Jim Taylor
Tough Game
Monday, November 05, 2018, 07:22

Game animals are a lot tougher than they were when I was a kid. In my teen years we shot deer and small game with 303 British surplus army rifles, old Model 94 30-30's and some guys even used old obsolete Winchesters in 38-40 or 44-40!

These days the animals are so tough that it requires a 6,0025 Creedmare rifle that has so much muzzle velocity that it can be sighted in at 30 feet and it will shoot absolutely flat to 3000 yards. Bullets have to be made of the tiles that they used on the Space Shuttles. Otherwise they melt in flight.

As a kid we shot with iron sights and thought we had gone to heaven if we got to use a rifle with aperture sights. The guns nowdays have computer-driven telescopes with lazy range-finders that automatically adjust the sights to whatever distance you happen to be shooting.

I guess it is needed because the game animals have gotten so hard to stop. Last year I took one of Gary's big guns to shoot these little Texas Whitetail deer. I got with 40 yards of one and fired and blew it in half! Talk about tough! BOTH HALVES GOT AWAY!

Guess I'm gonna have to get me one of them Creedmares. Maybe a 7,000.