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Depending on whether I am hunting a rifle or shotgun only area I use a T/C pro hunter with a sporter weight 250/3000 or the 20 ga
pro hunter with 20 ga hand loaded Hornady 250gr SST bullets.

Doc

.308 Ruger American stainless carbine

I've used everything from Semi-autos in 223 to Model 70s in 300WM. Revolvers from 357 to 500S&W. And everything in between. Use a 788 in 308 most when stand hunting with a rifle this past season.

Been thinking about a 500S&W barrel for my TC Encore lately...

Try unloading those 5 quietly as well. One guy I heard a story told on found a pretty easy albeit super noisy method. This was told for true by a couple of guys. TIFWIW. Seems getting down time came and the fellow in the tree didn't really want to eject the shells. Not even the one in the chamber. Shotgun didn't have a sling so he tied his pull rope in the trigger guard and somehow wrapped the long end around the barrel to keep the gun going down butt first. Only problem was somehow the barrel wrap came off, the shotgun pointed down, knot knocked the safety off and the old Browning ripped off 5 shots while bouncing up and down on the rope. Supposedly hunter learned from his error and the story tellers were cracking up about it.

The sound of racking a auto in a tight woods situation makes my teeth hurt..Pappy348 John Prine fan me to

I have several shorter rifles for treestand hunting. They are my Howa .243 Youth, Ruger M77/44, Marlin Guide Gun, and a Winchester M94.

The Howa has a very thin 20" barrel and a 2-7X33 VX2, the 77/44 has a 1-4X20 VX2, the Guide gun is equipped with a FX-II 2.5X20 Ultralight, and the M94 has a Williams receiver sight.

I'll take one of those is I know I'll be up in a tree, but I'm not against carrying them around on the ground, either. Conversely, I have several rifles that are large, and I may climb with one of those. I may decide to change my hunting method, or conditions may make the choice for me.

The terrain I typically hunt means that shots are usually short-range and in somewhat thick vegetation, so the shorter rifles are generally easier to move about with.

I haven't really seen a poor rifle for tree stands,if the stand is decent.back in the seventies when I started a stand could consist of a 2x4 in the fork in a tree.now in the age of no permanent ones allowed,stands tend to be pretty decent to be in.
I prefer a bolt action,with a 2x7x32 compact scope,and carry Leopold 10x mini binos.
Last few years we have used fish house on wheels deer stands, and the same rifle works good there.

Well, the last shot I broke from a tree stand came out of a Remington 700 ADL. It is chambered for 6mm, and has a 22 inch tube.

I also shot a couple does from a stand last fall, and used a 45 caliber Knight Muzzleloader to close the deal on those two.

This fall, barring sickness or calamity, I'll likely sit in that stand with my little Ruger American Ranch, chambered for 300 Blackout.

I mounted a Leupold VXII 2-7x on it and it loves 125 grain Nosler Ballistic Tips.

I enjoy hunting with the 30 WCF, but for some reason I really enjoy prowling around on my hind legs when I hunt with that Marlin.

TC Encore with a custom 20" .356/.358 Win, 7x57, or even 18" .357 max bbl;", is about as perfect as it gets for stand hunting in the thick, or to 250-300 yards, IMO. You can pick another poison, but the encore package is about as ideal as it gets, for tight places.

Right now my stevens 200 in 308 is one I like. Not so dear if it gets banged around a bit, plenty accurate and plenty of horsepower for any deer I might run across.

A little bolt action carbine in 7.62x39 works beautifully.

I've never shot anything with the 7.62x39mm, but I have always thought that it had a great deal going for it as far as utility.

Now the 300 Blackout comes along, with performance that seems to be the fraternal twin of the Russian, and the benefit of stupid simple brass and a .308" bore diameter.

I really didn't get horned up about the cartridge until I saw it chambered for short, light bolt guns. Then I started thinking I had to have one.

I do not regret that purchase at all, and look forward to field testing it on game. Planning to run the 125 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip for now, but I really would like to make a run at a 150 grainer that would feed from the magazine and expand a little at the lower velocity of the Blackout.

In the bad old '60s and '70s, the A5 was the hot setup in the southern Maryland woods. Slug barrels were rare, but most shot to the bead anyway.

Once, while sitting on the ground in very thick cover, I saw one of my buddies, another A5 guy, sneaking through the woods about 30 yards out. How he missed seeing me in all that orange I'll never know. Anyway, I slipped the bolt back quietly with the cutoff operated, and then released the cutoff. When that flack-whack rang out, he just about messed himself. As a Browning boy, he knew that sound and thought he was a dead man!

I've killed 8 with it thus far, and none have gone more than 40 yards. 6 of them have been DRT. Fantastic little round.

Not trying to hijack the thread, but but what kind of ammunition (bullets) are you running in your rifle? If I remember correctly, you have one of the little CZ carbines?

Remington and Federal SPs shoot to the same POI. Both wreck deer.

Interarms mini-Mauser. The precursor to the CZ.

Well, glad to hear that. Will definitely be spending time with my 300 this fall. Tide Jr claimed pig hunting rights with that rifle earlier today. Looking forward to seeing how it works out on the little bacon precursors.

I use my Weatherby Stainless Carbine, 7mm-08, 20" barrel, McMillan Sako classic, Zeiss 2.5-10x42 Diavari Victory, this boar should not have interrupted my deer hunt:

The first one I pick up as I walk out the room headed to the field. WILL

Ruger 77/44