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I've had a 30-06 for a couple of years but had never hunted with it until last weekend.Popped a coyote and a spike buck,now I know it will kill something.It might get to go again next year.

260 Rem, Blacktail buck
30-338 Lapua AI, bull elk

Always been a long action guy. During the off season, I put together a .308 and bought my youngest son a .243. My son pulled the trigger on his first deer:







and I broke in the .308:

6.5 RUMLN. Barnes LRX 127 @ 3,255 feet per second.

300 blackout. skunk, coyote and a doe

I bumped off one doe with a 300 blackout, and two more with the 260 Remington. First deer I have taken with both those cartridges.

I predict there will be more.

No dead animal pic but I used my Ruger All-Weather .280 Remingtton and a 140g AccuBond for the first time this year. Took a WY doe antelope at 373 yards.

Scope is a Burris 3-9x40 Fullfield II with Ballistic Plex reticle.

son-in-law #2 also christened his rifle, a walnut/blue Ruger Hawkeye in .30-06. He took his first western animal, a WY doe antelope, at 300 yards with the .30-06. Don't recall the load.

Like my rifle above, the scope was a Burris 3-9x40 Fullfield II with Ballistic Plex reticle but in blue..

I harvested my first animal with the 35 Whelen (250 partition). It was my first time hunting deer with the rifle and I took this doe. The blood trail was like a waterfall. She tasted very good.

None in 2015 but I broke out a Rem M 6 in 270 W that I hadn't even shot since 2002. It still works.



Even with HI shoulder shot.



For 2016 I hope to blood a 284 W-- PLUS a Rem M 6 in 30-06, (6-06) that's new to me.

The last 'new to me cartridge' I christened was a 6.5X55 in a Win 70, XTR FTWT in 2012.



Normally I blood different rifles more than new cartridges.
Sorry for the variant.


Jerry

My 10 year old son Henry with his .260 Rem. His first hunting season and the first .260 in our household. I'm now a believer in the 6.5 and building his little brother one as well.

Here's Hen with his first MT buck he shot in October...


Here's Hen's second buck in Alabama last week...I'm one proud dad, obviously!

That's FANtastic! !


Tell him congrats for me.

Jerry

Same here, I end up with multiple rifles chambered the same,
so it's usually just blooding a new rifle.
This years, a bobcat, deer, and a coyote notched up for the newbie
It's a 300 H&H

J D W-

KOOL ! !

I had a few # 1s but they had the Semi-beavertail forend & 26" blls. I always wanted a 1 AB in 22" bll. with the A H forend. Things just never worked out.

Today I will not pay Ruger's MSRP + the AB isn't available as far as I know.


Jerry

jwall, I hear ya on the msrp... I was lucky to get into most of mine before they went crazy. The one in the picture here bought used from a campfire member

The timing never worked out right when I was looking for one, but the fellow El Numero Uno who post here can hook you up with about anything if you're patient. His website is called Classic Sporting Arms I believe.

jdw -

Thnx for the info.

Just what I 'need'........ encouragement

You enabler


Jerry

I really like the rifle. I need one of those in my collection. Deer ain't bad neither..........

jeff, sharp rifle, I have one just like it.. Next year it should be back in rotation...

Wow, That's a cool first, for sure.

Mount looks "UBER" too.

I LOVE this stuff.

His first, looks just like my first !

You know a .243 woulda worked, right ?