Something similar to this but probably with a scope somewhere in the 2-7 range.
Larry *********** "Speed is fine but accuracy is final" - Bill Jordan "We do not exaggerate when we state positively that the remodelled Springfield is the best and most suitable "all 'round" rifle".......Seymour Griffin, GRIFFIN & HOWE, Inc.
I started my hunting career in 1956 with a Rem.721 in 30.06, it's long gone now. In the meantime I've used a bunch of different cartridges and they all worked. I have a rifle in the works now, a pre-64 Winchester, Hart#3 barrel, McMillan stock and a Leupold 6xLR. I plan to finish my hunting career with the the cartridge I started with. If all goes well, I use it on an antelope, a buck mule deer and a bull elk this coming fall.
I hope we are talking game rifles. I would still NEED, a bunch of .22s and a Bee or Hornet.
It's in the safe. An early post war commercial FN, .30-06, 24" barrel, tight grain custom English style stock with short forearm and a Neidner butt plate, wearing a 2.5-8 Leupold in Kimber of Oregon detachable mounts, and a Browning leather cobra carry strap let out just enough for a hasty sling. Oh yes fine line, and oak leaf bordered checkering.
If you are going to make me sell all the others, I will change the scope to a Zeiss Conquest HD5 2-10x42, and have a few scrolls of engraving put on the action and rings. Maybe just the rings to keep the rust blue intact. It has a front post and I have a NIB vintage Lyman receiver for a back up.
Truthfully, a small ring Browning Safari .243 or a like .308 both sitting near the above would also work from here on out. Likely the .243. One of the daughters wants the .308. She will get it whenever I decide......
Jack
"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people...who have...rejoiced in their loss of freedom....Blame the people who hail him when he speaks of the 'new, wonderful, good, society'...to mean ,..living fatly at the expense of the industrious." Cicero
If you mean now, like everything lost in a fire, it would be a LH Tikka .243 with a Leupold 6x36 in Tikka mounts but with better screws.
If you mean go back in time and start again, being lefthanded, I'd give great thought to a Remington 760 in .30-06 with a Leupold M8 6x36 if they made them 40 years ago, otherwise it would be an M8 4X. Probably use Weaver mounts.
i was feeling sorry for all the disatvantaged people i.e. the right hand bolts, and you made me feel better. I have a 760 carbine in 30.06 with a redfield on it, lupy's little brother, and i think in reality it would do just about anything you would want done, properly loaded.
This my do everything rifle. 1941 Winchester Model 70, original 30/06 barrel rechambered to .300 Winchester Magnum, reworked and restocked in Australian walnut by Al and Roger Biesen. It now wears a fixed 6x36 Leupold, holds zero perfectly with 180 grain Nosler Partitions over 72 grains/IMR 4350 (Winchester brass) for 3012 fps and MOA accuracy. Weighs 8# 10 oz., feels lighter.
I expect a 30/06 would suit me just as well, but this is the rifle with which I have a hot love affair that happens to be a .300.
tough to one rifle but for me 7mm stw and ahve to load to game MRC left hand action 26" barrel #4 contour 1 in 9.5 twist in stainless mcmillian stock luepy qrw rings current scope which has been acceptable is nikon 4x16
One of my gone but not forgotten New Haven Model 70 stainless short actions. Chambered in .308(or possibly 260). Talley lightweights. 2.5x8 Leupold. In a Bansner "pounder". Or the factory 270 I already have lol
Now this is my idea of a working rifle. When you want to sell it contact me please!
Great picture too...
Originally Posted by ruger438
Well I was thinking those parameters when I bought this rifle, I was looking for a 7mm-08 but when it came time to plunk the money down I changed my mind and went with this 308. Not sure why I went 308 over 7mm-08 but don't regret it. It wears a m8 4x in weavers. Only thing I would add is sights.
This my do everything rifle. 1941 Winchester Model 70, original 30/06 barrel rechambered to .300 Winchester Magnum, reworked and restocked in Australian walnut by Al and Roger Biesen. It now wears a fixed 6x36 Leupold, holds zero perfectly with 180 grain Nosler Partitions over 72 grains/IMR 4350 (Winchester brass) for 3012 fps and MOA accuracy. Weighs 8# 10 oz., feels lighter.
I expect a 30/06 would suit me just as well, but this is the rifle with which I have a hot love affair that happens to be a .300.
That is breathtaking!
I'd want my "one rifle" to be a show-stopper like that: if I only get one, it might was well be a beauty. Chambered in something that burns 40-odd grains of powder, I could easily take any NA game short of big bears, and look fine doing it.
4x32 Conquest for me, please.
FC
"Every day is a holiday, and every meal is a banquet."
Actually, I already have this one, with a Bansner stock, which tips the scales at 7 3/4 lb. all up, crazy accurate with a number of bullets and powders. The only thing I would change, if there were a next go-around, would be to use the Edge stock instead of the Bansner.
I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave....
I told my son to study calibers for game that he waned to hunt. He asked if I would just recommend one to him.
"If you want every excuse to get another rifle to be gone forever, get a .308" was my response.
He spent much time and energy handling rifles from all major manufacturers, and promptly fell in love with a left-handed SS Tikka T3 Lite in .308. I can't disagree with his decision! It wears a 3-9x40 Burris, its got a butter-smooth action and is accurate beyond belief.
"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry." - Thomas Jefferson
One of my gone but not forgotten New Haven Model 70 stainless short actions. Chambered in .308(or possibly 260). Talley lightweights. 2.5x8 Leupold. In a Bansner "pounder". Or the factory 270 I already have lol
What more could a guy need? Well it would be better with a scope on it
Originally Posted by raybass
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style.
Originally Posted by Pharmseller
You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole.