View Poll Results: What's your caliber
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30-30
20 22.99% -
30-06
25 28.74% -
308/7.62x54
13 14.94% -
270 Win
9 10.34% -
8mm Mauser
1 1.15% -
35 rem
6 6.90% -
7mm Mag
3 3.45% -
300 Win
2 2.30% -
6.5 Creedmore
2 2.30% -
243 REM
6 6.90%
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Thread: Preferred PA deer caliber
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November 22nd, 2023, 05:40 PM #21
Re: Preferred PA deer caliber
My first rifle, Marlin 336RC .35 Remington. Never shot a deer with it. Still have it. Hunted with it when I first started hunting. Didn't know what I was doing . I've killed plenty of deer with my bow.
Sticks and stones will break my bones but hollow points expand on impact.
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November 27th, 2023, 11:36 AM #22
Re: Preferred PA deer caliber
Shot my first deer with a Remington 760 30_06 and ripped the back shoulder out of the deer, dropped to a 243, less meat damage/waste
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November 27th, 2023, 10:51 PM #23Senior Member
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Re: Preferred PA deer caliber
I voted .270 only because it was my first deer rifle and Jack O'Connor could NOT be wrong.
My favorite was using my Great Grandfathers Model 92 in .38-40.
Searched far and wide to find vintage reloading data to replicate the old "model 92 only" hi-velocity loads to make it viable.
It really made my mom and Aunt's day that I took a deer with it. Now that I've done it it's retired.
Now it's whatever I haven't harvested a deer with yet.
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November 28th, 2023, 04:58 PM #24
Re: Preferred PA deer caliber
.35 with .303 as a back up.
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November 28th, 2023, 05:20 PM #25
Re: Preferred PA deer caliber
when I hunted it was 243 & 6.5 Jap
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November 28th, 2023, 05:49 PM #26
Re: Preferred PA deer caliber
Back when I hunted deer it was .45-70, occasionally .357mag, .30-30 and .32WinSpl.
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November 28th, 2023, 07:02 PM #27
Re: Preferred PA deer caliber
I went with .243. Like most others I shifted around with other calibers over the years. I've never had a caliber let me down, I shifted away from 30.06 due to short ranges where I hunted. I have had the most success with .30-30, with .243 and/or .308 a close 2nd.
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November 28th, 2023, 09:05 PM #28
Re: Preferred PA deer caliber
I've used 30-06 which took my first deer so I'm married to that rifle. Lately it's been .450 Bushmaster which works quite well the current load.
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December 2nd, 2023, 07:39 AM #29Super Member
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Re: Preferred PA deer caliber
every deer I have taken with a rifle, going back to the 70's was taken with the same Rem 700 ADL 30-06. Wait.....correction: I have taken a couple with my .50 Long Rifle.
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December 2nd, 2023, 12:18 PM #30
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