![]() ![]() Hunting with a 12-gauge slug for deer got real old, real fast,Įspecially when Ohio changed the law in 2014. Performance at these distances, but for me, after a couple of years, Will be experiencing a 12-inch drop! Sabot rounds have better Mark, you had better have your thinking cap on when all of theĪdrenaline is pumping and you spot a buck at that distance, as the slug At 125 yards, only 75 feet further that the 100-yard ![]() You sight in your slug gun at 50 yards (what I did), your slug will hitįive inches low at 100 yards, even though you may be getting a two- or Possible on my property, most deer are taken at under 50 yards, so if As I stated, this is the hilly and wooded part of Ohio that The other problem with a 12-gauge slug is the drop in its Even semi-autos will beat you up when firing slugs. Or check your scope every season, you may be firing 20 or more slugs inĪ row, and that just isn't fun when firing from a bench-not for meĪnyway. You won't really feel much, but when you have to sight in a scope, Rounds fired from a pump when you are wearing a thick hunting coat, and The big problem with using a 12-gauge is the recoil. Cantilever mounts are like diving boardsĪnd, in my opinion, they are the worst concept for a scope mount. Sometimes had an issue with the cantilever scope mount throwing theĪccuracy off if it got bumped around (Ted Nugent told me the same thing shotgun by Beretta USA at the time, and I Running international sales for Beretta USA at the time (the 3901 series I first chose a Beretta 3901 semi-auto slug shotgun, since I was I wanted less hiking and tracking with my hunting. It's not like I can see for a couple of miles, as if I hunting onįarm land. I am in the very hilly and thickly-wooded part of Ohio, so To use a shotgun, as I kept hearing stories of big Ohio deer running a Were/are allowed, so I could summon my inner Bob Milek and have a ball!Īnd I did, but came up empty during a couple of seasons. 357 with straight-walled cartridges (no shoulder) I wrote on the TNW ASR, as well as Scot Loveland's article on theĪTI Omni in this issue.) No Winchester Model 94 dream deer hunts in Ohioįor me! Handguns over. (For other details on Ohio deer regs, see the article Ohio, and that state only allowed shotguns with slugs at the time for Opportunity was in my face, as deer seemed to be everywhere, so Iĭidn't waste any time. When I acquired property out in the country decades later, the I still wanted to go deer hunting, eventually. General, I was mostly a shooter, collector, and "class 3" kind ![]() HigginsĢ0-gauge, bolt-action shotgun, but as far as the firearms hobby in (once) in the mid-1980s, with my grandfather's J.C. 221 Fireball and was the greatestĪs far as other types of hunting, I even went pheasant hunting (Bob did a lot of groundhog hunting with the Remington XP-100īolt-action handgun chambered in. With my Colt AR-15 SP1 at a relative's farm in the early 1980s. Pellet handguns, rabbit hunting with 1911s, and even groundhog hunts Influence led me to countless squirrel hunts with my grandfather's Was the real pioneer of handgun hunting in the 1970s and '80s. Influenced by one of my favorite gun writers of all time, Bob Milek, who ![]() I didn't know any deer hunters back then, with theĮxception of an older cousin's husband, who had promised to take 30-30 into the mountains on horseback for a deer hunt was a fantasy for I liked camping, and the idea of taking a Winchester Model 94 Hunting articles in Guns & Ammo magazine would grab my attentionĪway from articles on handguns and military-styled semi-autos (my true I was mostly a shooter and gun collector, but many times the Quarry mines-not much to hunt there, except for paper targets and Guns was done at The American Range in North Jackson, Ohio, and at Two-acre lot owned by my grandparents, or at a friend's property,īut that hunting was done mostly with pellet guns. Shooting birds and squirrels in some woods near my house, on an almost There weren't many opportunities to hunt, with the exception of Retrieved from īack in the 1970s, when I was very young and growing up in a city, 450 THUMPER-The Modern Answer for the Straight-Walled Rifle Cartridge Deer Hunting States!. 450 THUMPER-The Modern Answer for the Straight-Walled Rifle Cartridge Deer Hunting States!." Retrieved from 450 THUMPER-The Modern Answer for the Straight-Walled Rifle Cartridge Deer Hunting States!." The Free Library. ![]()
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