Do they hunt deer with a "12-guage double-barrel" back East?
That was my first question too. I didn't know that one blasted deer with a shotgun. I'm not a hunter, but even I've heard of a deer rifle. To kill the deer humanely, wouldn't you have to get pretty close to be sure you killed it in one or two shots, and A) isn't it extremely difficult to get that close to a deer, and B) wouldn't you put a rather large hole into the thing? The dead deer I've seen didn't look like they'd been ventilated with a shotgun at close range.
I occasionally used to hunt with a 12 guage. Not with a double barrel, but with a Remington 11-48 automatic. In very tight woods, a 12 guage with 00 or 000 buckshot is a good choice. It's a different challenge than going with a rifle in more open areas. I never had a shot at a deer when I was using a shotgun where the deer was more than 100 feet away ... the woods were so thick that if they were farther away, you never would have seen them. In the more open areas with a rifle, they are usually 150 yards to 350 yards away.
They might hunt deer with a 12 guage. I don't hunt anymore,cuz it's banned in eastern RI,even on my own land, but I don't believe you can hunt with a rifle in Ma, except .22.
For deer, I think there's only slug, archery and black powder for a couple days.
Not that the overpopulation of deer isn't a problem, but nothing overcomes the rampant communism of the Gay State, (sodo)Massachussetts.
> Do they hunt deer with a "12-guage double-barrel" back East?
They do in Iowa. Required by law.
IIRC, in my old home state of Oklahoma, deer can be taken by means of bow/arrow, crossbow (for
archers with physical challenges), blackpowder rifle, shotgun (with slugs and
maybe also with "buckshot") and rifle.
(I suspect that high-powered pistols, such as .357 Mag, .44 Mag, or chambered for
high-powered rounds, like with the Thompson Contender Pistol might also be legal).
One year the biggest buck taken in the state was brought down by a young boy (early teen?)
with a single shotgun slug at a range of about 30 yards.
"Do they hunt deer with a '12-guage double-barrel' back East?"
Actualy it's pretty common to hunt whitetails with a shotgun out here. The terrain is so thick that you usualy don't get a shot over 60 yards or so. Also alot of places where you might hunt are so built up that you have to worry how far your shot will carry if you miss. It's totaly different then hunting Mule Deer out west.
In fact in Mass. (Kerry's home state) it's illegal to use a rifle for deer hunting (or at least it was when I was going up). I'll be using a 12 gauge over and under this fall in NY myself (even though you are permitted to use a rifle for deer here).
Still, with that "crawling around on my belly" remark Kerry shows he knows nothing about deer hunting or about moving quietly in the woods. He's a phoney on this like he is on so many other issues.