It’s a new straight-walled cartridge designed specifically for deer hunting and it’s ballistically superior to shotgun slugs. If you don’t already have a 45-70 rifle, and straight-walled cartridges that are legal in your state, I would check out the 350 Legend. The 45-70 though long in the tooth, is still slightly ballistically superior to a 12-gauge slug. More states are beginning to allow rifles that shoot straight-walled cartridges, like the venerable 45-70, in slug zones. A Remington 7600 in 30-06, a Winchester Model 70 Super Grade in 30-06, and a Winchester Model 64 in. Great examples would include the Winchester Model 70, the Kimber Montana, the Browning A-Bolt, or their new X-Bolt. If your deer hunting takes you to a more open territory, the bolt action is king. If you’re in the north woods of Minnesota or Wisconsin, I prefer a fast shooting gun like the Remington 7600 pump rifle or the Browning BLR lever action. The Browning A-Bolt Shotgun and Browning BPS Deer Special Shotgun, both with Leupold scopes Deer RiflesĪs we think about deer rifles they tend to fall into a couple of categories.
I also have a Browning BPS Deer Special with a cantilever scope mount, which I find is ideal for hunting the timber of southern Iowa. I own a Browning A-Bolt shotgun (not currently made) which is, in my opinion, the best deer shotgun made. All the major manufacturers produce quality deer guns with rifled barrels designed to accurately shoot sabot slugs.
Today we all shoot purpose-built deer shotguns, with rifled barrels, quality scopes, and modern sabot slugs, the combination makes for extremely accurate shots out to 150 yards. Anything over 75 yards was a poke for the smoothbore slug barrels. When I started deer hunting, no one had a scope on their shotgun. These were the days of the big pumpkin ball-style rifled slugs. When I was a kid, most of our group had smoothbore slug barrels, and a few just shot slugs from their bird barrel, which much beyond 30 yards was crapshoot accuracy. I primarily hunt deer in central Minnesota, it’s a slug zone. Deer Guns This Turnbull-Finished Marlin 1895 is an excellent deer rifle. HuntTested’s Ultimate Deer Hunting Gear Listis designed around the gear you need for a classic tree stand-style hunt for whitetail deer. While there are many ways to hunt whitetail deer, the most common method today is to hunt from an elevated deer stand.
Deer hunting, more than any other form of hunting that I do, is just as much about family, traditions, and seeing people that I only see once a year as it is about hunting. I wrote my eighth-grade research paper on the white-tailed deer, (the Odocoileus Virginianus if you want their scientific name) and I’ve basically been in love with deer hunting ever since. People who hunt nothing else, don blaze orange each season and enter the deer woods with Grandpa’s rifle in hand. Approximately 11 million hunters harvest about 6 million deer each year. The whitetail deer is America’s number one big-game animal.
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