Multi-game hunting with one gun....

[Parhams0508]

I have a Mossy 500, cylinder bore, not able to use chokes. I'm thinking I could reasonably hunt some quail, squirrel, rabbit, and definitely some deer. Not sure about turkey without the ability of tightening up the groups with a choke, but I could possibly try it.

What would/do yall use?

 

[HOLY DIVER]

turkey with a cylinder bore.....bad idea.....but there is hope mossberg leaves alot of meat in there barrels so take it to a gunsmith and have it threaded to accept mossberg chokes. go get yourself a full or extra full choke and you will be turkey hunting (there is a cylinder bore choke thats screws in to put it back like you had it)plus you'll most likely want a modified choke for dove(i do) all in all you will be happy you made this move it will make you shotgun a do it all hunting machine!

 

[mcdaniel]

You can find a field barrel thatll take chokes pretty easy online. Id lok for one of them and increase my versatility.

 

[Parhams0508]

Scoped M4 223 with a Ciener .22lr conversion unit. It can do anything that needs doing with a longarm, especially once it is sound suppressed. The 25c per shot savings of using the .22 for practice, the avoidance of being shot by using the suppressor, having the rifle concealed (disassemble and reassemble in 15 seconds, total) in the backpack and by not having a shot "call in" every enemy within 2 miles is priceless.

I didn't think that you could hunt larger game with .223 caliber weapons. I thought it had to be .30 caliber or larger.

 

[HOLY DIVER]

Scoped M4 223 with a Ciener .22lr conversion unit. It can do anything that needs doing with a longarm, especially once it is sound suppressed. The 25c per shot savings of using the .22 for practice, the avoidance of being shot by using the suppressor, having the rifle concealed (disassemble and reassemble in 15 seconds, total) in the backpack and by not having a shot "call in" every enemy within 2 miles is priceless.

I didn't think that you could hunt larger game with .223 caliber weapons. I thought it had to be .30 caliber or larger.

no the rule is it has to be center fire for large game in SC

 

[Parhams0508]

So far, we have shotguns with interchangeable barrels and chokes, and ARs with .22LR conversion kits.

What do yall think of combination guns, like drillings? Or rifle/pistol caliber inserts for shotguns and rifles?

 

[beerman]

some states havelaws against hunting with th e223, but we are talkkingabout shtf, when all laws will be meaningless. t 100 m or a bit futher, a good 223 softpoint to the head unleashes so much hydrostatic shock in the fluid filled brain that the eyeballs are literally popped out of their skulls an dthey drop[ like rocks to the shot.

Who was talking about SHTF? This is a hunting forum.

Just curious, but do you know what grammar is?

 

[Parhams0508]

some states havelaws against hunting with th e223, but we are talkkingabout shtf, when all laws will be meaningless. t 100 m or a bit futher, a good 223 softpoint to the head unleashes so much hydrostatic shock in the fluid filled brain that the eyeballs are literally popped out of their skulls an dthey drop[ like rocks to the shot.

Who was talking about SHTF? This is a hunting forum.

Just curious, but do you know what grammar is?

You have to excuse swiss, he's in love with red herrings and straw men.

 

[Parhams0508]

they are a bad joke. They are merely single shots, with poor accuracy. to get the best out of them, you have to mark the unit and the chamber, and return the unit the exact same relationship to the chamber for each shot, or your accuracy suffers. Oftentimes, the POI on the target is no where close to where the full power ammo hits. .32 ACP ammo, for use in a 308 caliber insert, is expensive, hard to find and not very powerful, at 200 ft lbs or so. Stingers, from a .22 rifle have 160 ft lbs., and you can have a 30 rd magful of them instead of having to eject the unit for each shot of .32, knocke out the fired case, reload the unit, reload it into the chamber, etc.

You plan on missing? I don't. Measure twice, cut once.