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Brian, nice buck and welcome to the forum!
What part of KY are you located?

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Well done mate, nice little haul there for the freezer!
Your rifle might not be a powerhouse, but there's nothing wrong with your aim - all that really matters anyway.
Welcome to the forum - Top stuff!

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I also shot a black bear with mine, at about 90 yards. 260gr. Speer at 1,960fps.
You loads will do just fine on deer and hogs & bears for that matter.

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Nice buck Brian and welcome on the Forum.
Louis

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While open sights work well at close ranges, in thick bush,
early and late in the day, they suck big time, especially on cloudy days.
I concur, though, open sights are fairly good.
I used a 2X scope on my Winchester 94 .45 Colt.
That was good enough to shoot 1 1/2" at 100 meters. The
accuracy rather surprised me, but you had to hold onto it both hands.
It bucked & would convert that 1 1/2" into a 12" high string if you didn't.

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I was just curious..back in the day when we would hunt river bottoms for whitetail,
driving them..so running shots, I actually preferred the open sights ... most was reasonably close..100 yards and under..and the deer were usually hauling butt out of there ..

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My first shot on elk was a cow running across, left to right. The 300gr. HP cast bullet hit her in the neck just in front of the shoulder
(I led too far & a little high) but it worked very well indeed. Big veins and clipped the spine.
The 2X scope w/post was not a hindrance to the running shot although a higher powered scope might have been. I suspect up to 4X, NP.

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I completely agree it would not be a hinderance.. again, thought with the close distances, lever guns, etc.. just seems like it would fit there pretty well..


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Nice buck Brian and welcome on the Forum.
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Agree,

Welcome Brian..

As the distances seem relatively close there, many just use open sights?? Just curious..

Nice job.., congrats

Ripp

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Ripp,

While the shots here are usually less than about 125 yards, most folks have a scope on their rifles. Most of our hunting is done from tree stands or sitting on the ground, not pushing the deer in front of us. With a scope, it's much easier to make a good shot thru the trees at a deer that's usually walking.

The terrain around here isn't conducive to deer drives, but when I lived in Ohio we did them. In that case, most of us had open sights, on shotguns.

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Nice buck Brian and welcome on the Forum.
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Agree,

Welcome Brian..

As the distances seem relatively close there, many just use open sights?? Just curious..

Nice job.., congrats

Ripp

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Ripp,

While the shots here are usually less than about 125 yards, most folks have a scope on their rifles. Most of our hunting is done from tree stands or sitting on the ground, not pushing the deer in front of us. With a scope, it's much easier to make a good shot thru the trees at a deer that's usually walking.

The terrain around here isn't conducive to deer drives, but when I lived in Ohio we did them. In that case, most of us had open sights, on shotguns.

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Thank you for the info Brian

funny thing, all the drives I have done and deer we have hunted, have never used a shotgun to take one..did so in Zimbabwe on an impala once..but never a deer..

Congrats..sounds like a lot of fun.. and good times with friends, a very important component at times overlooked from the outside..

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This was 44 mag. pressures & in R-P brass only.
The load was new .45 Colt brass, Large Pistol mag primer, 34.0gr. of now obsolete Winchester 680 powder and 260gr. Speer HP.
I found, in the Winchester rifle, no other make of brass was suitable for these loads, not Federal nor certainly the even weaker WW.
Ross Seyfried used Fed brass & W296 in his tests, but I found Fed. to be weaker in the web area than R-P brass.
His use only of W296, prompted me to 'branch out' into other powders, like the W680, of which I had a lot. I worked to the same
expansion of the web as the W296 gave, and of course, obtained higher speeds as a result of the slower burning 'rifle' powder.
The Winchester M94 chamber cut-out, like on a 1911 pistol, made the use of R-P brass mandatory. I do not know if the other .45 Colt
rifle barrels have the same type of chamber throating.
.454 Casul brass might/would have been better yet.
Ross' load with the 250gr. Hornady HP was 29.6gr. W296, for 1,587fps. That load was fired in a 5 1/2" barreled single action wheel gun.

Further, in the Jan/Feb. 1994 RIFLE magazine, #151, loads in likely a Brian Pierce article for the Trapper Winchester Rifle(same as mine), Federal brass was used.
250gr. Hornady HP - 28.0gr. W296/H110 - 1,758fps.

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Nice buck Brian and welcome on the Forum.
Louis

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Agree,

Welcome Brian..

As the distances seem relatively close there, many just use open sights?? Just curious..

Nice job.., congrats

Ripp

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Ripp,

While the shots here are usually less than about 125 yards, most folks have a scope on their rifles. Most of our hunting is done from tree stands or sitting on the ground, not pushing the deer in front of us. With a scope, it's much easier to make a good shot thru the trees at a deer that's usually walking.

The terrain around here isn't conducive to deer drives, but when I lived in Ohio we did them. In that case, most of us had open sights, on shotguns.

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Thank you for the info Brian

funny thing, all the drives I have done and deer we have hunted, have never used a shotgun to take one..did so in Zimbabwe on an impala once..but never a deer..

Congrats..sounds like a lot of fun.. and good times with friends, a very important component at times overlooked from the outside..

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That is so true. Hunting by yourself is not nearly as fun as when you have a group of friends sharing the adventure. Those are memories to treasure.

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Hunting by yourself is not nearly as fun as when you have a group of friends sharing the adventure. Those are memories to treasure.

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