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If you can't shoot, doesn't make any difference what you shoot 'em with. Plenty of deer have been haunch shot with opening day and then the gun is put away '06 shooters.

I have always been an Elmer Keith admirer. He used to say that anything less than a .357 was not a good manstopper. The same probably holds true for deer.

Small Bore, all my rifles are new and American made.

I think most of you guys are public land shooters and have no idea what the landowner can do while deer season is going on.
I can hunt my Kimber 22lr rifle thru out the season, and what I do with it is my own business - after all, I'm not building homes on small lots like most - the animals have an un-hurried life for all but a couple of days a year.
What do you do, other than use a deer rifle?

Did you ever tell us how many acres laird of the Woods owns? Surprises me you don't take your cream puff square bridge '98 out in the rain. if you have laird sized estate why not put cover on a hide on a good runway?

No I have not, nor will I, but it is the first real bit of un-restricted country one hour or so from a metro-area of 2.5 million.
So we are talking quality of the land and cost per acre, not how many. Kinda like a cabinet full of utility grades, or a safe with one best made gun.
All land isn't equal no matter how many acres you toss into the mix...I do have enough for me!

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"I can hunt my Kimber 22lr rifle thru out the season, and what I do with it is my own business - after all, I'm not building homes on small lots like most - the animals have an un-hurried life for all but a couple of days a year.
What do you do, other than use a deer rifle?"

I will agree in principle on one point here. An unstressed animal is a lot easier to kill than a stressed one. After the first hour or so of opening day in public hunting areas you've had many hunters tramping into the woods and untold shots fired.
The deer are now stressed and the andrelin is flowing. IMO; It takes a lot more to put a deer down in this condition. From what fish & game people have told me it takes several days to over a week for the deer to settle down after hunting season depending upon the pressure they've been exposed to.
Jim

Mr Glenthorne, I envy you your situation but cannot understand why you would want to shoot a quarry that presumably you respect, with an inadequate calibre ? yours, Mike Bailey

Gents, I'm just stating what the state says I can do - no harm will come to the deer from me. Altho' that might not be said for the trespassers and poachers.
Deerhunters are a strange lot - they don't like public land hunting, but they don't mind hunting your land.
No, I'll just walk the boundries that weekend with a Cooper 17Hmr, and the deer can go on their merry way.

Number of acres Q&A reminds me of a person I interviewed for a job while in Calif. He kept saying he owned a ranch and enjoyed the freedom. Privacy laws prevented me from probing too deeply. I was impressed; the citizen lived on the Ponderosa. He made it though a series of interviews and was hired. I learned later his ranch was 1 acre.