I’m taking these to the lease to check this week. Gonna load up if it slacks off the rain long enough.

savage 99- 284
savage 99- 375
Custom 33/40- 30-06
Custom 25-06
Kimber BGR-280
Savage-6.5 Crudmoor
Savage 308

6mm creed. Tikka t3x

This early and late season MZ
TC Thunderhawk, 50


This for rifle
Ruger Boat Paddle .243

My season is over. A custom .45 caliber SML.

TC encore 50 in a few weeks


Featherweight xtr 270 after that

This is our first full year of legal rifle season here... I'll be missing the old slug gun about as much as a toothache.

My primary in the stand will be the CVA Scout in 300 Blackout. The foul weather backup and just in the off chance I ground hunt this year will the the BB94 in 375 Win. For ML season it's just a CVA Wolf, which is only ML I own now.

I've got a running list in my phone of all the rifles to sight-in after scope swaps, as well as those I need to simply check zero on. There's likely a dozen or more rifles I'll take after whitetails this season, as our season is about three months long. I picked up a new 350 Legend for our Primitive Weapons season, so I'm going to try that one out a fair bit. Also have a new-to-me Ruger 77/44 that I want to get bloody, as well as a .257wby I've yet to fire in anger.

I envy you guys with that much time. Rifle is 7 days here, and ML is 3.

Just for starters

It’s too late, but had it happened, it would have been my usual rifle or my S&W 460 XVR! memtb

AR in 6.8 SPC

700 BDL in 6mm Remington.

700 from Remimgton Custom Shop in 7-08.

TC Hawken, Green Mountain barrel .54 with PRB.

Savage - 25-06

Steyr - 270

If I go, it will be significantly older than me and probably in a cartridge few, if any, are familiar with.

I am keeping it simple this year.

2nd year production Win Model 70 in .270 Win with a Lyman Alaskan 4x Permacenter Scope from the 60’s.

The Marlin 336...35 Rem.
JES rebarelled 358 win Rem 700.
M7 SS 7-08
and a plethora of 243's.

I am turning into a 35 cal ho... I guess theres worse thing to be...

Since the weather was fair, for our opener last weekend, took some old iron out !





Once it turns for chit, SS TC prohunter, in .25-06

Definitely a rifle.
Most likely 30-30 for walking. 30-06 for sitting.

Season is over now. Grandson zapped this whitetail (youth hunt,) with a 64gr winchester power point (discontinued) from an 18" Ruger MPR. MV = 2800fps.
Next year he'll use Speer 70gr SP running a little slower.

With both shoulders having been replaced this year, the right between Christmas and NY and the left the last of June, I really don't know yet. It will be either the 6.5 Grendel, .243 Forester, or 7x57 Win FW. Will know in the next couple weeks when I try to shoot them. I do have loads worked up for them from before.
Have a great day.
Jim

Model 7 308 will be pulled for schits and giggles at some point

Since MS went to rifle season , all season on private lands.. i haven't hunted with my encore 35 wheeler..

Prolly hunt with my 6.5prc. Got another suppressor ( of course, got it right after last years season ended).

It changes like the weather for me….

But the rifles I’ve verified zero for/worked up a new load for are:
Rem 700 mt rifle in 30/06 w/ 150BT’s
Kimber Montana 7/08 w/ 120TTSX
Marlin 375 lever with 220 hornady
Marlin 336 30-30 w/ 160FTX
Henry single shot 44 mag w 240xtp’s if I get to go to Illinois
TC contender in 30 Herret shooting 120SST

Colt 30-06 and Winchester 30-30
I guess I should add crossbow and flintlock

New to me Kimber Hunter in .257 Robert's and Kimber Montana. 300WSM. Redhawks in .357, .41, .44, and .45LC. Flintlock for early and late MZ

I'll use a crossbow once it gets cold, a tc omega 50cal ml in about 10 days, then either a 270win or a 308win.

I'll use a crossbow once it gets cold, a tc omega 50cal ml in about 10 days, then either a 270win or a 308win.

Nula .260
Blaser R8 .308
Rifles Inc,Strata 6.5 PRC

May mess around with a 6 Creed some too

On the Mn.homestead pre 64 M70 .270
Elsewhere in Mn. pre 64 M70 MCM/7x57
MT likely pre 64 M70 MCM 6.5CM

M12 308 Win. or M600 35 Rem

My Dad's 16ga 870. Hasn't fired a slug in 40 years

My Ruger Hawkeye RSI 308 or my Tikka T3x Lite 308 if it's wet. I changed the scope on the Tikka. It has a Burris Signature Safari 1.75x5 now.

Mauser M18 6.5prc w/meopta meostar R1 7x56 illuminated.........an addictive combo for hunting over fields and sitting late.

Other distance options:

Tikka T3 lite 3006
Win M70 extreme sporter 300 wsm
TC Icon weathershield 3006

Woods options:

TC Icon 308
Weatherby vanguard heavy barrel 308
Howa 20" heavy barrel 308

Let's see........


I try to spend as much time as possible between the opening and closing of rifle season here in Texas. Hunting out of a camp, I"m not particularly limited to what I carry.

So here are a few that have followed me home since last season, and need to be blooded.



Merkel K4 Damaszener, 30-06 Springfield



Sauer 404 "Golden Boar", 308 Win



German Guild SXS Hammer Double, 30 WCF



Browning 1885 Low Wall, 6.5 x 55



Merkel B4 Bergstutzen, OU, 223 Rem./308 Win.



Lyman Sharps, 45-70

Browning BAR Safari, 30-06 Springfield.

ya!

GWB

I've got several I haven't hunted yet. We've got a long season so I plan to use several.

Ruger UL skeleton stock 270 seems to really like 130gr TTSX
Custom Mauser 7x57
Custom Mauser 30-06
Ruger No. 1 300 H&H
Interarms 375 H&H
Weatherby Mark V Deluxe 240Wby

Sako Varmint 308 for Texas.

Kimber Montana 260 in New York.

Savage 220 20 ga. slug gun for New Jersey.

TC Omega muzzleloader New Jersey.

Alabama : Encore muzzleloader, MRC X2 in 7mm08 , Swaro Z3 3-10x42 and Rem 700 XCR 2 in 270 win, VX3 3.5-10x40.
If I get bored and get some deer killed I might do a few hunts with my encore 7mm08 pistol,

Ohio: Winchester XPR in 350 Legend, VX3i 2.5-8x36.

I got all kinds of crazy ideas I dreamed up all summer but I’m going to try a keep things simple.

I plan to primarily bow hunt all season here.

So my main squeeze will be the Bear Adapt 60#.

Rifles will be a M7 308 in SS or a BAR SAFARI 30-06.

ML season to start in a few weeks .
I have a variety to choose from , ML season will be covered with a knight 50 cal .
Rifle season , Ruger American compact 308 , T/C Venture 30-06 , Savage T10 rebarreled with Shilen match grade 308 26” heavy sporter , Remington 700 LSS rebarreled with urban rifleman 26” 243 heavy sporter, 300aac black diamond , and Remington Marlin 45/70
All excellent shooters.
Oh and S&W 629 5” if opportunity presents itself
Kenneth

This season I'll be hunting with my Remington 788 .44 Magnum.

Ruger American Go Wild in 450 Bush Master, Remington 700 54 cal , Rem 870 12. GA.

Beautiful collection GWB!

Awesome!

Model 70 XTR Featherweight .270 Win

Bought it new with money from the tax return of my first job. IIRC it was May of 1989.

I thought you guys shot 24/7/365 or maybe that's closer to Chitcago and for blacks only?

What's a Chicago? I took a look out behind the house and I don't think I see one. 🤷‍♂️

Remington 700 Muzzleloader.
Weatherby Vanguard 300 Wby or 30-06

North woods, my 348 and 358 Wins. Farm probably 300 Savage, 270 or '06.

The sporterized 7x57 Mauser that my Grandpa gave me when I was a teenager.

I’ve got a savage 99f 308 sitting idle 🤔

Interesting,,,guess I would have expected more 6.5CMs.

This year's first buck was killed with a S&W Performance Center 629 and 240 grain XTP over 23.5 grains of H-110.

Second one this year fell to Adcor Defense B.E.A.R. shooting 65 grain SGK over 27 grains of Varget.

Yesterday and tomorrow I carried/will use Sako 85 in 6.5X55 shooting 130 grain SGK HPBT over H4831.

Still in the lineup for this year is my new-to-me No. 1A in 7X57 which will be shooting 140 grain NBT over StaBall 6.5.

The Marlin Guide Gun .45-70 will go to New York with me next month to hunt in the woods and the Sako will probably go as well.

If I make the trip to Missouri this year the Encore will go with the .25-06AI barrel is I get a load established before going. Probably one other rifle as well for out there, but not sure which one yet.

There are a few other rifles and revolvers that might get the nod on a given day, but no definite plans beyond those stated.

Probably start with one that’s not been bloodied yet. My 6CM FC is a good example. My son whacked one with it, but all I’ve shot with it is a pair of foxes.

Broke in two last season; my 6.5 Mini and M70 EW .308.

Have a new inline coming next week as well. I was all over those, until I saw how many bullets and sabots I had……

Same as always. Howa Mini in 375 SOCOM.

Tony

Same CZ 527 in 6mm ARC been using the last 2 years. Was a 6.5 Grendel for the previous 6 years. Quality Monolithic copper projectiles have proven to do as well as or better than good cup & core offerings.

6.5 grendel, 6.5 creedmoor, 6mm arc, 338 edge, 6.5 gibbs. whichever I pick up that day

The faux Ti 257 Roberts gets the nod for first into the woods. That will be followed by my semi-custom FN lightweight 30-06 for snotty weather and rough country. The Browning Medallion 25-06 will come out for non-vertical terrain. It’s just too pretty….

Got mine sighted In Thursday

New to me 1953 vintage Model 94.

Damn, made the year I was born!

Down here out behind the pole barn in a popup blind I'll use the Encore with a .460 S&W magnum barrel. I have a couple of 275 gr Barnes monolithic loads from last year but may end up using Hornady 300 gr magnum bullets because I found a box and will have plenty to practice with. I won't hunt with a rifle unless I have the opportunity to run it through several practice sessions before heading afield.

If I get a chance to hunt the UP probably Encore with 6.5 Creedmoor barrel or Ruger No. 1 7 x 57.

Starting out with my 30-06 tomorrow, going to use it on fields and lanes. Taking my Marlin 41 MAG carbine for the swamp stands. Once either gun kills a deer I will switch it out with another.

I'm blessed with a 4+ month season and a deep roster.

A few rookies will be first up in the rotation to evaluate their performance:
Howa mini 6 ARC
Howa mini 6.5 Gren will see the field as a fan favorite of the younger group
7-08 Defiance seems to be a preseason contender for rookie of the year
Tikka .308

Several reliable players from previous years will be called on in big games:
Fieldcraft 6.5 CM
M7 .308
Havak 6.5 CM
NULA 50 muzzleloader

Never know what might come off the bench to change the pace of the game.

I used my Tikka T3 Varmint in .223.





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I rotate rifles daily...or every day that I hunt. Opening day usually 7.65 Peruvian Mauser sporter. After that, a rotation of 8x57 BRNO, 7x57 BRNO, Rem. Model 30 Express '06, 6.5 Swede, 70 FWT '06, Post 70 .308, 1903 MS 6.5x54, 1904 Steyr Mannlicher 8x57. And a profusion of iron sighted classics, most of which have never made meat, unfortunately. No sense in having them if you don't use and enjoy them. One drawback, every morning after leaving the Jeep, I have to perform several drills of re-learning the safety operation.

Model 70 Classic Sporter 30-06
Model 70 European FWT. 6.5x55
Model 70 XTR 7mm Mauser
Ruger #1 45-70
Marlin 30-30 AI
Maybe some more....
Got 6 weeks to mash em' with lots of time off.

Would love to kill a big buck but antlers make poor stew...

Same Marlin .30.30 I've been using for the last 10 years or so.

So far this year I've taken two whitetails during antlerless season with a rifle, both while field hunting. One was taken with a custom Big Horn TL3 with TT Diamond, a Proof barrel, Manners stock, S&B glass, suppressed with a GemTech Sandstorm Ti. This rifle is chambered in 6.5 PRC shooting 143 gr. ELD-X over H4831SC. Shot was 350 yards. Second was taken with a Browning Hell's Canyon SR in 6.5 PRC with a Leupold VX-3i shooting a 130 gr Sierra Tipped GameKing over H1000.

When the general season comes around, I'll be hunting woods with a Browning X-Bolt SR 18" .308 Winchester with a VX-3i, GemTech suppressor, and a 150 gr Partition over Varget. Backing it up will be my T3X .308 Winchester I've posted about in the past along with the above Browning PRC.

killed a youngster 9-point yesterday with my crossbow at 20 yards.
single shot NEF .45-70 with peeps, scoutified .308 remington 700 with burris 2.75x20, 8x57 mauser wearing peeps are waiting in line ...

Only LRX I've recovered, 144.3gr from 466 yards, quartering away.

Starting with a Ruger Hawkeye 358. I may use my Sako 25-06 or my Remington 742 in 308. Not sure how much hunting I’m going to get to do.

I'm still undecided, but this one is a contender.

FA-97 in .45.

I was going to resurrect the Whelenizer this year. It's a Rem 7600 in 35 Whelen, but I was not getting the velocities or the accuracy I expected and put it aside for next year.

My go-to Opening Day rifle is a Savage 99 in 308 WIN.

I'm taking a TC Compass in 7mm-08 with a 139 grain Hornady load that's breaking 2900 fps. That should be fun.

I've got the 25-06 Mauser back with a 100 grain Speer.

My safety blanket is my KAR 98 sporter in 8X57 with a 175 grain Hornady.


This coming weekend is early Muzzleloader. I'm taking the Brown Bess.

On Sunday, I was reconnoitering my WMA and discovered they’d nuked the brushy meadows and planted food plots, so the Fieldcraft 6 might actually get a chance to do what it’s built for; well 200 yards or so anyway.

Had it out yesterday to check the zero and it put 95gr LRXs, 95gr BTs, and factory 103gr ELDXs all in almost exactly the same spot. Pretty impressive. Saturday is the first firearms opportunity, Old Men and Children days for does, bear, and turkeys. Neighbor had a bruiser of a bear on his game cam, regrettably in the wrong direction for where I hunt, but still interesting.

Season is open here already. I’m using the same rifle I’ve hunted deer with for 30 years. My savage 99 in 300 savage.

Kimber Montana
7/08
Lapua 308 hulls, Reloader under a 162 Amax (old)
Fixed 6 on top

It just kills chit.

First nice rifle I ever bought was in 1979 when I turned 18. Remington Model 700 Classic in .270 win.

Wow! Now that’s a pistol! Very nice!

Ouch! In AR & MS, I can hunt with either a Winchester 1885 qualifying as a "primitive" weapon or using a modern gun for a total of 87 days from the first week of November to then end of January. Both states combined would allow around a dozen deer harvested if I had more freezer space.


Hey geedubya, beautiful rifles as always. That 6.5x55 you posted a picture of has that same buttstock that was on the rifle tex_n_cal sold back in June. If it's not the same rifle, it looks like it came from the same batch:

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I plan to hunt with a Browning 1885 in .44 Magnum, an 1885 in .405 Winchester, a Ruger #1 RSI in .275 Rigby & a Sako 85 Hunter in 30-06.

The other day I went grouse hunting with a BRNO o/U 12 gauge 22 Savage HiPower, you know, in case I stumbled across a buck while I was out. *Note to self- Don't go grouse hunting during deer season. Your eyes aren't what they used to be with iron sights.

*sigh*

I usually hunt with a Savage 99 in 284 for deer and bear, but am trying to mix it up by taking others out. Problem is, you only get a chance at a good blacktail buck once in a great while and I don't want to miss my chance by carrying something like a 38-55 carbine or a 32-40 rifle. If ranges were 40 yards sure, but you gotta shoot long sometimes. It's a real conundrum.

If I hunt my new stand on a pine tree island I’ll be using my 348 O&U double rifle. It’s very thick and shots would be 30 yards at the most. A good blood trail out both sides is very desirable due to nearby beaver ponds, just in case he decides to expire in a different location.

Remington 700 Classic in 7x57 and then either a Browning BAR in 270 Win or a Remington 7600 on 3006

Everytime I carry my FC 6CM, I feel as though I'm carrying a 22 cal rimfire until that 105 berger does damage like a Thor.
I plan to carry it along side my Rem 280 mountain rifle.

308 savage ultralight 3x15 tract toric scope in texas. Ruger American 243 in NY. Savage 50 cal. Muzzle loader in NY.

7x57 for the opener. If I get a second one it will be with a 9.3x62, and if a third one comes along the 35 Rem!

I have 2 locations I'll be hunting this year. One will only allow a very close shot and I will be shooting a Remington 600 in 35 Remington. The other might offer a shot that is a little longer and I'll probably be shooting a Mexican Mauser custom in 7mm or a Husqvarna in 243 Winchester.

Christensen fft Ridgelines in 6 Cm and 6.5.

I've got a Win 70 Classic Stainless that'll be in the rotation, as well as a BLR Lightweight in .358 Win, a Tikka 595 in 7mm-O8, a Browning BAR II in .25-06, a waffle-top Marlin 336SC in .30-30, and a waffle-top Marlin 336A in .35 Rem., and maybe some others.

Matthews Halon 5 / Gold Tip Hunter Pro / G5 Montec carbon steel heads / Scott Itty Bitty Goose release

5.5" Ruger New Model Bisley Blackhawk .41 Rem Mag / 210 gr Hornady XTP / 22.7 gr H110 / CCI 300

CVA Hawken 32" Percussion Cap 1:48" twist / 385 gr Hornady Great Plains conical / 100 gr Goex FF

CZ 550 American 6.5x55SE / Lapua brass / Sierra Tipped Game King 130 gr / 47 gr VV N160 / FED 210

Good luck hunters!

300 Blackout
250 AI
25-35
30-30 AI
270 Win
6.5 PRC

Well, assuming that I even get to hunt since I don't have a lease this year, it will be wherever I get invited. It may be my Rem 700 Ti in 7SAUM, my Barrett Fieldcraft in 6.5X55 (my favorite), or my Browning 1885 in 7 Mag. I may take the CA Mesa in 6.5 PRC as a backup.

Depends where I hunt in the woods CVA .45-70 on the pipeline Savage .308

Ruger #1 in 7x57
Kibler Flintlock in .50

I just did some ammo inventory for my 284 Winchester. I have a good amount of factory ammo then some newer reloads with 120 grain bullets. I’ll check the zero with factory ammo, maybe just use that. I’ll be in the U.P. of MI.

I have 2 rifles in 284. I plan to use the 20” barreled Browning Micro-Medallion. Historically any shot even to 75 yards is unlikely. I gave the gun the once over, then ensured the Leupold lenses were clean.

Killed a Buck the last morning with my 700 ML. On to 30-06 or 300 Vanguard

Just stepped back into the house with a single shot in 7X57 Mauser. All the whitetails today waved to me!

Gonna try to stick with iron sighted rifles this yr if possible depending where I'm hunting.

Rem 7600 30-06 with skinner express peep.

M71 348 with original buckhorn sights. Probably just carry this one bear hunting, already killed a couple deer with it.

M141 in 35 Remington with a Lyman tang peep sight.

M98 sporterized 8x57 with a redfield receiver peep.

Scoped rifles if I end up carrying any this yr will likely be a 03 Springfield 35 Whelen, and a Sauer 101 30-06.

Got enough tags to carry them all but we will see how the deer cooperate. Some yrs it goes pretty easy, other yrs not so much.

I had a 99 rebarreled to 338 I’m going to use as soon as I get a scope on. I’m eager to try it.

Ended up with our son being born a few days before opener. The in laws showed up and I suddenly had a couple hours free and ran out to one of my boxes. It was a hard call as I’ve got a few rifles that still need to be hunted. But when it came right down to what I trust…. I grabbed my 270.

Well, weather has turned to [bleep] already, so onto soul less SS & tupperware !

6.5x55 swede for deer.
Just heading out this morning for 4 days, Moose hunting, M70 338 win mag, love those rifles.