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• Zee Senior Member Posts: 27,467 Senior Member

  December 2018 #2

  It’s important to me from a scientific perspective when using a new caliber/cartridge. 
  
  Secondly from a new firearm with existing carrridge. 

  "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
  

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• Linefinder Moderator Posts: 7,749 Senior Member

  December 2018 #3

  Doesn't really mean a thing to me, although every rifle I own with the exception of the 30BR has drawn blood of some sort. 
  
  Mike

  "Walking away seems to be a lost art form."
  N454casull
  

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• bullsi1911 Moderator Posts: 12,046 Senior Member

  December 2018 #4

  cpj said:

  Yep. I have a goal to bloody each one capable of taking a critter. 
  
  

  Same here.  

  To make something simple is a thousand times more difficult than to make something complex.
  -Mikhail Kalashnikov

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• orchidman Senior Member Posts: 8,364 Senior Member

  December 2018 edited December 2018 #5

  Yes. By taking an animal with a new rifle/load, it gives me confidence in both the rifle and my capability with it.

  
  

  Shooting small groups at a range is a confidence builder, but not as good as drawing blood. 

  Still enjoying the trip of a lifetime and making the best of what I have.....

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• mitdr774 Member Posts: 1,770 Senior Member

  December 2018 #6

  It is important for me with my little .458.  The whole point of the rifle was for deer.  Maybe next year it will happen.

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• Six-Gun Senior Member Posts: 8,155 Senior Member

  December 2018 #7

  cpj said:

  Yep. I have a goal to bloody each one capable of taking a critter. 
  
  

  What he said.  
  
  I make it a point to go over my collection and figure out if there are any weapons that haven’t had a fair shake at bagging game.

  Accuracy: because white space between bullet holes drives me insane.

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• MileHighShooter Senior Member Posts: 4,975 Senior Member

  December 2018 #8

  Yup, the only "target" guns I own are my bro's AR15 and my Mini 14. Well and my Handi, but it doesn't work anymore. 
  
  All my other rifles are HUNTING rifles,  and I try to cycle them around as much as I can.  And now im going to keep adding more states to hunt so I can use more guns haha. 
  
  For what I currently own.... 2.5 guns down,  uh... a lot more to go. I gave one rifle the 1/2 because I've killed with it as a 300 Wby. Once it becomes a 300 H&H it'll be near the top of the must-use list. 

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• earlyagain Posts: 7,928 Senior Member

  December 2018 #9

  Not important to me. I hunt to be in the field. I like taking game and eating meat, but I am not driven to succeed.

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• Bigslug Senior Member Posts: 9,329 Senior Member

  December 2018 #10

  Not really.  Like Zee, I'm interested in the science of what the rounds do, but in my 3% success rate zone, I'm more about the process of maximizing the opportunity to make a dead deer.  That has meant switching to stainless guns, lightening the walking load, and fiddling with magnification choices.  If success means choosing one rifle over another, I don't fret over one never being fired in anger.  With Cali going totally lead-free next year, my desire to experiment with cast bullets is greatly curtailed, and thus so is my desire to fiddle with caliber choices.   

  WWJMBD?
  
  "Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee

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• Great Outdoors Member Posts: 326 Member

  December 2018 #11

  my goal is a deer or hog with every one every year 30-06, .30 carbine, 7.62x39, 243, 30-30, 12 gauge and .357- I'm going to miss my goal this year due to losing the past 2 months with a severely broken ankle with torn tendons and ligaments. I have 2- 8 points with the 30-06 a doe with the 12 guage and a hog with the 7.62x39. I will be back hunting this weekend and will take the 243 or 30-30. Our deer season ends Jan 1.

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• snake284 Senior Member Posts: 22,429 Senior Member

  December 2018 #12

  Oh hell, that's what I bought 'em for. Not to take up space in the safe. My problem always was I would pick out a rifle to use first in the season. I figured when I killed something with it I would move on to another. But the last few years on my lease were pretty sparse in the kill department. So I had a few that never got bloodied. I want to take game with all my rifles.
  

  Daddy, what's an enabler?
  Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.

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• jbohio Senior Member Posts: 5,615 Senior Member

  December 2018 #13

  Nah.  We can't use bottleneck rifle cartridges here.  If I had to bloody every one, I'd only own 1 or 2 rifles.
  Most of my bench type rifles have shot groundhogs.  Only 1 of  the rest of them has been blooded.

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• snake284 Senior Member Posts: 22,429 Senior Member

  December 2018 #14

  Most of my guns have killed deer but not with the glass I have on them now. I guess I need to bloody my scopes now.
  

  Daddy, what's an enabler?
  Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.

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