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45/70 - the original long range caliber
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<blockquote data-quote="Kmccord" data-source="post: 1731150" data-attributes="member: 99039"><p>One of the reasons I had quit shooting mine was the cleaning, even taking it out to shoot for a few rounds was not worth the cleaning. I did take it deer hunting two years in a row, first thing I found out on year one, looking through the peep hole on the venier site, in early morning with a nice 10 point buck 92 yards in front of you, I could not find the front site on his body. So, me getting to excited, and had already pulled the set trigger, I stuck my darn eye up to the cup to see better, lowered the rifle in better light found the cross hairs on the front started to bring it back up to his shoulder and my finger on the darn trigger, getting excited, and with a glove on, I touched that trigger off and sent a 500 grain Hornady under his belly into the ground. The deer donkey kicked, the rifle donkey kicked the poopoo out of me and my eye was against the eye cup!!! After gathering myself second later I watched the buck look around like WTH was that then walk off into the brush.. I was sitting there with my heart back in normal mode, feeling aggravated. My Dad walked down from his stand about 20 minutes later asked if I got one, looked at me and asked what happened to your eye, felt up there and had blood running down my nose... That was year one deer hunting, year two, I purchased a Hadley Adjustable eye cup and did not have anymore problems with low light conditions. That second year, same stand an eight point buck at the same feeder, this time I controlled my breathing, did not get to excited and was able to bag him. I will say, that is the last time I took it hunting, that sucker is too heavy to be caring around, it wore me out just getting to my stands or crawling up a tree.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kmccord, post: 1731150, member: 99039"] One of the reasons I had quit shooting mine was the cleaning, even taking it out to shoot for a few rounds was not worth the cleaning. I did take it deer hunting two years in a row, first thing I found out on year one, looking through the peep hole on the venier site, in early morning with a nice 10 point buck 92 yards in front of you, I could not find the front site on his body. So, me getting to excited, and had already pulled the set trigger, I stuck my darn eye up to the cup to see better, lowered the rifle in better light found the cross hairs on the front started to bring it back up to his shoulder and my finger on the darn trigger, getting excited, and with a glove on, I touched that trigger off and sent a 500 grain Hornady under his belly into the ground. The deer donkey kicked, the rifle donkey kicked the poopoo out of me and my eye was against the eye cup!!! After gathering myself second later I watched the buck look around like WTH was that then walk off into the brush.. I was sitting there with my heart back in normal mode, feeling aggravated. My Dad walked down from his stand about 20 minutes later asked if I got one, looked at me and asked what happened to your eye, felt up there and had blood running down my nose... That was year one deer hunting, year two, I purchased a Hadley Adjustable eye cup and did not have anymore problems with low light conditions. That second year, same stand an eight point buck at the same feeder, this time I controlled my breathing, did not get to excited and was able to bag him. I will say, that is the last time I took it hunting, that sucker is too heavy to be caring around, it wore me out just getting to my stands or crawling up a tree. [/QUOTE]
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