Gun enthusiasts anything from Hunting to target shooters.

[SOHC-FTW]

Redid the stock what the wife doesnt know is a boyds stock is coming.

 

[itsasmallfarm]

Still waiting for my fire arms license lol. But here to ask some questions. Once i get my license am getting a .22lr semi auto a 12ga pump and a 20 ga single shot. But i love bird hunting (all three i use for bird hunting shot guns for migratory birds and the .22lr for upland game birds as its legal to use a rim fire rifle on them) but now am thinking about maybe also getting a .410 shot gun for grouse/rabbit/other small game. So is the 410 good for anything i see people bash it and others say its an expert gun. But what are your thoughts on this shotgun round?

 

[itsasmallfarm]

hate to see this thread die,

right now am looking at a flintlock muzzle-loader for some shooting fun, and maybe some hunting. not sure just love those style of guns.

 

[SOHC-FTW]

Been using my Knight .50cal got some meat last weekend but went Monday evening and let two pass smaller than the old gal shown. I'm waiting here on out on horns aslong as the rut is hot.

Open sights taken at 50-60ish yards.

Rifle opens this Saturday but gonna use this loader till I un load it on one.

 

[itsasmallfarm]

going rabbit hunting hopefully in the next few weeks, going after cottontails and jack rabbits for some meat. most likely going to use a .22lr or a 20ga for them not sure yet (just got approved for my fire arms license now just a waiting game till it comes in the mail) then i can go rabbit hunting.

 

[feedman77]

Had a good deer season got 3 with a rifle.

Daughter killed her first buck this year. With a .270. She said it wasn't big enough. She needed a 300 win. She said.

I went to the gunshop looking for 1 as they had several before season.

Found a gun with the wrong is tag on it. Said 300 win. But when I looked at the barrel was a 300 wsm.

I've been looking for one of these for awhile.

So dad got 300wsm in. A weatherby vanguard. daughter gonna have to wait.

Maybe next season

 

[Larry55]

Avid deer hunter

 

[itsasmallfarm]

really tempted to get a mares leg lever action rifle in .22lr for trapping and hunting. there just so neat.

but is it true that the mares leg (looking at Henry's) is a pistol in the USA? just read that it is, but it is classified as a rifle here in Canada. which i find really weird.

 

[itsasmallfarm]

got me a 50 cal hawken percussion cap rifle, i want to say its a Thompson center. was my grandfathers who sold it to me (so he could buy an in-line muzzle loader)

can't wait to take it deer hunting this fall.

 

[Ferrret]

itsasmallfarm, the Mare's Leg is a pistol in the US, because both the barrel length and over all length would make it a short barrel rifle under US legal definition per the National Firearms Act. If Henry's, Rossi, or anyone else, sold them here as rifles, instead of going to an FFL and going through the usual background check process, you would have to submit paperwork with the ATF, pay up front for the $200 tax stamp, get a long form background check and the current processing wait time is 6 months for approval to buy and own a short-barrel rifle, then you have to pick it up from an FFL licensed to deal in NFA items.
It's less hassle to classify them as pistols.