Iron sights for deer
book...@yahoo.com
stainless steel with 20" barrel and synthetic stock.
Because I read a Field & Stream handbook on rifle maintenance, with a
chapter on cleaning before you fire the first shot, I'll be going to
the shooting range come warm weather with a plan. I'm going to load
this cannon with Sierra 200 grain round nose bullets, working up a
reduced charge that's accurate for deer hunting. The Field & Stream
handbook says to keep alternating cleaning and firing while shooting
strings of only two or three, to break it in right.
So I'll have a good little rifle chunking out 200 grain bullets at
about 2000 fps, hopefully both accurate and mild on the recoil. I do
have a Nikon 1-4 X 20 scope with QD rings for it, but for deer I'm
thinking I could keep the rifle light and quick at less than 8 lbs
loaded.
The open sights are pretty good and come sighted in from the factory
at 50 yards. I would be able to cycle in some heavy "dangerous
animal" factory cartridges should need be, as sometimes happens in
Alaska when a bear shows up after shooting a deer. bookburn
ratman12
Hello there bookburn. Sounds like you got a nice little setup there. I bought my first ever deer rifle from Wally World back in November of 2002. It is a Remington Model 7400 semi-auto 30-06. Thought maybe it would do me good until I could put a scope on it because the longest shot for me to make at the time was maybe 50 to 60 yards. I hunted with it maybe 9 times during the 2002-2003 season. I never fired the first shot from that gun until December 26, 2004 at a doe that came out in front of me at 35 yards. Dropped her on the spot. So far so good at a one-shot-one-kill hit rate going. No scope on the gun yet. I completely missed the 2003-2004 season due to a heart attack. I didn't put a scope on the gun until February of 2007. Once it got sighted in good and setup I been doing alright. As far the iron sights on the gun they are still there and just the way they were when I put the scope on the gun. I shot the gun maybe ten times before putting a scope on it using iron sights and hit my intended target everytime. Did I mention this was right out of the box shooting? No adjustments needed in my opinion. Like you said they usually come adjusted to shoot at 50 yards pretty accurately right out of the box. Sorry to be long winded here just got the some days off and just chillin' out for a bit. Enjoy the new gun and will be looking for me a bolt action 30-06 or 270 or 243 during the off season. Have a good day and be safe out there.
Ron
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Hey, Ron, looks like you need to do something with your lines to "word
wrap" so they automatically return to the left. Possibly you could do
that with the right switch under Tools/Options?
I realize that a scope is the way to go if you are still-hunting from
a good position with lots of view. Most places in Alaska, the deer
are very tolerant and you can walk right up to them, almost. With
practice, I should be able to get off an accurate shot from off-hand,
good enough to get within maybe 6"?
If I was Straight Arrow about a deer rifle, I would possibly go for
6.5 mm or .243 caliber. bookburn
ratman12
Hello bookburn and thank you for the reply. I have adjusted the word wrap so lemme know how it comes out. Been having some puter problems lately and that ain't no fun.
book...@yahoo.com
<barba...@CENTURYTEL.NET> wrote:
My news reader has a switch in Tools/Options/Posting
Messages/Composition/ "line length". I see my line length set for "70
characters." Don't know how it came to be so. Also, somewhere
there's switch for choosing automatically when posting a reply,
whether you use the line length of the original you reply to, or put
it all into your line length. bookburn