who here hunts with their 14 and what for?

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SixTGunr

Discussion Starter · Nov 4, 2003

This board has been kinda slow so I thought I would start something a lot of people would respond to. Hopefully.
I hunt deer, hogs, antelope, pdogs, and coyotes every chance I get. It has never failed. Almost every weekend my son and I go hunting for hogs and end up shooting some far off prairie dogs also. It is a wonderful rifle for varmints. At least mine is. It's a heavy bareled heavy stock target 14. Now I have a big old draft mule to hunt with and I can pack my rifle and meat for the freezer with him for days if I want. Boy is that fun!
Does anybody got any good hunting stories to share with us with their m-14? what's the most oddball thing you ever killed with it? for me it was a 475 pound yellowfin tuna and a 700 pound black marlin in the same day. We had standing orders to ventilate anything with teeth or anything bigger than the picnic table on the fantail before we hauled it on board. That was on a frigate out of sandiego that I was on. Igot pictures of some of the fish somewhere. I will try to dig them up. They were cought the conventional way with rod and reel just had to be dead before coming up.
My wife misses all the meat I would return from a cruise with. Especialy the mahi mahi.

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SixTGunr

Discussion Starter · #2 · Nov 4, 2003

Being totally serious now .....

The "last time" I actually "hunted" anything with an M14/M1A was people and it was to stay alive ...

Course that was then and this is now ...

The only shooting I do now (when I have time of course) is to make sure I have'nt lost my touch.

I do have several other toys that I will drag to the woods to hunt with however but for the past couple of years I just can't seem to find the time cause I am too busy painting ...

Good question though ...

Six

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m14dan

· #3 · Nov 4, 2003

I can relate to not enough time six. I have so much going on it ain't easy with work and my gunsmithing thing trying to take off and riding my mule 3 or 4 times a week but hunting is my passion and I just make time. Plus it is good, I think, to spend time with my son hunting. Just us in the outdoors. They grow up too fast and at least when he does leave home and hopefully join the marines or navy he will already be an expert rifleman, actualy he already can qualify, and he will have a healthy respect for animals and the outdoors.
I started this thread, sorry I forgot to log in again. I didn't have enough time. :lol:
Oh I too have had to "hunt" the same as you. People. I for one am glad those days are over! That was something I never liked to keep track of.

OD45

· #4 · Nov 4, 2003

sixtgunr said:
I do have several other toys that I will drag to the woods to hunt with however but for the past couple of years I just can't seem to find the time cause I am too busy painting ...

ANd might I add that your brand of painting is true art six. I really enjoyed the visit to your website!

Pre-WWll

· #5 · Nov 4, 2003

OD.45

Don't know if you are serious or leg pulling but SixTGunr is the head honcho and paint appilcator at his business. WHAMOCAMO hand painted stocks.
All painting is applied bye brush, bye hand, bye Six.

All the WhamoCamo stocks you find posted on this and other boards are done by our own SixT the talanted gentelman from Senica MO.

He also makes good coffee over to the cafe.

TomR

OD45

· #6 · Nov 4, 2003

Pre-WWll said:
OD.45

Don't know if you are serious or leg pulling but SixTGunr is the head honcho and paint appilcator at his business. WHAMOCAMO hand painted stocks.
All painting is applied bye brush, bye hand, bye Six.

All the WhamoCamo stocks you find posted on this and other boards are done by our own SixT the talanted gentelman from Senica MO.

He also makes good coffee over to the cafe.

TomR

Well, I am assuming you saw my post before I edited it. I typed it and then happened to remember I saw a link under sixt name in his signature line. I clicked on it read through the website, looked at the gallery and figured out what kind of painting he was talking about. Then I ran back in here and edited my post. Kind of hoped no one caught it before I edited. Guess it's true someone is ALWAYS watching. OD

Hawk

· #7 · Nov 4, 2003

not much of a hunter, used to tag along with my dad when I was young. Always was too busy for it, but figured if I was ever hungry enough.....

Only had to kill an animal once as it was lying on the side of the road after being hit by a car. It was a Raccoon and it was suffering.....well I didn't have my 14 or my .45 with me so I did the next best thing....I was in construction at the tiime, and had one of those gas operated, semi automatic, Paslode Nail Guns, so I shot it twice in the head with 3" Galvanized nails. Gives a new meaning to Full Metal Jacket :roll:

Pre-WWll

· #8 · Nov 5, 2003

OD.45

You are forgiven.

TomR

rpf2697

· #9 · Nov 5, 2003

I use my scoped pre-ban Springfield on coyotes while wokring on the family cattle ranch. I've missed alot more than I've hit. They are fast and die hard. I use federal match ammo which utilizes the 168 grn, hpbt sierra's. Very accurate on the range targets.. more difficult on living, moving things..

C.R.

· #10 · Nov 5, 2003

I have used my M1A to hunt whitetail deer. I loaded a 165 BTSP Sierra gameking and it worked very well. The rifle is to heavy for my liking to use while hanging on the side of a tree. But, it was fun to see the eyes of the guys I was hunting with when it came out of the truck. 8O

m14dan

· #11 · Nov 5, 2003

C.R. I can relate to the looks you get. the last few years I have really gotten a lot of weird looks and even a lot of fools that thought I was nuts hunting with an "assault rifle". They didn't think it was up to the task. Well the proof that it is is who goes home with meat in the cooler and who goes home with nothing but empty beer cans. I usualy , if not always get something and at least I rarely miss. This year at my new lease I got a compliment from one guy on my ak47 and from another old man on my m-1 garand. Both of them were refering to my 14. Shows how much the average person really knows about our favorite rifle!The man that thought it was an m-1 even said he carried one just like it in the marines back in ww2. He was a nice guy so i didn't correct him. He went on to say I shouldn't have messed it up by adding that bar mag . I almost fell over laughing!
Just don't use the whole mag on a critter unless it is a whole pack of hogs and is absolutely necessary and don't give anyone a reason to give you any trouble about it. We all need to show a lot of responsibility with our toys, more so than average gun owners, and insure we can still carry them legaly in the field 20 years from now. Don't give them any more reason to ban our rifles than they already have.
last year at the hunting lease I got in an argument with a guy that said I shot his deer. He was 600 yards across a field from me and I watched the deer stop and eat at a feeder 25 yards from his stand. It was there a good ten minutes. after that it slowly walked across the field and wen it got within three hundred yards of me and out of line with the other guy I shot it. My son and I got down and went to it and the other man also aparently woke up, got out of his stand, dropped his rifle and it went off, then came running across the field and started chewing me out about how I shot his deer and how I shot in his direction. I didn't shoot in his direction. Also if he had been sober and conscious at the time it was only a few yards from him he would have gotten itwith that win mag of his. Well he didn't and I did. He went on to say how he didn't like people with assault weapons killing all the deer on his place. I told him a drunk with a bb gun is more dangerous than a responsible person with a real rifle. Referring to his dropping his rifle and it going off. He balled up his fist then like he was gonna get really stupid but he shut up at least. My son and I dragged the deer to my truck and left never to go back. People like that are dangerous. Not us. Just remember that.

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rooster33

· #12 · Nov 5, 2003

M1A Springfield, and I only kill what I eat, Moose was the last thing that I filled my freezer with.
rooster

SixTGunr

Discussion Starter · #13 · Nov 5, 2003

hunting w/m1a

Yo, I hunted mule deer & elk with my m1a this year for the first time. I
harvested a nice fork horn buck-4pts back east. I decided a while ago to down size and consentrate my gun collection. I wanted to get real good with one rifle that could bring down big game, varmits-both 4 & 2 legged kind, & have fire power if needed. I had to sell 10 guns to get the SA M1A & the Fed Ord M14SA. Love my babies. Total M14 nut now. My wife just
gives me THAT look & shakes her head. Putting meat in the freezer justifies it in my book. WTPIII

rooster33

· #14 · Nov 6, 2003

wow, reading all this about hunting with the M14, makes me want to go hunting. I'll have to plan a trip.
rooster

M1A Medic

· #15 · Jan 12, 2004

Scoped M1A for deer and next year hogs. No luck getting anything yet but still hoping.......

beltfedfool

· #16 · Jan 12, 2004

hunting

Hey, sixtygunner, where is senica Missouri? I live in st peters..great stocks by the way. maybe after I get one of hawks kits I will look you up. thanks Tim

m14dan

· #17 · Jan 12, 2004

would anybody here like to plan a get together for a all m-14 hog hunt sometime this spring or summer. If I get enough interest I can arrange a place to go for a few days maybe at the Mott creek ranch near here for us. I go trail riding there with my mule and they got some big old hogs. There are places with more hogs but this place is really nice and it would be fun having a get together. I am going on a trail ride there on valentines weekend and I plan to take my m-14 and see if junior can find another one for me.

Fred Smith

· #18 · Jan 12, 2004

Here in Ga. we have along deer season it comes in sept. for bow hunting only and gun season start's in oct. till jan. I bow hunt deer mostly but do some hog hunting with my m14. In ga. the bag limit is 12 deer 10 does 2 bucks. We can hunt hogs all year there is no bag limit on them. If you don't keep them in controll they over run the land. I got a six volt light kit from probass that mounts a spot light on top of the scope to hunt hogs at night with it's alot of fun and legal as long as you keep your light to six volt's. My hunting buddy shots a H&H 375 mag. he got the same light kit on it allso. :twisted:

M1APREBAN

· #19 · Jan 12, 2004

M1A

I've got three M1A's (all preban) and I don't get a chance to do much hunting anymore. It seems that hunting around here doesn't mean much to me lately. I am planning a trip to Wyoming in the next two years for elk. Used to shoot hi-power but lately just tin cans...Mike

Zed Stewart

· #20 · Jan 13, 2004

Well let's see, I hunt anything I hunt with my M1A. I have killed hogs and deer, coyotes, and even a beaver, but that is a story with a stupid ending.

I also hunt with FMJ ammo, exclusively. In Texas, it is not illegal. I have killed more critters with FMJ ammo than most people have killed. I have done a lot of research into wound studies and done my own field testing. I have found that, in 5.56mm and 7.62mm, the FMJ bullets out perform the spitzer (pointed soft points). If you consider a 150 gr, .30 cal bullet is 1.13", +/- 0.02", in length and that a spitzer, in the same caliber will only expand to aproximately .40 cal, even without going through the dynamics of terminal performance the FMJ is the logical choice.

Oops, I forgot to put in the part where an FMJ bullet upsets after impact and swaps ends to go base first. That is unless it is a copper-washed steel jacket, my favorite, and breaks into two pieces and does really nasty things inside the critter.

I guess a short trip into terminal ballistics was nessacary after all.

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