OK folks....along with the poll I have another question. Is it just that nobody likes semi's or doesn't their state laws permit them from having them? I know that PA doesn't permit them but I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, please, that New York and Michigan are two states that I know of that permit them for hunting. Some input would be great. Thanx!
You can use em im Kentucky and Tennessee but I just don't like hunting with the big bulky things, plus there are more movable parts that"could" go bad on you(don't mean they will,but...)not to mention all the extra places water can enter and "run" off to, and as New Hampshire said "you bolt boys can shuck them cartridges out awfully quick, sometimes just as quick as the semi-shooters" and thankfully I am one of them "bolt boys" he refers to and I sure can "work the bolt" if I need to.....people may want to argue this but your second shot can only be as quick as you can recover from recoil and aim again which during this time is plenty enough time to work a bolt on a good bolt action(with YEARS of practice)....I remember once when I was probally 9 or 10 my Dad and I was walking along the edge of a soybean field and all of a sudden he fired BOOMBOOM,BOOM he told me he shot 3 coyotes and we would pick em up later, we went ahead deer hunting and later on the way out we stopped off and got his three coyotes I drug one and he carried two...The point is he shot 2 coyotes with a bolt action so fast they fell within 10 ft of each other and the third one only made it 30 yards and he shot it running, on top of that it was under moonlight....I remember telling him that I wish I was that good and he replied "you will be boy, you will be" and although I am NOT as good as he was, at least not in my eyes, I have filled three deer tags in one field at the same time with three shots from a bolt action and all three shots were heart/lung with no meat damage(well one of em had very slight front right quarter damage, where I took a slight angled running shot but I only lost 1-2 lbs, more of a graze than anything)...