Hunting with silencer (deer)

[Roe]

A short film that demonstrates very well the effect I've seen many times when shooting woodland deer...

 

[69mach]

Those are the smallest most tame deer I’ve ever seen. I think we have jack rabbits that big haha

 

[hunter67]

I shot two white tails yesterday with a Swede suppressed and I could have shot a lot more as the suppressor makes it worth while

 

[Jason_A]

Thanks Thomas, I’ve enjoyed your videos for a while now.

 

[Larryh128]

Anymore I literally hate to hunt without a can on the rifle. Life is just more enjoyable. Good videos, and I have seen deer that small in Texas.

 

[Roe]

Yeah I hear you. The use of silencers have reached a state where it's almost considered anti-social to shoot a hunting rifle without one. There's just no way I will go back to shooting without silencers myself. I cut my barrels doen to 20" and the 4" steel taken off means that the added weight is roughly 150 grams/ 5.2 oz

 

[Rtheurer]

All this talk of Silencers.. In the Text and the title. I dont know about you but i dont own a Silencer. I own a Suppressor. ( just teasing you guys a little..)

I hunt with a Suppressor as well. Its amazing how the other deer will not react hardly at all when you shoot one. Even though there is still the super sonic crack and the sound of impact you can clearly hear. Same for Coyotes but on a lesser level in my area as its cattle country and they get shot at alot.

Russel

 

[Jdne5b]

All this talk of Silencers.. In the Text and the title. I dont know about you but i dont own a Silencer. I own a Suppressor. ( just teasing you guys a little..)

I hunt with a Suppressor as well. Its amazing how the other deer will not react hardly at all when you shoot one. Even though there is still the super sonic crack and the sound of impact you can clearly hear. Same for Coyotes but on a lesser level in my area as its cattle country and they get shot at alot.

Russel

I dont know. According to the ATF and my Form 4.. I own a Silencer. Tell me about these suppressors?


just teasing back.

 

[Laurie]

Those are the smallest most tame deer I’ve ever seen. I think we have jack rabbits that big haha

The Roe is the primary native deer over much of northern Europe. In the UK where I live they're found literally everywhere on the British mainland, often in close proximity to humans in villages and city suburbs. 'Tame' they're not though, and people often live within a few hundred yards of these animals without being aware of it, a roadkill from the night often the first indication that they're present as they're heavily nocturnal. Any little stand or lines of trees in farmland usually has a Roe or two resident. 70lbs pre-dressed weight is a good one.

The UK has different legal requirements for deerstalking depending on where you are. Scotland has long allowed .22 centrefires to be used on Roe, but England and Wales require minimum 6mm and 1,700 ft/lb ME. For many years, the 222 Rem was regarded as the ideal Roe cartridge in Scotland, 22-250 and 223 Rem have mostly taken over now. In England, 243 Win and more recently 6.5X47 Lapua are the 'natural' cartridges although lots of other larger and more powerful numbers are employed. Norma which has always loaded lots of 6.5X55mm hunting variants introduced a downloaded 139gn 'Roe' version many years back to reduce meat damage on these small animals, but it apparently didn't sell well and was withdrawn after a couple of years. As the larger UK deer species often require 'more gun' many deerstalkers have two rifles depending on season and quarry.

Virtually all deerstalkers in the UK use 'sound moderated' (suppressed) rifles these days for all sorts of reasons. If nothing else, in our crowded little islands it stops nervous townies calling the police out every time they hear a rifle shot.