Deer Hunting with Straight Walled Cartridges

[Harold Pickens]

That Fox should turn out beautiful, I think French gray would be my choice. I too, will be out pheasant hunting this weekend. Our birds were released on Nov 1st, and there are very few left, and they have turned quite wild, I SHOT ONE WITH THE gRADE 3 Ithaca on Sat. and had a double come up over point with the DHE 16 Parker on Sun. They are in the smoker right now. I love those Ruger #1's. Now that Ohio has legalized straight walled cartridges for deer, I would get one in 45-70. I use a single shot 20 ga H&R slug gun now, and it will eat the bullseye out of a target at 100 yds using Win Supreme sabots. I want to take a doe with the muzzle loader in Jan.

[C.O.B.]

Is there a case length limit in OH? MI did basically the same thing but a 45-70 would be to long. I bought a Winchester M94 in 38-55 but that is to long also. It seems they limit it to pistol cartridges.

[tom tutwiler]

Originally Posted by Rich Anderson

Is there a case length limit in OH? MI did basically the same thing but a 45-70 would be to long. I bought a Winchester M94 in 38-55 but that is to long also. It seems they limit it to pistol cartridges.

Because I'm following this thread, I dug out the following from Ohio's regs:


357 Magnum, .357 Maximum, .38 Special, .375 Super Magnum, .375 Winchester, .38-55, .41 Long Colt, .41 Magnum, .44 Special, .44 Magnum, .444 Marlin, .45 ACP, .45 Colt, .45 Long Colt, .45 Winchester Magnum, .45 Smith & Wesson, .454 Cassull, .460 Smith & Wesson, .45-70, .45-90, .45-110, .475 Linebaugh, .50-70, .50-90, .50-100, .50-110, and .500 Smith & Wesson.