I'll still hunt with my 94 most of the time. Biggest reason is I like it and it fits me perfectly. 95% of the time the longest ethical shot I can take due to the brush is 125-150 yards. I feel confident using iron sights at that distance and have supreme confidence in that particular gun. If hunt a place with long shots I'll take my 300. Buckshot is illegal most places I hunt plus I can't take a 100+ yard shot with it and feel ethical.

I know there are lots of arguements for "better" guns or calibers but it is more than capable of doing what I ask. Lets face it at 75 yards or less, which is where most of my shots are taken at, if I'm shooting something like a 7mm or my 300 its overkill.

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Posted by Ole Geauxt

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Posted on 11/29/12 at 3:56 pm to smoked hog

putting a scoped 7mag on the neck or behind front shoulders is over kill? does it kill one deader than a thirty thirty? IMO, even at 50 yards and the thickest thicket u can sit in,, i want a scope. I used to feel the same as you, but not past about 1980 when optics really, really started improving... i believed in iron sights, then move away scope, then see under scope,,, bullshite,, when that scope comes up, i can see small limbs and vines that i never could before and count eyelashes, right handed or left handed from 5 yards to 500 yards ... Again,, my opinion..

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Posted by Nascar Fan

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Member since Jul 2011

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Posted on 11/29/12 at 4:37 pm to smoked hog

o·ver·kill (vr-kl)
n.
1. Destructive nuclear capacity exceeding the amount needed to destroy an enemy.
2. Excessive killing.
3. An excess of what is necessary or appropriate for a particular end: "government overkill in dealing with dissent" (Jesse Unruh).
tr.v. (vr-kl) o·ver·killed, o·ver·kill·ing, o·ver·kills
To destroy (an enemy or enemy target) with more nuclear force than necessary.

This is the definition of overkill. In our hunting world overkill IMO ain't around