Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles What's your main deer rifle this year ?

This year it is the 16" barrel stainless Marlin 336 carbine with a 1.5-4x scope on top......

.......Or the .270 with a fixed 4x.......

.......Or the Ruger Super Blackhawk 44 mag......

We'll see after my last few range sessions before the season starts.

Ruger M77 in .275 Rigby for the most part same as last year. Also, my Weatherby Back Country .30-06.

Last 5 out of 6 deer,

Sako A7 300WSM, 180 Partition, 6x42 LR.
Great deer rifle.

Mine is custom lwt 8 twist 243ai, with 105 Scenars. Pac Nor barrel, McM Edge Mr stock. 6x42 with Target Turrets.

That is way beyond my level of loony!
But someday I would like to get a custom barrel and stock.



Thinking real hard about a 25-06 or 270 in a Kimber 84L, that would be sweet.

280AI kimber MT would be sweet!!!

as for deer rifles... i'm going to hunt with these all at least once this year... some i already have...

243 rem 700 ADL in a classic stock 6x42 M1's


223AI PacNor 1-8 lupy 3-9 target turrets.


rem Ti 7-08


Howa 264WM


Howa 22-250AI


Howa 223AI


Rem 700 338 Ultra
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Rem 700 adl 7MM in a mtn rifle take off with Ultra mag bottom metal.
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there are more but i just don't feel like taking pictures to post up..

Save your money.. you're doing just fine. (grin)

Yeah, no kidding!

My .358 M7 is perfecto for how/where/what I hunt. It'll almost certainly do the deed again this year.

Mine will be my new tang safety M77 .308win. Picked her up this summer nib from 1982 and found an 80s vintage bushnell 4x to go on top.

Win 94AE Big Bore in .356. Not the first choice for most mulie hunters in WY, but I love this gun!

Model 7 stainless/synthetic in 300 SAUM
Model 700 XCR II in 300 RUM
Model 7 predator in 243 Win.
Model 700 XCR II in 338 Win mag

In no particular order

Kimber 8400 Classic 300 Win Mag, Swaro 4x12x50 w/#4 Ret, 180 AB's...primary

Sako 85 Stnlss 300 WSM, Zeiss 3x10x50, 180 Barnes TTSX...on deck
Remington 700 LSS 7 RUM, 3.5x10x50 VXIII, 150 TSX...on deck
Ruger #1 BBZ 7 Rem Mag, 3x10x40 VX III w/offset rings, 140 TTSX..on deck

Son just came over & picked up my most accurate as his primary..Sako 75 Finnlight 270 WSM, 3x9x40 Zeiss, 140 AB's

Rifle deer begins in 13 days...good hunting to all.

Marlin 336 in .35 Remington w/1.5-5 Leupold
Savage 99A Saddle Gun in .308 w/1.5-5 Leupold
Remington 141 in .35 Remington w/1.5-5 Leupold
Marlin 1895G in .45-70 w/1-4 Leupold
And when I leave the Big Woods for the farm country where longer shots are possible:
Winchester M-70 Featherweight classic in .30-06 w/2.5-8 Leupold
Remington M-600 in .308 w/ 2-7 Nikon Monarch
Remington M-600 Mohawk in .243 w/ 2-7 Redfield Revolution
Ruger M-77 in .358Win. w/2-7 Leupold
Remington M-7 in .300RSAUM w/2-7 Leupold
Trying to pick one favorite is impossible for me, they will all see duty this year, although the Marlin 336 in .35 will see the most use in the woods, and the Winchester Featherweight in .30-06 will be with me if I think there may be a chance at a real long shot(it's so accurate with the first two shots out of a cold barrel it's scary).

I will only get to make one trip this year where I will be hunting a buck myself. I will be shooting my Ruger M77 SS in 338Fed that I fitted to a Ruger Ultra light stock, topped w/ a Bushnell 6500 2.5-16x40 w/ DOA reticle, shooting 160TTSX over 51gr of AA2230 at ~3030fps:



The rest of the time I will be with my son at our lease. He is 16 and never taken a really nice buck. He has been hunting with me off & on since he was 7, now he's 16. It's only been in the last 2 years that he's gotten serious. We hunted hard all last year, but he never saw a deer he liked. While I certainly expect to have a chance to see a nice deer, I can't bring myself to shoot any bucks until he gets his (feels like I would be shooting his deer...).

When I go out on these trips I'm packing my Benelli R1 carbine in 30-06 topped w/ a Trijicon 2.5-10x56. I restrict myself to thinning our severly over abundant feral hog & coyote populations:



David

I'll shoot three, but the little .243 w/85gr TSX's will probably see the most action.