Two deer rifle's do most of my work for me. A Savage Model 99 in 300 that I bought off one of the old members for our camp who'd hung up his gear. Pretty hard not to carry a gun with such provenance. We called the first generation members of our camp the Olde Guard. Sadly, they're all gone now, but Bob's legacy lives on in this fine old rifle. My other deer rifle is a Mauser chambered for 30-06. Dad bought this when he did a couple moose hunts up in Canada. It was a military action some outfit rounded up and put an aftermarket '06 barrel on. Cheap hardwood stock, bent bolt, scope safety. There's a bazillion of these out there. I killed my first deer with that rifle, and many others along the way. I had the stock glass bedded and free floated, and a Timney trigger dropped into it, and it's scary accurate. So in the woods, it's the 99, but if I'm hunting a power line, gas line, or open field where I can reach out a bit, it's the '06.


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