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Ohio deer hunters?
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My niece and and her husband are living in Columbus while he is getting a doctorate degree. Anyway he would like to start hunting and I've told him I would help get him started. My questions is, if I understand correctly a rifle in .44 mag would be legal to use on deer is Ohio, is this correct? I know slug guns are legal and I can get him a slug barrel for his shotgun (IIRC an 870) but would rather put him on a single shot slug gun or a .44 mag single shot.
The .44 mag is lighter and ammo isn't as expensive as good sabot slugs. The single shot is all a man needs to deer hunt and it is handier when using tree stands than a repeater is. I've thought about getting one for myself, but I've already got several slug guns and a life time supply of slugs.
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The .44 mag is lighter and ammo isn't as expensive as good sabot slugs. The single shot is all a man needs to deer hunt and it is handier when using tree stands than a repeater is. I've thought about getting one for myself, but I've already got several slug guns and a life time supply of slugs.
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Official requirements:
Gun Season and Youth Gun Season
Shotgun: 10 gauge or smaller shotgun using one ball or one rifled slug per barrel (rifled shotgun barrels are permitted when using shotgun slug ammunition).
Muzzleloading rifle: .38 caliber or larger.
Muzzleloading shotgun: 10 gauge or smaller using one ball per barrel.
Handgun: With 5-inch minimum length barrel, using straight-walled cartridges .357 caliber or larger. The barrel is measured from the front of the cylinder or chamber to the end of the barrel.
Straight-walled cartridge rifles in the following calibers: All straight-walled cartridge calibers from a minimum of .357 to a maximum of .50. Shotguns and straight-walled cartridge rifles can be loaded with no more than three shells in the chamber and magazine combined.
Archery equipment: See Archery Season, above.
Muzzleloader Season
Muzzleloading Rifle: .38 caliber or larger.
Muzzleloading shotgun: 10 gauge or smaller using one ball per barrel.
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a 10 gauge 3.5" magnum with a slug :shock:
Gauge: 10
Length: 3 1/2"
Slug Type: Hollow Point
Grains: 766
Velocity (FPS): 1,280
Muzzle Energy (Ft. / Lbs.): 2,785 Holy cow!
He won't need to worry about the deer getting up and horning him
In my decades of hunting I've seldom had to shoot a deer twice and when it did happen I can load a single shot pretty quick, so a repeater is not much of an advantage. I've shot multiple deer in quick order several times with a single shot firearm. A single shot is handy to load and unload as needed when climbing into tree stands, crossing fences, rough ground, getting in and out of a truck or off of a 4 wheeler, etc. With the transfer bar it's as safe a system as can be hunted with, even if you drop it out of your stand while cocked it would be hard to make it fire. Safety, convenience, dependability, and to some extent up front cost.
I've hunted with repeaters, in fact the last few years it's been with a bolt action rifle, but most of the deer I've killed have been with a single shot. Of the .44 mag repeaters I prefer a lever action but was looking at a Ruger semi-auto carbine recently myself, always wanted one. I do prefer a single shot eject the shell on opening but I've hunted with ones that didn't, my Thompson Encore pistol doesn't eject but that didn't keep me from shooting a buck and doe combo when they came by. Could I have occasionally shot a second or third deer I didn't get if I had had a repeater instead of a single shot, sure, but that's not that important to me really.
I've got my choice of several shotguns with rifled barrels to take when using slugs, but generally I take a single shot.
You can derail a train with that stuffed full of 10ga 3.5" slugs
Or buckshot, you get 18 pellets of 00 buck in the 3.5" magnum shell. 3 shells in the gun that is 54 pellets down range.
I wish I had one for these darn beavers.
you don't think 10ga is a bit to much recoil for a beaver???? better get em a synthetic stock too, doubt wood would last very long.......
Had a Remington SP10 that is pretty much the same gun as the Ithaca Mag10. Great on turkey and geese. Also very soft shooting but man was it heavy.
Most guys anymore are using a 3.5" 12ga but some are still using the 10ga and the Ithaca is common as well as the SP10, which, like you said, is the same gun. I've used an Ithaca 10ga a couple of times. Once pass shooting geese and another time on cranes. It wasn't mine, a guy in SD loaned it to me as all I had with me was a 2 3/4" Ithaca 37. Like you said, it's heavy, but man will it make feathers rain from the sky.
I'm betting, we will all be surprised what he picks. And his reasons.
Without asking her first, a buddy bought his wife a 338 magnum (he hunted with a 375 RUM).
He was so proud that she had a beautifully engraved 338 just like his beautifully engraved 375 RUM.
We took her to the range. She sat down at the bench to fire it the first time, The bullet was on the paper. She muttered something under her breath then fired her second (and last) shot. The dust flew several feet to the left of the target. She stood without speaking then starting walking home.
He knows nothing but wants to hunt. I told him to get his hunter ed course done and to pick up a hunting license and we would go out and shoot some squirrels and scout for deer sign. I'll have to pick up a non-resident Ohio license and look for public ground.
I gave him the best advise I could. Get a good pair of boots, some warm clothes and get in the woods. It's not complicated, you just have to put your boots on the ground and get started.
I've ordered him a 3 bladed deer knife and have a pack and other stuff already I'll give to him. I enjoy helping people get started, it's fun for me
Good luck!
Good luck!
Those are a nice set up.
There a bunch of them for sale on the Auction side
A nice small set of Bino's are good to have.
Sharpener for his knife and you will probably have to show him how to use it.
Most youngsters today aren't very handy with anything but a smart phone.
You are doing a good deed, I hope he appreciates it.
I assume that holds more than 3 by default so don't forget the migratory bird 3 shot plug as the regulations mentioned. Best of luck.
Thanks for mentioning the 3 round limit I had read that in the past but need to look over the regs again. I've been looking at the maps posted and it looks like there's some ground SE of Columbus a man may hunt.
I thought about the bushmaster as that is legal in Indiana as well. The 45-70 is only legal here on private property and not on public lands. As he'll be (hopefully) hunting both states in the future that matters. We'll get him started with the slug gun and he can see what else he may want.