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Quarry: whitetail deer in central Maine

Rifle: Marlin 336A with 24" bbl, 30-30 with 170 grain Speer over 32 grains over WW748

Scope: Weaver Classic (Japan) 2.5x. (sighted in for 75 yards)

1936 Winchester model 71 with a bolt peep and some vintage 200 grain Core Lokt hand loads.

Mossberg model 464 chambered for the mighty 30-30 cartridge. I'll be chasing whitetails within the vast forests of northern Florida. - Sherwood

What's it like hunting deer in Florida? Hot?

Michigan deer in southwest michigan, 350 legend on an AR15 platform
Bear in Wyoming as I'm tagging along on an elk hunt, 270 winchester, santa barbara model I got 30 years ago at a garage sale for 175$

Had my shoulder replaced this year hoping that come Oct my Kimber Hunter 7mm-08rem with 120gr TTSX @ 3020fps goes with me. If not a .204 Ruger with a 40gr, a steady rest and a head shot out to 200yrds gets 'er done. Bear,deer,elk.

New acquisition.

This one will have to get some time afield as well.

Merkel k1 in 308Win shooting a 130 TTSX.



20 sided dice roller

I’m hanging in New England this season and will be rolling along with my Ruger 77RL in .257 Rob. Been a few seasons since I’ve carried this rifle - been too happy with my Tikkas

Wasn’t drawn for anything cool so this is prob a year for a couple Of does for the freezer. I want to get one with my .41 Mag Ruger Blackhawk and another with ad another with my Marlin 336 .30-30.

Expat

For big game hunting;

Remington 750 Woodsmaster Carbine 30-06 Spr. w/2-7x33mm Leupold. My 2 to 200 yard rifle.

Remington 700 Classic 280 Rem. w/4-12x40mm Leupold. My longer range rifle.

Two Marlin's, a 336C 35 Rem. and a 336Y 30-30 Win. Both have peep sights.

This will be the first year we can hunt big game with rifles in my county!

NYH1.

My Browning A-Bolt 30-06 with 150 gr Nos. Partitions for Fla. Panhandle White Tails.
If I visit Daughter & S in L now living in Colorado, my Browning A-Bolt .300 WM with 180 gr Nos Partitions

One or two of these 26's ..no CM's allowed

Cool line up!

Nice rifles. I live and hunt mainly in shotgunland. Here's some of my slug throwers. I won't hunt with the Benelli but I'll be taking them all the range soon to check zeros and have some fun.

I pulled a coveted high-desert mule deer tag I love to hunt this year so I’m pumped. I built a rifle several years ago for “next time I pull a XXX tag” and it’s what I’ll very likely be using… it’s a midweight 6.5 SAUM directly cloned from the GA Precision (GAP) Extreme Hunter. Manners SL stock, Bartlien fluted barrel, Timney Calvin trigger, M700 action with a PTG bolt and Gre-Tan bolt guts. And AICS bottom metal and mags.

Dark horse candidate is a 7 SAUM factory donor i rechambered to 7 WSM and damned if it doesn’t shoot lights-out. However it’s been really hot this summer and I haven’t had a chance to shoot it much.

There’s always the Kimber Montana 7 WSM which I can hunt anything anywhere with. I used it 2/3 of the other years I pulled this tag. It works great there; it’s a backpack hunt. It has lots of longer-range hunting opportunities so I’m leaning towards the 6.5 GAP; not so much for the extra reach or ballistic advantage-there isn’t one- but just because as a heavier rifle it’s easier to shoot very well.

Kimber on the left, 6.5 GAP in the middle.

Last couple nights it's been a Sig Cross, 308 Win!



ya!

GWB

Nothing new?

That's the most Bibles I've ever seen on the Fire.

6.5x284 NORMA for sheep, caribou and possibly black bear if I stumble into one. Got a griz with it the other day.

.300 H&H for moose and another griz/brown bear if opportunity allows since I will be moose hunting in a 2 brown bear unit. Possibly my .375 H&H but I am not planning on it. If I can get a Sitka deer trip organized I will likely take the .300 H&H for them too.

For elk and mule deer in Idaho and deer in Montana it’ll be my old .270 Win, 2nd year production Win 70.

I have 6 deer rifles. 2-308's, 2 - 30-30's, a 243 and a 30-06. The 30-30's are lever guns and all the rest are bolt actions. I only live about 15 minutes from our camp so I try to get out at least once with each of them.