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This method is still used mainly for hunting small game, and, occasionally, for hunting deer with buckshot, but modern shotguns can also be used for bigger game (deer, bear, etc.) when loaded with slugs. Hunting shotguns are shoulder-fired weapons, and are generally smoothbores, but guns designed to fire slugs may have rifled barrels.
Pages in category "Hunting rifles" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1792 contract rifle; B.
Designed as a close range carbine for deer hunting in dense woods, Ruger released the Model 44 Carbine in 1961 as the "Deerstalker", a moniker it used until 1962 after which a lawsuit brought by the Ithaca Gun Company prohibited them from doing so.
When Tim Blevins purchased a deer hunting rifle in 1968, he didn’t realize what it would become to his son and grandson on their 21st birthdays. Blevins, 74, of West Newton, Westmoreland County ...
The .243 Winchester (6×52mm) is a popular sporting rifle cartridge. Developed as a versatile short action cartridge to hunt both medium game and small game alike, it "took whitetail hunting by storm" [2] when introduced in 1955, and remains one of the most popular whitetail deer cartridges.
The .400 Legend was designed for deer hunting in states that have specific regulations requiring straight-walled cartridges for use on deer, such as Ohio, Iowa, Indiana public land, and the Southern Lower Peninsula region of Michigan. [4] Illinois also allows straight-walled cartridges if used with a pistol or a single-shot rifle.
The .360 Buckhammer, also called 360 BHMR (9.1×46mmR), is a SAAMI-standardized [2] straight-walled rifle cartridge developed by Remington Arms Company. [3] The cartridge was designed for use in American states that have specific regulations for deer hunting with straight-walled centerfire cartridges.
This cartridge was sometimes used for deer hunting in the past, and William Lyman, the designer of rifle sights, said of it: "For large game, of course, a .32-20 W.C.F. cartridge is rather small, but it comes nearer to being an all-around cartridge in my opinion than any other."