Hunted today behind my home. Perfect morning. Around 0730 I rattled in a small buck with his button buck side kick. Around 1030 rattled again and within a couple minutes the buck I shot came in. Shot him at 40 yards with my 458 SOCOM. He ran about thirty yards.
Side note. ..The mallards were so noisy today you could not hear anything in the woods.

Good deer Randy! Congrats.

Nice buck. You had a great morning.

Hell yea randy , nice buck , and props on doing it with a black gun . Live those platforms.

H Finn

Nice deer!!!

I guess y'all haven't seen that albino deer yet?


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Damn nice buck. Those stickers add some personality. Congrats.

Great deer there

Since when is deer hunting with a 30 round clip legal?

There is no ammo restriction on how many rounds you can carry . and a 458 socom round is a larger round than 223 . They fit single stacked vs double stacked in the same mag , he didn't have 30 rounds in that mag . I carry a 30 round mag all the time while hunting with my AR .

H Finn

Nice job working them in with the horns. Some of my biggest bucks came in on the horns.

Remember the 458 socom is a thumper of a round. In a 20 rd m4 mag it holds 7 rounds and in a thirty it holds 11. The beauty is that the m4 mags hold the 458 only they are stacked and not staggered as with the 556. We cannot use centerfire rifles here in Indiana. The law allows the use of 'pistol cartridge' rounds to be used in a rifle. The socom is considered a 'pistol cartridge rife'.
For the socom I like the shorter 7 round mag as its easier to shoulder and lug around to and from the stand. I just happen to have the 11 round mag in since the rifle is part of my home protection system. Plus all my buddies come by to shoot my socom so having live ammo handy can sometime be a issue. I had to taper back on them shooting the socom a month back so I did not have to handload some ammo for deer season.

I'd shoot it too, but I can't find any ammo and am not set up to reload it.

Had the upper two years and never fired a shot out of it.

very nice monster buck - you guys don't have to wear blaze orange deer hunting?

Wasn't tryin to step on toes. I just know in ms you can only have 5 rounds while deer hunting. Congrats on your buck

Very nice buck ... Love hunting with my black gun but it's in a 6.5 grendel

For the socom to work for me I have to reload. My buddy Gary has the same exact setup I do but there was a big wait on brass a couple years ago and he was buying loaded ammo to shoot and reload. I got my order in earlier and got a pile of brass. The loaded ammo is higher than giraffe pussy. We messed around with the Barnes bullet that a lot of the socom deer hunters say to shoot however I'm shooting the 300 gr jacketed hp and can say that it works perfect for deer.
When I shot the above buck the first thing I did is get down from the stand and look for the brass.
You guys that have hogs would love the socom. I would like to crack some pork with mine that's for sure.

Nice buck! But I kinda feel bad for the photo bomber in the last pic...he resembles DDM

Very nice deer! Congrats man. I bet it was exciting rattling that guy in!

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going to Georgia start of feb. if you want to get some piggy hunting in. it is a target rich environment.

Dave is that the night vision hunt?

yep, he sells them perhaps you could slap a demo on. we were doing a lot of 100-200 yard shots, had some close stuff. when they are flat out gotta lead them 8 feet with the 308