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come, gather around the fire for it is story time everyone!

so couple weeks ago my new partner at work got a chance to shoot my M305 after my wife painted it for me.
he instantly fell in love with the gun and 'had to have one.... NOW!'
really strange thing happened then...
a guy we use to work with texted and said he was thinning out his collection of long guns by half one of which was a M305 socom and he was clearing it away with a bunch of extra mags and like 1000 rounds of ammo.
so my co-worker jumped on it and he was happier then a pig in..... the shed.

so my co-worker takes off for a week of vacation (hunting) and i ran into him today and i had heard he had really good luck and had harvested a couple nice animals.
so we got talking and i asked him what he had used this year for hunting.
he said 308.
so i assumed he used his new build which was a Remmy 700 on a $1000 chassis and a $1500 glass on it with one of those new fancy 2 stage triggers and he said no, he used his open site M305 this year and he loved it!

i have always wanted to take my M305 out hunting but i always chicken out and end up taking a $1000 gun with nice glass on it because expensive means better right!

so im going to take my M305 out next week and see if i cant break her cherry on some meat.

i just found this so neat.
my brain has just always registered the M305 of a fun gun for shooting but i dont associate it with hunting, now this has changed.

anyone else use their M305 for filling the freezer?
 
I harvested my first moose with my SOCOM 18 using reloaded ammo (165gr Barnes TSX). She was around 75 yards away and presented her flank to me. First shot rang out and she turned her head in my direction. My heart was pounding and time stood still. Thinking I might have missed, I hit her again and she fell to the ground right away.

My partner found the first shot lodged below the skin on the opposite side of the rib-cage. It was nicely mushroomed. The heart-lung area was turned to jelly. Second shot went into the spinal cord. I was pretty damn proud :)
 
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wayupnorth said:
i have always wanted to take my M305 out hunting but i always chicken out and end up taking a $1000 gun with nice glass on it because expensive means better right!
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I am the exact same. I carried a full length M305 for 3x deer seasons when I started hunting, but never got a chance to shoot. Then I started hunting a friends farm where the hunting is easier...almost too easy...and have taken my rem 700 .308. Past 2x seasons I've gone 3x shots 3x kills with the 700, but every time I get ready to go out, I contemplate taking the M305.

Issue is, it's only iron sights. I'm confident enough at the range shooting 4" groups at 100m, but last years 10pt presented himself at 275m! I could take the M305, and hunt "harder"...but I love venison so much I haven't wanted to risk an empty freezer yet! :)

To make it even worse...I only have 1x tag this year...

My dream scenario is having a deer present the perfect shot, in thick bush <50m away, and I have the M305 in my hands. Someday...

Good luck on your hunt!
 
Was going to take it moose hunting this year. Not gonna work out. No time to hunt moose or deer, but when I do finally get out, the m305 w/irons will be my go-to.
 
several mule deer and a couple moose , have hunted off n on with an m14s/m305 for many years.
it's just another .308 delivery system , and some of these rifles do it very well ;)
 
I took my first deer with an M305 & Nosler 165gr hand loads. It wasn't a tough shot with irons at 65yd or so but that's typical for the area I usually hunt.
 
I'm the same damn way - figure I have to place a bullet in a teacup-sized spot to be any good at all. This year's going to be different, though. I've made reliable, consistant hits on silhouettes this summer at more than 600 yards with my iron-sighted M305, so I think the typical 100-200 yard whitetail shots should bring me a good deal of personal satisfaction.

Good luck with your hunts!
Rooster
 
I took one hunting one time with the original iron sight.

The sight is OK in good daylight, but you cant see squat through the rear peep near dusk, especially in the darkness of the woods and mixed shadows of hills. It gets to that exiting time of night when the deer are surely moving and you can still see fine, until you shoulder the gun. You cannot see much in the periphery at close range either so moving deer are hard to find.

My advice is to drill the rear sight out to a larger size for hunting. Quite a bit larger actually.

You could also grind the top half of the rear sight off so it becomes more of a V notch.

If you grind off the last tooth on the rear sight you can swap it out with other sizes without taking the whole rear sight assembly apart. (That's an old target shooters trick.)

Rear sights are cheap, try whatever you think is best for you.
 
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I took my first deer ever on October 3rd, opening day, here in Oregon. It was a small one, but legal and tasty, nonetheless...



Although not an M305, it was a pleasure to hunt with an M14 variant.

Tony.
 
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