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I'm going on a hunting trip in a couple of weeks when the school holidays start. I'm in charge of deciding what my friends and I are going to brutally hunt down, shoot, and eat.
The most obvious answer is deer; there are so many of them in the Tasmanian midlands that they're considered a pest animal, so you don't need a license to hunt them. Rabbits are also an option, but they're mostly brown or grey at this time of year so you don't see many of them. The last option is pheasants. Not too hard to nail, but you need a license. We've got two barrel-break shotguns and two .22 rifles (with scopes) between the five of us, and no pheasant license, so we're probably going for deer.
Now, I've never hunted deer before, only watched it, so can I get some tips on hunting the jumpy bastards? I'm a really bad shot with rifles against moving targets, so I'll be using a shotgun mostly.
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Well if you're bad with moving targets camp out in a spot and set up a feeder in range of your hiding place.Then when the hungry sucker comes along,boom nail him in the neck.Don't spoil the head you'll want that to mount on the wall.You will also need a deer caller and some deer scent to attract them.
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We aren't mounting the heads. Taxidermy is too expensive.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
Maybe pop down to your local news agents or corner store I am sure they will have a hunting magazine of some sort filled with tips on how to hunt and such.
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With deer, I always go for a neck shot - it's a bigger target than the head. They won't run far, and may drop on the spot. You may want to take a close-up, second shot to head when you catch up to it. You don't lose much meat with a neck shot. If you go for a side shot (which people generally do if it's moving), it may run for a long time (making it harder to find) and it may ruin a lot of meat (especially if you hit it in the gut and not the side).
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I dont know how big the deer are around your parts, but up here near the Canada boarder the Whitetail would laugh off a .22 round....
And if you did manage to critically wound it somehow it would take forever to bleed out and could run up to a mile. Murphys Law also dictates that it will die and the top of a canyon and will roll to the bottom where you cant get it out.
With the shotguns, your going to need to scent and call to bait them into range, cause I honestly doubt five of you will be able to stumble around the woods and be able to jump a deer withing buckshot range before he hears or smells you.
We use a slug on the shot gun. It may aim for gak but it sure does do some damage in you can get close enough. And it doesn't travel all that far so you arn't as likley to hit the guy in the next farm over.
If you are shooting at running deer, you're not going to have a fun hunting trip. Hard to kill an animal on the run. Hunting is about patience, and location. I have only hunted deer with a bow, and you have to let them get pretty close. If you want a clean kill shot, aim for the area right behind the front leg. There are a lot of organs there, and even if you don't get the cleanest shot, it won't run very far. Plus it is a bigger area that doesn't move around as much as the head and neck do. Don't forget to cover your scent with some kind of musk. I always used skunk, took a bit of getting used to, but they'll never smell you. Oh yeah, and bring a book to read.
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Well if you did it like a proper Marine it would involve an airstrike, followed by a a proper artillery barrage, then a coordinated attack. Just putting that out there.
Alternatively Godzilla has proven himself adept at deer hunting.
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Well, You're in Australia, so why not go wild-sheep hunting?
There are wild sheep, correct?
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Hmmm,
What kind of shotgun do you use the Slugs in? Cause my slug thrower is pretty darn accurate at mid range.
Around here you don't want the bullet goign more than a few hundred yards if that. In most cases we use beaters to get the Deer out of the tree stands and into the shooters range.
Don't use a .22 on a deer unless you want to chase the wounded critter for miles and have to haul it back to camp. That is if the .22 kills it at all. Even with a head shot, at a bad angle a 22 may not make it through the skull. It most likely will not cause an immediate drop even if you could get it through the rib cage and into the heart.
With the guns you mention, go for rabbits.
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Ok let's clarify some things. I know some suggestions are for comedy sakes, but if you're going to plan anything like this you have to be half-way serious.
I have never heard of anybody hunting deer, boars, elephants with a shotgun. A shotgun with pellets is good for one thing in the great outdoors and that is for killing birds (turkey, pheasents, etc...), unless your English Bob and you're trying to prove your not a John Bull (Unforgiven reference). A .22 is good for killing varments and the odd home-invader.
I am probably being a bit presumptious, but since you sound like a hunting noob (nothing wrong with that) then stick to your double-barrel shotgun and those things with wings. I live in the Redneck homeland and we are fortunate to have a the land and animal diversity that affords us to generally pick whatever creature we want and the means to leave it a smoking crater. Since you may be more restricted in your choices pheasent and other game birds are more ideal. I'm not saying that you would not have the patience for a deer, but given the circumstances I say buy your pheasent license, buy you some hunter's orange, and load up on Red Bull and other beverages.
Just don't pull a Cheney and blow your buddies face off.
Dude, seriously? I have so many deer in back yard I don't need a gun. They don't even care if someones there. All I need is a frying pan and a plastic bag.
Shotguns with a solid slug are fine to hunt deer. In Ohio, that is the only weapon to do it - high powered rifles are not legal. But, it's a pretty short range weapon.
I missed the comment about having .22 rifles. As others have said, don't use those.
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mcfly wrote:Well, You're in Australia, so why not go wild-sheep hunting?
There are wild sheep, correct?
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I'm not sure what kind of shotguns are being brought along. I've only got my .22 rifle. Does anyone know if you can legally buy silencers for rifles? If so, we could nab a couple more and put the heads in someone's bed.
As to the size of the deer; it varies a lot. The stag my dad shot when I was 6 was fething enormous; I'd say over two metres long. Mind you, I wasn't very good at measuring when I was 6. I usually just tell people it was 'THIS BIG!' and extend my arms as far as they go.
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People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
It probably wasn't as a two m stag would be longer than I am tall. And discounting legs/horns I don't think they get that long. Deer are usually classifeid by point.
And havn't you been reading anything? Get something bigger than a .22 a .303 should do just fine. You still have your .303s right? Having a Lee Enfield is awsome..... That thing can take down polar bears! (but apparently they just ping off submarines...)
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.303s aren't banned here, tankfully, because they're semi-automatic rifles. It's only automatics and pump shotguns that are banned because they kill lots of people quickly.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
What bad mouth? I'm speaking on behalf of my country, platypuses, drop bears, bald prime ministers, and meat pies.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
barlio wrote:Ok let's clarify some things. I know some suggestions are for comedy sakes, but if you're going to plan anything like this you have to be half-way serious.
I have never heard of anybody hunting deer, boars, elephants with a shotgun. A shotgun with pellets is good for one thing in the great outdoors and that is for killing birds (turkey, pheasents, etc...), unless your English Bob and you're trying to prove your not a John Bull (Unforgiven reference). A .22 is good for killing varments and the odd home-invader.
I am probably being a bit presumptious, but since you sound like a hunting noob (nothing wrong with that) then stick to your double-barrel shotgun and those things with wings. I live in the Redneck homeland and we are fortunate to have a the land and animal diversity that affords us to generally pick whatever creature we want and the means to leave it a smoking crater.
Your redneck ID card is hereby confiscated for your lack of knowledge about hunting deer with pumpkin ball.
barlio wrote:Ok let's clarify some things. I know some suggestions are for comedy sakes, but if you're going to plan anything like this you have to be half-way serious.
I have never heard of anybody hunting deer, boars, elephants with a shotgun. A shotgun with pellets is good for one thing in the great outdoors and that is for killing birds (turkey, pheasents, etc...),...
Dear sweet baby Jesus why do you think it's called "buck" shot?
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