Posted on 07/17/2018 5:21:59 AM PDT by w1n1
In one of the many survey conducted online this one is by B Smith an outdoorsman and writer.
The question was asked on Social Media of what is the best rifle caliber for hunting deer. Supposed you were a newbie and was in the market, the following information may be helpful to you. You can obviously ask the folks running the gun stores and ranges.
The following answers comprises from many different levels of hunters/gun enthusiasts, take it with a grain of salt, this is from the internet poll.
Here are those popular calibers for deer hunting that was mentioned:
.243
.270
.30-30
.308
There were other type of calibers but the above calibers repeatedly came up in the conversation.
Reasons varied among hunters and gun enthusiasts, but here's a more thorough explanation of each calibers strengths. Read the rest bullet caliber for deer hunting here.
Florida has an overpopulation of deer.........................
As flat as where you are, I’m surprised y’all don’t have something similar...
We have hills in NW Florida, unlike the rest of the state which is a big flat sandbar. We are the under Alabama part................
Didn’t y’all almost lose the deer population in the Everglades back in the ‘70’s because they stopped hunting there??? The herd grew so large disease almost killed the whole herd off????
I’ve been down to Mobile, AL and around Lake City FL...
It is a little hillier there in north and NW Florida, but isn’t the highest elevation in the whole state only 200 feet above sea level???
Britton Hill is 345 feet above sea level, in Walton County, next to our county, Okaloosa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida%27s_highest_points
OK...Thanks...
IIRC, that was the Key Deer, a very small deer that lives down there.............Now it’s Burmese Pythons that are killing the deer...................
LOL
WTF!? .270 but no .30-06?
My bumper/grill has a pretty good record, but the second shot has been a little tough . . .
Yep...It was the Key Deer...
Are they gonna be able to get rid of the pythons??? Or at least reduce to a manageable population????
In my area if you hunt with a rifle you are likely to be in trouble, shotgun, bow and crossbow only because of the number of farms. Go ten miles north and rifle is ok.
Not really. The higher the shooter is in the tree, the more likely the shooting trajectory is downward so that a bullet that misses is more likely to plow into the ground rather than carry for a mile or so.
Florida has no deer. They have medium-sized dogs with antlers.
They have instituted hunting and
Inside the weird, wild world of state-sanctioned Florida python hunting:Dec 8, 2017
Florida snake hunters have now killed 1,000 Burmese pythons:
May 22, 2018
Easy money? Not for python hunters who grapple with Everglades:
Dec 29, 2017
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-reg-python-hunter-results-20171227-story.html
Key Deer are small, very small deer. They have been protected so long that they have lost all fear of humans and will come in your house if you aren’t careful..............
I also like 00 Buck and/or slugs (if a shotgun is what I am using and I can get close enough)...
The Russian Boar population in the Great Smoky Mtns Park interbred with feral hogs and grew into damaging size populations in the Park several years ago...Since they are invasive and not native, the government (in their infinite wisdom) decided to hire some government hunters to help reduce the population. (Several local hog hunters who use Plott Hounds to hunt hogs legally volunteered to do it for free, but were rejected).
After six months, the hunters had killed about 25 hogs...It was then found that the “hunters” were spending all their time in Gatlinburg restaurants and bars than in the woods...
I grew up out West and was used to mule deer. When I was stationed at Elgin, I saw a massive rack out on the range. Expecting a huge stag to emerge from the brush, it took me a while to comprehend that a 10-point buck could be the size of a goat. It’s all good eating, though.
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