reason he was very intimidated.

I had a cetme as my first deer rifle. Friend who owned the land laughed at me until he got to shoot it... he ended up buying it off me