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02-02-2008, 12:18 PM
|  | B&C 120 Class | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Southern Michigan
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i got a moss 500 with th rifle barrel and i shoot a sabot slug and can get 1.5 inch groups at 80
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02-07-2008, 02:06 PM
| | Scrub Buck | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Austin, Texas
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New here but thought I would chime in. Being in Texas we can use any centerfire cartridge for deer. I have used slugs for a hog and it is very effective. This year I used buckshot because it was all I had to use. I was using standard 2 3/4 in 00 buck in 12 gauge. I was using a Mossberg patrol shotgun with 18 1/2 barrel with cylinder bore, no choke. Shot was at 20feet. All nine pellets hit the lungs and the deer dropped, kicked, and went nowhere. Though very effective only 2 of the 9 pellets exited. But at very close range, under 25 yards, buckshot is hard to beat, IMO......
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02-07-2008, 04:33 PM
|  | B&C 180 Class | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NY
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hey you shoot anything at 25yrds with a shotgun odds are its gonna die 
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Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison.
Genesis 27:3 "The thinking deer hunter should mature through three phases during his hunting life. First phase, "I need to kill a deer." Second phase, I want to harvest a nice deer. And last phase, we must manage this resource so our children and their children can experience the grand tradition of good deer hunting." - Jim Slinsky
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02-08-2008, 02:45 PM
| | Scrub Buck | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Austin, Texas
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Interesting thread. Shotguns are not very popular here for deer so the experiment was good. Just don't use them for hogs unless you have slugs or you are literally on top of them, maybe a follow up. We have pulled buckshot out of many of them. Pellets never got through the hide. But for small hill country deer at my ranch it will do the trick.
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02-08-2008, 05:24 PM
| | B&C 180 Class | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NY
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Yikes wouldnt want a mad hog with a butt full of buckshot chasing after me 
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Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison.
Genesis 27:3 "The thinking deer hunter should mature through three phases during his hunting life. First phase, "I need to kill a deer." Second phase, I want to harvest a nice deer. And last phase, we must manage this resource so our children and their children can experience the grand tradition of good deer hunting." - Jim Slinsky
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02-08-2008, 07:24 PM
| | Scrub Buck | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Austin, Texas
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Yeah, they tend to get angry the first few weeks. When a .30-06 does not exit at 50yrds it makes you think. They are walking bullet traps.....Amazing creatures......
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02-08-2008, 07:28 PM
| | B&C 180 Class | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NY
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"walking bullet traps" I like that.always wanted to go hog hunting only place to do it round here is a high fence operation ,which i wont do
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Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison.
Genesis 27:3 "The thinking deer hunter should mature through three phases during his hunting life. First phase, "I need to kill a deer." Second phase, I want to harvest a nice deer. And last phase, we must manage this resource so our children and their children can experience the grand tradition of good deer hunting." - Jim Slinsky
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02-08-2008, 07:33 PM
| | Scrub Buck | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Austin, Texas
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No high fence needed here. They are all over the place. New adopted species of the Lone Star State. Good thing is, no closed season......Those little boogers are slick though!!! they are keeping my turkeys away  | | |
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