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rkba2nd Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1834 Location: earth Joined: Feb 16^th, 2009	Re: 8.15x46 for deer Reply #105 - May 13^th, 2022 at 2:02pm	Print Post
	You are to be commended, but the discussion started around the use of a particular cartridge. I have a friend who has taken at least two Cape Buffalo, Water Buffalo, and Elephant with a bow, but would hesitate to recommend it's use, unless one is willing to spend a lifetime perfecting the skill and patience to succeed, and I might add survive!!!

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ISS Oldtimer Offline Posts: 570 Joined: Feb 24^th, 2013	Re: 8.15x46 for deer Reply #106 - May 14^th, 2022 at 6:56pm	Print Post
	I take my hat off to a man who can truthfully state that he has never missed or wounded a game animal with a cap and ball revolver. Before WWII an Alaskan guide stated that many of the natives up there hunted Brown Bear with OM 70's in 22 Hornet. Hosea Farber, iirc. He did not state whether the mortality rate was greater for bears or hunters. Rich


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Grumpy gumpy Full Member Offline Posts: 214 Location: australia Joined: Jul 6^th, 2016	Re: 8.15x46 for deer Reply #107 - May 15^th, 2022 at 1:37am	Print Post
	ISS wrote on May 14^th, 2022 at 6:56pm: I take my hat off to a man who can truthfully state that he has never missed or wounded a game animal with a cap and ball revolver. Rich I’ve never shot a deer with a any of my cap and ball revolvers, but in the people’s non- democratic republic of Australia, it’s illegal to hunt with a handgun, unless you are a police officer, then you appear to be able to do what you want. I have shot one with a 32-35 with BP on a martini ( peep sights) and one with my 25-35 ( smokeless and also a martini) Gumpy


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SchwartzStock Frequent Elocutionist Online Posts: 1018 Location: SchwarzWald Joined: Mar 23^rd, 2010	Re: 8.15x46 for deer Reply #108 - May 20^th, 2022 at 1:46pm	Print Post
	yamoon wrote on Feb 12^th, 2022 at 1:28pm: 8.15x46r is legal in Germany for Roe deer, average weight 75 lbs (much smaller than white tail) muzzle energy requirements, 1000 joules at 100 meters, all other deer require a firearm producing a minimum of 2000 joules at 100 meters. The 8.15x46r falls far short of 2000 joules. The round is fine with good shot placement at moderate range, like others have said, lot of deer have been killed with 22 rim fire. Mike Yes, Germany has many deer types and the Roe are the smallest, actually categorized as "Small Game"

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rkba2nd Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1834 Location: earth Joined: Feb 16^th, 2009	Re: 8.15x46 for deer Reply #109 - May 20^th, 2022 at 10:30pm	Print Post
	True I am sure, many deer have been killed with a 22LR, but no mention of how many were never recovered, and ran off to die a possibly slow and painful death. I believe we owe an animal more than that. If there is a better way, use it, simple as that.

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BillOregon Full Member Offline Posts: 189 Location: Sweetwater, Texas Joined: Jul 28^th, 2006	Re: 8.15x46 for deer Reply #110 - May 21^st, 2022 at 9:08am	Print Post
	Rich, years ago I happened across an old black-and-white documentary on the people who live "on the top of the world." And in it there is film of an Eskimo hunting a polar bear with a small-caliber rifle -- might be a Hornet. The tactic is to let your dog worry the bear and while the latter is pre-occupied, you just put the pill in the earhole. Worked great for that Eskimo.


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85lc Junior Member Offline Posts: 50 Location: Georgia Joined: Jun 28^th, 2018	Re: 8.15x46 for deer Reply #111 - May 31^st, 2022 at 11:47am	Print Post
	In the 1950s or early 1960s, I read that the Inuit and Indians subsistence hunters shot large game including polar bear with 22lr. They would then follow that animal until it died, perhaps 3 days later. They had the time and the 22LR was not too expensive.

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rkba2nd Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1834 Location: earth Joined: Feb 16^th, 2009	Re: 8.15x46 for deer Reply #112 - May 31^st, 2022 at 2:16pm	Print Post
	Possibly a bit suicidal, but very brave dog.

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