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Thanks Pat. That is an amazing rifle combination. I may have to rethink my next rifle. Any reason to choose a 139 Scenar over a 130 Berger or vice versa? I'll try not to hijack this thread, but that rifle has me just about giddy thinking about the possibilities.

only thing wrong with yer 'pretty happy' choice is the LA kimber. the 84M in 260/7-08 is where it's at.......



At least until that damn scenarshooter upped the 'pretty happy' requirement with HIS 'orgasmic-ly happy' choice. [bleep]......grin

Yup, That ^^^ would work. But Scenarshooter's 6.5 pretty much ends the discussion on an ideal Mule Deer rifle for open terrain.

Maybe if it was 2lbs lighter(and didn't cost $5k).....grin



Dandy buck Marty!

Ha! It's a badazz rifle for sure, it also costs about as much as my truck!

Nice stuff Pat! Great pic of the kiddos and the buck!

A guy would have to give up drinking beer and whiskey in order to afford one of those.

And we know that ain't gonna happen.....grin

700 action, edge stock, fluted #3 brux, smith work... You could probably put something similar together that would go 7.5-8#'s scoped for a couple grand, sans optics.

I don't know what that Tasco he's got on there goes for though

Well for a WHOLE lot less money, I pick T 3 S S Lite in 7 RM.

I'm shooting 139 H B T S P at 3300 fps from a 24" bll. My current is a Rem 700 ADL Syn. and the same loads work in several 700s.

This load and rifle has accounted for many WTs and would definitely work well on M D. The 4 legged kind that is <G>

Those German Tasco's aren't cheap!



I have a Sako 85 300WSM that might make a good donor action for a 6.5 SUAM. Ditch the factory stock and replace with an EDGE.

Never screwed around with a 'custom' before but maybe someday.

You could buy mine..

You just built it and now you sellin'!?

Looks like a pretty handy rifle.

Interesting to see what everyone's idea of "perfect" is.

Dude.. Everything is for sale. Prices just need to be agreed to.

This one has taken way more mule deer than anything else in the gun safe. so it's probably about as close to ideal as anything that I own:




Commercial FN action, Krieger barrel, Caudill stock chambered for (gasp!) .270 Winchester.

Purty!

Mudhen, beautiful rifle.

For 15 years or so, it was a Sako 270 Win in a McM stock with a Leupold 2.5x8 scope.....got a couple of paint jobs over the years & besides mule deer, it also accounted for antelope, elk & moose so it's been my real go-to rifle.

Been replaced recently with a worked over Rem 700 MR in 280 Rem with a 2.5x8 Leupold & the Sako is "retired". The Rem is over a pound & a half lighter than the Sako.

MM

A couple of the Sako's work





The current favorite.....Rem 700 MR in 280 Rem

Another great rifle! And a commercial FN for its heart and soul, (Just like mine) to boot! Totally digging that one, friend.

Huntsman22,

I have long envied your collection of fine handguns, every one of them which I have seen here so far (Or at least that I remember) being classic and classy and even an heirloom gun in some cases. WHAT evil spell befell you that your rifle wears plastic!?!?!?? You have fallen quite far from a very high pedestal I once had you on, sigh...... <G> And its not like you live in Rainy SE AK where such a handle might make a little bit of sense.

it's because I'm really a weenie-baby, and needed a lighter, easier recoiling rifle.

shhhh....


don't tell anyone and ruin my macho cowboy image, huh? thanks......

I've taken what I'd consider about a dozen really mature mule deer bucks over the decades, from Sonora to Alberta. The cartridges have run from the .257 Roberts to the .300 Winchester Magnum, but I just averaged the calibers, bullet weights and muzzle velocities of all the loads used. The result was a 7mm bullet of 150 grains at 2900 fps. Don't think I'd feel terribly handicapped using that for any mule deer hunting, anywhere.