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How many rounds do you carry..... #6598989
08/20/19 08:16 PM
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While hunting big game?

People love to use the.... you don't need a lot of rounds to hunt as an argument for banning "large" capacity magazines. That got me thinking of my question.


I was always taught and always carry at least 10 (or double the capacity of the gun or 2 mags). 1 maybe 2 for the animal the others are for a survival situation that might arise.

Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: adam m] #6598992
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I would say 8 - 10 but I only plan on shooting once. grin


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Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: adam m] #6598994
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5 but I'm usually not far from home.

Last edited by Finster; 08/20/19 08:21 PM.

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Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: adam m] #6598995
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When I go out to hunt squirrels I just grab a handful of .22 shells, maybe 20-30, and stick em in my pocket,nothin fancy. The limit on squirrels here is 7 a day, so figuring I have to shoot a couple twice, and shoot some cans afterwards that about right. My .22 holds 8 rounds.

Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: adam m] #6598999
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I do most of my deer hunting here in ks. pretty rare im not within a mile of a house. any survival situation extra ammo wont help. i just put 4 rounds in the magazine. keep the box i have my reloads in, in my pickup for in case. chamber a round when its time to. trapping is different. keep at least 50 rounds of 22 in the pickup. usually more. 50 rounds or so for my 22 250. sometimes i have my 22 hornet along. them ill have 50 or so rounds for it too.


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Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: adam m] #6599001
08/20/19 08:25 PM
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I've not hunted bighorns, but pretty much everything else in North America (and quite a few species in Asia). If I can't kill what I'm after with my 5 rounds, I shouldn't be afield, in my (warped) opinion. Shouldn't take more than 1 shot, unless the limit is 5 (caribou or Sitka deer, or whatever).

Jack


Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: adam m] #6599002
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5-20+ If im deer hunting i like to have at least 5. If im hog hunting i might want a couple mags worth. I am never in a survival situation hunting around here. If I were walking way out in the boonies i would have plenty of ammo. When I was growing up the plan was if one of us got really lost we would shoot 3 rounds as fast as possible and wait there for someone to find whoever was lost. Later on we just carried walkie talkies. Where we hunt there isnt any really getting lost, it was more of getting turned around in a swamp in the dark and not know which way to walk out.


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Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: adam m] #6599003
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8 4 in the rifle and 4 in my pocket


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Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: adam m] #6599005
08/20/19 08:26 PM
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For whitetail hunting here in Wisconsin I usually have 3 in my aut six be it 30 or 25, and a couple more in a pocket somewhere
so they do not make noise. I have always been taught 1 shot, 1 deer.
I only hunt for the most part on my land a quarter mile from my house so am not expecting an emergency.
I guess when I hunted out west as they say I carried ten rounds total. If ya don't get it done with the first shot or two
it probably will not happen anyway. Now big bears and such is a different story.

Zim

Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: adam m] #6599033
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50 or 60 for the semi 7.62.in strippers in the gun case
Everything else,a box in the gun case.
Who goes out to shoot just one thing?

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Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: adam m] #6599046
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Usually about 10...4 in the gun and 6 in a little pocket carrier. Usually carry a few more in the bottom of the pack.

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Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: Moosetrot] #6599048
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Just one. grin


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Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: adam m] #6599049
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4 + 4 , if I need all those I better go back to the paper target.


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Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: adam m] #6599061
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4 in the mag plus one in the chamber when I'm hunting deer. Not too worried about survival as I usually only hunt less than 1/4 mile from our camp, and if i dont come back, my gang knows to come get me.

The last couple years I've taken 2 deer each within 10-15 minutes, 2 shots and 2 kills. Most of my hunting is done from a stand with a steady rest. If I was doing a deer drive or something similar, I may carry more rounds just in case.

Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: adam m] #6599070
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One in the chamber, one in the magazine and 1 in each front pocket. 4 total, no noise!


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Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: adam m] #6599079
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The last deer hunt I went on I carried 20 in the magazine. I shot twice.
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Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: 160user] #6599089
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On a long day in a stand from sheer boredom I have been known to take a cartridge from my front pocket and polish the bullet.
I feel better now, having admitted that.
Nice shootin MJM.

Zim

Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: adam m] #6599103
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I only need one.
But I carry 20 or so in case the only "accurate one" is in the middle of the box. smile

Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: adam m] #6599113
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7 mag-10
22. Mag , just grab a box of fifty

Re: How many rounds do you carry..... [Re: adam m] #6599138
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When deer hunting, I keep 3 slugs in the gun, 2 loose slugs in my right side pocket and a box of 5 in each side pocket.

Keith

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