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Mine's a 1966 Model 70 Push Feed Custom Deluxe .270 Winchester. I bought it in late August 1966 just before starting my Senior Year in High School. I've bought and had built a lot more rifles since but it was what i used most and it works. It's still my go to rifle. What's your favorite that you've had the longest and killed the most deer with?
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steyr professional mod m in 3006. so good I got another just in case. !!!!!
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M70 .30-06, Lyman 4X. My dream rifle when I was 12. Bob
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Mine is a Sako AV chambered in 7mm Rem Mag, can't remember the year but safe to say it has been decades ago.
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Mid 70's Rem 700 BDL in 270. It is on it 2nd barrel and 4th stock. One of my grandsons took a pair of whitetails, on our recent opener, with it. One was a very nice 8 point. It has been to a lot of places with me, and has never failed to do the job I expected of it.
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A Remington 700 Classic in 300 Savage. A close second is my Savage 16 in 7mm/08. Those two may not be the ones I've owned the longest but they have been my favorites.
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M70 .30-06, Lyman 4X. My dream rifle when I was 12. Bob Sweet Moses!
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That's a good one. I got one of them, and like it a lot.
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1955 M70 .270 fwt.
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This is an excellent question. I have owned more brand new bolt action centerfire rifles over the past 35 years than I can possibly remember ( between 75-100) and I can not think of one that I like better than a Kimber 84M/84L Subalpine model 👍.....Hb
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We've only been legal to use centerfire rifles in the counties I hunt since 2013 so my total isn't very substantial. That said, I hunted Pennsylvania with the rifle for 35 years and killed plenty of bucks and some doe there. These days the NULA 7mm-08 is my favorite and has probably killed a few more than my NULA 243. If I had to choose just one, it'd be the 7mm-08 for sure.
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Mine is a pre-64 Winchester Model 70 chambered for the .270 Winchester--but I live in, and hunt deer in, wide open country.
I haven't shot a deer (whitetail, mule deer or Coues whitetail) in what most people would call a "woodland" since I moved away from Nebraska at the end of 1984.
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Have been hunting 20ish seasons now.
Don't think I have one that shines.
First deer was killed with a post 64 Winchester m88 in 308. Long story but I will probably never inherit that rifle.
I bought a sporterized Mauser in 3006. Killed with it regularly till I was in my 20s probably. Then went to Remington pump guns.
Now I've changed back to bolt guns and am setting up a Kimber Montana that I think will be everything I want in a rifle for most my hunting. Already killed a buck with it this past season. I think I will end up killing a lot of critters in my life with that rifle.
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Remington 700 308 converted BDL walnut to ADL composite. Purchased in 1978.
I have a 2018 Sako 85 Black Synthetic Finnlight 308 that has quickly stolen my heart.
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1992 browning A Bolt Medallion .270 Win BOSS... beat to death and just put a new Swarovski 2.5-15x56 on it... taken a pile of elk/hogs/deer with it. They are in troubleinside 500 yards.
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One of these 2. Mod 70 ot6 Sako post ww2 customized K98 8x57
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1980 Remington M700 Classic, 270 Win. with Leupold M8 4X for the past 39 years.
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1984 Remington 700 Classics in 250 Savage. Shoots right where I look and the cartridge is death to whitetails.
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Mule deer. Ruger 77 7x57 Whitetail deer. Savage 99-A 250-3000
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