February 20, 2019, 12:53 AM | #26 | |
Staff
Join Date: March 11, 2006
Location: Upper US
Posts: 28,820
|
Quote:
Grew up in an era where sporterizing those rifles was the thing to do. Stupid to carry a 9lb infantry rifle in the deer woods when a 7lb version would do just as well, and better. Deer don't usually return fire so a large magazine isn't really useful, and from what I hear, hand to hand combat with fixed bayonets is pretty rare, too. SO, the sturdiness and weight of the unaltered milsurp are just un-needed weight to carry around when hunting. If you want to use an original issue condition milsurp for a nostalgia reason, that's fine with me, but you're carrying it, not me! (I will make an exception for the Swede carbine )
__________________
All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better. |
|
February 21, 2019, 11:37 PM | #27 |
Senior Member
Join Date: July 26, 2010
Posts: 274
|
Red |
March 6, 2019, 12:21 PM | #28 |
Senior Member
Join Date: August 5, 2008
Posts: 192
|
Killed a few hogs with a Finnish M-28 in 7.62x54r. |
March 6, 2019, 06:14 PM | #29 |
Senior Member
Join Date: September 28, 2008
Posts: 646
|
I tagged a good branch antlered bull elk and a few whitetails with my M1917 (Eddystone). It has a really nice Redfield Olympic receiver sight on it, along with a nice banded front ramp sight. Nice old gun, and whoever "sporterized" it, did a very nice job. Found the rifle back in the mid-90's at a local gun show.
|
March 6, 2019, 07:24 PM | #30 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 15, 2017
Location: Iowa
Posts: 1,099
|
When I lived in Alaska I used a borrowed '03 Springfield for deer and caribou. I was back up there in the summer of 2017 and talked to a guy who used an '03 Springfield for all his Alaskan hunting. 30-06.
|
March 7, 2019, 02:07 AM | #31 |
Moderator in Memoriam
Join Date: August 28, 1999
Location: North Texas
Posts: 4,123
|
Limited milsurp hunting
I had a box-stock 1903A3 with which I hunted a few times but never got to take a shot.
My elder son carried my unmodified No. 4 Mk 1 but never had a chance for a shot. I carried same rifle while same son took a few deer with my commercial rifles. He later got a sporterized '03 Springfield. He took one deer in the original callber and later had it rebarreled to .35 Whelen. He's had good success with that old action, but had since moved on to commercial rifles of his own. I've carried milsurps on many a hunt, but never took game with one. |
March 7, 2019, 07:15 AM | #32 |
Senior Member
Join Date: February 7, 2008
Location: pa.
Posts: 2,450
|
I have shot deer with a few of my milsurps, my favorite is a Japanese 99 in 7.7 with matching numbers that my uncle sent back from the pacific durning ww-2, still full military with monopod. I shoot a 174 gr Hornady bullet and 2450 fps that's close to the military load. three shot groups at 100 yards from a rest with the original peep sights are 1.5-2 ".
|
March 13, 2019, 04:44 PM | #33 |
Senior Member
Join Date: July 11, 2005
Location: Manatee County, Florida
Posts: 1,976
|
__________________
Fire up the grill! Deer hunting IS NOT catch and release. Last edited by Jack O'Conner; March 13, 2019 at 07:13 PM. |
April 3, 2019, 08:46 AM | #34 |
Junior Member
Join Date: March 16, 2019
Posts: 11
|
I hunted with a m91/30 and some cheap soft points.
|
April 22, 2019, 11:38 AM | #35 |
Senior Member
Join Date: April 13, 2009
Location: northern CA
Posts: 674
|
I killed my first deer with a marlin .30-30 but bought an M44 mosin for myself when I was 14 and used it to take 7 deer until I got old enough to admit I didn’t like the recoil/howitzer type properties of that firearm and bought a modern deer rifle. Also, having an optic now is nice. In other words, getting old is no bueno.
|
April 23, 2019, 07:48 PM | #36 |
Member
Join Date: April 9, 2019
Posts: 25
|
My first deer rifle was a Argentina Mauser back in the late 70s never got a shot on one,I did shoot one a few years later with a sporterized K98,an old guy told me that hole was big enough to poke a sombrero through,had to laugh.
|
April 24, 2019, 11:15 AM | #37 |
member
Join Date: November 5, 2000
Location: Wabash IN
Posts: 740
|
Hello,
You might enjoy this page: http://smith-sights.com/mosin-hunting-pictures.php I originally developed that page for Mosin hunting pics, but folks have submitted all sorts of milsurp rifle kills, and so I run 'em. Regards, Josh |
May 9, 2019, 09:33 PM | #38 |
Senior Member
Join Date: November 18, 2017
Location: laiceps erehwon
Posts: 165
|
My brother-in-law used an Arisaka in 7.7 for quite a few years. It was extremely accurate but he complained that it just drilled a hole through the deer without expanding at all (no, it wasn't FMJ!) and led to a lot of tracking. I offered to reload for him with better performing bullets, but he retired the Arisaka and got a different rifle.
__________________
If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining. I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it! If you need a real belly laugh, try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFCrJleggrI |
August 2, 2019, 03:05 PM | #39 |
Senior Member
Join Date: June 20, 2006
Location: Alaska, Yukon R. delta
Posts: 421
|
Moose season opened yesterday! Got my Garand a gas plug from Garand Gear so I can shoot basically whatever I want. Ran good with 180 gr. Core Lokt's. My Ishapore 7.62 has some very good 165 gr. Core Lokt reloads. Now have to go over my 03-A3 and sight it in and maybe make up some more 200 gr. Nozzler Partitions. : )
|
August 2, 2019, 10:35 PM | #40 |
Member
Join Date: December 27, 2014
Location: Illinois
Posts: 92
|
Love hunting with Milsurps! My Bubba'd No4Mk1 consistently puts deer in the freezer. I'll also be using my K31 and Jap Model 99 to hopefully fill some of my 5 antlerless tags this year. May even pull out the old 98k too!
|
Tags |
303 , deer hunting , milsurp , smle , whitetail hunting |
|
|