I am interested to hear rifle sayings like these below which you have heard over the years, and if you believe them or not. This will help with a book project I am working on.
Beware the man with only one rifle
Only accurate rifles are interesting
Always use enough gun
Light rifles are hard to shoot accurately
Its takes 1000 foot pounds of energy for big game hunting
Rich: I only agree with the first one. As for number two, I
believe only reliable rifles are interesting. If the action doesn’t
cycle, you’ve just got an expensive Encore. If you don’t care about
collecting meat or stopping a charge, then any gun is enough. 400
fps is enough to penetrate skin, and once inside, that is enough to
perforate the heart or lungs or crack the liver. Light rifles are
fine unless you want to shoot more than two shots. But as Hemingway
wrote: “One shot, meat. Two shots, maybe. Three shots, heap shit.”
There was a .243 for sale about 10 years ago that had bagged over
1,000 bison. Belonged to the wife of a big ranch billionaire. And
more deer are taken with a .22 rimfire than all other calibers
combined. Shot placement. Most of us aren’t good enough.
Respect guns and treat every one like it is loaded. Before
you squeeze the trigger, you always have to think about where every
single piece of your bullet will go and stop and the consequences;
because you can never take a shot back. The squeeze of the trigger
is the culmination event of what you were taught about guns; at
least it should be. Don’t ever shoot something that you don’t
intend on eating; less life or death situation.
I’d always heard beware the Cop who carries a revolver, I
think all rifles are “interesting” Always use enough gun for
hunting to ensure a humane kill, for defense “have” a gun Light
rifles are hard to shoot accurately for extended shooting. 1,000
foot pounds, sounds about right, depends on the game and range That
was “my” $0.02 worth. Great Blog.
Short barreled guns are hard to shoot accurately.
I don’t know what this is for but I am very interested in
what ever the final result of this project is so be sure to let
me/us know. Thanks
you can kill anything in North America with a 30-06 (bet you don’t use that one)
you can kill anything in Africa with a 7×57
you can kill anything in the world with a 375 H&H
6.5 x 55 kills way beyond it’s paper ballistics, Swedes have been killing moose with them for years
you need 1500 ft-lb for big game
sectional density leads to deeper penetration
big heavy bullets don’t deflect when they hit brush, so brush guns use big heavy bullets
Eskimos use 243’s and 250 savages to kill polar bears
Not sure if those are useful but it was fun to write em down, and yes I am aware that most of those are B.S.