What is your deadliest weapon???

Kind of a trick but fun question.
Mine is a Remington 12ga 870 shotgun - accounted for over 1000 ducks, pheasants and quail
2nd is a Gamo pellet gun - 256 squirrels in my back yard and counting.

What say you?

My Wife

Sorry please dont tell her

Single shot H&R .410.
Bunch of:
Armadillos
Starlings
Sparrows
Squirels
Pheasants
Quail
Doves
Copperheaded Rattle Moccasins
One cooler raiding Raccoon.
Two Skunks that insisted on living under the house.

That has changed over the years. I never really kept count but started with a Daisy bb gun that accounted for many sparrows and pigeons. It didn't have much power so to kill pigeons I would climb to the top of an old 30' red cly tile silo, swing my leg over the top "inside" rung and shoot then in the head so they would spiral down flopping to the barn cats below. At night with a flashlight was most effective. Then the big old haymow, a cattle loafing shed and a low roofed machine shed where also my hunting grounds. Then a Remington pump .22 and expanded to squirrel hunting after school and sniping striped gophers in the fields. As well as the occasional rabbit. By 12 years old I got an old Montgomery Wards 12 gauge shotgun that kicked the snot out of me but was more sporting shooting pigeons on the fly. That also expanded my hunting to Hungarian Partridge and Ruffed Grouse. With that old fixed choke long barrel pump i had more misses than hits on that scariest bird in the woods Then at 14 Grandpa's M94 .32 Winchester Special went deer hunting with me for several years an accounted for whitetail or two per year.

Eventually that most awful old shotgun gave water to Remington 870 that for about 30 years along with the Remington .22 bounced along in the truck and tractors for many opportunities to eliminate pests like wood chucks and skunks and even to take an occasional pheasant or duck.

When I started going to Africa it soon became my new Model 70 375 H&H that accounted for the most critters.

In Tanzania with @Just Gina it became the Rigby HS 9.3x62.

Now we have too many interesting and fun guns to only use one or two.... But overall for me it is still probably that Remington 870

All 5 of my firearms do some pretty serious work in the field. They are:
-My 12 gauge 3” Magnum Beretta Model 626E (fully choked left barrel & modified choked right barrel)

- My .22 Long Rifle BRNO Model 2

- My 7x57mm Mauser Churchill Gun Makers Model Deluxe

- My .375 Holland & Holland Magnum Remington Model 700 Kevlar Stock Custom

- My .32 ACP Webley & Scott Model 1921

Like you I've taken many/most animals with an air rifle. Mine is a Sheridan Blue Steak 5mm pellet gun that my father bought me around 53 years ago.

Then these two shotguns. Many 100's of pheasants have fallen to them.

I know it is semantics and largely an army thing, but I really do not think of a hunting firearm as a "weapon." From a capability rather than a "body count" perspective, the weapon in which I have the most confidence is my suppressed Daniel Defense DDM4 "pistol" in 5.56. It is one of the most instinctively accurate weapons I have ever used and decisive from very close to fairly far. We also live where collateral damage through walls isn't an issue. It also works as an excellent stopping round for a charging armadillo.

As for most used hunting firearm with the most "kills," it would be either a Ruger No. 1 in .270 that I used for all big game for nearly 25 years or an R8 which in one form or another, that I have used for the last ten or twelve.


With respect to shotguns, it would be either my ancient Model 12 "Duck" that I used as a guide and hunter in the South Louisiana marshes while in college, my CSMC RBL 3" 12 bore which is my current waterfowl gun, or a CSMC Inverness 20 bore that has accounted for a small mountain of upland game over the last 15 years or so.

dogcat1 said:

Kind of a trick but fun question.
Mine is a Remington 12ga 870 shotgun - accounted for over 1000 ducks, pheasants and quail
2nd is a Gamo pellet gun - 256 squirrels in my back yard and counting.

What say you?

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@dogcat1 - My BRAIN, good judgement and decision making

That's easy, my brain.

After above my issued C7, MP5 or Sig. We practiced and carried until they were absolutely familiar with our bodies.

Now as a Civi, and Canadian so certain firearms have been locked in safe for 5 years due to Liberal crap but I would say I feel fully comfortable and capable with any of my Rem 700 rifles.

But in the end its always about your brain, how you think, react and perform when in those high stress situations.

As for hunting, my Rem 700 SS DM in 308 has laid to sleep the most critters. Over 100 now, and still going.

MB

The deadliest ?
Speaking about rifles, it is my old Blaser R93 in .300 Winchester magnum ! The professional camo stock has lost most of its pattern because of my sweat and of an intensive using. It is topped with a Swarovski Z6i 3-18x56 and I changed the factory trigger against a Bix'n Andy trigger. It has shot over 2000 rounds and it is still accurate with my handloaded ammunitions. One of my PH used to name it "my wife" because it was really a deadly gun in my hands.
I'm not able to tell you how many hundreds of games it has killed but I'm sure over 500 now : Wild boars, roe deers, red deers, mouflon, chamois, barbary sheep, foxes, badgers, racoons, nutrias, hares, jackals, guineafowls, porcupines, baboons, klipspringer, steenboks, duikers, springboks, common impalas, black-faced impalas, kudus, elands, blue wildebeests, black-wildebeests, red hartebeests, cheetahs, giraffes, red lechwes, Hartmann zebras, Burchell zebras, blesbok, warthogs, oryx, spotted hyena, waterbucks and maybe others.



And because I used to be a small game hunter at the beginning, my deadliest shotgun is my old Miroku 7000 in 12 GA 2"3/4. My father bought it the year of my birth and I started to use it when I was still very young. Despite all other shotguns I used, no one fitted to me like this incredible Japanse weapon. I shot a lot of pigeons, rabbits, european starlings, thrushes, black birds, woodcocks, ducks, brown hares, foxes.... and also some boars and roe deers.

Gas.

Actually, the deadliest weapon is a .22. More folks killed with that caliber than any other.

The one between my ears.

Ruger Redhawk .44 mag. Once Ohio legalized handguns for hunting deer, it became my weapon of choice. I’ve used other handgums, but that has accounted for many whitetail in OH and other states. A few hogs and numerous groundhogs have met their demise due to it as well.
Second would be a cheap pellet rifle that has accounted for all kinds of nuisance critters, including a raccoon that made the mistake of walking into the house when I opened the door.
Third: Interarms Mauser Mark X .30/06. This was my first centerfire rifle. It took my first elk, some exotics, several whitetail, hogs and five head of African game.

As others have said my first thought when I saw the heading was my brain.

Big game? Marlin MXLR, .338 Marlin Express

All game? Ithaca Model 49. I can't imagine a number for rabbits, hares, spruce grouse, coyotes, raccoons, beavers, opossums, foxes, and who knows what else. For the longest time it was my only small game gun, and it was my trapline gun for dispatching my catch, and I was a pretty decent trapper.

dogcat1 said:

Kind of a trick but fun question.
Mine is a Remington 12ga 870 shotgun - accounted for over 1000 ducks, pheasants and quail
2nd is a Gamo pellet gun - 256 squirrels in my back yard and counting.

What say you?

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Depends; in my bedroom under the bed my short 12 gauge for intruders In Africa my 450 NE DR followed closely by my 404J

Mine will be something little different than most. While I love firearms and have plenty of them I prefer to bow hunt.

I have a matching pair of 2007 Bowtech Allegiance that have been on a lot of adventures. I’ve killed well over 200 animals with the pair, from alligators to wildebeest and a few truckloads of deer and pigs. While I’ve had other bows I always go back to the pair.

Glock 43X in my right front pants pocket.

Going by total number of kills, my Bug-A-Salt with a full load of iodized Morton’s is the undisputed champion:

My drinking hand...finished off the odd person over the years