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I'll have a few. A .280Rem, a 7x57 and a .30-06 Rem pump.

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I probably won't be carrying a rifle in camp. It will be in a rifle case. But when I'm hunting deer, I'll be using a T/C Venture 25-06.

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Got several that haven't been hunted with in a long time. 9.3x57,.250/3000, 8mm Mauser, 6mm Rem, and a couple of new to me .30/06s..

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For me, camp is a bed&breakfast (let a pretty woman make my bed and cook my meals, and keep me company over a glass of scotch at the end of the day smile - shower assistance not included though, darn it ). Rifles taken along this year will probably be a custom Savage M1899 .22 HiPower I built earlier this year and my M54 Winchester .30-30 that hasn't had a run in the woods for a long time. Of course, that choice will probably change 20 times between now and December...

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I fully expect to be carrying nothing. I will go to deer camp, but I am pretty sure I will have my deer in the freezer come mid-September. I need do some more population reduction in my neighborhood and I plan on doing that with an Excaliber 330. Been counting deer on trail cams and as of now there are two who've set up living quarters about 100 yards from my garden and two more not more than 150 yards in the opposite direction. There's four more that I don't know where they live and am not entirely sure they are still alive. All those but for one are antlerless. So, there should be 4-6 bucks anyway nearby too since I didn't kill any of them last year, and only does and fawns were killed on the roads as far as I know.

It'd be nice to take about 8-10 out of the section and get the population back down to what it can carry which I figure to be 4-6. If I can reduce them to that there's a chance that taking out 1-2/year I can keep up with infiltration and reproduction. There's an area a mile away that I often enough see two dozen or more in though, and I may be just wishful thinking that I can whittle them down.

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Originally Posted by MILES58
I fully expect to be carrying nothing. I will go to deer camp, but I am pretty sure I will have my deer in the freezer come mid-September. I need do some more population reduction in my neighborhood and I plan on doing that with an Excaliber 330. Been counting deer on trail cams and as of now there are two who've set up living quarters about 100 yards from my garden and two more not more than 150 yards in the opposite direction. There's four more that I don't know where they live and am not entirely sure they are still alive. All those but for one are antlerless. So, there should be 4-6 bucks anyway nearby too since I didn't kill any of them last year, and only does and fawns were killed on the roads as far as I know.

It'd be nice to take about 8-10 out of the section and get the population back down to what it can carry which I figure to be 4-6. If I can reduce them to that there's a chance that taking out 1-2/year I can keep up with infiltration and reproduction. There's an area a mile away that I often enough see two dozen or more in though, and I may be just wishful thinking that I can whittle them down.


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Well I can come help you with that dave!! grin


Drive Highway 8 between 35 and 61 and keep an eye out to the south. It is not at all uncommon to see a couple dozen between there and town. Shoot a full size one with a bow in there (which is probably legal) and it'd make a man of you dragging it out to a road though, and you'd get very wet in the process.

This area really out to be part of 601.

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BEER! leaving the shooting to the kids this year.


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I might carry this old Brno 21h carbine 7-57 up north. Today it stayed sighted in and put two 162 gr Amax's into one hole at 100 yds.

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Originally Posted by MILES58
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Well I can come help you with that dave!! grin


Drive Highway 8 between 35 and 61 and keep an eye out to the south. It is not at all uncommon to see a couple dozen between there and town. Shoot a full size one with a bow in there (which is probably legal) and it'd make a man of you dragging it out to a road though, and you'd get very wet in the process.

This area really out to be part of 601.


I'm familiar with the area there. My daughter takes gymnastics right there. In the swamp grass off 8 at 61, it's more common to see em there than not.


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This is my big experiment for the year. Over the summer I started using powder-coated cast lead bullets. It's shooting velocities more like a hot 35 REM, but it should kill deer just fine.





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Originally Posted by tzone

I'm familiar with the area there. My daughter takes gymnastics right there. In the swamp grass off 8 at 61, it's more common to see em there than not.


Not much to eat there come late fall and they move out. The odd thing is that road kill on 8 is almost non existent there, but not uncommon half a mile east. Dangerous driving in my neighborhood too.

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The gun that's at the front when I open my gun safe! wink

Of all the rifles I own, I usually grab one of two my old faithfull guns.

My WW Featherweight M70 in 7x57, or my Rem. Classic in .264 Win Mag.

And of course, there's always at least one AR-15 in .556 that lives in the truck for Coyotes and Hogs when I'm driving around the Ranch checking feeders or fences.

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Well I can come help you with that dave!! grin


Drive Highway 8 between 35 and 61 and keep an eye out to the south. It is not at all uncommon to see a couple dozen between there and town. Shoot a full size one with a bow in there (which is probably legal) and it'd make a man of you dragging it out to a road though, and you'd get very wet in the process.

This area really out to be part of 601.


I'm familiar with the area there. My daughter takes gymnastics right there. In the swamp grass off 8 at 61, it's more common to see em there than not.


First thread I read and I find a familiar sight! I wasn't aware that area was open to hunting, I thought it was inside city limits. I remember the hubbub trying to close Lamprey Pass, I can't remember if the east section was closed or not.

I tend to see more deer on the north side of the highway- I am usually looking for the trooper running radar in the median. I'll see deer while approaching the exit if there isn't some nitwit entering the freeway at 40 mph or when past the turn and on the straight away if I don't see a local cop down by the bridge.

Keep your eyes open, there is at least a sow with two cubs roaming the area, I saw them cross over the freeway just north of 8 last spring. The year before a younger bear crossed 8 in front of me up by Comfort Lake.

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Oops, forgot to mention what I'll be carrying.

I have several "new to me" guns to use so I will have a couple along.

A first year Marlin 336 in 35 Rem
A Rem 760 in 300 Savage
A Rem 700 in 300 Savage
A Savage 1899 in 38/55
And a Savage 16 in 7mm/08 will likely be this years' picks.

If hunting in Zone 236 this year, I will have a 12 ga Beretta 391 or a 20 ga NEF slug gun in hand. If I can figure out why it went wonkers in time, a 12 ha Mossberg 930 will get the nod.

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First thread I read and I find a familiar sight! I wasn't aware that area was open to hunting, I thought it was inside city limits. I remember the hubbub trying to close Lamprey Pass, I can't remember if the east section was closed or not.

I tend to see more deer on the north side of the highway- I am usually looking for the trooper running radar in the median. I'll see deer while approaching the exit if there isn't some nitwit entering the freeway at 40 mph or when past the turn and on the straight away if I don't see a local cop down by the bridge.

Keep your eyes open, there is at least a sow with two cubs roaming the area, I saw them cross over the freeway just north of 8 last spring. The year before a younger bear crossed 8 in front of me up by Comfort Lake.


Welcome to the fire.

I don't know for certain what the status is down there, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it is open for bow south of 8. They Hunt ducks on Forest lake inside the city limits.

You have to know where to look for the deer on the south side. If you get off on the 2nd street NW exit watch in the pines next to the exit ramp you see them laying there right in people's back yards all the time. Out around the high ground in the swamp that the city burns tree waste on is another place to keep an eye on. You see more one the north side, but there's half again as many on the south. I'd hate to have a garden or shrubs in any of the houses that back up to the swamp.

There's always been bears around there. They tour a good size area in the spring and tear up bird feeders. Back before the mid 70's the DNR would come out with a trap is anyone reported bears. They don't much care anymore. Last spring I saw one almost in downtown St Croix Falls coming out of a residential area in the middle of the day.

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In TN I'll have my ruger m77 stainless 7-08 loaded with american whitetails and will also dig out the mauser in 30-06 I built. Probably use 150gr fusions in it


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7-08 RAR,and a 223 RAR,and my son has his 22-250 RAR.

forgot to say, using 120 gr in the 7-08,either tsx or bt,whichever works best.
62 tsx in the 223 and the 22-250.

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Welcome to the Fire wirehair. I didn't know you can hunt there either. I'm hinting at miles58's place this year. grin

Check out the deer camp thread if you haven't.!!


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Welcome to the Fire wirehair. I didn't know you can hunt there either. I'm hinting at miles58's place this year. grin

Check out the deer camp thread if you haven't.!!


Hey! My house is not real far from there, but it most assuredly is legal here. I am not in Forest Lake. I wouldn't call it hunting here though. Plain and simple it's just killing, much like dispatching varmints.

I might consider going down south of 8 after everything freezes up and there's a little snow on the ground, but I am too old to be trying to drag one out of that swamp before freeze up. I still have one of my kid's toboggan/sleds that is a piece of cake to drag a deer on. Just bungee Bambi on, and even an old out of shape guy like me can drag one a few miles on snow and not even need a rest break as long as the snow isn't too deep. Like I said, that area ought to part of 601.

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Originally Posted by MILES58
I fully expect to be carrying nothing. I will go to deer camp, but I am pretty sure I will have my deer in the freezer come mid-September. I need do some more population reduction in my neighborhood and I plan on doing that with an Excaliber 330. Been counting deer on trail cams and as of now there are two who've set up living quarters about 100 yards from my garden and two more not more than 150 yards in the opposite direction. There's four more that I don't know where they live and am not entirely sure they are still alive. All those but for one are antlerless. So, there should be 4-6 bucks anyway nearby too since I didn't kill any of them last year, and only does and fawns were killed on the roads as far as I know.

It'd be nice to take about 8-10 out of the section and get the population back down to what it can carry which I figure to be 4-6. If I can reduce them to that there's a chance that taking out 1-2/year I can keep up with infiltration and reproduction. There's an area a mile away that I often enough see two dozen or more in though, and I may be just wishful thinking that I can whittle them down.
Miles will have his freezer full before most of us even buy our tags. You can bank on it.


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I'll be carrying my .243 Savage Axis as per my heart doctor's orders. Waiting in the wings will be my Marlin .44 Mag. Should I develop a case of wanderlust and head into the slug zones, my little Mossberg 20 gauge stands at the ready. Hoping to have one down with a as yet to be purchased crossbow locally early in the season. Got to get my son's wedding out of the way first, and then go get a bow.


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I plan on bringing a 700 classic in 8x57 and a 99R in 300 Savage. I'll also bring a model 70 in .30-'06 with a Tupperware stock to use if I have to hunt in dog snot weather.


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Traditional Hawken rifle in 58 cal firing 140 grs Holy Black under a patched round ball.

And maybe my new to me pre-64 FW in 270 WCF firing 160 gr NPT's.


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Whitetail deer camp.
Marlin 336 30-30, Leupold 1-4x20mm, Federal 170 grainers
Savage 99-A 250-3000, Leupold 1-4x20mm, 87 grain Hot-Cor

Mule deer camp.
Ruger 77 tanger 7x57, Bausch & Loomb 2-8x32mm, Hornady 154 grain
Ruger 77 tanger .257 Roberts, Leupold 2-7x32mm, Nosler 115 grain


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And a .357 revolver and a bucket of corn


My corn will be in the form of George Dickel!

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Marlin Guide Gun 45-70 350 grain Hornady RN
I like variety.


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What Are You Going to Carry in Camp This Year?


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Opening morning here in Minnesota it will be a Remington 722 in .300 Savage shooting 150 grain Horns over H4895. After opening morning, whatever suits my fancy....

On the South Dakota West River opener it will be with a 1-8 twist .220 Swift. Haven't decided yet on the bullet I will be using....


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just an empty cup?

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I've got two .270s, a Winchester Classic and a Howa, both shoot very well, and have killed many deer.


But I've got a 1960 Marlin 336SC .30/30 that I need to blood. Heck, I'm backstepping so far that I'm gonna use factory ammo, too.....................

Maybe I'll get lucky and actually kill a deer with this little levergun. The .270s are proven, but I have no doubts whatsoever that the little .30 will get it done.


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Since I sold all my rifles except my 35 Rem Marlin dad said I can borrow his Mod 70 6mm Featherweight. Last time I borrowed a 6mm from him he said if I get a deer with it I can have it....doubt he'll make that offer this time though grin

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Tzone: I will be using one of three of my longer range Deer Hunting Rifles.
#1: Remington 700 VLS in 260 Remington with Leupold 6.5x20 variable.
#2: Remington 700 Sendero in 270 Winchester with Leupold 6.5x20 variable.
#3: Ruger 77 MK II V/T in 25/06 Remington with Leupold 6.5x20 variable.
I am going to concentrate on Whitetailed Deer this year and will be Hunting on a huge ranch with 95% Whitetails and only 5% Mule Deer on it.
Longer shots (400 yards or so!) are the norm on this ranch and I usually Hunt from secreted positions 1/4 to 1/2 mile from the VarmintMobile so the heavier weights of these Rifles are no problem in fact its an advantage.
There is an off chance I will bloody a new'ish Rifle on a tasty Whitetail doe or two also this fall - its a Ruger 77 MK II in 243 Winchester with a Leupold 6.5x20 EFR variable scope on it.
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Well I sold my early Remington 700adl '06 to pay for parts for my truck so I'm taking my Winchester 94ae thutty-thutty. The only other centerfire I own.I'm just having trouble picking what sights to use. I like the view through the williams 5d better but the group's are way better with the factory semi buckhorn. Good thing I got time to practice, beware of the one gun man, he'd best be good cause otherwise he's going home empty. wink


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Probably should leave the Winchester in camp and bring my Marlin 22 anyways. The deer will be pretty poor again this year in Northern Mn and the partridge and snowshoe hair will be thick as ticks again. Vilas county WI probably won't be to much better either.


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I was thinking about this thread this morning, and just wanted to say something. This thread has been around in various incarnations since I have been going online. That predates the Internet. I was reading versions of this thread back when it was BBS technology and 300 baud dialup. I kept a distributor's catalog next to the Apple II, so I could look things up.

I was thinking about how things change. Back when I started, I had only 1 deer rifle (Rem 742) and a shotgun (Rem 1100) . I was longing for a Rem 700 in 30-06 and Service Merchandise had one for $300, but I could not come up with the scratch and settled for a beat-up used Win 670. By comparison everything else seemed far superior. The distributor's catalog had just b&w line drawings, so it either had to be in manufacturer's catalog, or I had to look at the drawing and imagine. I think that was why I never paid much attention to a Savage 99 back in those days. The drawings were so poor.

This was all on the front end of my hunting career. I still had not taken a deer. Back in the early 80's, there just weren't many deer. I'd been hunting, I'd seen deer, but I still had not closed the deal. I was still single. I was still wearing three-piece suits to my job and I was driving 3 hours on Friday nights to hunt on Saturday and then drive back on Sunday, because there was no hunting on Sundays, and all I could do was listen to the Bengals lose on the radio.

You guys gave me a lot of good ideas over the years. I am now starting the back end of my deer rifle collecting. I gave the Winchester 670 to my youngest son last year. I also probably bought my last 30-06, a nice Ruger Hawkeye. This is not my last deer rifle, but I'll probably explore other avenues from now on. I've got a nice rack, and I have had a ball filling it. I just wanted to say thanks to y'all.


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How come everyone packs multiple guns? Is it part of the strategy for spouse management - honey I took four guns and didn't get a deer. I need five next year. . It does make for more exercise loading and unloading the truck, but I can think of more effective conditioning. I can't think of the last time I brought multiple rifles. If they aren't trustworthy, they go down the road.

I suspect YMMV!

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Well in case something messes up,firing pin,springs ,scope etc.
Everything is trustworthy till it aint !

And scopes are the same way.
If a scope goes bonkers or takes a hard fall I have another rifle and scope ready to go.

Much better than having to drive a 4 or 5 hour roundtrip drive home to get another rifle !

Plus if and after I get one with one rifle I will use the other one.


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Originally Posted by forpest
How come everyone packs multiple guns? Is it part of the strategy for spouse management - honey I took four guns and didn't get a deer. I need five next year. . It does make for more exercise loading and unloading the truck, but I can think of more effective conditioning. I can't think of the last time I brought multiple rifles. If they aren't trustworthy, they go down the road.

I suspect YMMV!


I take multiple guns In case I wake up in a different mood, and want to carry the 257AI instead of the 257. Or the M99 instead of the M70... Or I want to try the 80gr TTSX instead of the 120gr Speer...

Has nothing to do with whether they are trustworthy (if they weren't they would not be in camp). It has everything to do with enjoying my time in the brush. As you say....YMMV


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Originally Posted by Micro_Groove
A bottle of Maker's Mark.


Crown Royal Apple Regal for me.


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Originally Posted by forpest
How come everyone packs multiple guns? Is it part of the strategy for spouse management - honey I took four guns and didn't get a deer. I need five next year. . It does make for more exercise loading and unloading the truck, but I can think of more effective conditioning. I can't think of the last time I brought multiple rifles. If they aren't trustworthy, they go down the road.

I suspect YMMV!


When I used to hunt away from home, and my sons were with me as well as a friend or two, I always took a spare, usually a .348. Anybody can fall and bang up a gun or scope and it was just prudent for someone to have a spare along. Now, hunting 20 minutes from home, I can just go home and get something (or take a nap and wait for the next day).

If I had a woman that I had to trick in order to buy a new rifle, she'd go down the road.

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I don't know what to say.

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Originally Posted by forpest
How come everyone packs multiple guns? Is it part of the strategy for spouse management - honey I took four guns and didn't get a deer. I need five next year. . It does make for more exercise loading and unloading the truck, but I can think of more effective conditioning. I can't think of the last time I brought multiple rifles. If they aren't trustworthy, they go down the road.

I suspect YMMV!


There are a bunch of reasons for me.

One gun can usually get it all done. However, stuff happens, especially with telescopic sights. Most all of my guns are scoped. I've had two instances over the years where something has happened to a rifle and I suspected the scope had been compromised. Rather than try to figure it out in the field, I just went to the backup.

When I started deer hunting, I was primarily a bow hunter. I hunted with a rifle from the same stands I hunted with a bow. Treestands have their own requirements. Usually that translates out to shorter barrels, low power scopes, and shorter LOP. When I started hunting other kinds of venues, my needs changed. When I'm hunting one of my long, narrow pastures, I prefer higher magnification, and a chambering that won't start to poop out at 150 yards.

Another good reason is weather. I have rifles that I just do not like taking out in the rain. I'm sure I would not wreck them, but I'd hate to muck up the finish or warp the stock. I now have other rifles that do not require any fuss, and for the past decade, I kept a Remington 7600 as my designated "Rain Gun."

There is also a huge difference between warm and cold weather. I need a longer LOP when I am down to a sweatshirt on a warm afternoon versus the multiple layers needed to survive a morning sit after an arctic cold front has come through.

Lastly, there's the fact that sometimes you feel like a nut and sometimes you don't. Some days I really want to hunt with my Garand, or take out my Rem 1100 with slugs and pound the cedar thickets. Sometimes I like to sit with a nice bolt gun on my lap and contemplate. Normally, once I bag a deer, that rifle goes out of the rotation and something else goes in.






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I will be packing multiple guns, because lifes too short to hunt with just one, but this one may get hunted the most. Just finished bedding a 700SA 260 Rem 8 twist into a McSwirly.

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maybe my 256 win mag if I wanna stunt shoot


Would that be in a Marlin?

Have you used it on deer before.

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My model 7 in 7mm-08 will get the most carry time in deer season but id also like to get my 35 Remington out some.

Outside of deer season seems my 243 has moved to the front for yotes and hogs.

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Its going to get some 50 Gr. TTSXs shot through it at warp speed . If it doesn't like them, the norma; 55 grain Hornady load should work nicely indeed. grin


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We leave tomorrow for the first hunt.. Packed 3 rifles..
1.700 in .300 Sav. with 21" barrel.. New not blooded...

2.700 in .270 with a 26" custom barrel.. String of kills with this one.. A close contender for my favorite deer rifle..

3.700 in .300 WM.. My old reliable. 26" Lilja. This one has killed more big game than all the rest.. Pack this one in case I get a long shot at a really trophy buck..

Next hunt, who knows..


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I haven't hunted my M70 30-06 SPRG in several years, so I checked the zero at the range last Friday - it's up first. Once I kill my first deer I will switch to my M88 in 308 WIN. I usually shoot two deer per season; if I shoot a third I will probably be swamp hunting with a M94 WIN or a M1894 Marlin.

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That model 88 is a sharp rifle...


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1947 Model 99 EG in 250-3000. Using factory Winchester Silvertips 100 grain. Old gun loves them.

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Originally Posted by WyoCoyoteHunter
That model 88 is a sharp rifle...


Thank you.


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Originally Posted by gophergunner
Miles will have his freezer full before most of us even buy our tags. You can bank on it.


Well, don't have the freezer full, but I did whack one Sunday eve with the crossbow. She's of course broken down and in a cooler on ice now and packing into the freezer starts this evening. Nice big yearling doe I've been watching for a month or so now.

I am flat out impressed with Rage 2 inch cut broadheads and the crossbow. She walked out facing me and I just waited until she got herself situated just right and put it in about mid neck and pointed just above her heart. Took out about a foot of jugular and carotid and then opened the aorta just above the heart. Two crow hops and she flopped about six feet from where she stood. A couple kicks and that was that. Cut bone all the way down the neck. Lighted nocks are really nice! Under canopy just after sunset you can see it go where you pointed it and know it's all over.

If the Indians had those broadheads and decent bows, the the cowboys would have had a rougher go.

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Same one I always carry.

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Browning 71 will make its maiden voyage in our deer woods, overkill but it will be fun testing out the 348 win on a deer. Trying to talk a buddy into taking it on a moose hunt.


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My 17 year old son will probably use his grandfather's 1967 Browning BAR in .270. Either that or my pre-64 Model 70 in .308 Norma Magnum that he took an 8 point with last year.

I will probably bring my 2 newest rifles, a 1983 Marlin 336AS 30-30 and a brand new Tikka T3 Lite 30-06.

We will be hunting at my wife's cousin's place in Colorado county, Texas.

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Bear hunting, it will be a custom Fox Sterlingworth in 45-70 with lots of history with it. Deer will be a pre-war model RS Savage99 in .300 Sav and a barrel band H carbine in .300 Sav as well. I post up some pictures later. Hopefully I'll anchor a bruin this weekend. A hound hunt is on the docket for Saturday and Sunday.


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No idea. I'm liking the Savage 99 barrel band carbines in 250-3000 and 30-30. I always shoot the 99 in .284 for longer work.

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I'm carrying this one this weekend- Staggs Bilt 20-30-30

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Got my 257 Roberts Mauser and it will be backed up by my salvage 7mm08

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