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Top rifle: Colt Coltsman 243. Minox ZA5 3-15x42 The Coltsman has a Sako L579 action that Colt marketed in the 50s and 60s.

Middle rifle: Pre 64(1960) Win 70 in 264 Win Mag. Sightron SII Big Sky 3-12x42 in Talley LW lows.

Bottom rifle: Kimber 8400 Classic in 270 WSM. Sightron SII Big Sky 3-9x42

Top rifle: Kimber 84M Montana 308, Leupold VXII 2-7x33
Middle rifle: Savage 99M 308, Burris 1.5-5x20 in Redfield 1 piece
Bottom rifle: Win 70 WinLite in 30-06. Nikon Monarch 3-9x40 in Talley LW lows.



Ruger Hawkeye 358 with Zeiss 2.5-8x32 in Ruger low rings

Original Remington Mountain Rifle 280


Lyman Great Plains 50

This year, going to carry my Sako 85 .260 mostly...

You did not specify Mule or Whitetail deer.
Wisconsin Whitetail - Savage M99 250-3000 87gr Speer Hor-Cor - Leupold 1X4 scope - terrain, hardwood timber and brush.


Mule Deer - Ruger M77 ts 7x57 160gr Nosler Partition - Leupold 4X scope (O'Connor wrote that is all I need) - terrain, Missouri Breaks.

Every year its hard not to keep coming back to the old faithfulls. 7mm 700 BDL and Ruger 77mkII in 270. No matter how many new "improvements" I add to the gun case I keep using these two.

Nice rifles above, Pac-Nor sure knows how to make accurate rifles, even if it is a 338 FEDERAL What taper sir? Nice shooting, perfect load - those 200s.

It's the same contour as a factory Savage Varmint barrel.

this is the one i like best and i have many rifles. it is my model 8 rem. 32 remington made in 1927 with cast bullets.

Whilst that is cool .... a couple fellas here several years ago (shortly after WSM's came out) built a .257 WSM and one in .375 WSM .... The .375 Whizzum was THE coolest cartridge I ever saw.

Oh .. don't know if I have a favorite ... been hunting with my MkV Deluxe in 7-08 the last few years. Talley LW's and a FX-III 6x42.

270

horseman demonstrates high intelligence.....

338WM MGA

Snake

.308 Browning Safari pencil barrel, on a small ring Mauser, that I bought some twenty years ago. It wears a 4X Zeiss also twenty years old, in Kimber rings and bases. It drives tacks!


If that one does not go with me, it is likely to be a Glenfield 30 in .30-30 that cost $112.95 plus tax, from a pawn shop in recent history. I did replace the cheap Bushnell with a 3X Weaver, but kept the Weaver mounts. Jack

this is a zombie thread from 2 yrs ago, but hey. Currently doing my deer slaying with a Savage 16 in .250 Sav



Couldn't ask for better results



I have a couple more to choose from for this fall, but none of them will work any better.

This is the newest fav. I , like many here would not have full safes if we could decide. FN Model 70 in 270WSM with a Vortex 4x12 parallax adj. Comes floated and I am working up loads if I could buy powder. Seems to like the Barnes pills...

It has not seen blood as it is too new but still I grab it more than any other rifle lately.



I hunt from the thick brush of the Oregon coast to the high desert of our eastern wilderness.