How many rounds to you take Stalking

[I. Farticus]

5 in the magazine, and to quote Brian Hanrahan, who could have been reporting on most of my outings, "I counted them out, and I counted them all back"

 

[Stalker62]

I sometimes overload on the ammo View attachment 169052

If that is a "Selfie" it will haunt my dreams for the rest of my life...

 

[slider]

What is the kudos in taking as few rounds as possible?
The answer should depend on where you are stalking, what you are after and for how long you are stalking.
I would rather take some spare rounds home than run out!
Over the years I have seen slings break, swivel studs come out, rifle dropped or fallen over and unexplained misses requiring a zero check and possible scope adjustment.
Imagine you are down to your last couple of rounds and you wound a deer, the deer moves off, you miss shoot again , then you are in trouble.
I know SD members never do bad shots ,but this is the real world!

It's fairly simple really. More rounds is more weight and clutter.

Never pull the trigger of a deer unless you have another 2 rounds available. If you are below this lipsticks and go home.

Is you need to zero and that drops you below the same minimum then do the same.

That said the number you start the stalk with depends on your personal circumstances. I am 15 minutes from my permission and have yet to shoot more than I beast on an outing.

 

[Tim.243]

What is the kudos in taking as few rounds as possible?
The answer should depend on where you are stalking, what you are after and for how long you are stalking.
I would rather take some spare rounds home than run out!
Over the years I have seen slings break, swivel studs come out, rifle dropped or fallen over and unexplained misses requiring a zero check and possible scope adjustment.
Imagine you are down to your last couple of rounds and you wound a deer, the deer moves off, you miss shoot again , then you are in trouble.
I know SD members never do bad shots ,but this is the real world!

The reason I only take 4 in the mag is locally it is muntjac with the very occasional red or fallow.
I am only out of max 2 hrs with the need for 1 or 2 muntjac as they are worth nothing to a GD also quite often the front end is written off as they are rarely dead square on for a h/l shot.

A chap who comes with me as he enjoys watching sorted me 3 very good fields and that is when I will shoot a couple as they play havoc in his very large garden by these fields.

I don't need 4 rounds to shoot one red or fallow If i do then I will pack up, lol. The last time I knocked the foxing rig (drone 10) I went home and checked it in the morning.

Come the end of harvest then foxing I will have a 4 in my pocket with spare in the truck.

Pigeon shooting I take 125 in my bag with a slab in the truck depending on what I am shooting over...

 

[8x57]

I sometimes overload on the ammo View attachment 169052

Why have you got a photograph of my mother-in-law?

 

[Magnificent 7]

7 I set out with my leather belt pouch full and load one in the chamber and three in the mag leaving three spare only ever used three whilst out

 

[8x57]

7 I set out with my leather belt pouch full and load one in the chamber and three in the mag leaving three spare only ever used three whilst out

Hence the user name of MAGNIFICENT 7 perhaps?

 

[User00013]

Don't go stalking but when I'm out fox I always have close to 20 most I've ever needed so far is 1 lol

 

[VSS]

Most I've actually used in an outing was 4.
On my first successful outing with the 243 I missed a vixen with 2 shots and then shot 2 cubs. More recently, with the 270, I shot 3 fallow in the space of about a minute, one of which needed an immediate follow-up shot.

 

[oilmanjd]

I take 3-4 rounds with me and thats it.

 

[opticron1]

200

Only when carrying the GPMG ……. and even then get a volunteer for the extra link!

 

[alberta boy]

Depends on what I'm doing . If I'm after Coyotes , at least 40 rounds , if I'm out on a day trip for deer , maybe 5 or 6 . If I head out into remote areas for a few weeks , I'll take at least two rifles with 20 rounds each as well as a shotgun with 40 rounds of bird shot and 5 rounds of buckshot and slugs each . I also take a 22lr with about 100 rounds if the Snow Shoe Hare population is peaking at the time .

AB

 

[barbel]

only 15 mins away, one fallow is enough, by the time I have sorted it and put in the chiller, so no more than 5 rounds, especially if I'm on my own.

 

[Stalker62]

I was issued with a Glock pistol for work - it came with two magazines of 17 rounds each.
One of the chaps used to put "one up the spout" and then load his magazine making a total of 18 rounds.

Never quite sure why he felt the need to do this - not convinced it did any good to the mags.

 

[Puds]

6 when stalking; 3 in the mag, 3 in a little leather wallet I made. When foxing I take 20 in an MTM fliptop case.

 

[finnbear270]

At the zero range on Arran one visit, We hadn't been first at the tape, the chap was getting through his mag trying to zero for Griff & Pepsi, )lol:, What a dog!), anyway, he was back to the car for spares, WE jumped in & got away sharpish, we were allotted the beat the range was located on, Mike wasn't too chuffed "All this f***in' noise , wont be anything left round ere' " Within seconds a Stag (A good one) followed by a Hind crossed in front of him, Anyway back to the how many do you take with you, Mike later got into a group, emptied the mag one on one ... cue deer extraction & trailer. So anything can crop up, five rounds under the bolt, five in waterproof pack in jacket, + two spare if I need a check after a big fall.

 

[Dalua]

If you are below this lipsticks and go home.

A man after my own heart!
Standards should not be allowed to slip just because you've been out on the hill all day: it's important to look nice when you get back to the larder.

 

[vpk999]

3 in the magazine and 2 spare.

 

[zambezi]

If that is a "Selfie" it will haunt my dreams for the rest of my life...

On the upside, if we ever have a social gathering it will be easy to identify at least one member without introductions being required

 

[rem284]

Full mag, one rifle holds 5 and the others holds 4. Full bullet wallet of 10 every outing. I stalk locally now so can replenish per outing. That way i count bullets in and out so all is accounted for.

If going to the target to zero I normally take a full box on top of the above.

Once when checking jow the rifle was shooting at 400m we had fired a few shots then walked up to have a look. When we walked back to where we had shot from i noticed the gwp suddenly pointing. We stopped in our tracks to see a sika hind looking at us. She didn't hang about long enough for a shot.

Another time whislt out doing some evening foxing I wasn't too happy with the shot placement of two foxes i had just shot. So I put a target up. I then walk away to about a 100m and turned to rangefind it. There was a fox sitting next to the target. It seemed to be look at me then looking at the target. I shot and missed him. I then shot at the target and just clipped the edge. I had let a client use the rifle a week or so before and he had dropped it.