You forgot all the southern states lol
So you mean most states don't have it.

 

Yeah I meant no offense. Obviously 30.06 is one of my favorite calibers. But I bet its problem in the action, or in the receptor. Do you know what kind of action it has? But where it jams is I guess what would be important. If it jams trying to rack another shell in it, it would have to be in the receptor. But if it jams trying to eject the shell, that would be in the action.

Is it bolt or lever action?

 

It's a bolt action, it gets racking a shell, so it isn't really the caliber, the gun is just old enough that If I don't hand load each round it won't go in.

I don't know why I don't like the 30-06 really, I prefer the 7.62 but of course, that isn't really meant for hunting.

 

I like a .22 rifle. It's quiet, doesn't knock me on my butt and I can always hit at what I'm aiming!

 

Those are good reasons. It's just that... well, if there's anything with any size to it that you're trying to shoot, just about all a .22 will do is piss it off or scare the begeezus out of it. Assuming that you're not a super-marks(...person), at least. Well, that's also assuming that it's not fully auto.

 

With a roar like yours I don't think you need that little gun :excited:

 

I can also handle a pistol.

 

Right! I'll just cum them to death!! :twisted:

 

Yeppers, I bet she's just about wore out. You might try factory loads, just to double check. But all metal wears and I bet its beyond its tolerances. And of course it could be something as simple as the spring in the clip.

PS I love how flat and straight a .270 shoots. But when you get up past 160 grains its a long kind of straight bullet and they can jam. And a Marlin lever action can jam anything. But damn some of their rifles can shoot.

Interesting. and nothing wrong with it. I know lots of guys who like that caliber, some of them because its been shot at them. Its the favorite caliber of the communist block and the caliber JFK was assassinated with if I'm not mistaken.

Funny, you know, back in the mid 70's, there was an interesting thing a guy ran on to when he made a freedom of information request. Actually he was just trying to track down government grants. And here was a Defense Dept, grant some university to develop an exploding bullet. Not a bad idea at all really. But why in a 7.62?

 

A .22 is good for poaching.......but poaching is bad.......and wrong........but sometimes a single deer can tear up your whole garden......or be the main course of many meals.

 

southern states are not as redneck hill bily as wyoming kentucky montanna... so i am sure most have laws about rifles im just too lazy to look them up


for the sake of argument my opinion is states with an adverage amout of people per sq mile or higher have laws limiting rifle usage

if someone is board i would aprecieate them looking this up but iff not i might have some time tomorrow night

 

Here's the laws in Wyoming. You can carry a loaded gun.

Now the state and local law enforcement would rather not advertise that. But as long as the gun is in plain sight, it could be up to the individual business, or there are town and city ordinances, that might prohibit that, but you can carry a gun anywhere. The problem is they are scared to death a town or city ordinance making it against the law to carry a loaded gun will reach the Wyoming Supreme Court, and the court will publicly rule on what has been the law, or lack of same for more than 100 years.

The last time a town tried to pass an ordinance restricting the carrying guns in the town limits, close to 300 residents showed up at the town council meeting wearing them. When state and local police went to the Wyoming Supreme Court to have the Court define what was a concealed weapon inside a vehicle, the court instead in so many words ruled a vehicle is a perfectly logical place to have a gun, and you don't want to leave it out where someone might steal it.

Your average Wyoming citizen is armed. We just don't make a big deal of it.

 

talking about rifles...im pretty sure there are not restricktions in wyoming

btw beutiful state wish i was there

 

missed a period

 

It seems to me that the general consesus is that the .30-06 in a decent quality rifle is about all your ever realy going to need.Seriously, its an awesome choice.It offers the versatility to be good for almost all North American game animals and its accurate.It offers good range and plenty of punch as well.

If you can only afford one rifle, the .30-06 is the way to go.Most of the other cartriges out there exist because they are specialized or taylored to a specific game or type of shooting.Flatter trajectories for long range work or big, slow moving bullets for close range or bigger animals.But the .30-06 will do all of them just fine as long as you choose the right load for the right game or type of shooting.Its truly a one gun arsenal.

The effectiveness of a rifle is more influenced by shot placement than any other factor.As long as you have that down your as good as gold.

 

I guess I'd have to say there are more restrictions on rifles than there was. For example the year I was a senior in high school they really cracked down on us during deer season. The school board passed a rule that if we had our rifle in our locker, we had to check the bullets in at the office. Or we could check the gun, since we never used locks in our hall lockers anyway, and that would keep someone from looking at it without your permission.

Now they won't even allow students to have guns in the rifle racks in their trucks. But other than schools if you want to carry your rifle with you, there to my knowledge in no town or law that prohibits that.

Ironically enough though for the freedom loving predominately conservative/Republican oil company and drilling contractors will fire your ass in a second if they catch you with a gun on their leases.

But that's because the oilfield was pretty bad at coming into an area and free for all poaching would soon follow.

That shot placement thing is what really matters. The outfitters I used to guide and pack for stubbornly shot .243's on everything including when some of them hunted Grizzly Bear and Mountain Goats in the Yukon. But I also saw some elk they hit get away from them when a bigger caliber might have knocked the elk down.

The worst or best depending how you look at it was my grandma's favorite cousin, George. He was a sheep rancher and had a life long war with coyotes. So one day he hears about a new caliber coming out, the 22-250, (that should tell you how long ago this was) and it was light but so fast he figured it would be good on coyotes so he bought one.

The first time he tried it on a running coyote he lead by a foot and missed, led the coyote by six inches on the next shot and still shot in front of him running full speed at close to 300 yards. So on the third shot he put the cross-hairs on the tip of the coyote's nose and hit him right behind the ear.

That was it. He instantly fell in love with that caliber and gun and that's all he shot for the next 40+ years on everything, coyotes, varmints, deer antelope, elk, and eventually even himself (by accident when he was 86 trying to jump out of his truck to shoot at a coyote). The 22-250 is only a bullet the size of a .22 with a ton of powder behind it. To be sure of getting anything bigger than a coyote with that small of a bullet takes a head or neck shot. Which of course was no problem for Cousin George, but ain't a good idea for the average bear.

 

the .22-250 is an awesome varmint round.Accurate and very potent.The drawback to it is that because its forcing so much hot powder gas down such a small caliber bore it tends to torch out the barrel.Alot of guys who hunt the prairie dog towns in the mid west will re-barrel thier pet rifles every season.

 

Wouldn't it be more fun to run around, pointing your finger at people and shouting 'pying, pying' at everything? *suggestively*

 

Old George, never re-barreled his, but you have to figure he probably fired it maybe ten times a year. One each for antelope, deer and elk, although it would be hard to figure how many of those he may have shot a year. And then maybe a half dozen coyotes.

Him and the coyotes was more of a one on one personal thing. He'd quit trapping them when he was young and hardly ever called in the government trapper. But if he caught them out in the open they were usually dead for it.

The last things I know he laid low with it was a pack of six Australian short haired dogs that had run wild and attacked his Bucks. They did about $24,000 worth of damage. And a funny thing he shot the first ones running away and the last couple running at him. Coyotes never do that.

It was a Winchester I believe but you couldn't tell it anymore because it was so beat up and worn from bouncing around in the truck with him or in a scabbard on horse back it hardly had any checkering left on it. And it still shot good enough to put three bullet holes with one shot through the same coat pocket. Well that's actually how the coroner knew it was an accident. He got the barrel twisted up in his coat pocket bailing out of the truck, fell and the gun went off and killed him as instantly as hitting just about every major organ can. Hell of a shot really for an 86 year-old.

By the way, since I've taken up too much of the OPs time I should offer the one piece of advice about buying a good rifle that I can. You'll actually find some of the best buys in the small general store's that serve a ranching community. They don't have a large selection but they know their guns, get the ones that work and hold up, and price them reasonably because after all they're already sold most of the community guns, and they know how to use them.

And another good place is pawn shops but you shouldn't be paying more than $400 for a used rifle and scope, I don't give a shit what they claim they paid for it.

 

In my experience southern states are far more hillbilly than the rest. I grew up in kansas myself. Most of us carry guns in our pickups behind the seat or in a gunrack. It's not a big deal, just something that we do. Never know when you'll need one if you are a farmer or rancher.