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MI, MN and WI deer hunters...what cartridge and rifle did you hunt with last season?

Pics would be good also.

For deer season a .308, a .30-'06 and a 300 Savage. I only scored with the first two.

One with a .270, one with a 50 cal Muzzle loader.

I used a .243 Win in Win. M70 ftw w/ Leo 3-9 VX-II.

I hunt in slug zone, so this year I used a .357 magnum out of a S&W 66-6.

Rem 700 MTN rifle in 30-06 with Bansner stock and 2.5x8 Leupold scope accounted for three in MN last Nov.

.30 WCF in a 1965 Win. M94 with Williams Foolproof.

Two deer with a .270 Win this year.

It is an inexpensive rifle topped with a Weaver Grand Slam 4.75x fixed power scope.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record. My Knight KP1.

300 Remington ultramag in a first gen sendaro.

custom 700 rem. 7wsm, 24" pac-nor etc etc.

Our farm has some big CRP fields, 60-80 acres. I get shots out to 650-700 regularly.

I am sort of disappointed not hearing from a lot of hunters packing the old traditional deer cartridges in my survey. 30-30, 32 Special, 300 Savage, 35 Rem to name a few.

Businesses that sell ammo I have talked to throughout Wisconsin tell me 30-30 sales remain strong.

Well if it helps ya any I did carry my .35Rem in 760 as well. I don't have any pictures of it though.

My season was abbreviated by a Thanksgiving trip out of state. I wounded a deer with the Redhawk and finished it off with a Marlin 336 in .35 Remington that my buddy was carrying. When I did get to hunt I used the following-

.44 Mag Redhawk.



And my Model 7 CDL in 7-08.

I used all of those bear hunting last fall. I had bad wind most of the season. My one good chance I blew while using a 760 in 35 Remington from 1955 with a Willaiam FP(.150" aperature) and 3/32" white bead. The rifle has never been drilled and tapped, so it was silly cheap.

I use my two 30-30 Marlin rifles as well, but this year I was using the .270.

I have one of those 16.5" barrel stainless, laminate LTD model 336's that is heaven walking through the brush.

7mm-08 Browning A-bolt micro LH
308 Savage 99c

but I didn't fire either one

sometimes I carry my grandpa's old 742 in 30-06 (no see-throughs, though)

here in Michigan I used 2 303 savage 99 rifles and a 250 savage 99, took a large doe with a 303 1899 "B"

I carried a Savage Model 99EG in .300 with WFP peep sight back and forth to my blind, where a Rem 700 .270 was kept all season.

During ML season I carried a Ruger Old Army revolver back and forth and kept a Knight Disk Rifle in the blind.

I could have saved myself the trouble with all of them; didn't fire a shot...

MI Hunter Nosler TGR.325WSM 2011 Winchester 70 Super Grade.300 Win Mag in 2010, GAP built Rem 700.308 in 2009

I have a 30 30 and a 35 rem. I'd use em if they let me.