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 12-25-2011, 10:48 AM | #1 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan, Michigan Posts: 425 |  Has Anyone Hunted With a Cap and Ball Revolver?
Has anyone used a cap and ball revolver to hunt with and what did you get? Small game or Deer? __________________
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| 12-25-2011, 11:00 AM | #2 | Moderator Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Third bunker on the right, Central Virginia Posts: 8,373 Liked 4 Times on 4 Posts
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Not legal for deer in many states. __________________
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| 12-25-2011, 11:36 AM | #3 | Isn't she beautiful? Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Northern Illinois Posts: 7,561 Liked 4 Times on 4 Posts
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Not legal for deer in many states.
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Not that I am going to hunt with a Cap and Ball Revolver but can you please tell me why it's not legal? Just asking my usual questions and trying to learn.  __________________
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| 12-25-2011, 12:13 PM | #4 | Moderator Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Third bunker on the right, Central Virginia Posts: 8,373 Liked 4 Times on 4 Posts
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lack of power. There is a minimum size for rifles, minimum caliber for muzzleloading rifles, and a ball and cap revolver was felt to be too low in energy to insure a clean kill. __________________
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| 12-25-2011, 01:32 PM | #5 | Supporting Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Calhoun, Louisiana Posts: 6,208 Liked 3 Times on 3 Posts
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007, check youtube. I was thinking about getting a walker repro, and came across some videos of it being used in hunting. I've also found some articles and write ups on it. __________________
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| 12-25-2011, 01:55 PM | #6 | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Heidelberg, MS Posts: 1,133 |
Here you cant even have a handgun on you while hunting. They will assume since you have it on you that you intended to hunt with it and will fine you accordingly. | |
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| 12-25-2011, 03:28 PM | #7 | Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Ettrick, WI Posts: 65 |
DNR only has limits on minimum cal. and barrel length and they even count the length of the cylinder as part of the barrel on revolvers. I have Remington Army and would carry it only to finish off a deer in the event my rifle shot didn't do the job. Must take that back... Must be a center fire cartridge of more then .22 cal.
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| 12-25-2011, 03:49 PM | #8 | Supporting Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: , Tennessee Posts: 2,040 |
007,
Never hunted deer with one. But have hunted groundhogs with a Navy model 36 Cal. on many occassions just for fun. Did good job and was a blast! "  " I suppose you could hunt deer with the 44 cal Black Powder Revolver is your state law permits it. I have a 44 New Army but never hunted with it. I guess I have never checked on that in Tennessee! But probably would still use my Thomson Hawken 50 Cal Rifle for deer.
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| 12-25-2011, 04:03 PM | #9 | Isn't she beautiful? Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Northern Illinois Posts: 7,561 Liked 4 Times on 4 Posts
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Originally Posted by c3shooter
lack of power. There is a minimum size for rifles, minimum caliber for muzzleloading rifles, and a ball and cap revolver was felt to be too low in energy to insure a clean kill.
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Thank you for the answer to my question. __________________
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| 01-06-2012, 12:12 AM | #10 | Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Canon City, Colorado Posts: 64 |
When I was a kid, I knew an old man who had his grandfather's Colt .36 cal handed down from the War of the Southern Rebellion. He used it as a wall-hanger in his nursery office and for shooting bunnies stealing nibbles from his nursery stock. It worked well but Ive never had to do that. | |
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