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They don't have to be fancy fellas, just reliable...

Here's my "meat getter". A 1991 manufactured Ruger M77 tanger in a period correct B&C Carbelite Classic stock. Chambered in the venerable 7x57. It was sub-MOA in a previous Boyds laminate stock (so the barrel is definitely a shooter) and 1-2 MOA in the current B&C stock using average factory ammo--so no problems for hunting!

It sports Ruger rings and a nice reliable Japanese-made Bushnell Elite 3500 2-7x32, PT&G steel bottom metal, a new MKII magazine spring (old one had "sprung" and I was having feeding issues) and I had the extractor nitre blued. The trigger is still sporting the original factory settings at about 3.5-4 pounds, clean break. Works for me!

I also have a sweet CZ 557 short action in 243 with both 4- and 10-round magazines and an easily detachable picatinny rail with a Minox RV-1 red dot when I am not using the nice iron sights--but it's more of a stalking rifle and not the focus of this thread.


The Kurgan's Meat Getter, 7x57

Let's see yours!

Sounds like you should get it fixed. There’s absolutely no reason it shouldn’t be shooting sub moa in the B&C stock. If it was in the Boyd’s. No reason to go backwards in accuracy when replacing stocks.

It's actually about the same, as I measure accuracy by over the counter ammo and field conditions. The Boyds stock accuracy was measured off the bench. I would say it's 1 MOA off the bench now. Close enough for me.

I'm forecasting a fair number of Rugers and Tikkas.


Ruger Hawkeye Predator .308 with a 3-9x40 VX2 LRD in #3/4 rings. Factory two-stage trigger. Shoots 150gr Nosler Ballistic Tips and Accubonds to same point of aim at 2,880fps, plus or minus. Just a grab-and-go stainless sporter that is easy to shoot.

I have a small assortment of Mausers and savages and a Remington 700 adl, all in 270 , 7mm, or 6.5mm's.

They all do the same thing and are prized for different attributes.

I have a few rifles. I hunt with all of them. I take the nice rifles out to hunt in a canvas soft case. I do have a Savage Hog Hunter in 308. I guess it’s my no frills deer-pig slayer. I bought it for a suppressor, cause a couple of boys whine about me shooting pigs during deer season. A 170 grain Partition with 11 grains of Trailboss make a quiet load.

I am also a Trail Boss fan and have used it in 7x57, 308, 45-70 and 32 S&W Long for reduced loads. Can't find any up here for the past year and a half. I have supplemented using IMR 4227, which does pretty good in 308 and 7x57 to emulate 30-30 power levels.

The Ruger .308 and Tikka .243 are newer acquisitions and have not been out yet but the 700 (308) is starting to get some mileage on it.

My nice rifles are hunted out of ground blinds but my Kimbers do most of the dirty work in the tree stands and stomping through thickets pushing deer.

CZ 550 chambered for the .270 Ingwe.

I like to tinker with my rifles, and have inleted, bedded, finished and checkered the stocks of most of them. Any "frills" that they have are what I have done myself. I make them to fit me and use them to hunt with.


My first centerfire rifle, a Herter's Model U-9 .30-06 barreled action that I put into a Herter's semi-inleted walnut stock back in 1966.

I shot 125 grain bullets through it for prairie dogs, 150 gr Hornady bullets for deer and antelope, and 180 gr Sierra bullets for elk.

In 1977 I had it rechambered to .30 Gibbs for my primary elk rifle.

Until I "retired" it in 2004, it kept my freezer full of both mule and whitetail deer, pronghorn antelope, 29 elk, 2 Shiras Moose, a Mountain Goat, and an Alaskan Caribou... all shot with my handloads.

In 1977 I had a Mauser Mark X .25-06 barreled action rechambered to .257 Ackley that is still my "go to" medium size game rifle.


With mainly my 117 gr Sierra GameKing handloads, I've shot prairie dogs, coyotes, dozens of deer and antelope, 3 Montana Unlimited bighorn rams, a Canadian Dall ram and Mountain caribou, and my 2nd best 6x6 bull elk.

In the early 2000's I bought a Remington 700 in 7 mm RM that I have taken to Africa several times, and on 3 Canadian Caribou and Musk ox hunts.


I recently put it into a Weatherby Vanguard Griptonite stock...


For over 40 years I had wanted a .300 Weatherby, and in 2009 I finally bought one in a Weatherby Vanguard. I immediately restocked it in AA Fancy Walnut, pillar bedded it an hand checkered it in in my favorite multi-panel pattern, and it quickly became one of my favorite rifles.


Shooting my Barnes TSX and TTSX handloads, I have used it first on some Texas Exotics, Montana elk, a full bag of New Zealand animals, 3 African hunts and a hunt in Azerbaijan for a Dagestan Tur.
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I used a 1970's Ruger #1 in .243 for many years, but these days the shots are fairly short on my place, so I use a Howa Mini chambered in 375 SOCOM. I shoot everything with it.

Tony

Like Doc, above, I have a M99C in .308, T/C Encore Pro Hunter in 25-06 & a Savage 111 in .243.

All fed factory fodder & all killed multitudes of whitetails.

M99C has also taken 2 moose.

Deb has a savage Lady Hunter, in 7mm-08, which has multiple whitetails & a moose, using Barnes Vortx 120gr TSSX.

308 Kimber MT.

No current pictures, but definitely no frills! Lol! All original Remington 721 in 300 Savage. Found a great load using TAC and Hornady 150gr Interlocks.

300 Savage is no slouch.

Marlin 336 SC in 35 Remington. Where I do most of my hunting now, this 35 Remington works great.