Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats Safe queens and now range kings

Perhaps we should add a new classification called "range kings". These are the long barreled, muzzle braked, tacticool, type rifles that have gigantic optics with dials and levels and charts. Most weigh at least 10 pounds, have ten shot clips, and barrels 26-30" long. I can't imagine packing one for hunting in rough country but that is just me. What say you all?

Belly guns.

Why not just call them long range rifles?

I guess I'm the odd man out yet again. I call all my rifles, rifles. My shotguns are called shotguns.

Weird shiet I guess.

Never understood calling them anything else. The pet names like ol' girl, she and stuff is just kinda weird to me.

No range kings or safe queens! They are just our guns.

I sold a Browning 7mm RM a few years ago as it was just too heavy to carry around. It was one of those with the gloss stock and a FN action. Now I find myself not going that far from the car and the heavy rifles are good or ok.

Then I saw a Browning 7mm RM in a gunshop here. The stock is scarred up and the price is about $1095 or so! It's not nice enough to bother with but now I regret selling mine!

The few who actually pack their range kings/belly guns into the hills often do so via an Eberlestock pack or similar, instead of in the hands where the rifle belongs. So if they jump the buck of a lifetime out of his bed at 50 yards, he is long gone before the rifle is exhumed from it's storage device.

You can do that!

pg: We have to remember that jumping bucks and killing them on the run is as politically incorrect today as zeroing to point blank range

They're a tool, just like everything else. You guys can mind-[bleep] it however you please, I suppose...

I named my penis.....was that wrong?



P.S. He said it's MR. Pecker, to you.

Sure they are just a tool. A very specialized one. I own one of these rifles, and don't delude myself into thinking it's actually useful for practical hunting matters. It's for fun.

It's sort of like the guys who drive around the lifted diesel crew cab pickups blowing smoke over everyone and everything. Sure they are useful (for something, I guess. Maybe pulling a trailer 87 mph over the Continental Divide). But they often don't get around worth a [bleep] in the hills, rarely see dirt, overpower their drivetrains and scatter parts all over the road. Specialized toys. For fun. Also, if one is going to drive and flaunt such a vehicle, they had better be prepared for some ridicule. Same with flaunting one's wares on the Internet.

Lotta folks out there that ain' t got a broad view and have too much time on their hands to worry about chit like this.

As far as the diesels... pull a parachute once with a gas burner. Called and airboat with drag like you won't imagine, or our RV.

F350 4 door has seen quite a bit off road and down more than a few dead end jeep trails to wilderness areas. ITs that or take 2 vehicles and 2 trailers of stuff....

The ALL have their uses.

iv'e killed a lot of game with big heavy guns. And quite a bit of it on foot, not in blinds over feeders.

It all depends on what you want to do and how to do it.

I'd like to have thougth we were all hutners, but more and more its if you don't do it my way you are a [bleep]...

Funny. I just knew the jacked-up diesel comment would piss off a Texan.

I see more critters with my rifle in the Eberlestock... because my hands are running the glasses.... like they should. I don't need to shoot 'jumped' stuff... cause I saw it 200 yards ago ....

To each their own Frenchie.... kinda painting yourself in a corner here with your provincialism....

I have a lot of rifles that are not safe queens nor range kings.
They are one night stands.
I buy them.
I modify them.
They go to the range once or kill one animal and then retire.

The above pics are:
1) a 100 year old Win 94 25-20 got a pistol scope clamped on and shot small groups with one trip to the range.
2) An H&R 16 ga got a 50 cal wildcat rifle front end built and killed a coon with a body shot.
3) A 1917 Sav 99 takedown 250-3000 got scoped and got a 6mmBR barrel and shot small groups.


one night stands

Ahhh.

You must not do much actual hunting, or done mostly specialized hunting. I get it.

Jumping game at close range is simply a part of the hunt if one hunts a variety of terrain, whether planned for or not. It�s just something that happens to all of us sooner or later, even in rather open country. Come around a corner or edge over a hill and there it is.

So you can't take it out of the Eb'stock and carry it when the situation dictates a rifle at port arms? Why is every guy with a rangefinder .... or long range skills... or Eberlestock... or a GPS... completely unprepared in your mind?

How come every situation is absolute to you Frenchie?

I killed a blacktail inside 40 yards last year.... the gun was in the Eb'stock all day... somehow, I managed to have rifle in my hands at the right time. It was a f'n miracle I guess....

What is actual hunting?

Tanner

Tanner, You are too young to go all philosophical on us!