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Originally Posted by The Reaper
You know, a .22LR pistol might be handy for just such an occasion, as well as not attracting as much attention if you left your fox hunting license in your other pants.
If you have to use the .300 WM, and I have one myself, you might consider looking for a chamber insert. IIRC you can get them for .308 and .30-'06 to use .30 Carbine or .32 ACP ammo in those rifles. You might find one for .300 WM.
If you can put the bullet where you want it for a rifle normally zeroed for several hundred meters, the pencil hole should work, but after you shoot, I wouldn't count on finding a deer coming by that day.
TR
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Yessir, I agree on the .22 pistol. I just recently sold my Ruger. All I was using it for was to sit at my basement bar shooting out the window at a little range I have set up. CB Caps made a fun little plinker... and no ear plugs necessary.
Does are pretty stupid, and will often walk back onto a field 15 minutes after a round is touched off. I've shot them literally sniffing the nose of one I just shot 20 minutes prior. They'll spook and be gone if even a faint noise of an ATV or a truck is heard though. Bucks, on the other hand usually won't ever hit our field unless it's pitch black or smack in the middle of the rut. I've never seen one after squeezing the trigger on a doe, that's for certain.
I'm going to bring a few FMJ's to the field and let you know how much damage they do. I'm crossing my fingers. It's a large fox and is beautifully marked.
Tug, have you shot the .17HMR yet? How does it stack against the .22 mag? I've heard great things about it, not to mention the BSA drop compensating scope that you can hang on one for cheap.