Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting The "backup/ loaner" rifle

I did not hunt deer until I was in my 30's and hunting with some of the guys I worked with. They loaned me rifles for 4 or 5 years before I bought my own. The loaners were Browning's or 700's with Nikon or Leupold scopes, good accurate rifles and optics. My friend or BIL loaner would be a Ruger M77 in 7Mag or a Weatherby in .308Win depending on what/where we were going for.