Testing the Brush Gun Myth
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- Опубликовано: 23 дек 2020
- Are brush guns just rifles that handle well in thick brush, or are they also better at shooting through brush? And why are brush guns so often associated with lever action rifles? Those are the questions we're tackling today as we continue our series on lever action rifles.
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Lesson: don’t shoot through a thing to hit a thing.
Iv8888 tested this on actual heavy brush and it showed significantly better performance from flat nose rounds. This is showing barrier penetration more than anything else...
I think this is obvious... if wind is enough to change the impact of a bullet, why would any other thing touching it be different
5/8ths inch pine isn't exactly
From a hunters perspective, the term brush gun refers to a weapon's ability to be maneuvered and manipulated quickly in close quarter hunting scenarios. As you touched on, shorter barrels, but also heavier, slower rounds with good short range energy. Also, IMHO, brush guns should be iron sights, or at least very low magnification scopes with wide field of view. This is because in heavily wooded or brush areas, target acquisition needs to be fast. Love your stuff, huge fan!! Thanks
Stop this you're going to make me buy a lever gun. My wallet already hates me lol.
My Marlin 336 30-30 has always worked for me in any situation even across wide open areas, I can't understand why people think a 30-30 can't shoot in the open 🤨
I've hunted nearly my whole life (38 years) in WV which is almost exclusively brush country. My favorite rifle is a Marlin lever action in Remington .35 with optics. I've read many but not all comments. I use the gun for both reasons stated here. It's short and easy to move with through the woods. I believe it also gives me my best opportunity for clean harvest should I miss seeing a stray twig in the target path. Honestly, even though I have other rifles, I don't have a lot of experience hunting with them. I depend on my .35 because it always gets the job done. I do know I get 75-150 yard shots, yes, through the woods. I don't take risky shots and have probably passed on shots I should have taken but didn't. Good video but I don't remember if you said how far the sapling was from your friend and the deer. A twig close to you but far from the target has much more impact on success than one close to the target. Stay safe y'all and happy hunting!
If you shot through a short "field" of dowel rods, I think you would have a better representation. Testing various thicknesses and distances with each caliber would give even better data.
Growing up I thought brush guns were just fast handling rifles with iron sights meant for quick shots at close range. Didn't know it was a literal thing to shoot through brush. Seems to violate safety rules to me.
That friend saying he hit a sunflower stalk and that's why he missed his mark would've been a much less convincing story without it still hitting the target, and that kinda says a lot about people and our willingness to believe others
I was doing some varmint hunting 2 days ago, and took several shots at fairly close range through tall grass with a .222. Two out of three missed. I am fairly certain a 45-70 would have hit.
Enjoying the lever action series!
I went to the range on a windy day recently, and with a 40 mph headwind, I got vertical stringing with my AR.
This video is remarkably well made. Your post production skills have evolved nicely. Great work!
Even given the seemingly obvious flaws in equating 5/8" wood strips to light, intervening brush, or occasional plant stalks between the shooter and the target, let's take the results actually found by the test and see if they are significant.
The rough holes from the Carbine calibers could simple be partial deformation of the soft nose. Other test have shown how sensitive Spitzers are to even
I always thought “brush gun” refers to a gun that is easy to handle walking through thick brush. For example a short carbine instead of a rifle with a 30 inch barrel.
Good to know if I'm ever in a pasture covered in dry 5/8" pine strips. How does one of those strips compare to the sunflower stalk?
Just going to point out: 30/30 still hit 3 out of 3. The goal was to be able to shoot in the woods, which he covers well at about the 12 minute mark.