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I have used my unmodified milsurp rifles to harvest my venison for the past two years and plan on continuing the tradition this year. One modification however this year as I am using a K31 with a...

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Thats why I love my home state of Louisiana. Im heading up north to Jena this coming Monday til Weds. for a good deer hunt. I will be poping my M44's cherry as for it will be its first hunt with me...

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Hey All, sounds like more than a few K31s are going to be on the prowl. I'll probably used the old tried and true 1903 Springfield, but my scoped K31 and a 1970 M39 Finn are tempting me. Then there is...

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Kriggevaer, you know Bill Clinton said you can hunt ducks with the same [i]rifle[/i]you used to hunt deer with last year. RKBA

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rkba857, Even if I could judge the lead fast enough, I think the game warden might not be too happy with me. And, we know what kind of optical rectalitis Clinton was afflicted with. kriggevr

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nhcruffler, My son-in-law will be in one of the newer steel ladder stands or in a ground blind, his choice. We have some old wooden lean up stands but they are getting kinda' rickity and we don't use...

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I used my sporterised M38 Swede to good effect on pigs on a huge trip 3 years ago to a 300000 acre property on the New South Wales / Queensland border. I reckon I would have shot about 40 pigs with it...

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Thanks for all the excellent responses. Looks like a lot of collectors are also hunters. Now that the seasons are winding down it's time to plan what to use for next year. I used my scout mounted K31...

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I'm on my next hunt in May to a place called Goodooga on the New South Wales / Queensland border. It's an 1100km trip to get there. My sporterised Husky M38 will be coming as usual. My "close...

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191 pigs bagged by 6 blokes.That's almost 32 per bloke.That's: (A) A heck of a lot of pigs to be gotten there (B) Darn good hunters (C) Darn good dogs (D) All of the above.Sounds like it would beat...

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I've just ordered a Gibbs .45-70 carbine. It isn't a milsurp per se but it is built on an Enfield action. My choice for next year perhaps? I got it with wild or ferrel hogs in mind at short range in...

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I've used a Military Surplus Rifle of some sort every single year for hunting since 1994.They include: M1 Garand & Carbine, 03A3 Springfield, 98k & a Chinese SKS.I've gotten deer with one of...

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Well my Remington 03A3 has filled my freezer with venison for quite a few years (2-nice bucks this year) but I am considering building one of the tweeds, so who knows next year.Cujo

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Yeah, it's a lot of pork Stan. A combination of a few factors led to the tally. We got 13 hogs with the dogs on the way to the property. We were away for 10 days - including 2 travelling days. It's a...

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The thought of gutting and field dressing that many hogs staggers my imagination.You could find a LOT of help from forum members here in the hunting and shooting.They probably would shirk in the...

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fenring2, it sounds like your pork hunt would be the hunt of a lifetime for most of us here on the forum. I have been trying to set up a pig hunt for a couple of years here in Ok and understand there...

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Yeah, most of the other blokes said it was the trip of a lifetime, getting that many. I think the previous record was about 170. They have goats on the property too, but they muster them and sell them...

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Spotting bunnies at night...wow I haveb't done that in a long time.Of course it's illegal here in the states nontheless everybody has done it at least once.And if you haven't then you missed a lot of...

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Hi All, The only thing illegal to hunt at night here in the UK as far as I am aware is Game,like Deer and maybe Hares, Hmm I will ahve to look that one up, Rabbits and Foxes are fair game at night by...

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Fenring2Your profile doesn't say, but if you are hunting kangaroos you must be down under. Are the rabbits still a scourge down there as they once were? There use to be a bunny behind every bush here...

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Nah JimLEO, the bunnies have dropped off a bit. We had the rabbit calicivirus released over here which thinned them out. Thankfully, it got released too early, when there were a lot of young around -...

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