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Offline mcwoodduck

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Re: Indiana Deer Rifles
« Reply #30 on: May 08, 2009, 08:49:21 AM »
Ok what about 44 or 357 Auto mag.  Originally designed as pistol rounds.
take your basic 30-06, 308, 7X57, or 8X57 case.
cut it to 44 mag lenght and then either seat a 429 bullet or neck to 357 and seat a bullet.
this round may be easier if you have one of the old destroyer carbines and want to add more oomph to the 9mm largo round.
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Re: Indiana Deer Rifles
« Reply #31 on: May 08, 2009, 02:04:13 PM »
What about...... a regular old 44 or 357 rifle.  You guys are really over complicating a deer rifle lol.  H&R, Marlin, Puma, Encore... and whatever else are readily available.
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Re: Indiana Deer Rifles
« Reply #32 on: May 08, 2009, 03:04:38 PM »
Actually I've already got a 6 shot Indiana deer rifle.  It's a sporterized Swiss Vetterli rifle manufactured in 1872.  310 grain cast bullet at 1365 fps.  I really like the rifle and the ballistics will suffice.

Still I've bought a lot of milsurp rifles in the past as platforms for sporters.  And I'd still like to see a nice Mosin Nagant carbine.  I have a sporterized Chinese 53 in a nice Walnut stock that I'm betting would make a great little Indiana deer rifle........Mike
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Re: Indiana Deer Rifles
« Reply #33 on: June 14, 2009, 11:10:49 AM »
Quote from: quickdtoo on April 26, 2009, 03:53:10 PM
Why reinvent the wheel, the 357 Max works well for Indiana hunters.

If not a standard .357M, or the .41 or .44mags

Why not keep it simple with the .357 Maxi?

.414 Super
.445 Super,  or better yet, the .500S&W already chambered in an NEF,

or a .45C or .444M modified to shoot the .460S&W?

Gotta admit Indiana sounds like they have "game laws" regarding weapons ...... designed to play with a hunter's head!  Unless I had a huge or unlimited gun budget - I'd be sure to settle on a "handgun" cartridge I could easily get ammo for (or make) but also in a gun or barrel I knew I could use for several years!   ;)
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Re: Indiana Deer Rifles
« Reply #34 on: June 14, 2009, 11:13:34 AM »
"You guys are really over complicating a deer rifle!"   ::)

Yeah, what Teddy is saying!
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Re: Indiana Deer Rifles
« Reply #35 on: June 14, 2009, 11:19:28 AM »
Well I can understand wanting to hunt with a bolt action and there are not to many out there chambered for hangun rounds.
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Re: Indiana Deer Rifles
« Reply #36 on: June 14, 2009, 03:44:44 PM »
I have a  1923 BRNO mauser chambered in .45 ACP, how would that do ya? ;D
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Re: Indiana Deer Rifles
« Reply #37 on: June 15, 2009, 11:25:04 AM »
Too bad .45 ACP ain't legal for hoosier deer, but is legal for hoosier squirrels, which puts it in the same category as .30-'06.  The good news is: The regs are getting more complicated because we're getting more options.  In the not too distant past, if you used a gun, it was "rifled slugs only in shotguns only in 10, 12, 16, or 20 ga. only". And some of the old timers remember when there wasn't even a deer season; the last known hoosier whitetail deer having been killed in 1893.
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