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Top 99H barrel band in .300 Savage. Bottom, 1899B in 32-40 Win.

Ruger RAR 243 that cost me a whopping $150. And blue box federal 100's. Getting pretty cocky these days...

Gonna put new Leupold scope on my Sendero 7mm ultra mag this afternoon. It’s the only one I don’t have sighted in. I wish rifle season would hurry up and get here

Here first morning of the deer season I will be hunting with a Remington 722 in .300 Savage, made in 1948 according to the barrel code. If the weather is crappy, I will use a coated 700 9 twist Roberts that shoots 110 Accubonds and 117 Hornady RN's into the same small group. After opening morning, who knows....

Out in western South Dakota later in November, I will be using my favorite rifle, an 8 twist custom M70SA .220 Swift spewing 75 grain Berger VLD's or possibly a new 6mm Creedmoor that loves 105 JLK's. Earlier this month I used the Swift in Montana to shoot an antelope buck with the VLD. I parked the VLD in his ribs and the buck turned and fell over.

M70 FWT 257Rob; 120gr Speer Deep Curls

Pre64 m70 6.5-06 for Coues next month. Probably stick with the 123 gr Amax load I used last year.

I nearly always reach for my Glenfield 30-30 carbine featuring 18 inch barrel and 2 - 7X Simmons scope. My shots rarely exceed 100 yards. This outfit has toppled many deer for me across the decades. Typically, I shoot either 150 grain Core-lokts or 170 grain Power Point ammo.

Sherwood

I plan on using this Iver Henriksen 25-06 a lot this year!

Thinking

Ruger #1 in .44 mag, and another #1 in .38-55
Dad's M94 in .44-40 may play as well

Model 70 - 7RM and 150 gr Swift SCII
Model 550 - 338-06 and 210 gr Swift SCII

I will grab the .250 Savage off the rack...again.. I put a Leopold 6X on the rifle this summer so we will see how using a fixed power works out for me.

Have used a Browning X-Bolt .30-06 to take 3 deer so far this year.
Next hunt is a late season Whitetail hunt, where the Wby. Mk. V .257 will get used, for long shots across hay fields.

I got a good report from the Cardiologist and he told me I can handle some recoil. So my Marlin 45-70 with Remington factory loads will get the nod.

Like most everyone else here, I have a whole bunch of guns and deciding which one to hunt with is tough. However, I've decided, I think, that the gun I'd most like to bloody this year is my Lipsey's Ruger M77 African .275 Rigby. After a few different scopes I've mounted, and changed out, it's finally topped with a Swaro Z3 3-10 w/BRH reticle.

Yep, that's the one, but, my Sako needs lovin' too. And then there's the new Cooper...aw, hell, who knows.

Louisiana does a special veterans hunt next weekend. It's only appropriate that I use the 223. This one a Savage LWH firing a 64gr Nosler Bonded. The second weekend is primitive weapons. Here we can use break action single shots. Mine will be a CVA 44 Magnum driving a 240 grain Swift A-Frame. I'll rotate in a Ruger Hawkeye Predator 6.5 CM, a Ruger Hawkeye Ultralight 7-08, a Ruger Mk2 Ultralight 257 Roberts and a Howa 6.5x55.

....and a stainless M7 7-08 just jumped in my safe, also.

Plan on using a Howa Mini Action in 6.5 Grendel with a 123 gr. Bullet. This will be the bolt gun I hunt with. Never hunted deer with an AR so I built a .264 LBC and will also hunt with a 123 gr. Bullet. These are new to me calibers as I have hunted with .300 WM,.308.25/06,30/30 and enjoyed them. Really like a bolt gun but that AR sure is a shooter. Hope this will be the year for a big one.

Remington 870 using Winchester Super X 2 3/4" slugs. Hunting Ohio.

This has been my deer rfile for many years. A No. 1 in .243 that Jack Haugh made in the late 80's. The gun is iin fine shape. We hunt in blinds here in Michigan and our guns do not get beat up. It is very accurate with my handloads.

A "Classic" deer hunting rig I ever seen here on the fire.