Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting What gun have you enjoyed most deer hunting?

The Ruger Bisley 45 Colt on top.

I carried it one season with no luck, luck that amounted to dropping a doe at the shot and wriggled itself back to its feet and a blood trail that quit.....made me sick.

I spent that whole off season making my own bullets, practicing up close and out to 100 yds.

I shot a doe at about 40 yds.; bang-flop.

Then I shot a nice buck at 70 or 80 yds. about ten minutes later.
I had a lot to learn and learned it; I prefer skill over luck any day.

It has shot a half dozen or so hogs, the same for deer, raccoons, wabbits and finished off a mulie in Wyoming, along with the camp cooks beer can at a hundred paces....he was pissed he walked that far. He checked on dinner and told me we'd duel it out after he went inside and checked on dinner. Boom.

He walked out, looked at Dad and said "He hit it, didn't he".
PHARK!!!

The gun is tired from practice, fire breathing loads and I'm tired of a 7.5 inch tube, but when i shoot it, it hits.

Partitions, my boy.. Partitions.

Most have been easy shots from the blind at grazing or walking deer. About 1/3rd have been trotting with one at a full run and one other charging me (yeah, that was different). When you find a rifle that fits you like an extension of your arm and it's 2nd nature to shoulder and track with it... don't let it go.

My favorite is a 1950 Mannlicher Schoenauer Carbine in 6.5x54. It has never missed. However this past season, I hunted with my "new" 1920 Savage Carbine in 303 Sav. Didn't get a shot, but enjoyed just packing it around.

NULA M20 .30-'06 is the best choice!

No wonder you got him -- you shot him sitting in his lawn chair!

Seriously, nice picture!

John

Ruger M77 in 250 Savage.

Thats funny

I haven't owned it but about ten years and have packed others most of that time but I find that my Marlin 336 in 35Remington just flatout works for me. It has spent the most time in the woods wearing a Leupold 2-7x but now wears a 2.5-8x Leupold because that is the best I own. Actually have killed much more game with a Browning A-bolt in 25/06 and a BLR-81 in 358 but Marlin leverguns fit me and where and how I hunt so well I seldom pick up anything else. I have a pile of them ol' leverguns now and love the way they handle and what they do to game is just as deadly as a monster magnum at the ranges that I use them at.
This is a neat thread and I enjoy seeing the different choices of hunters.
Goat

Calhoun does shoot some nice deer and take great pics!

Thanks for the compliments, guys. My deer pale in comparison to the accomplished hunters here, but my enjoyment of hunting is probably equal to any.

Don't want to hijack the thread any more.. let's see more pics and guns!