Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles If Jack O'Connor was rifle shopping today...

Beating $20 you didn't wear jeans up an Alaskan goat mountain, but then why would folks use second tier [bleep].

He might try all kinds of things,but this is what he would hunt with.....and since they are still around,he'd have Al and Roger Biesen remodel the FW to his specs.

He would do this because he used such rifles and the 270 Winchester successfully on several continents; on African plains game,moose,elk, grizzly,sheep (how many Grand Slams?)

He'd write about all the new cartridges (just the same way he wrote up the 7mm Rem Mag,300Win Mag,300 Weatherby, 338, etc),and might hunt with some of them.But I think he'd stay pretty close to time proven classics like the 270, 280,7x57,and 30/06.

..."I am an old man and most of my big game hunting is behind me, but often I am tempted to order a Ruger barreled action in some such caliber as .25/06, .270 or 7mm Magnum, have Al Biesen or Jerry Fisher stock it in good French walnut, and then dash off into the wild blue yonder and knock off a ram or grizzly."

To be honest, i doubt he'd be spending much time getting excited over the rifles. He would comment they were generally significantly more accurate. What would really be getting him excited would be the advances in bullets and optics.

I highly doubt that...He'd probaly whip out some pics from his photobucket acct showing how good his pre 64 model 70's shoot with good ol bullets like the nosler partition and make guys like you who have no clue stop and think about what you just said:

Hey BSA .....you missed the orange dot..........thats no good my friend..........Haha!!

Gus

What would he buy? Caliber? optics?

Im going to say A Kimber 84 select. 338Federal. 2.5-8x36 VX3 in talleys. Turner sadlle sling and 210's zero'd for 150.

Some may think we have it better, however I would give up the supposedly better rifles of today for the hunting he had.

30plus day trips into the back country for multiple animals. Moose, Sheep, Bear, Mt. Goats, Deer and more of them than most today can imagine. 30in Mule Deer were commonplace back in the 50s and early 60s. No complicated and restrictive drawing for tags. Private landowners that mostly welcomed one to hunt.

I'd trade that for any rifle, bullet and scope made today. Jack was right were he should of been. Doubt if he would trade it for what we have today.

Maybe we can convert him to the 7x57...........................

Gus