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sonny

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How many legal big game calibers in your locker?
« on: April 24, 2016, 08:22:14 PM »
So I was kinda bored and just rooting around in the ammo locker and said...

Holy crap..I could legally hunt big game with 11 different calibers.. :o

Here they are..

6.5x55 swede
7.5x55 swiss
7.62x39 (softpoint only ofcourse)
.30-30
.308
7.62x54r
.303 brit
.30-06
8x57 mauser
.45-70
and last but not least is a 12 gauge slug..

Funny thing is I have shot all my big game with my .30-06 except a small deer which was a 70 yard shot with my sks 7.63x39  ;)

I can think of a few more that I may want/need.. ;)

So what's in your bag of goodies for hunting big game?
« Last Edit: February 05, 2018, 09:01:19 PM by sonny »

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Re: How many legal big game calibers in your locker?
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2016, 08:46:38 PM »
Right on Sonny.

44mag
30-30
243
7mm-08
30-06
444
45-70
405Win
280Rem
8x57 Mauser
7mm Mag
375 Mag
308Win
303 Brit
7.62x39 SP
45 Cal Black Powder
50 Cal Black Powder
and 12 Slug

so 18, I guess.


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Re: How many legal big game calibers in your locker?
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2016, 08:51:39 PM »
Right on Lever..  ;)

Looks like you put me in my place.. :-[ ;D

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Re: How many legal big game calibers in your locker?
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2016, 08:56:55 PM »
Remember Sonny, race isn't over till the fat Gal sings. Let check the list, say 20 years from now. I sure you can beat me. (Well I may not have 20 years, but maybe?)

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Re: How many legal big game calibers in your locker?
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2016, 09:05:02 PM »
Remember Sonny, race isn't over till the fat Gal sings. Let check the list, say 20 years from now. I sure you can beat me. (Well I may not have 20 years, but maybe?)

lmfao...you got a deal sir and we'll do a recount in 2036.. ;)

But I'm pretty sure that in 20 years from now one of us will have a "cane gun"...Bwahahahahaha  ;D

btw.... Loser buys the winner a dozen beer or a dozen adult diapers....which ever is needed the most. :-[

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Re: How many legal big game calibers in your locker?
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2016, 09:11:10 PM »
I'll buy the beer, you buy the diapers. And we'll bring our wives, so they can reminded us who the he!! we are.

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Re: How many legal big game calibers in your locker?
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2016, 08:04:36 AM »
2 X 30-06
2 X 303 British

and a Prime Impact

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Re: How many legal big game calibers in your locker?
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2016, 08:05:48 AM »
Not carrying nere what you guys are packing for big game guns.

300 RUM
300 WSM
30-06
303 Brit
.270 Win
.280 Win
.243
12 Gauge Slug
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Re: How many legal big game calibers in your locker?
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2016, 10:15:19 AM »
sold a few rifles as thet were surplus to my needs
Son moved back to the coast and gave him a couple
this what's left

25-06
280 rem
444 marlin
303 brit ( in a P-14 rifle)
7.62x39
12 gauge
20 gauge

also have 223 for varmints
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Re: How many legal big game calibers in your locker?
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2016, 11:13:50 AM »
I down sides a lot of my more modern caliber guns. Just kept the ones that are inherited from my family, or a caliber I want to play with. Course no leavers went, I'm adding those. Any older Marlins and Winchesters are on my buy list. Also starting to look at building a Muzzle loaders list. Thinking I might go into black powder more for hunting. Mix it up a bit after 40 some years of same old gun and scope combo. Work on getting close to the game, and get back my true hunting skills, not the reach out and kill distance thing.

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Re: How many legal big game calibers in your locker?
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2016, 09:23:00 PM »
Well if I add ALL calibers then I'm up to 21 total..

.17hmr
.22lr
.22wmr
.223
5.56 NATO
7.62x25
.38 S&W
.45acp
.45 long colt
and the good old .410  ;)

I kept the .223 and 5.56 NATO separate because my AR is stamped 5.56 and my axis is stamped .223

I've read somewhere that you can shoot .223 in a rifle stamped 5.56 but not the other way around...*shrugs*

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Re: How many legal big game calibers in your locker?
« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2016, 07:35:16 AM »
Ok, this is like playing poker with you Sonny.

22lr
22Mag
22 Hornet
32-20
357 Mag
45 long Colt
223
410
16G
20G
12G
10G

So 30, but some how I think I'm forgetting something, I'm at work right now, have to check the safe when I get home.


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Re: How many legal big game calibers in your locker?
« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2016, 08:16:06 AM »
Man you guys make a guy think so hard in the morning lol.
Add to my big game rifles.

22lr Rossi Pump
22lr Remington semi auto
22lr Browning Lever
22mag Win lever
22-250 Savage Axis
12 gauge Ithaca
12 gauge Remi 870 super mag
12 gauge Remi Versa Max
20 gauge Remi pump
410 Mossberg pump
410 H&R single

I think that's it. Might be one or two I forgot about tucked under a bed someplace lol..



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Re: How many legal big game calibers in your locker?
« Reply #13 on: April 26, 2016, 08:22:38 AM »
Make sure you have locks on that bed, it's the law. Boy walleyes, some one had to let you know that salt under a tree during hunting season is against the law, now I have to remind you of the gun laws. You trying to be a free Canadian or what.  ;)

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Re: How many legal big game calibers in your locker?
« Reply #14 on: April 26, 2016, 10:39:05 AM »
ya I got a couple more shooters too

22lr
17 hmr
9mm
.22 pistol
7.62x25 TT
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Re: How many legal big game calibers in your locker?
« Reply #15 on: April 26, 2016, 12:58:11 PM »
I need more guns.. :(