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#100206 - 01/12/12 05:12 PM

Re: First handgun kill.What gun and what did you kill? [Re: ohnomrbillk]

JCosmoAsp
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3 point Oregon black tail buck in 1977. I was hunting rabbits with a Belgian-made Browning Auto 5 shotgun and an iron-sighted 10".357 Herrett Contender in a TC cross-draw holster when I jumped the buck from a brush patch. I drew and made a one-handed (left-handed) uphill running shot at about 25 yards. The load was 25 grains of 4227 and a Sierra 125 gr. JHP, which was intended as a varmint load. Ended up with poison oak on my hands and arms as it dropped from that shot into a big patch of it. The bullet punched a clean hole behind the left shoulder, broke a rib, and exploded into shreds of copper and bits of lead, some of which peppered the offside (right) shoulder. Picking the copper and lead out of the meat when I butchered it was an added bonus to the poison oak. Not hard to remember that one!

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#100294 - 01/13/12 08:57 AM

Re: First handgun kill.What gun and what did you kill? [Re: Franchise]

Festus
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Whitetail spike buck
Ruger 44 Bisley open sights
About 40 yds
Factory Winchester siver tip 350 gr Hp.

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#100358 - 01/13/12 09:12 PM

Re: First handgun kill.What gun and what did you kill? [Re: Festus]

Boot
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Oct 29, 2011, Whitetail doe. Ruger SBHH in 44mag with bushnell elite 2-6. Shot was 56yds, and the doe went down right there, using factory loaded hornady 300gr xtp. Im looking for a single six hunter now, to satisfy my small game hunting needs.

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#100408 - 01/14/12 02:37 PM

Re: First handgun kill.What gun and what did you kill? [Re: Boot]

Randominator
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November 15, 1995. 3 point Whitetail buck taken with a Ruger SBH .44 magnum wearing a 3x Burris scope. 60 yards with a 240 grain Hornady XTP over a healthy dose of W296.

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#100413 - 01/14/12 03:51 PM

Re: First handgun kill.What gun and what did you kill? [Re: Randominator]

EricS
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Registered: 06/26/11
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Loc: South GA

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Squirrel
Jennings J22
probably about ten yards on the fourth or fifth shot.
Winchester bulk ammo.
I was about 14 lucky to hit the squirrel and even luckier to get off more than two shots in the j22 without it stovepiping.

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#100430 - 01/14/12 07:26 PM

Re: First handgun kill.What gun and what did you kill? [Re: EricS]

dogsbreath
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Registered: 07/11/10
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Hi Boot,
I'm up the road from you a piece in Dawsonville. We have squirrl season until the end of Febuary if you want to get together, let me know. I've a few squirrl ready guns if you need one.

Dogsbreath

(Sorry for the thread highjacking)

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#100600 - 01/17/12 07:01 PM

Re: First handgun kill.What gun and what did you kill? [Re: matt52]

asquires2
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I was using a 629 and dropped a doe at 50yrds with open sights.

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#100980 - 01/21/12 04:24 PM

Re: First handgun kill.What gun and what did you kill? [Re: matt52]

Tuner
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Registered: 04/15/10
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My first handgun kill was some unfortunate bird probably in my back yard about 50+ years ago with my Crossman pump .22 pistol. I remember the load well, it was a .22 Crossman pellet backed by 10 pumps, 2 over recommended, and the shot was taken at 20 to 30 feet. Fortunately for me and my future firearms this tendency to overload the pump did not carry forward to my later power burning firearms!

First small game animal was a woodchuck with my match 1911 shooting a Lyman semi wadcutter in front of 7 gr. of Unique. First big game animal was a doe taken with my 3 screw flattop .44 shooting a bullet I cast from a mold I had made in machining course I was taking. The bullet was a pretty close copy of the RCBS 250 gr Keith bullet and probably pushed by .22 gr. of 296 or H110.

Amazing I can remember those loads but I have been married 43 years and am still not sure of what day of the month we were married on and what what what's her name's birthday is!

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