Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Cheap rifles, inexpensive scopes, filled freezers....

Don't know, don't care. I do know the tenderloins were awesome that night. 4 minutes a side at 400 degrees. Some mushrooms and onions sauteed in butter, Texas toast and a salad = dinner.



But it was a tad over 70 yards with a Ruger SBH sporting a Leupold FX-II fixed 2x scope, flinging a 240g Hornady XTP with a stout charge of W296.

Then there are guys on this forum that their personalities are like owning a Yugo....nothing you'd be proud of and hopefully your friends won't hold against you....

But then again, you could put oversized rims with spinners on it with skinny tires and there would be someone in the ghetto who thinks it is cool...

Moral of the story.... IN Oakland there is a guy somewhere who thinks you are really COOL there Rauncho...

I can see how that might irritate.

Ad for cheep rifles and scopes, they can still be cool on the fire. My boat paddle ruger put two elk into the freeze for guys last season. A .270 even..

Stick, it was a used Rem.788(.308) with Red Field scope base and rings, Burris Full Field scope(the early ones,3x9-34?) and Speer 150 gr BT.

During the off season I shot thousands of mil. sup. FMJs through it until I could only seat bullets to fit the mag. It still shot into less than an inch.

I think he was hit by a falling grouse. But he will deny that it is him in the pic.

Reading this forum, one might get the impression that you simply cannot hunt successfully without a certain brand and model of rifle and scope.

I exclusively muzzle-loaded for deer for about 10 years. When the opportunity presented itself to rifle hunt private land, I decided that a "beater" would be a good idea. 220 bucks for a Mossberg 100-ATR (.270 even), a Weaver Grand Slam 4.75 fixed scope I had lying around, and some Warne rings that were lying around in the same box, and I went hunting.

Somehow, despite the obvious disadvantages when compared to all the "better" rifles, scopes, and calibers out there, after shooting at a dozen or so deer, it has yet to miss a deer, or require two shots on one.



How can that possibly be??? Do any of you other guys actually go and kill stuff, grill it, and eat it, without using the forum's "preferred" boutique rifle and scope combo?

Heck, reading this forum, you'd think shoot'n a deer with a pistol would be dang near impossible....