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    Posted: October 01 2008 at 11:41am
Yep, I have decided to use one of my sporterized Enfields with open sights this year for deer season and to only shoot Whitetails.
With the amount of deer, both Whitetail and Mule, here it is not much of a challenge. I only hunt for the meat but by limiting what I hunt and with what it might keep me in the woods for a few hours instead of one or two.
I am even thinking I might use an M91/30 Mosin Nagant for one deer also.
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I see no problem at all with that line of thought


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Nothing like .303 harvested venison
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With 4(count 'em..4!) Moose tags & 9 deer tags...there BETTER be venison(& lots of it) this year!!
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Loose wimmen tightened here
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Good idea. Open site sure does increase the challenge for sure. I wish white tail was as easy to come across like you folks.
Good luck.
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Here is a pict. from My Hunt with My 1916....
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All that back Ground looks  fimiliar Rhino
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That country looks very much like Northern Queens land or the Northern Territory over here ! I take it your down in the Sub tropics ?

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If you seen the land fall of Hurricane Gustav then you would look at the path of the Eye wall and go inland up to Lake Verret and I am on the South east end of the lake down Bayou Louis canal Which connects to  Himalaya Canal  that passes right to the south of my house at about 300 feet. in a little Settle ment called Lower texas.. all this is about 40 miles from the Gulf as the crow flies....
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Good on ya rhino, the 303 smashed that deer, looks about the same size as the fallows we have here
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Took my No.4Mk2 out for the first time in a year last weekend.
Shot right to point of aim with the iron sights at about 80 yards, offhand.
No sighting needed with this rifle.
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Yep Hatchet we have them small Swamp Deer down here.....But they eat real good!!!!!!
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next to that Deer Rhino looks like my foot prints from last year when I was down there
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Damm, Hoadie your gunna need a 5ton truck man. 
If all else fails call in a MOAB and call it a day
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