Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting My idea of a perfect Whitetail deer rifle.

Perfect for my terrain is a modest weight rifle with a 20" tube with a compact style stock. Like most easterners the majority of my local hunting is from box stands or tree stands and it is perfect for that. Just as fitting for stalking public land from daylight until dark, shooting across fields, blasting coyotes or anything else I want to do with it.

I even carried this rifle on a Colorado Public Land elk hunt last fall and scored on a 6x6 at 294y at 11,400'. The modest weight was a huge improvement over the last rifle I dragged with me at that altitude before.

The donor was a left hand Remington 700 Youth Rifle in .243 Win. Barrel is a Rock Creek 1-11.25" 5R in 308 Winchester with a McWoody Remington Compact. Weight scoped is 7lbs 3oz. I think had I built this rifle first, I probably wouldn't have bothered with the rest of them.