Posted By: WileyCoyote
Powderhorn SP & Sambar ?'s - 11/17/21 07:49 PM
Been following the post's about hunting Sambar and /or Axis at Powderhorn, with the hope of drawing a spot there next year.
1st ?...what is the suggested minimum caliber rifle and bullet weight needed for Sambar? About like Nilgi? Average expected range on shot's taken on Sambar? The Axis I've seen in the field over the years are about like White Tails and I expect to become more "educated" after this season's hunt at SLRSP in late January/early February after White Tail season is over in the surrounding private hunting pastures.
Over the last couple years, after I sold off my bigger boomer's in 300Wmg, 7Rmg & the dumbest thing I ever sold was a cherry CZ 550 in 9.3x62 I got to hunt one time, with Crazy Horse, and after my multiple health issues became a real problem, we moved down here to get out of VA Dallas's Service area & into Temple VA's coverage area with multiple surgery's, putting a real dent in my outlook on doing anything outdoors. Best move I ever made anywhere without a doubt.
Since then, I've only shot a pair of 270's with mostly factory 130 &140gr'er's and not spent any range time at all with the 6.5x55 Tikka or the 7x57 Winchester Fwt and why I am not comfortable enough to depend either one of them right now. Both guns have just had a new to me bigger scopes mounted on both of them as of about a month ago, with lot's of ammo components left over from the old days before I quit shooting at all, and dumped the Magnum's & Texoma Goose guns.
Looking forward to hearing about Sambar, with pic's or mebbe Red Deer, Aoudad or a nice sized Nilgi, there is still some empty space on the trophy wall beside Mr Bill Carter's West Texas Mule deer, but the BH is wanting to redecorate with her stuff if I don't start to fill it up ...and she won't let me hang the 22lb Rattlesnake 5' + skin I shot with a 22 lr pistol and carried out thru a mesquite pasture in the dark with out a flashlight, while looking at a new lease just west of Brownwood...another oop's story... Randle Weem's is/was not the only crazy #@*&% around here...God Bless him.
Ron
1st ?...what is the suggested minimum caliber rifle and bullet weight needed for Sambar? About like Nilgi? Average expected range on shot's taken on Sambar? The Axis I've seen in the field over the years are about like White Tails and I expect to become more "educated" after this season's hunt at SLRSP in late January/early February after White Tail season is over in the surrounding private hunting pastures.
Over the last couple years, after I sold off my bigger boomer's in 300Wmg, 7Rmg & the dumbest thing I ever sold was a cherry CZ 550 in 9.3x62 I got to hunt one time, with Crazy Horse, and after my multiple health issues became a real problem, we moved down here to get out of VA Dallas's Service area & into Temple VA's coverage area with multiple surgery's, putting a real dent in my outlook on doing anything outdoors. Best move I ever made anywhere without a doubt.
Since then, I've only shot a pair of 270's with mostly factory 130 &140gr'er's and not spent any range time at all with the 6.5x55 Tikka or the 7x57 Winchester Fwt and why I am not comfortable enough to depend either one of them right now. Both guns have just had a new to me bigger scopes mounted on both of them as of about a month ago, with lot's of ammo components left over from the old days before I quit shooting at all, and dumped the Magnum's & Texoma Goose guns.
Looking forward to hearing about Sambar, with pic's or mebbe Red Deer, Aoudad or a nice sized Nilgi, there is still some empty space on the trophy wall beside Mr Bill Carter's West Texas Mule deer, but the BH is wanting to redecorate with her stuff if I don't start to fill it up ...and she won't let me hang the 22lb Rattlesnake 5' + skin I shot with a 22 lr pistol and carried out thru a mesquite pasture in the dark with out a flashlight, while looking at a new lease just west of Brownwood...another oop's story... Randle Weem's is/was not the only crazy #@*&% around here...God Bless him.
Ron