what is the best caliber for a lower recoil, easy to get ammo for,deer rifle.

hoytcanon said:
My only 7X57 at the moment is a M70 Featherweight... but I am on the hunt for another, since I let a sly old dog talk me out of a beauty...
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My downfall was 500 Gevelot brass, that showed up a little on the green side . . . apparently if something is cheap, there's a reason. Anyway I diligently began cleaning brass and uniforming primer pockets and the undersized flash holes, then on morning 3 or 4 of that nonsense, a pal was admiring the pop-up peep opened up to a ghost ring and the new rectangular post front sight blade, and next thing I new he was taking the whole outfit home, including Redding dies, and a nice selection of bullets, all for less than I paid for just the rifle and gunsmithing earlier the same year. I shouldn't sell things when I'm frustrated, but it was for his son, so I guess its all good. I like .30/06 better anyway . . . I keep telling myself.
 
Boomer said:
My downfall was 500 Gevelot brass, that showed up a little on the green side . . . apparently if something is cheap, there's a reason. Anyway I diligently began cleaning brass and uniforming primer pockets and the undersized flash holes, then on morning 3 or 4 of that nonsense, a pal was admiring the pop-up peep opened up to a ghost ring and the new rectangular post front sight blade, and next thing I new he was taking the whole outfit home, including Redding dies, and a nice selection of bullets, all for less than I paid for just the rifle and gunsmithing earlier the same year. I shouldn't sell things when I'm frustrated, but it was for his son, so I guess its all good. I like .30/06 better anyway . . . I keep telling myself.
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Yeah... I'm a sucker for that "it's for my kids" line also... 90% of the time the kids don't even get the chance to get behind the trigger... ahhhhh well... there are other nice rifles out there, and the one "just around the corner" is always the most interesting... "greener pastures" kinda thing.
 
Boomer said:
I thought I was pretty tough, thinking little of putting on 20 map miles across rough rocky ground interrupted by wide stretches of wet tundra, or a dozen miles across endless snow scapes, then I visited the mountains. My sea level lungs and flat ground legs set me straight in a hurry, and I quickly saw the practicality of the elusive 5 pound hunting rifle. So they don't point, like that matters when you're gasping for air.
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Have to agree. I thought I was plenty tough before I met the mountains. Come to find out that everything done on flat ground is a leisurely stroll by comparison. And air? If I even found any actual air I'd have been happy to gasp for some of it. I watched two locals who had a air molecule treed, and they were arm-wrestling to see who got to have it.
 
In the end you could be superman but you're going to go further, higher, and have more opportunities the less you carry. Climed in the Andes (not hunting) to 20,000' and it puts things seriously in perspective- especially when a 150lb porter in gum boots passes you, who's twice your age. Few in Canada are as tough as we like to think!
 
Dogleg said:
Have to agree. I thought I was plenty tough before I met the mountains. Come to find out that everything done on flat ground is a leisurely stroll by comparison. And air? If I even found any actual air I'd have been happy to gasp for some of it. I watched two locals who had a air molecule treed, and they were arm-wrestling to see who got to have it.
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For the record, I won that molecule!
 
medvedqc said:
you can have muskeg after climbing mountains on some plateau ....
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Is that where you are thinking about shooting yourself on the way to the top... reach the summitt... see the muskeg... and then just go ahead and pull the trigger???
 
medvedqc said:
LOL Greg ... as Mike said too mosquitoes: no wind and no more you are the king of the peak lol ...
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Well Phil, I know little of mountains... ours are less than pimples compared to yours... but, I am certain that you are talking to the professor when it comes to bugs & black bears... in the bush we have to tie up our dogs... the bears aren't the problem... the black flies and mosquitoes will carry them away if they are not lashed down... and the bugs are so big, it only takes half a dozen to do it!
 
Ardent said:
You'll know too much soon enough, enough you'll wish you'd forget!
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I'm all about self abuse... I find ways to inflict pain on myself doing even mundane tasks... there is no telling what I can accomplish with a mountain!
 
hoytcanon said:
Well Phil, I know little of mountains... ours are less than pimples compared to yours... but, I am certain that you are talking to the professor when it comes to bugs & black bears... in the bush we have to tie up our dogs... the bears aren't the problem... the black flies and mosquitoes will carry them away if they are not lashed down... and the bugs are so big, it only takes half a dozen to do it!
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Huh, the refuelers here pumped 1000 liters of Jet A into a skeeter before they realized is wasn't a plane.

Our bugs don't usually start until the third week of June, first its mosquitoes near the end of June, then bull dogs (horse flies) come in July, and the sand flies soon after that, then it snows.

 
The best part, speaking of aircraft, is washing them at the end of the day. Especially in horsefly season, I have it on good authority NASA is researching whatever adhesive compound sun baked horsefly guys comprise to hold tiles onto future spacecraft.

I spent a good bit of time in the Amazon ten and more years ago trying to eek out adventures, was immediately cautioned on arrival you really have to prepare yourself for the bugs... For once I knew I could waive off a regional caution without looking like an idiot shortly after. The have nothing on Northern Canada.
 
Boomer said:
Huh, the refuelers here pumped 1000 liters of Jet A into a skeeter before they realized is wasn't a plane.

Our bugs don't usually start until the third week of June, first its mosquitoes near the end of June, then bull dogs (horse flies) come in July, and the sand flies soon after that, then it snows.

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We can't use scout scopes in bug season... with two eyes open, you'll loose an eye sure as shootin'!
 
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