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Any special rifles you folks like to use when hunting out of tree stands? My go to is a t/c g2 30-30 23in barrel,boyds thumb hole stock.I like the easy quiet loading and unloading for pulling the rifle up the tree and for lowering it on a rope.The thumb-hole stock puts my arms in a good position to rest on my knees when sitting and the light recoil of the 30-30 does not knock my ass out of tree.

Remington LTR 308 with 155 scenars over Varget=DRT

Ruger M77 Tanger. 22 inch barrel , 3006.

Win 70, 6.5x55 swede, same as when not in a stand

Featherweight 'o6

last fall, packed around a 22" T/C Custom Shop .445 SuperMag with a 1.75-6x while in the woods...for slightly more open areas, i swapped the .445 barrel to a MGM custom .25x30/30 Ackley Improved with a 3x9 Monarch.

My favorite stand rifle is a Ruger #1 in 7x57 - has a 22" barrel, but the overall length makes it so easy to handle in tight quarters. Topped with a 2.5-8 Leupold or 3-9 Zeiss it has been a great combo for me.


Phil

270 FW......generally that is.

Ain't used it in a couple seasons but the Frontier .358 w Leupold UL 2.5x HD is nearly perfect in my swamp...

Depends on the tree, the stand, the terrain and the weather. I've personally found the perfect rifle to be somewhere between a .44 Ruger carbine and a .270 Weatherby Magnum.

Rem Mdl 600 - 35rem.


DMc

T/C Encore .260 Rem. with a 24" barrel is my favorite.

I tend to like a light rifle for all hunting......including tree stand

When I hunt out of a tree stand it is a buddy stand designed to hold two hunters and I like a rifle with at least the Length of a Bolt rifle with 22 inch barrel(Long action) as that way I can have the buttstock resting on one end of the railing and the muzzle end resting on the other end.

Depends on which stand i hunt from, 308 bolt Most of the time or AR in 6.8 SPC

+1

Marlin .30-30 or an H&R Handi Rifle

Highly modified Ruger #3 in 6.5X55. 24 inch Pac Nor 8 twist, Kepplinger set trigger, VX3 2.5X8, etc.

You're about the first person I've heard mention the noise element. You go to all the trouble to sneak in and climb in your stand in the dark, and then make a bunch of racket trying to get your gun loaded.

Falling blocks are probably the quietest and repeating shotguns the worst. Try stuffing five slugs into an old Browning A5 silently some time.

Let's see it.


DMc