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CJ owner's who prefer hunting and shooting to trail riding...

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#1 ·
Every four wheel drive I have owned has been used to get me where I need or want to go to hunt and target shoot. Hunting is by far, my favorite sport with bench/target shooting a close second; and, I will continue until I am confined to a bed or dead. I don't get to hunt enough but I hope that will change in the next few years as my daughter's get older.

What do you hunt: paper, Elk, Whitetail, Moose, small game, birds?

What are your tools?

Favorite tools, favorite calibers?

Do you reload?

Do you compete?
 
#2 ·
I hunt whitetail, turkey and various small and winged game here in Northeast Missouri. I am a BIG bow hunter and I also enjoy my muzzleloader.
 
#3 ·
i hunt.....mule deer, speed goats, upland birds and varmints mostly.....occasionally elk and whitetail thrown in....major reason for me buying the CJ5 was for a mobile shooting platform for ground squirrels out at my uncles place.....for big game i tend to prefer hunting out of a 1/2 ton truck.....
 
#6 ·
Love to hunt Black Tail, Elk, Boar, varmints, ducks, geese, turkey, quail, dove... I would love to start doing this with a bow too. Right now my Weatherby 300 Accumark gets the big stuff done, the .17 for the fun small stuff, The Benelli 12, 20, 28 gauge gets me into all my bird stuff...and my Jeep takes me there.

Love sporting clays and target shooting...

SC

EDIT...don't forget those wabbits...cotton tail and jack rabbits! Nothin' better than eating a crock pot wrabbit! well...Elk, Boar, Deer, Quail, Dove, Pheasant, Duck ...big huge grin...
 
#7 ·
I also hunt, whitetail deer, and turkey but I also enjoy trial riding just as much. I also ride bicycles (road bikes). As far as shooting goes I was once a very highly ranked 3D archery shooter, I alway thought I would turn Pro at 50 thats only 4 years away and I was just talking to my wife about starting back shooting this upcoming year.
 
#8 ·
Mostly whitetails. Hauled a deer out with the Jeep a couple days ago. Way cool. Few hogs. Squirrels & rabbits.

I duck hunt as well, but that involves pullin my boat on the interstate. I'll use the truck for that.

Got a variety of rifles, but my go-to is my Rem 700 in 308.

Got a sweet little Anchutz .22 that will head bust a tree rat every time. (well, when I take my time & don't rush the shot)

Killed my 2nd deer with a bow this year. That's a rush all it's own.

Our state just adopted night huntin' for hogs in the spring/summer. I plan to put a dent in the pig population big time this year. They are killin' our deer huntin'.
 
#9 ·
Cool thread, Dave. :2thumbsup:

I hunt Whitetail, hogs, and Dove primarily, as that is about it around here. My dream is a trip out west sometime, but that probably won't happen. I'd really like to go for Elk or Caribou with my bow. Spent 10 years deer hunting from horseback, and that is a lot of fun.

My primary rifles are 7MM Rem Mag for distance, but I also shoot a .243 or .30-06. For less than 200 yeards I typically use my .30-.30... an all-around great gun. Probably my favorite rifle is my Savage .17 HMR. I don't hunt deer with it, but I have killed a few 4-legged predators around here with it. For horseback hunting I used my 1100.

Bow hunting is my all-time favorite method, and I use a Hoyt Trykon... the last bow I will ever own.

Started reloading this year and having fun with it. My oldest son and I also got started with IDPA (International Defensive Pistol Association) this year shooting competitive pistols in self-defense scenarios.
 
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I'm happy to live in a state where just about anything is on the table - from pheasants to big horn. The lottery is a cruel, cruel game, but if you play your cards right you can hunt something new just about every year. This year was elk with a ML, antelope with a rifle, pheasants and bobcat with the 12gauge. Last year was bear with the ML and elk with a rifle.

I'm in it for the adventure, and I like going after something new in someplace new as often as I can. More often than not, coming home empty handed (the most common way for me to come home) means coming home with some great stories, like this cow moose and her calf, that I shot with my camera, who came up to within 5 yards of the rock I was perched on:

 
#12 ·
I mostly hunt birds and rabbits in the desert. It is hard to get drawn for anything else in NM. I do go to Texas for Hawgs.

12 gauge for birds, 300 win mag and 450 Marlin for hawgs and deer if I get drawn, 17 HMR for rabbits.

I have taken a couple of buffalo, one with a 458 Win MAg and one with the 300.

I too use my Jeep more for hunting than trail riding. Here in the desert the short wheel base comes in very handy getting across aroyos and narrow trails.
 
#13 ·
I love hunting and guns. It's always hard for me to choose where to spend my money. Jeeps or guns. I wish i was rich so i didn't have this problem. Started reloading this year also and it's been fun so far. My guns range from .22's to a 45-70 sharps. I like old school guns like lever actions and single action revolvers. love to shoot and i just flat out love guns. I think it's a disease. I'm 23 years old and can't quit buying guns for some reason. I hunt some but not a ton. I'm more of a collector i guess you could say
 
#15 ·
i have the same problem.....since setting foot in Shiloh Sharp's building in Big Timber ive wanted a hunting weight(~11 pounds, shorter barrel) 50 cal.....also think i need a drilling, prolly a 16x16x9.3x72 cause i never know if im gonna run across birds or a deer on alot of walks and the girls dont like to play gun bearer as they are usually hunting aswell and carrying their own gun....course i also have about $2,000 worth of stuff i want to do to the Jeep.....really hard to prioritize spending between the gun and Cj....then im also supposed to be saving for a trip to Australia in 2013 to go after water buff and boars and whatever else we can find.....
 
#14 ·
I hunt whitetails with my .270 savage!

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I also have an old winchester model 94 lever gun in .30-30 that I carry in bad weather and brush.

I hunt birds with my 870 and paper with my .22's and 9mm Taurus. I just scored a rossi yout combo in .22/20Ga for my son who will be 9 in march. He can use it to carry (unloaded) to learn firearm safety when we go out hunting. I like to shoot!
 
#16 ·
Usually i go in spurts. spend money on the jeeps for a while then switch back to guns. Lately ive been buying the heck out of guns. I got a total of 5 cjs, which 2 of them are parts jeeps. I haven't worked on any of them in the last month or so. kind of pathetic. I have to have my scrambler close to done by Feb 5th because we are driving off in it after the wedding. I really need to get on that but i keep buying guns in case the future wifey frowns on that after we get married. i call them investments. :)
 
#18 ·
Sounds cool. Pics?
 
#19 ·
I like to hunt. Usually squirrel and once in a while white tail. My dad took me squirrel hunting since I was 10. He never took me for deer. My hunting slowed down with the birth of my son. I like fishing a lot more, but I own a 16g side by side, 12g Mossburg pump, Savage .22, and I still have the gun my dad bought me, single shot .410.
 
#20 ·
We use dogs to hunt deer from stock all the way back to 1920's foxhounds

Fantail walker dogs and a few beagles, us a cj7, cj5, and cj8 to i don't ruff up my new Tundra. Pipelines and oilfield well locations have fixed most of the roads but the custom drill stem bumpers help go get the big bucks in the cut-overs. Shoot winchester model 100-- 243--when their running and Weatherby Vanguard--270 when their standing still.
 
#23 ·
I hunt Whitetail, Turkey, Hogs, Rabbits, Squirrels, Ducks, and anything else I have the opportunity to chase. I mainly use my Remington 700 7mm-08, but just picked up a 270 WSM that shoots great and in the process of building a varmint 223 incase I ever get to hunt prairie dogs. I use a Benelli SBEII for ducks and a Remington 1100 20G for smaller game. Going out in a field to pick off some paper is also on my list when its not hunting season.
 
#26 ·
I used to hunt every fall with my granddad in North Georgia. He had a mid 60's cj and I had a FJ40. Used a Scoped 7mm Mauser that never let me down and never came home empty. That was in the mid and late 70's when suburbia Atlanta had not overflowed. Life went on and joined the service, moved away and never got back into hunting, but always have some great memories with my Grand Pa and his CJ. :)
 
#28 ·
Blacktail, Mulies, ducks, dove, pheasant, quail and not nearly enough like I used to. Taking my 2 oldest daughters next week out to the duck blind for their 1st time & hopefully there will be a 2nd time. 1958 Winchester .30-06 is my rifle, Winchester Mdl 12's (.410, .20 & 12 ga) for the birds and my good 'ole trusty Remington Express .870 for the duck blind (had to switch over when we went to steel shot)...one of my favorite pics a few years ago...
 

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#32 ·
What are the laws for the suppressor in NC and what is it mounted on?

I saw a vid on Youtube where a guys was firing a two identical semi-autos, one suppressed and one not...boom, click-thump, boom, click-thump. I was really cool to watch and probably a hellava lot more fun to shoot.
nc has some funny suppressor laws but a good class three dealer can get you around most of them:D that is a SWR specter it is on a ruger 22 with a pac-lite upper on it i also have a matching ruger 10-22 rifle with the same flutted barrel. as for sound... its all in how much you want to spend i bought the best money could buy. it has the highest noise reduction of any .22 suppressor out there. but your right the bullet hitting the target makes more noise then the gun firing.
 
#33 ·
Deer, ducks and hogs. Jeeps down right now, but hope to get it together quick. Told the boy it was gonna be the primary huntin vehicle.
Love to hog hunt. I hunt'em from the deer stand at night. Got lights that shine on the feeder and I pick the one I want out of the group. Use the 7mm-08 with 140 Nosler ballistic tip. Working up a load with different powders now.
Duck huntin would be next, but we are 50 inches below the rainfall we had last year at this time. Ducks love water. No water, no ducks.
Deer hunting is OK. put the .270 w/130 ballistic tips to them. My Savage is UGLY but very, very accurate. Best group at 100 was less than a 1/4 inch. Love the caliber and gun.
Coyotes are FUN FUN!. 22-250 with 45 grain winchester white box and I can roll one on out there. Thrilling to hunt something that can hunt you.
 
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