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Offline pastorp

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Shotgun, as your only hunting gun?
« on: August 11, 2011, 06:27:42 AM »
Morning all,
 
Anyone use a shotgun as your only hunting gun? Many years ago growing up in the deep south, it was not uncommon for a guy to only own one gun for all his hunting.. Most times it was a shotgun, just buy different shells for different game.  :o  I grew up hunting that way. I owned a 22 rifle but then I bought a Winchester model 12 in 16ga. Used it for everything for a few years. Slugs & buckshot for deer & hogs and shot for everything else. Worked great. But those were simpiler times.. :o  And nobody had as much as they do now days..
 
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Re: Shotgun, as your only hunting gun?
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2011, 06:59:46 AM »
Growing up in NJ, a shotgun state I often thought of a single shot gun.
I think a pump or semi auto gun with a 28 to 30" barrel for all wing shooting and a 20" smooth bore with rifle sights for big game.
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Re: Shotgun, as your only hunting gun?
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2011, 08:32:30 AM »
when  i was young
in the mountains  of  NC
i new a few that carried  sxs  shotguns.......i for  one
slug in one side ....buck shot in the other


mostly  i just hunted rabbits and squirrels........with  my ithaca double


now  i have more guns than i know what to do with
and don't enjoy  hunting  like when  i was yound and it was  new
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Re: Shotgun, as your only hunting gun?
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2011, 10:21:09 AM »
Until I was 20, all I had was a shotgun. My first was a 20 ga single barrel Ithaca 66. When i turned sixteen my dad told me if wanted a 12ga, he'd buy it but I had to pay for it. I traded my 20 in for an Ithaca Model 37 Deerslayer. I still have the Deerslayer and hunt with it occassionally. It's a real hoot to take to the skeet field. Last time I had it there, I shot a 25, a 24 and another 25. Sure is loud with that 20'' barrel!


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Re: Shotgun, as your only hunting gun?
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2011, 10:30:17 AM »
For many years everything I hunted was with a 23/4 inch 12 ga 26 inch bbl with IC choke Got deer, skunk, limb rats, rabbits , ground hog , dove, turkey ................
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Re: Shotgun, as your only hunting gun?
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2011, 11:02:51 AM »
I don't but realistically, I could.  A good 12 ga., especially if one had two or three barrels for it would suffice for most everything.  My 11-87 has a 28" barrel with interchangeable chokes.  That will take care of any wing shooting or small game.  I have a 21" rifled slug barrel with a cantilever scope mount.  That takes care of any big game on in NA.  I also have the 21" smoothbore slug barrel with iron sights.  I leave that mounted on it for the house and anything I need to do around there.  I guess if a guy had that and a .30-'06, a .22 rifle and a .357 revolver, pretty much anything and everything would be covered.  But about 99% of hunting can be covered with a 12 ga.
 
 
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Re: Shotgun, as your only hunting gun?
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2011, 11:49:32 AM »
Many don't realize the capablity of a shotgun . Most any critter can be killed with one and most if not all can be stopped with one.
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Re: Shotgun, as your only hunting gun?
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2011, 12:07:39 PM »
Amen to that Shootall.
 
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Re: Shotgun, as your only hunting gun?
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2011, 02:30:35 PM »

Grew up in Alabama. Not only did shotguns do it all, we didn't think we needed anything other than modified choke.
Never even thought about needing a rifle until I went deer hunting in Wisconsin.
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Re: Shotgun, as your only hunting gun?
« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2011, 02:26:28 AM »
With the new sabot slugs the shotgun can give some rifles a run for the money  ;)
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