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Cooper 7mm-08 using 130 Speer BTSP. Hoping to connect on a few does!
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7-08 RAR,and a 223 RAR,and my son has his 22-250 RAR.
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22-250 - Marlin XS7 with a Stevens 200 223 1-9" ROT barrel rechambered to 22-250.
243 - Remington 700 parts gun.
6.5 Creed - RAR-Predator and Vanguard2.
25-06 - Marlin XL7 will come along as a loaner.
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The gun that's at the front when I open my gun safe! Of all the rifles I own, I usually grab one of two my old faithfull guns. My WW Featherweight M70 in 7x57, or my Rem. Classic in .264 Win Mag. And of course, there's always at least one AR-15 in .556 that lives in the truck for Coyotes and Hogs when I'm driving around the Ranch checking feeders or fences.
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Old wore out Winchesters. Assorted cartridges.
Oh. And a Probably a Mauser or two.
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"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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Well I can come help you with that dave!! Drive Highway 8 between 35 and 61 and keep an eye out to the south. It is not at all uncommon to see a couple dozen between there and town. Shoot a full size one with a bow in there (which is probably legal) and it'd make a man of you dragging it out to a road though, and you'd get very wet in the process. This area really out to be part of 601. I'm familiar with the area there. My daughter takes gymnastics right there. In the swamp grass off 8 at 61, it's more common to see em there than not. First thread I read and I find a familiar sight! I wasn't aware that area was open to hunting, I thought it was inside city limits. I remember the hubbub trying to close Lamprey Pass, I can't remember if the east section was closed or not. I tend to see more deer on the north side of the highway- I am usually looking for the trooper running radar in the median. I'll see deer while approaching the exit if there isn't some nitwit entering the freeway at 40 mph or when past the turn and on the straight away if I don't see a local cop down by the bridge. Keep your eyes open, there is at least a sow with two cubs roaming the area, I saw them cross over the freeway just north of 8 last spring. The year before a younger bear crossed 8 in front of me up by Comfort Lake.
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Oops, forgot to mention what I'll be carrying.
I have several "new to me" guns to use so I will have a couple along.
A first year Marlin 336 in 35 Rem A Rem 760 in 300 Savage A Rem 700 in 300 Savage A Savage 1899 in 38/55 And a Savage 16 in 7mm/08 will likely be this years' picks.
If hunting in Zone 236 this year, I will have a 12 ga Beretta 391 or a 20 ga NEF slug gun in hand. If I can figure out why it went wonkers in time, a 12 ha Mossberg 930 will get the nod.
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First thread I read and I find a familiar sight! I wasn't aware that area was open to hunting, I thought it was inside city limits. I remember the hubbub trying to close Lamprey Pass, I can't remember if the east section was closed or not.
I tend to see more deer on the north side of the highway- I am usually looking for the trooper running radar in the median. I'll see deer while approaching the exit if there isn't some nitwit entering the freeway at 40 mph or when past the turn and on the straight away if I don't see a local cop down by the bridge.
Keep your eyes open, there is at least a sow with two cubs roaming the area, I saw them cross over the freeway just north of 8 last spring. The year before a younger bear crossed 8 in front of me up by Comfort Lake.
Welcome to the fire. I don't know for certain what the status is down there, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it is open for bow south of 8. They Hunt ducks on Forest lake inside the city limits. You have to know where to look for the deer on the south side. If you get off on the 2nd street NW exit watch in the pines next to the exit ramp you see them laying there right in people's back yards all the time. Out around the high ground in the swamp that the city burns tree waste on is another place to keep an eye on. You see more one the north side, but there's half again as many on the south. I'd hate to have a garden or shrubs in any of the houses that back up to the swamp. There's always been bears around there. They tour a good size area in the spring and tear up bird feeders. Back before the mid 70's the DNR would come out with a trap is anyone reported bears. They don't much care anymore. Last spring I saw one almost in downtown St Croix Falls coming out of a residential area in the middle of the day.
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In ky I'll take my Ruger M77 tanger in 300winmag loaded with 150gr PowerPoint's and my rem 700 sps 7-08 loaded with 139gr american whitetails.
In TN I'll have my ruger m77 stainless 7-08 loaded with american whitetails and will also dig out the mauser in 30-06 I built. Probably use 150gr fusions in it
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7-08 RAR,and a 223 RAR,and my son has his 22-250 RAR. forgot to say, using 120 gr in the 7-08,either tsx or bt,whichever works best. 62 tsx in the 223 and the 22-250.
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For whitetails: NULA 7/08; Ithaca Model 37 for shotgun only; and Knight MZ.
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Welcome to the Fire wirehair. I didn't know you can hunt there either. I'm hinting at miles58's place this year. Check out the deer camp thread if you haven't.!!
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Welcome to the Fire wirehair. I didn't know you can hunt there either. I'm hinting at miles58's place this year. Check out the deer camp thread if you haven't.!! Hey! My house is not real far from there, but it most assuredly is legal here. I am not in Forest Lake. I wouldn't call it hunting here though. Plain and simple it's just killing, much like dispatching varmints. I might consider going down south of 8 after everything freezes up and there's a little snow on the ground, but I am too old to be trying to drag one out of that swamp before freeze up. I still have one of my kid's toboggan/sleds that is a piece of cake to drag a deer on. Just bungee Bambi on, and even an old out of shape guy like me can drag one a few miles on snow and not even need a rest break as long as the snow isn't too deep. Like I said, that area ought to part of 601.
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A Pre-64 Model 70 Winchester .270 with a 1954 model Leupold 4x Mountaineer rifle scope that's sitting on a one-piece mount.
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A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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300 Blackout Ruger American Ranch rifle. .223 Savage Axis. .308 Tikka T3 Lite 44mag H&R Handi 44mag SuperBlackhawk 7,5" Rock River Predator Pursuit 20" .270 ATR-100
Maybe more depending on truck space......
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For Auodad a Kimnor 7mm-08 and a Ruger #1 .270. For deer, probably a Marlin .25-20. Maybe a Ruger #1V .223, if Ruger ever actually builds them . And probably a pistol of some kind, perhaps an XP-100 or a Ruger SRH
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270 Winchester Featherweight.
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