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Old 06-15-2018, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Puma View Post
I've often wondered about the real effect rifle shots make on big game in the area.
Hunting mostly in parkland on farm lands, I hear shots all day long and the game doesn't seem to react to it. If I see a Grouse midday, I have no trouble taking it with a centerfire. In fact one of my best Moose was taken right after I shot a Grouse. Unknown to me a bull was bedded down for the day in some thick spruce, and let me sneak past him. We stopped for a sandwich and a coffee, saw a bird and took it. This made the Moose stand up.
I agree with you. Not saying I haven’t ever while big game hunting, I just tend to not for the most part. When I do though, sometime heads will roll....

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An awful lot of big game was killed with the .30-06 including the big bears before everyone became affluent enough to own a rifle for every species of game they might hunt.
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