Great Idea. Thanks for starting it. I could post a picture of me moose hunting with a single shot rifle but that has been all I've done the last couple of years, just hunting. No killing a moose. Hopefully others here can do better.

JS

I suppose whacking muskrats in the yard with a Favorite doesn't count.   

How about woodchucks with a 44 1/2?  I did for about a dozen when I was in Michigan.  Mostly at modest ranges. They were undermining the barn something awful.  That .25-20 was a very accurate rifle. Got one at about 50 yards, animal prone and facing me.  When I went to pick up the body I couldn't see an entrance wound.   Turned out it went in right through the open mouth.  I'd held on his nose.

uscra112 wrote on Oct 21^st, 2017 at 9:50pm:


Had a similar experience once, as a teenager hunting bedded down red foxes on a snowy day. We would glass higher places in open fields for a pair of little black triangles -- the black ears of a male fox. These carefully bedded down foxes would sleep a while, awake and look around, then go back to sleep. Only way to get in range for a 32-20 or .22LR was to crawl directly toward the fox, stopping every time it raised it head. Tried to get about a 100 yds away (rifles zeroed at 100). In this instance I aimed at base of one ear because the foxes head was tilted. Fired shot and nothing happened. Waited and waited. No movement from fox. Should I shoot again? Was it a real fox or was someone playing a trick with a dead fox? It had been raising it head, but, not since I shot .... what happened? Crawling in many inches of snow for maybe a half hour had left me really cold -- and now I was really freezing. So I got slowly up and walked toward fox. Bullet had gone in eye just below ear and exited through spine -- instant kill and total immobilization.

Having started out in the first grade with a used Red Ryder BB gun it being the demise of an endless supply  english sparrows. I have hunted most all of my life from that point forward and there are just to many good time tales to tell. Looking back the most enjoyabe for me was while using my Ruger 1B in 6MM Rem. and long before I knew anything about cast bullets. One my high lights would probably be the taking of a wild pig with that rifle just before I gave up hunting and took up competitve shooting having lost my hunting partner and very dear friend.

JLouis