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I am voting for my BSA majestic featherweight, it's light, accurate, powerful, light recoil (ported barrel), very slick and its feel right at home in my hands.

For Eastern Woods i'll take my Marlin 336 in 35 Rem.

7 Mag #1 BBZ...

Many other options but, my 1981 Remington 700 Classic, 270 Win. is always along on whitetail hunts....it has NEVER let me down

Give me a Savage lever action carbine with tang sights, in any of the calibers they came in, for hunting in the Appalachian woods that I haunt.

Pre 64 M70 270 FW (have I said that before?)....for "me".

Maybe not the "best" deer rifle out there, but I sure enjoyed carrying it last year.

Brno 204 7x57R/12 choked I/C. Perfect for a early deer season stroll with the occasional grouse in mind.

M700 clone, 6.5 Creedmor, 21", 6.75#
all up.

A Matthews MQ1 70lb draw, 65% let off slinging some Bemans with Rages! Wrong forum but nothing makes my heart pump like outsmarting a deer's nose and successfully harvesting one up close and personal.

Just messing with you guys! I've killed whitetails with a few different rifles. Don't know if it's the best or not, but definitely my most memorable rifle was a Remington 7600 pump 30-06 with a Redfield scope that I saved for and bought myself. The rifle is long gone and I couldn't begin to tell you how it grouped. But, It dropped my first deer, a 4 pointer, in bitter cold weather. It was so cold, my uncle had icicles formed in his mustache. I remember it like it was yesterday (many years ago). The deer were hunkered down in thick cutover and you had to step on them like rabbits. He came out the hole running. I took a quick offhand swing shot and took his lower jaw off. He got to his feet and I finished him off with #2 in the chest. Had to drag that deer nearly a mile to the truck...won't no atv's in them days! It was all about the kill, and that was some of the best back straps I've ever had!

I love to bow hunt but I also love to shoot anything that will go boom! I don't rifle hunt a lot anymore, but I can't wait to shoot one with my new Tikka 270 next fall. New guns make me feel like a kid again...sure some of you can relate. Most of all I have come to revere the whitetail as one of the most majestic animals on God's green earth and I cherish every minute I get in the deer woods. It's even more special nowadays because I get to share my passion and time afield with my young son. For me, that's what hunting is all about.

Sorry, I got carried away with the trip down memory lane. Please ignore me and carry on.

For where I usually hunt in the N.C. mountains, I am not sure how you can improve on a Marlin 336 in .30-30 or .35 Rem.

For open country I really like an FN made model 70 Fetherweight in .270 WSM. That thing is like a lazer. The more shoot it the more I like it.

The Swede.

I like a BAR Safari II for hunting in Alabama.

Holy resurrected threads, Batman....

my tikka 308

CZ-550 270 WCF, Leupold 6x42.

Tough to beat a 700 in 270 or 308. Plenty of gun for any whitetail but no terrible on recoil

Got a picture?

Rem 700, 308.

Wish I had a better picture of the rifle, the stock is pretty nice Turkish walnut, can't ever seem to get the grain to show up in pics...