Quote Originally Posted by ekcivic1991 View Post
Dude you are an idiot, use a bigger gun you will be thinking me later ahahah dumbest shit ive ever heard, any caliber gun with good shot placement will drop anything. Ive spotlighted deer with a .22 and used shorts that dont make sound and are only about as powerful as a pelet gun and dropped deer

And 1200 dollars scope sure as hell does not help that the only thing a more expensive scope does is pick up more light and not fog up.

Also to the hogs being big in ga, yes there are some big hogs in georgia in farms that are fed or on property that is managed for hogs but for the most part none of the them get over a 150 pounds.
I'm going to touch base on a few points from you and the other dumbass that doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground either.

The reason I suggested a nice expensive scope to go "with", KEY WORD "WITH" the 300 mag is because the optical componants on the more expensive scopes can take the recoil of the 300 mag 10x's better than a $300 scope. Shoot a .300 mag with a cheap scope and you'll be replacing it every year with a new scope. I along with many people i've hunted with have all been down that road and learned our lesson. I've seen a brand new scope get fucked after one shot with a .300 mag.

You're also WRONG saying a more expensive scope picks up more light and won't fog. The larger the mm lens, the more light it absorbs. A 40-44mm lens scope can be expensive, but that doesn't have anything to do with the light it absorbs. A 50mm lens scope will draw in more light, retard and can cost less depending on who makes it. Again, quality. Any scope can have anti-fog lenses. Or you can just go buy the same shit divers use to spray on their goggles to keep them from fogging.

Neither of you would know this because all you do is shoot squirrels with your BB gun in daddys back yard.

I clearly stated a .270 or .30-06 would work for GA hunting, but if they want an all around gun that can hunt out west or anywhere in N. America for that matter, the .300 mag is better suited and a better all around caliber. You can shoot deer, black bear, boar, grizzly bear, brown bear, moose, mule deer, bighorn sheep, elk, etc... All at much greater distances than your .270 and with a hell of a lot more stopping power. I'd like to see you 20 yrds from a grizzly and shoot it with a .270.

Buy once, buy smart! I learned that lesson the hard way, but thankfully a very old wise man knocked some sense into me after I kept blowing money on different guns when I was younger. There are different grain bullets for different body size animal and the .300 offers a nice range.


Now, as far as making a kill shot in the heart and it dropping the animal on the spot. WRONG. Can it, yes. Very rarely. A spine shot or head shot will drop it in it's tracks, BUT a vital organ shot doesn't normally drop it immediately. They normally run on a heart shot or lung shot. Lung shots normally they run less because the lungs fill up with blood and the body doesn't get the oxygen to feed the muscles to keep running.

I've seen a friend shoot a Russian boar in the head with a .270 and it blew half of the top of it's head OFF. HALF the brain was missing. Guess what, we tracked that hog into the swamp and lost it. One week later he was hunting the same stand and half brains walks out to feed in the food plot again. He shot it in the lungs the second time, it ran 120 yrds, and we could not believe what we were seeing when we found it. That hog lived over a week in the swamp with half of it's brains blown off. They are tough, mean mother fuckers.

The 1st deer I ever shot in GA was a 180lbs doe in Hancock county and I shot it through the shoulder, it went through the lungs, heart, and back out through the leg on the other side. The deer fell straight down to the ground and pushed itself with only it's hind legs for over 80 yards. When I gutted it, the heart was MUSH in pieces, one lung was fucked, and both front legs were broken. This was with a .30-06 and a perfectly placed heart shot.

I actually bow hunt a lot now and I shoot for the lungs. I would say 10% of the time the animal doesn't know what just happened and i've had them actually keep feeding and topple over after a minute or two. The other 90 percent run less than 70 yrds on a lung shot. I would say most run 40 yrds with a bow and lung shot. My bow shoots 312 fps with muzzy 90 gr heads.

Nobody said you couldn't shoot a deer with a .22 dipshit. If you dropped it in it's tracks with a .22, you got fuckin lucky as shit and had a rabbits foot in your both spockets, a horseshoe necklace, and a 4 leaf clover shoved up your ass. You sure as fuck didn't shoot it in the heart with a .22 and drop it you wet behind the ears pimple poppin fuckstick. Nice to know you were illegally spot lighting too. That just shows what a fucktard we already knew you were.

The "wild feral" hogs in GA get upwards of 300-400lbs for the larger bodied hogs that are rarely seen. Yes, average would be around 80-120lbs, but the records that were shot over a year ago that I mentioned were WILD HOGS. They had short snouts and that is only found with wild hogs. Farm raised hogs have long snouts. The bigger a hog gets, the less you will see it. They are smart and stay in thick areas they know nobody will fuck with them. If you knew anything about hunting, you would know that.

Now, come back and tell me how I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about since I've been hunting for over 20 years and I didn't start until I was 10 years old. You do the math genious.

Go do some research before either of you pop off again with useless banter and shitty info. Dumbass kids hunting deer with .22's.