What is your “go to” weapon for deer hunting ?

Finnbear said:
When it comes to drillings maybe a blessing you never bought one, they are an addiction. Start off with a 16g/8mm, nice and versatile. Next you will find a scoped 16g choked mod and full with a 6.5x68mm barrel and think to yourself "hell that would be nice to have for the mountains"

next you find a 12g/6.2x52 choked IC/mid and think to yourself " damn that would make a lovely whitetail combo with some buckshot.

then you find a husqvarna in 18g/9.3x57r and think "wow i want to shoot some boar and the odd hare"

and on and on. They are such great guns, the older ones tend to be long and slender with straight stocks and fine irons, newer sauer ones (70s/80s) short and compact stubby things with claw mounted scopes.

Iam currently working on fitting a 1-10x24 scope with a red dot on my .243 for birding. Takes alot of work to fit one, the claw mount system has such tight tolerances yet each one is unique (handfitted) so fitting one that didnt come with the gun originally requires careful hand filing them out of steel scope rings.
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I have my own addiction Finn, single action sixguns and lever action rifles. IMG_3891.jpegIMG_3890.jpegIMG_0134.jpegIMG_4355.jpegIMG_4351.jpeg
 
Finnbear said:
i wish i could own even a single one. Handguns are a nono here, at least for hunters. Would need to spend 5 years competition shooting with a loaner or join the military reserves wich is not going to happen due to my not entirely Finnish birth status.
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Well, I feel for you. Where you are born is an accident of birth, no more no less. Even with all our problems, the USA is still the most free country on the planet and I’m glad I was born here, and more importantly, glad I was born in Texas.
 
Drycreek said:
Well, I feel for you. Where you are born is an accident of birth, no more no less. Even with all our problems, the USA is still the most free country on the planet and I’m glad I was born here, and more importantly, glad I was born in Texas.
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i could argue the same for Finland tho but for different reasons. Now if you implemented everymans right i would move tomorrow. Over here guns are lightly restricted by EU standards, everyone i know in my community owns a gun of some sort. Specifically concealable weapons and autoloading are restricted, that said i own a valmet "AK" in 308 and a civilian AK derived platform in 7.62x54r (russian made rifle for tiger hunting iam told) because those are considered suitable for hunting. Now an AR15 in 5.56 would be considered a duty weapon and reserved for military reserves (thats nearly every natural born man here due to the conscription system) and handguns are simply not legal for hunting at all.

on the other hand, everymans right means that in terms of "nature" there is no private or state property. Wanna fish, hunt, hike, Camp or build a cabin in the woods? so long as you steer clear of someones house (150m) and dont permanently alter their land its free real estate. Quotas on most species are also up in the air for wathever local hunters agree they should be.

Really the only lack of freedom we have is not being able to grab a 50bmg, 44 revolver or ar15 off the shelve and the lack of coffeeshops that dont sell coffee like my birth country
 
Finnbear said:
i could argue the same for Finland tho but for different reasons. Now if you implemented everymans right i would move tomorrow. Over here guns are lightly restricted by EU standards, everyone i know in my community owns a gun of some sort. Specifically concealable weapons and autoloading are restricted, that said i own a valmet "AK" in 308 and a civilian AK derived platform in 7.62x54r (russian made rifle for tiger hunting iam told) because those are considered suitable for hunting. Now an AR15 in 5.56 would be considered a duty weapon and reserved for military reserves (thats nearly every natural born man here due to the conscription system) and handguns are simply not legal for hunting at all.

on the other hand, everymans right means that in terms of "nature" there is no private or state property. Wanna fish, hunt, hike, Camp or build a cabin in the woods? so long as you steer clear of someones house (150m) and dont permanently alter their land its free real estate. Quotas on most species are also up in the air for wathever local hunters agree they should be.

Really the only lack of freedom we have is not being able to grab a 50bmg, 44 revolver or ar15 off the shelve and the lack of coffeeshops that dont sell coffee like my birth country
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We sell a lot of coffee here, but most of it is hog swill and priced like gold. 😂😂😂
I get mine at the corner store in town from the same woman for about 30 years. She makes it better than I can !
 
Drycreek said:
We sell a lot of coffee here, but most of it is hog swill and priced like gold. 😂😂😂
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the kind they sell in my birthcountry is herbal and smells kinda funky. Suddenly gives the strang urge to spin a bob marley record. Never been my thing tho so iam not missing mutch. I prefer my guns and the two shouldnt mix anyway. Finland is probably the second easiest country to get a legal firearm in europe, used to be first but the czech republic adopted a sortof second amendmend few years ago giving all citizens with clean records the right to own and carry for defence. Over here that is another nono. Ofcourse no law stops me from keeping my slug gun in the trunk incase i run into a racoondog, those guys are kill on sight here. Even get money for proof of death.

enough out of me for now, i have to go haul in my nets. Get the fish in before hunting season takes all my time. Slugs destroyed my garden so it will be a protein heavy winter this year. Even my pumpkins got destroyed.
 
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