Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles A perfect rifle

Lots of fine, fine rifles here.

This is as close to "perfect" as I have found in a hunting rifle.


Nothing fancy at all. Just a good solid hunting rifle that just plain hits and kills stuff.

So far it has around 20 deer to its credit and none have needed more than one bullet or taken more than two or three steps save the last forkhorn I killed that slid over the bank to the bottom of a holler on very wet leaves.


Please forgive the picture quality as the camera I had at the time was dying and I don't have any recent pictures of it.


Its a .280 AI on a 1982 vintage 700 ADL action put together by Mickey Coleman.

It has a # 3 1 -9 twist SS Matchgrade Shilen @ 23 inches. Mickey also squared the action and and glass bedded the factory stock.

Its currently topped with a 3.5-10 VX 3 in Burris Signature mounts.

It weighs 9.25 lbs field ready.





It shoots really, really well with the 120 grain Nosler BT, 162 AMAX, and 150 Nosler BT

Thus far I have 359 rounds down the bore and when and if the barrel ever gets shot out I will just retire it to a place of honor on the rack.