neither of these choices surprise me, considering where you live. if i owned them here, folks would assume that i was a recoil-loving nutjob. i do miss my 45-70 though. it was "fun to shoot" with the handloads a friend gave me for bear medicine. maybe i AM that nutjob...
yeah, a few minutes even with a perfect double-lung. i watched a video of a fellow hunting bison years ago. he put two from a .338 right where they needed to go behind the shoulder. damn thing didn't even stop chewing its cud! guide told the hunter "let's give him a few minutes. that bulls dead, he just don't know it yet..." about three minutes later, it laid down...
A Marlin .45-70 is a fine brush gun here, and I have known folks who routinely carry them who hunt in thick brush.neither of these choices surprise me, considering where you live. if i owned them here, folks would assume that i was a recoil-loving nutjob. i do miss my 45-70 though. it was "fun to shoot" with the handloads a friend gave me for bear medicine. maybe i AM that nutjob...
When you hunt with a bow, you still aim for vital mass, but you try to NEVER chase an animal you hit. Let them lay down and bleed. Running after them elevates adrenaline, and they can run a while.
Lol that's nuts! Probably thought it was a mosquito or something
Lol I wouldn't dream of chasing a 15000lb wounded animal.do they usually get that big? Don't remember if I've seen one in person.i know I've had bison meat.that should be plenty of meat for a while and I'd love to have a bison rug.man I'm sure your excited.thats gonna be awesomeWhen you hunt with a bow, you still aim for vital mass, but you try to NEVER chase an animal you hit. Let them lay down and bleed. Running after them elevates adrenaline, and they can run a while.
You might hit them in an easy-to-access aera, but make the mistake of chasing them, and who knows where you'll have to do your field dressing, quartering and bagging. I know of a couple stoned hippie hunters who've made that mistake.
Bull moose can get that big, and bison can get even bigger.
The beauty of that .338 Win Mag that many often don't realize, is it can be loaded down to fairly light-weight projectiles, with a decent but controllable (and accurate) amount of powder, traveling at lightning speeds, and can be a 'reach out and touch someone/something tack-driver of a rifle, or loaded up to heavier projectiles and smack the fuck out of something hard(!!) at somewhat closer distance.
in all fairness to the moose, you HAD just put two arrows in his ass & then chased him through the woods...
i'd like to have one. my Marlin is a 30-30, the centennial model. my 45-70 was a Ruger no. 3 carbine, a falling block. it didn't weigh but about 6.5 to 7 lb, and the thing had a straight grip, all of which made it entertaining to shoot... those Marlin Guide guns look like the shit to me!
I traded a 1969 Land Cruiser with a partially seized rebuilt engine and a home-done rag-top 'sky light' with a rubber mat for a cover, for an older Winchester XTR .30-30 lever gun originally from a river village, when a young man came to town, got drunk and high and couldn't afford his room tab.in all fairness to the moose, you HAD just put two arrows in his ass & then chased him through the woods...
i'd like to have one. my Marlin is a 30-30, the centennial model. my 45-70 was a Ruger no. 3 carbine, a falling block. it didn't weigh but about 6.5 to 7 lb, and the thing had a straight grip, all of which made it entertaining to shoot... those Marlin Guide guns look like the shit to me!
my 336 bolt slides out damn near unassisted when you work the lever. i aint done it in years, but all you do is pull the trigger while the bolt is all the way back...i think
i'll check on that tomorrow, that rifle hasn't been out of the safe in 8 years i think. i've never seen a Winchester taken down. might be a reason for that.
