1st levergun Indiana deer season
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1st levergun Indiana deer season
Last year, Indiana added a pistol caliber rifle to firearms season. My son and I both got new rifles for this year. I got a Marlin 1894, and he got a handi rifle, both .44 mags. We tried and liked the new hornady leverevolution .44 mags, and used them. Here are some pics of the first 3 days of season.
My sons first doe. 130# field dressed.
My "brain fanny burp" buck. Long story, but I thought he was bigger.
Me with my 1st doe and my son's buck. We both shot them at the same time.
My second doe taken 3d day of season. The LE ammo was great. We took 6 deer in 3 days.
maddog
My sons first doe. 130# field dressed.
My "brain fanny burp" buck. Long story, but I thought he was bigger.
Me with my 1st doe and my son's buck. We both shot them at the same time.
My second doe taken 3d day of season. The LE ammo was great. We took 6 deer in 3 days.
maddog
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Thats some good shooting Maddog, congrats to both of you!
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Way to go...
congrats to you both..
The one with the busted side...
would have scored well!
congrats to you both..
The one with the busted side...
would have scored well!
LETS GO SHOOT'N BOYS
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Well done you two maddogs thats a good session.
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nice deer to the both of you, good job.
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Congrats - what pleasant looking fellows you are - "MADDOG", is he like - Junkyarddog?
A real legality style "raison d'etre" for the pistol cal rifles. They are handy and a great deal of fun and put the hunt in hunting.
How did the ammo perform beyond the obvious.
A real legality style "raison d'etre" for the pistol cal rifles. They are handy and a great deal of fun and put the hunt in hunting.
How did the ammo perform beyond the obvious.
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Congratulations, nice deer and good shooting.
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maddog, WHAT THA... HE DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS.... That ain't no levergun........???????? Just curious, jd45
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Ya'll done good, them cornfield deer are sure big.
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Good eating.
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That'll feed a family!!! Yum!
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Congrats on the successful Deer hunt !
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jd45, I used the levergun, the boy used a handi rifle. They're both in the same family now
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Hey save some deer for other people! Just kidding. You all are set for this year.
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Dave, the deer are so thick in our county, I still have 1 doe tag left, but don't know if I am going to try to kill another one or not. We saw so many deer on the property we hunt, that when we loaded the last 1 in the truck, 20 stood off at a distance and waved goodbye!
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Maddog, congratulations to you and your son! You guys are definitely doing your part to thin the Hoosier deer population, but your getting all the non-Hoosiers jealous. Ain't it great to finally get to use a real rifle now. This is my second season hunting with the 1894c and it hasn't let me down. This was also the first year of deer hunting for my 13 y.o. son and he had success with the same rifle. Now there's a tug o' war going on. Say, what's the recoil like on that 44mag handi-rifle. I'm just trying to decide my options for son and his sister who will probably deer hunt next year.
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nemhed, recoil is not bad at all. I started my boy at 11 with a 20 ga. slug gun. He got used to it. Probably killed 25 deer with the single shot tracker II 20 ga. The .44 is a pussycat compared to that. Also, you can get .357 mag in it I believe. Good little rifles, cept some of them need a little tweeking.
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It's always great to go on a hunt like you did and I'd say the best part was being able to hunt with your son. Nice!!
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Looks like you had a classic hunt for the delicious corn-fed Whitetail Deer. I am very pleased to see that Indiana is permitting levergun hunting this year. Your 44 Mags are certainly plenty of gun. I really like the Marlin 1894. It is a fast handling compact little carbine with some serious punch. What with my weakness for the old cartridges, I'd be tempted to try some of the old classics like the 44-40 and the 38-40.
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cedars and a magnificent Whitetail buck framed in the semi-buckhorn sights of a 120-year old Winchester.
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cedars and a magnificent Whitetail buck framed in the semi-buckhorn sights of a 120-year old Winchester.
Blog: https://www.kirkdurston.com/
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Kirk, a liking for old catridges ain't no weakness, it's a sign of taste a good'n at that
I sure do like them Handi's, we don't see'm over here.
Nath.
I sure do like them Handi's, we don't see'm over here.
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Kirk, another year goes by, and the boys here in Hoosierland figure out how much fun the rifle is, and ya won't be able to give a shotgun sluggun away
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Oh, I dunno. As much as I hate Slug guns, I don't think I'll be getting rid of my Rifle Sighted Slug Barrel for my M500 any time soon.maddog wrote:Kirk, another year goes by, and the boys here in Hoosierland figure out how much fun the rifle is, and ya won't be able to give a shotgun sluggun away
maddog
There ARE some times a 1oz hunk of lead is useful... just not white-tail hunting.
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fantastic. well done
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Oh, if only Ohio DNR would please wake up to this. Then Ohio lever gunners wouldn't have to go out of state to legally hunt with these arms.
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Yeah, I wish Illinois would too!
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What it takes is a concerted effort by ballistics wonks to constantly and continually flood the DNR wit reqests for it with data showing quite conclusively that pistol calibers out of rifles are ballisticly equivelent to Slug guns in almost every respect.Gobblerforge wrote:Oh, if only Ohio DNR would please wake up to this. Then Ohio lever gunners wouldn't have to go out of state to legally hunt with these arms.
Gobbler
Also point out that they are more effective, accurate and easier for youth to handle/shoot/practice with than a .410/.28
Push the "hunting heritage" angle, along with the "cheaper ammo = more practice = safer hunters" angle.
And keep pushing.
It took indiana about 3 years of concerted effort... and the worst of it was trying to shout down the FUDDS who hate the word "rifle"... while using hypervelocity sabot slugs out of scoped rifled "shotguns".
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