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been hunting for some 55 years now have used almost anything u can name. but the last 15 years i have exclusively used a 270,now i own 5 270s and use them all. a ruger american,a savage 110,a s$w ibolt,2 different mossbergs.also i have a 243 rem 700 that i wpuld like to use,and a new savage axis 2 xp 223 that shoots 70 gr sp,but thats next year

One of the bucks I took was this buck (The other was a 4 point with my trusty 270 with my second tag). 4x5 Idaho muley in Idaho's Frank Church Wilderness. Taken with a Tikka 300 wsm, 180 accubonds at 3000 fps. I then proceeded to loan the rifle to a friend who shot a deer and elk with it.

7mm-08AI, first mule deer, also first animal taken with a Scenar - 150grn ScenarL....



David

You're likely the only one.

.35 Whelen
1.) whitetail doe
1.) 8 point whitetail buck

Blackout.

Guess I'll add this one. My nephew with his first deer with his new Model 7 in 260Rem.

I couldn't find a buck in Missouri to wear my tag but I did manage to run some 3/8" holes in some meat deer with my new Ruger African Hawkeye 9.3

AWESOME !!

& AWESOME again !

For nearly 20 years I hunted my rusty 700 in 30-06

Running 150's it has killed everything from p-dogs to elk in the USA and eleven different species of plains game in South Africa......but it hates 180's

So I put together a younger version of the same....

Green and mean for 180's....still in the same ol 30-06

It would get its first trip this past fall

It would fire two shots in very close succession on this trip....public land,diy,walk in with two great friends from AR and 24

Nothing this year.
.257 Roberts last year and 7.65 x 53 the year before.
I might do 9mm this year for plinking loads.

Remington 722
300 SAV
2 does

Too cool!

Kimber Montana 308 X 5....reduced recoil 130gr Barnes felt like a 243..

243AI:

I didn't christen a new to me cartridge but I did christen a new to me rifle. I had gotten a Remington Model 30, one of the first models with the dovetailed receiver sight in 30/06. It was probably made in the early 1920's. I love the looks of classic old hunting rifles and really like using them as they were issued. The only concession I made was using some Remington 125 grain ammo in it. Not because of the reduced recoil but it sighted in dead on at 100 and shot great. I've never used that load before, if that counts. The reduced recoil was nice as the butt plate
is the same one used on my Remington 14 1/2, 44-40. Small and steel.

280 AI

Made a doe look like she swallowed a watermelon.

.338 Winchester Magnum