Bolt vs Semi for Moose/Deer hunting

GANDERITE said:
Senior wrote "But I don't think the type of action you have will make the quality of your first shot different unless you let it."

That was the point I was making. I find that when I carry a semi it DOES change the quality of my first shot. It is a mental thing. I wish it did not change my mental attitude, but it does.

Maybe with more practice I will get over it.
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I can't comment on your personal position but you may be right.
It's quite possibly an age & or experience related thing?
I believe after you get your first few game animals under your belt, your attitude will change & experience will dictate that the first shot is usually the best one your gonna get, then you tend to hold back to make that a good shot.
 
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Geez, guys. We're talking about hunting here. Hunting, which we were evolved to do and all probably agree is the best way to spend a day aside from ###, regardless of what you're hunting, or where, or how, except perhaps for chasing the deer down and clubbing it to death with your testicles.

And we're talking about hunting with guns, which I think we all agree are a good thing, regardless of whether it's a bolt or a semi or a muzzleloader cobbled together out of duct tape and steel pipe, loaded with match heads and AA batteries, and set off with a barbeque lighter.

Well, OK, maybe we wouldn't agree on that last one :).

Now some of you guys may be jaded enough that you really can't enjoy hunting unless it's for Wildebeeste, in January, on a Tuesday, with your great-grandfather's double rifle, but for me it's still all new and fun enough that I really do not give a rat's ass what I'm hunting, where I'm hunting, with what, so long as the quarry's in season and the gun is enough gun.

For all the action snobs out there, I'd be willing to bet that you couldn't go out hunting with a lowly SKS, or a Remmy 710, or a bubba'd .303, get something, and then come back and honestly tell us that you didn't enjoy yourself just because of the gun... And if you can, I'd say your preference has become something akin to a fetish and you might want to give Dr. Ruth a call... :D
 
cdngunner said:
Kinda funny when I was in the army and before we even got to look at the C7 they taught us our clearing drills. They did this because they new that sooner or latter the C7 was going to malfunction. Mind you we shot it full auto too, but it still malfunctioned in semi mode.
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That's because it was build by the lowest bidder on a Government Contract (in Quebec no less), and uses a piddly varmint cartridge...make a non-restricted one in .308 and call me. :nest: :p
 
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