Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting What is Your Favorite Whitetail Round????

7mmRM then a toss up between 260rem and 338wm depending on the type of deer I'm chasing.

Cool pic

Holy mackerel look at that hammer! I bet it shoots one-holers.

What stock is that?

BTW I like my .223 for deer and next year hopefully my 223 AI

just an old school contender. i have a bunch of different barrels for it. I have two actions. Never got really into the new encores. i like the older contenders.

Where's FT. Lee? i can't recall for some reason?

Near Petersburg, south of Richmond. It's the big Logistics/Quartermaster school.

I think if I run across a Contender in .30-30, I'm subject to snatch it up. That, or .35 Remington, or .30 Herret, or .223, or......Well, you know how it is.

i hear you. I have a ss 7x30 waters that i want to get broken in as well as the standard 35 rem and a 45/70 and well, you know... grins

they are fun play toys but i don't ever make time to hunt with them. i think i'll change that this year!

don't know why i thought it was closer to me? musta been thinking of something else?

Paul from time to time I think about getting a scope T/C for tossing in the pack for long hikes where I'm looking for bruins. Steely and I were chatting about it the other day.

Thinking I'd go 35 or plain old 30/30.

What do you like for a scope on them?

Thx
Dober

Wellllll.... it's like this <g>.

My honeyhole is on the northern border of the (endangered) whitetail herd down by Roseburg. I actually get stuff in the mail from ODFW about it, from the doe tag I also usually get for there.

A couple of the bucks I've killed were clearly hybrids. Most are blacktails. Haven't killed a whitetail and don't plan on it!

They have different horns, among other things. It's a hell of a thing to have to be on the lookout for, let me tell you! I'm guessing it'd be pretty obvious on a 4x4 buck, but on a forkie and even 3x3 it's not so simple. But luckily, while my spot isn't all genetically pure blacktails, it's certainly dominated by blacktail.

I was lucky enough to kill a bentleg (benchleg? I've heard it said both ways) mulie/blacktail up near the Pacific Crest trail... that was cool. He was only a 3x3 but had a very large, and LONG, body. Compared to a blacktail I mean.

I'm itching to kill a mule deer. I see them while elk hunting and camping over east. Just gotta make my pref points work out right. Still considering a Steens hunt with a buddy (5 pts each) or a solo Trout Ck Mtn hunt (10 pts). I have 10 points you see... But I just found out a month or so ago that my sister is getting married in late September in N. Idaho so this may not be the year to do my big muley hunt...

I would have to say my 6mm-06 with a 95gr combined tech or
95gr SST unless I go to thick areas then it is the .35 whelen
with 200gr roundnose interlocks

and not a 257 weatherby mentioned ??

i like a 30-06 with 180 gr. round noser's myself.

but,
just about anything will do, they aren't that hard to kill.

i hope to go back home to pa. this year and try my 7-08 or roberts.

308 Winchester.

Dober,
I run Leupold, redfield and Burris for my pistols and i hate to say it but the Burris seems to be the better of the three! normally fixed 4x's but i also use 2x's on the 44's. They really are a good time! I'm not that accurate with them but i can hold Minute of deer to 200 with one of the rifle cartridge ones. i have been thinking about a variable power just for S&G's.

Paul

You mean cold.. Man, that was cold [bleep] morning to be sitting in the bushes.

I've got a Leupold 2X20 on my .44 mag, and a Burris 3X20 on the .308.

i really like my 300 wm w/ either 180s or what im soon to load into it some 165 accubonds...but im gonna start usin a 243 w/ 95 grain nbt's this year

If I'm only shooting deer, then the Tikka T3 .25-06 takes the cake hands down...

Rancho_Loco: I bet it was, I complain when it's in the 30s here I can't imagine snow in MT and hunting.

Tikka T3 Lite 300WSM 150gr Swift SciroccoII.

I have used the 243 with pretty good results, but I would have to say the 7mm08 has got to be my favorite whitetail deer round right now.

30-06 Springfield with 150gr Swift SciroccoII's.