How many of you guys use antiques to hunt with?

[CMichaud]

Just wondering how many guys hunt with their antique rifles?

 

[mooncoon]

On the broader definition of antique using age only, I hunt ducks almost exclusively with an antique shotgun.

cheers mooncoon

 

[Ol' Flinter]

My Remington Model 1889 S x S 12 ga hammer gun works fine on ducks and geese with BP/bismuth handloads! Would hunt with an antique rifle if I had one...

 

[41 Colt]

If I ever got into hunting I'd love to go out with a Winchester 1885.

 

[starpuss]

yup.. i take them out for maybe 1-2 days worth a year. never got a deer with them yet... one day i will.

i use my other guns for 90% of the hunting i do.

 

[Arctic]

I use antique single shot and double rifles for big game, ....no problems and they do the job fine. There's nothing new that's much of an improvement.

 

[zywina]

I hunt with my Winchester 1895 35WCF on occasion , but I really use my Mannlicker Shcoener 1903 carbine for deer exclusively for the past 2 years! ALso this year my Parker DHE will qualify as antique as it is its 100th birthday! Now Alls I need is an 100 year old + 22rimfire to complete an Antique gun battery, an Winchester 1873 in 22rf would be just fine,haha, cheers Dale Z!

 

[armouredtrooper]

.50 cal hawkin

I take my investarms hawkin out all the time so far I have a coyote to my credit with this muzzle loader I plan to use it on white tail next year.

 

[apu]

I have taken the 1876 rolling block in 50/70 out succesfully, iron sights out to a 100+ yards no problem. Looking forward to trying the Mauser 71 this year. It just seems more sporting to use the old iron. The deer don't care either way.

 

[catnthehatt]

I have used a Snider for big game, and hunt ducks and geese quite often with antique shotguns.
Cat

 

[catnthehatt]

I take my investarms hawkin out all the time so far I have a coyote to my credit with this muzzle loader I plan to use it on white tail next year.

Uh, I think he meant original rifles, not replicas!
Cat

 

[Willy Tincup]

I'd like to take my old 40-70 Maynard or remmy 50-70 out deer hunting but so far have not. It would greatly increase the opportunities if our MNR would allow 'antique' class rifles in the muzzleloader or so called black powder hunt. That would be cool......wTc

 

[Win 38-55]

Yes, but I am using the ordinary understanding of 'antique', as in 'if it's around 100 years old, then it is an antique'. I hunt with old Winchesters, the average age is 107 years old.

 

[kodiak1]

A Borchardt Sharps and a Spencer Rifle have both killed wild game for me.

Ken.

 

[stickhunter]

I've carried my Marlin 1889 in 44-40 while hunting, but it has yet to take any game (at least in my hands!)

 

[Goldenlakepete]

I used to own a "Cape" gun - a .44/40 rifle/12 ga. Belgian made, Damascus barrelled shotgun side by side hammer combination gun. I shot grouse and rabbits with the 12 ga. and groundhogs, rabbits and porcupines with the .44/40. I used black powder or Pyrodex handloads. I took it out for deer but didn't get a shot.

 

[ben hunchak]

I use my orig. Rem. rolling block in 38/55 and my Orig. low-wall 32/40 for hunting smaller game, and an English Damascus hammergun for birds, with Black powder reloads.

 

[fingers284]

Taken deer with Remington 1868 R/B, 1884 Springfield Trapdoor, Snider .577 and birds when I was a kid with a 3 ser # Browning Auto 5 (cir. 1903 I think). We used that old girl until the old man fired it one time and the barrel broke away from the slide ring. The barrel javelined into a barley swath about 50 ft from the blind. We welded er' back together but she's been retired ever since.

 

[Papaclaude]

I don't go out for small game much now, but i've got a few damascus barreled SXS that I've killed tons of grouse with. I've also got an 1873 Trapdoor Springfield that I intend to use on a wild boar hunt in the not too distant future. I also used a little Stevens favorite 22 shotgun on spruce hens. I figger if i got 'em, use 'em, mind you none of my guns is worth any real money.

 

[farmerguy]

I hunt deer with an 1885 25-35 and antelope with 1885 38-55. I have not shot a big game animal with optic sights in the last 22 years and we are not starving yet