optic Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 Spent the arvo with nick parks and George along with kat today. We all picked up a duck each, gave the pup a run after quail, and at 4 months old it was more fun running around in the grass. No quail wrong grass me thinks. Watched a girl pluck a duck so i could show the boys how i brest them out with the leg in tact. What interested me most today was how a farmer could live 200 meters from a large dam where a half grown red stag lives and not know about it? crop and veg land flat as execpt for the dam banks. Its open country and not much cover at all, george took a few pics and nick tells me they found the quail later on and cleaned up on them. Well done boys, Im happy for you but my toe isnt. Will be worth reading his post tomorrow, george has a couple of good pics of a chick doing what women should be doing Plucking, i did say plucking and also a couple of tree scrapes from the red, I had heard about this red and had a few solids with me just in case, this is not big bore country even tho they were in the car if i needed them. On that note what do you think the chance of a solid slug dropping a red is? Remember unless it was in front of a major dam bank, and even then with some doubt i would not fire a big bore there To many farms around. Is there any history of a solid doing the job. cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 It's illegal so you wouldn't do it. But hypothetically, placed in the chest it'll knock it for six! Many many years ago, a mate had occasion to use a shotgun with slugs on a Sambar spiker that had just bolted after receiving a 150gr 308 pill to the chest from 10 yards. They were hunting pigs but this spiker stood up out of nowhere whilst they were traversing some bracken. Fearing the deer would escape wounded, mate pulled it up quick smart from about 30 yards. Cheers... Con Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldo Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 Sounds like you and Nick had a good day out. The yanks I believe use solids a bit on deer, but just because the the yanks do it doesn't make it right (we know that for a fact). Personally I could never see the point behind using a shotgun to do a rifles job (or vice versa for that matter)! As Con said it could do it, but it's illegal! Cheers, Waldo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonSelmes Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 dam wish i could have been there boys sounds awesome for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick parkes Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 I'm sure a 400 grain slug would do nasty things to a deer at shotgun range, but besides being illegal I'd still much prefer to use the 06. The size of the properties still allow the use of the centrefire, it would only come down to the noise factor. I wouldn't imagine the boom would be any where near as loud in flat open ground as it would be in hills and forests. The sound disperses pretty quickly with nothing to echo off.I'll be talking to the landowners over the next few weeks and give the deer a crack come June. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
optic Posted April 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Hey nick where are the pics from sat? get onto bloody george, he had some also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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