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Deer hunting Ohio with high powered rifles?

  • 30-30 Winchester and 35 Remington only

  • No, I want bigger and or faster calibers

  • Absolutely no high powered rifles

High powered rifle poll for deer gun season

9K views 88 replies 26 participants last post by  catchdog 
#1 ·
I thought this might be an interesting poll....
 
#79 ·
The 44 mag is on the list but pretty sure the 9mm isn't.

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Thankfully. I've used a 44 mag to kill several deer and sometimes I wonder why anyone would want anything less!(including a 357 which I would not take personally because it's not enough!) I practice often throughout the year with many guns and yet I have no desire to use smaller calibers because the margin of error grows smaller with every decrease of bullet size and bullet energy. I'm sure a 9mm can kill deer just fine, just as a .22 can, under the right circumstances but I do not think it and anything smaller needs to be legal in this scenario because even the best shooters sometimes get "buck fever" and pull a shot. This is where the use of an adequate sized round can end in a dead deer recovery instead of a wounded, died from infection weeks later, deer.
 
#81 ·
Yes there are better caliber son the list, but a .357 out of rifle is plenty of firepower for close range deer. With less recoil, more knockdown, and better accuracy than a .410,it is the perfect youth load. I do think .38 special is a little weak but if it's legal in a handgun then certainly they need to allow in a rifle as well.

As to all the speculation about bullet diameter and straight wall characteristics... The ONLY criteria that matters is IF the caliber is specifically named on the list of approved calibers or not. This is how DNR prevents all the "wildcats", shortened cases and other custom rounds.



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#82 ·
toker , I was being sarcastic . How ever 110 grain bullet in a 30 cal is pretty much a varmint round . You could get away with shooting Deer with a bullet like the Barnes TSX bullet but I would still want a little more weight . Now put a 150 grain bullet ( more of a deer bullet ) and the ballistics aren't so good . I would just as soon have a 30/30 . My point was really only that it's not like a 300 win mag or anything . Some people just don't like it because it's shot from a AR . And I was told that this thread is about Caliber not black guns . But I was not the one that brought up the 300 black out or the .450 bush . And yes the black out is one heck of a sling shot . Hope I didn't get your blood boiling .
 
#83 ·
The 110gr Barnes Tax Tx or TTSX is a freak of a bullet. Like all the Barnes line of bullets it out performs it's weight. I've read of many whitetails and hogs falling to it out if the 300BLK. One fella even smoked an Arizona black bear with the 130 Barnes in the 300BLK. I like the 45-70 when I go after WV black bear.

But no worries! Your post was mild compared to some I've read in this topic.
 
#84 ·
I don't know anything about the Barnes Tax TX but I shoot Barnes TSX out of my 7mm08 and 30/06 and they are tack drivers out of both guns . Agree you can shoot lighter weight because of how they are made . My 7mm08 really likes the 140 gr bullets and I would feel safe shooting a elk with it . It has done a number on many pigs and a bear . My Wife used it in Africa and it put everything down quickly . And the Blue wilderbeest is a tuff critter .
 
#88 ·
The Tac TX is basically a fancy name for the TSX line. It's a tipped TSX bullet especially designed for the 300 BLK. I shoot the 70gr. TSX out of my 5.56mm AR-15 for SC hogs. I'm taking them both this year. Season opens on March 7th on the WMA we hunt in Marion County, SC. Great pics btw!!!!
 
#89 ·
Good luck in SC . Let us know how you do . I would really like to here how the bullet does out of the .300 . 70 gr is a heavy bullet for a 5.56 but 110 is very light for a 30 cal . But I'm pretty sure it will hold together because of the slower velocity of the BLK and the design of the bullet .
Now the sad part is that even if they start making some of the bottle necks legal . The .300 BLK will get but by the wayside just like the .450 Bush just because they are shot from AR rifles .
 
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