What factory cartridges/loads are those?Originally Posted by Indiana shooter
Oh, and congratulations on the deer! Good show!
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What factory cartridges/loads are those?
Oh, and congratulations on the deer! Good show!
USMC 6638
Anything from 357 mag up to I believe the 500 S&W.(at least in pistol cartridges) There is a very good wildcat that is called the 358 Hoosier. You have to have a 308 action barreled to fit it but it is essentially a trimmed 358 win to satisfy IN laws. I had a friend that had one on a savage 110 action, heck of a gun. Very much worth it if you hand load.What factory cartridges/loads are those?
Good deal!!!!
Thanks.
USMC 6638
Congratulations. I've killed a few deer with an inline and saboted .44 bullets I cast, works well. Started with the Lyman 215 grain bullet and 70 grains of Triple seven as I was looking for a low recoil loadfor my son who lost interest. Two deer down with that one, but then I switched to a 300 grain Lyman and 100 grains and it works a lot better since. Mine is a super cheapie inline from Traditions, I think, and I have it set up with Musket caps. I left it home this year and hunted the old Hawken again, but didn't get one.
Good shooting! Designing your cast load is much more fun!
Way to go!
Just to clarify the max case length is 1.8"
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I own a 358 Winchester barreled Mauser 98 that I use 358 Win brass cut to 1.8" in length to meet Indiana's weird rifle rules. That's a nice sized doe you got there.
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Greetings and Congratulations !
20-1 is a good mix for all sorts of critter harvesting.... You made a good choice. Well done !
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Another oddity of Indiana is that for a pistol, the case length rules do not apply and the minimum caliber is 243. So you could use a 243, 25, 6.5, 7mm, 30-30, 308, etc. in a pistol and it's totally legit. I have taken my .300 blackout AR pistol before.
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Interesting fact that you are in Fern Creek. I was born there in 1944 but my parents moved to Indiana when I was 6 months old. they said that I wouldn't need a green card if they moved before I was a year old.
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What is the purpose of the rule? Is this some misguided idea about safety or are they trying to make it hard for hunters to comply?
USMC 6638
IN idea is that the larger heavier bullets in front of a limited amount of powder (done by limiting the case length) will minimize the range of the round. Supposedly making it safer due to how flat northern IN is. My issue with that idea is that wile the smaller, faster rounds will shoot flatter they are also more prone to fragmentation after impacting. Whereas the slower bullets tend to just skip along the ground until it looses its energy. I really don't see how one is "safer" then the other, but that's how a DNR officer explained it to me.
The first thought that comes to mind is that there are no rifles that are chambered for these imaginary cartridges that the "DNR" has invented. Looks like a back door way for the liberals to prevent hunters from hunting to me.
USMC 6638
Very well could be. It seems to me that SO IN is very "gun friendly" but I can't say the same for the state as a whole. As of when I left, you had to apply for a permit just to hunt with a handgun on public land.
The strange thing about Indiana's deer hunting laws on rifles is you can use any center fire rifle to coyote hunt or even squirrel hunt. I know people that hunt yotes with 300 win mags and I've ran across people in the woods that were using 223s to hunt squirrels with. Both of thoes are perfectly legal.
They say it is for safety.
I'm thinking about sticking a pan-corn field graduated vertical post scope on the .52 bore paper patch Renegade barrel. Don't guess I get to hunt this year post-relocation but next year intend to have everything ready.
Nicely done! Good news is you're now hooked on CB hunting. Bad news is you're now hooked on CB hunting.
Many experienced casters will not hunt with CB's, I'm glad you took the plunge.
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congrats on the harvest should be fine diningNicely done! Good news is you're now hooked on CB hunting. Bad news is you're now hooked on CB hunting.
Many experienced casters will not hunt with CB's, I'm glad you took the plunge.
Not sure I get the comment "Many experienced casters will not hunt with CB",
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