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Beretta Mato 30-06 in a walnut stock with a Burris 3X-10X-40mm Signature Select scope. The load will probably be a a Swift Scirocco II, I just haven't decided on the weight.

For deer I will be using the Model 70 Classic this year. Mike Rock barrel in 270 WCF, sitting in a Brown 'glass stock, Zeiss Conquest 3-9X in talleys, shooting 140 gr Hornady BTSP's....

For rifle season it will be my Sako 75 with a shilen ss tube in .260 rem, edge stock, VX II CDS, 130gr accubonds. New this year so hoping to see some action with it.



For shotgun hunt, using my Mossberg 400g with a new slug barrel, open sights and rem copper solids.

The old M700 30-06 with 165g Sierra Gamekings..Rifle is bonestock but shoots under an inch with my handloads.

I am wanting to pick up a Ruger M77 really bad though...but it isnt gona happen this year

I will be using a Savage Edge .308 with 150 grain Nosler BT and A XL7 270 with 130 grain Speer BTSP

Although some other model 70's will get some playtime, my main squeeze is usually my 1957 .270 fwt.

Oh, did you trade that butt-ugly yellow abomination for a pretty rifle?

Probably my Tikka T3 Lite stainless in .270, loaded with 130 gr Accubonds.

ol' meat and taters rem 700 6.5x55 w/ 4x12 kahles shooting a 120 ttsx

Start with a Rem model 8 in 35 Rem, then a custom 338 Fed

Cool picture

Gonna try my old Win 70 264WM with 130 gr Accubonds this year.

My main squeeze for ungulates is:

Browning A-bolt II field grade in .30-06
Simmoms Aetec 3.8-12x44
Federal fusion 165 grain
SIMS limbsaver (a must for any big boy rifle)

My wife bought it for my anniversary present 2 years ago, and I bloodied it that Dec 23rd, so hopefully that pattern will continue

LH Ruger M77 with a Krieger 1-8# Twist, #2 Contour. 6.5x55 Swede. Nosler Accubond 140g at 2700 fps.

Weatherby U.L.W. 25.06

It is pretty interesting how similar some of the choices are;

My main deer rifle for Buck this year: SS Model 70 All Terrain [FW], in .30-06, 2.5-8x36 Leupy, it has iron sights and for a backup scope an old K-4 in rings.
Load is a 180 Nosler Partition or Core-Lokt or Hornadu PSP,
57 H4350, Remington cases, CCI primers.

For Doe I will likely use an Ithaca Deerslayer, likely the 12 gauge with a Scout scope and smooth bore barrel. Load is Winchester Foster Slugs.
I might use the rifled barrel and sabots if I get a chance to get the scope on it.

MCT3- That might be my favorite rifle I have seen so far on this sight...Very Classy

Assuming that I actually hunt deer this year with a rifle as opposed to a bow it will likely be this one. Weatherby Vanguard in .300 win mag with McMillan edge stock. 1000% overkill for whitetail but I got the action in a trade for basically nothing so I figured if you got it shoot it. My normal deer hunting rifles are a pair of Ruger tang safety models in .25-06 and .30-06.

I found a cheap birch stocked Marlin Model 30AW in .30-30 in my safe that I don't know how it got there last year. Looking at the stock I'm guessing it was someones who strapped it to a 4wheeler a lot. I might try it out just to say I did something with it.

I have a couple that will hunt this year, in calibers 6.5x55 and 7x57. My favorite is the 7x57 because it is the perfect blend of light recoil, range, and "thump." I already blooded my #1A but will take it out more. I've taken many deer with the 6.5x55 but will definitely take it out more. It doesn't do the damage that the 7x57 does, but every time the trigger breaks, an involuntary smile crosses my face. It is such a sweet-shooting caliber. Put one of those 140gr Hornadys in the right place and the deer lays flat like a sack o' taters. I got 06's too but the older I get, the less I apreciate the recoil, especially since the other rifles kick half as much and kill deer just as dead.

My FIL is really taken with his new 243 Marlin. I load 100gr Hornadys for him and he slays the deer. That thing is amazingly accurate. Guess he doesn't like recoil much either.

Tonight I loaded up some 308s for my wife and son. I can't keep a 308. Whenever I get one, somebody claims it. The wife took the M70 Classic Compact and the son glommed on the Kimber 84M Classic. They both slay bambi with 165gr Hot Cors over 46grs of Varget. The youth season opens tomorrow morning (this morning it is now, I guess). The son has been watching a couple fair bucks behind the house and is going out in the morning.

My oldest daughter stole my Weatherby '06. I suppose claiming dad's "nicest rifle" is her love language. Whatever works, I guess. At least she knows.

The eldest son killed his first buck with dad's Whelen. You know who's got that rifle now.

My youngest daughter is talking about hunting this year. She hates recoil so I'll let her use one of my Swedes. Good thing we're done having kids. I wouldn't have a rifle to hunt with. It's just terrible losing my rifles to my kids. Not.

A former 308 Varmint Special that now wears a Classic stock and stainless barrel.
178HPBT, 47.5grs PP2000MR, either CCIBR or WLR primers depending upon which load shoots best this morning..

Oh, It's got a 1.5-6 Sig.