Deer Cannon

**P-11 shooter** · February 18th, 2008, 11:43 PM

There are alot of good lookin rifles out there, but I love my deer gun.

Bought at dunhams as a 1944 turkish mauser. My gunsmith chopped the barell, bent the bolt, and tapped it for scope rings. The stock is cut sporter style and it has a $80 simens scope. Other than that it's a stock turkish mauser. I like not having a fancy rifle in the woods as I don't care if it gets rained on, banged against trees or gets a little dirty. It has killed 3 deer and kills clean every time. The longest kill shot has only been about 150 yards, but will shoot quite accurately well past that.

**4XLT** · February 19th, 2008, 01:37 AM

is that an 8mm ??

i have one in stock form and have always wondered how they shoot, i havent shot it yet, bought it a few years ago fro 100 bucks its packed with cosmoline right now..

**P-11 shooter** · February 19th, 2008, 01:47 AM

yep 8mm. Shoots great, very accurate. Only problem is the cost of good hunting ammo. Remmington core-locks are a buck a round. Therefore it really costs for a day at the range. Surplus stuff is cheap, but iffy. After a number of hangfires I decided to only shoot decent ammo. But it drops deer right in thier tracks. I have only had one run more than a few steps, and that was my fault.

Clean out the cosmoline and get some surplus ammo. these guns are fun to shoot.

Ps. alot of the surplus stuff is corosive, so you gotta clean it real good when you get hope or you'll have a rusty barell next time you wanna shoot.

**Tomcat088** · February 19th, 2008, 06:22 AM

Any bigbore is gonna cost you around a dollar a round. Heck, for some hornady vmax bullets for 22-250, they're over a dollar a pop. Shooting rifles is just getting more and more expensive. Those kinds of rifles, you don't really take to the range to mess around with, you sight them in and shoot them when you have to. When you're in a crazy mood you pop off 10-20 rounds and call it a day. By the way, beautiful rifle.

**4XLT** · February 19th, 2008, 04:30 PM

man thats great !! i am going to have to get this thing to a gunsmith and have it gone over, kinda cant wait to shoot it now lol

anyone know of a good reasonable gunsmith in the Harrisburg/hershey area ??