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Remington 700 FS in 7mm Rem mag
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Ruger 77 Tang .338 WM, Simmons Variable, 210 NPT Handload. Killed a Raghorn I followed around the mountain, not realizing a massive 6x6 was behind big pine in same meadow.
That was a few weeks before Bush 1 got elected and I ain't been since. Sold the .338 after we had our third child in '94 because wife wasn't working.
Goin first rifle in CO this year with Tickler .260 CTR wearing Leupold Mk 4 LRT 3.5-10x40 m1 and 123 AMAX loads Because can't find Scenar.
�When in doubt, I whip it out.� Uncle Ted
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Winchester model 70 in 30.06. Got a nice fat cow for my first elk. That was 35 years ago. I still have that rifle and it gets me an elk or 2 almost every year.
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The only rife I owned at the time. It was a Savage Model 1899 with open sights in 30-30 caliber shooting 150 gr. Winchester Silvertips. It was in 1965 and I was 16. It was handed down to me from my Dad who received it from my Grandfather. I killed my first elk with the gun that year. A few years later I purchased another Savage lever gun in 308. My son now has the 30-30 and the 308. He killed his first deer with the 30-30, but used the 308 on his first elk.
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A model 8 Remington chambered in the 35 Remington with a Lyman peep shooting 200 grain Winchester Western Silvertips in 1959.
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A model 8 Remington chambered in the 35 Remington with a Lyman peep shooting 200 grain Winchester Western Silvertips in 1959. Now that was classy!!!!
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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Model 71 Winchester, iron sights, factory 250gr Silver tips. 1959, in the Slough creek area, pretty far south of Big Timber. Was loaned to me by another guy who'd hunted that area a few years earlier.
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Marlin 336 in 35 remington when I was ten. 200gr Silvertips and a Bushnell 3-9 in seethroughs. Scope promptly fogged solid the first morning of season so I removed it and used the irons.
260 Rem Model 7 with 140 GrandSlam Nitrex factory loads, M8 4x up top was next when I was about 13. Burned all 12 rounds I was carrying without cutting a hair as a big cow stood and looked at me. I think I might have been excited.
Got a sporterized 03 in 30/06 when I was 15 and managed to knock my first bull down with a single 180 X bullet I'd handloaded. I was 19 at the time.
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I had a hand-me-down Savage .270 for years. The I bought a Browning .270 when I got out of the Army and used it for years too. Always seemed enough.
Now I primarily hunt with a .308.
THE CHAIR IS AGAINST THE WALL. The Tikka T3 in .308 Winchester is the Glock 19 of the rifle world. The website is up and running!www.lostriverammocompany.com
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for my first elk hunt. I borrowed my Dad's 30-06. It was a sporterized 1909 argentine mauser with a late 70s weaver 4-12 scope. I didn't kill an elk on that hunt. By the next year, I had my own rifle: post 64 Win 70 7mm Rem Mag topped with a 2.5- 8 vari-X III. Hunted exactly 25 minutes on opening morning and killed the smallest yearling in the herd. I think I took a little over 100# of meat and bone to the processor. Still some of the best elk I ever ate!
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I was stationed at NAS Whidbey WA and in 92 bought a used Win Model 70 Super Grade in .338 Win mag (one of the 1991 built on the P64 tools) from Kesselrings for $700. Spent the summer playing with bullets and loads and ended up liking the 225 Gr original Barnes X. I hunted Bethel Ridge with another Aviator out of a rented Scamp camper from the base MWR and apparently everyone else did too! There was actually a guy shot on the ridge and killed but it came out it was a paid hit from his wife the next year. I bailed out of that zoo and hunted further south blackpowder towards Yakima the next couple times with a .50 Hawken I built from a Cabelas Kit. I did see some Elk but it was a spike only area and never saw one. I've lived and learned and for my 2016 hunt I'm taking a 1949 Win Model 70 Super Grade in .300 H&H. I figure I'll never need anything more for any hunting the rest of my life.
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On my first elk I was 22 and used a Winchester model 70 Supergrade in 300 Win Mag pushing a 200 gr Sierra Gameking. Funny story to go with that rifle too. When I was 20 I was engaged to a girl that I had been dating for 2 years and things were going great at first. Then after a couple of months she started becoming more and more controlling and gripping and complaining every time I would go do something like going shooting with my dad or just going and hanging out with my friends. So after about 3 months enough was enough and I ended that relationship and took the ring back and 3 days later took it and traded it for the Supergrade. Best decision I ever made!!
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Ruger m77 in .280 with Federal 150 Nosler Partitions
"For some unfortunates, poisoned by city sidewalks ... the horn of the hunter never winds at all" Robert Ruark, The Horn of the Hunter
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On my first elk I was 22 and used a Winchester model 70 Supergrade in 300 Win Mag pushing a 200 gr Sierra Gameking. Funny story to go with that rifle too. When I was 20 I was engaged to a girl that I had been dating for 2 years and things were going great at first. Then after a couple of months she started becoming more and more controlling and gripping and complaining every time I would go do something like going shooting with my dad or just going and hanging out with my friends. So after about 3 months enough was enough and I ended that relationship and took the ring back and 3 days later took it and traded it for the Supergrade. Best decision I ever made!! Welcome! Sounds like you will fit right in around here.
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Thanks! Been lurking around here for a while but finally registered so I could get in on the fun.
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On my first elk I was 22 and used a Winchester model 70 Supergrade in 300 Win Mag pushing a 200 gr Sierra Gameking. Funny story to go with that rifle too. When I was 20 I was engaged to a girl that I had been dating for 2 years and things were going great at first. Then after a couple of months she started becoming more and more controlling and gripping and complaining every time I would go do something like going shooting with my dad or just going and hanging out with my friends. So after about 3 months enough was enough and I ended that relationship and took the ring back and 3 days later took it and traded it for the Supergrade. Best decision I ever made!! Good trade.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome of the vote.
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Still remember it like yesterday even though this season will mark 25 years for me.
Rifle was a Ruger boat paddle .270 Win with a Leupold vari-xII 3-9. It was my first rifle and i bought it with lawn mowing money about 1 month before deer opener.
I shot my first buck on the second day of season with a 130 Balistic Tip. Well i shot him with 5 actually, all behind the shoulder landing in about a 3" area. Only about 1/2 of 1 bullet penetrated the lungs and was found mid heart. That bullet chunk weighed 58grs IIRC. Last Ballistic Tip i ever shot aside from varmint rounds.
3 weeks later i shot a nice 5x5 bull on opening day with a 140 Partition.
That rifle with the NP's accounted for several more deer and elk before i traded it off on a custom 700 in .264WM
These days its eithery 338 RUM or if hiking a long ways my Montana in 300WSM.
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Dads Ruger M77, 180 Gr PSP core lokt, redfield 3-9. He still has it. almost 20 years later, I use 06 .
All of them do something better than the 30-06, but none of them do everything as well.
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I just came full circle tonight. I started elk/muley/bear hunting at 12 years old with a 30-30. I just traded my muzzleloader for a 30-30. So, i'm back to my roots with a gun most say is too weak to kill anything bigger than a whitetail. It will go well with my red and black plaid wool clothing with my pants tucked inside my boots. Life is good.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome of the vote.
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Remington 700 BDL in 7mm Mag shooting 175gr Nosler Partitions. Took a 5X5 elk and a Mulie with a 36 inch spread. Heck of a hunt.
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