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Whats your favorite rifle to carry for PA deer season? Right now it's my Remington model 700 BDL stainless in 300 RUM wearing a Leupold VX III 4.5-14x40mm with 180 grain Nosler Accubonds,next year I hope to have a Remington mountain rifle ss or a Remington model seven stainless either will be a 308 Win.and wear a Leupold VX I 3-9x40mm and be using 165 grain Accubonds.

I have hunted Pa. quite a bit since I retired in 1999.. Have used various rifles there, starting with my old .30-06, a 7mm Wea., 270, .25-06, and a couple .300's. I have found several stands where I can watch old strip mines, and often get a long shot opening day, or on the Saturdays.. For this spot I use one of the .300's, but the .270 and .25-06 have taken a couple also..
For more traditional hunting I have a 7mm-08 with a fairly stiff barrel cut to 21".. I killed my last couple whitetails in Pa. with it.. It is doubtful I make the trip in the future, as the camp is being sold.. Fun while it lasted..

300 RUM sounds about perfect. I'd pass on the 308, not worth messing with those pipsqueak rounds.

Yeah, kills em twice as big as a .30-30 as well.

What? I thought everyone there used Remington 760s in '06 loaded with 180gr Core-Lokts.

Remington 700 Classic, 270 Win....

t, I often visit a huge gunshop in central Pa. when I am in that area.. I would say the Remington pump rifles are found in the greatest number on the used gun racks.. 06 is number one, but .270's follow a close second.. If I were living in that place I would have a Remington slide action in my safe.. Fortunately, I do not live there..

I have enjoyed hunting in PA over the years and done well. The old timer who had the farm where we stayed shot a Winchester M71 348 Win!

He used to say "When I fire a shot they know it's my 348!"

Now that I have made it to senior status I am concerned about getting hurt from the recoil of the cannons we have.

I just sold a 375 HH and am even complaining about the recoil from a 300 Win M.

Can't wait for the snow to melt so I can get out.

T/C Encore in .260 Rem., Savage 110 in .243, or Savage in .260.

99, An uncle of mine had a 71 in .348, I really wanted it, but he gave it to his son in law.. he sold if for beer..

I have a bunch of friends in Pa. they favored the Model 70 in .270.. The old 06 was the goal of most Pa. hunters I visited with.. When the 99 hit the market in .284, I had a bunch of relatives that bought that rifle.. I suppose 6 to 10 went for that one..

I if had to pick a rifle to hunt your state it would be the same one i use here a light weight 308 or 7x57 Model 700 Rem

Grice gun shop ? Been there a few times.

https://www.gricegunshop.com/index.php

Clearfield PA is over 300 miles from Western CT.

When the first Cabelas opened in Hamburg PA we went down to it and stayed overnight.

Now there is a Cabelas near us, only a half hour away.

I carried a PA Machine Gun for years, 308 win with 150 gr PMC soft points. (IIRC, they were Sierra GK's) Lots of deer fell to that rifle...I still have it. I am in the process of rejuvenating it a bit. Going to get a new set of Boyd's furniture. It will also get a Leupold VX-1 with the Heavy duplex (or maybe a German #1, just because...)

Most of my kin carries Lever guns and slides, varying chambering from 222 Rem (thats a bolt) 243 Win, 30-30, 308, 30-06 and *shudder* 270 Win.

My last deer in PA was killed with the rifle in my sig line. It's a 6.5x47 Lapua, had to use it since it was a new build...

284, indeed it was Grice's..

my 7600 carbine 35 whelen with a 2-7x32 elite on talley lows is about perfect. its known as The Meatmaster.

A Savage Model 99 R in 300 Sav or a Model F in 308W.

I'd carry the same old Win. 94 .30-30 I've killed shyt tons of deer with in NY. Pretty sure it'd kill Pa. deer just as dead.

I wonder how many bar fights have started in PA when discussing 30-30 WIN VS 35 REM.

Savage 99 in 358 or Ruger 77 in 270 are the main choices, sometimes a 94 Win in 32 Spl.

30-30 vs 35 Rem? Except for me and a couple of handgunners, I can't think of anybody I've ever hunted with that carries anything bigger than a 30 caliber. 243, 6mm Rem, 270, 300 Sav, 30-30, 30-06, and 308 are about it.

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