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6.5 Swed Mauser and a couple with a 308.

CZ550 in .270 Winchester...don't even own it anymore. My McVZ-24(8x57) will catch up eventually.

i have killed more deer with handguns than rifles. The rifle that gets the nod most often is a Rem 722 in 300 savage when I have to hunt a rifle.

Rem 7600 in 30-06. First real rifle I bought. Got it in 1985 and have killed at least one deer a year with it.
Patrick

Remington Model 7 chambered in 7MM08. I hunt with a variety of rifles but this one is my all time favorite for whitetail. It has also taken antelope and coyotes. I've owned two at one time but gave one to my son years back.

A Kimber Classic Select in .243.

It was never by design. I actually bought it thinking it would be a good gun for my boys to shoot, but neither wanted anything to do with an "old man's" wood and blue gun once they discovered 'black guns.'

So I went on a little spree and killed 9 deer with it over the course of two or three years.

But, again, it was just a fluke. For example, I shot 4 deer last year with 4 different guns.

Heck, I bet I haven't even hauled that Kimber out of the safe in at least 4, maybe 5 years. I'm going to get it up on the classifieds one of these days.

No greater style exists in the rifle industry than a B78/1885.

By far a Model 700 Remington in 6.5X55. For quite a spell it was the only rifle I owned.

Marlin 336 in 35 Remington. Bought it back in the early 80s. Still my go to gun. I originally had a Tasco 1-3.5 on it. Now I have a Burris Fastfire III on it. I have a lot of other guns now that I could take. But at end of the day, that’s what I gravitate to.

I've had a few rigs.
Think I killed 4 or 5 deer with this one before dumping it and getting my TC Hawken Silver Elite.
Cheap MZ and scope.........worked great.
LOL...........my kid is almost 30 now.
Yeeesh

Deer, pigs and antelope. A 7x57 Mexican Mauser with a "sporterized" original stock, 4x Bushnell Banner, factory Remington 140s. It was all I could afford at the time; late 70s, most of the 80s. That's one I'd like to have back.

I actually just had time to think about this a bit last night. I'm fairly sure that I've killed the most deer with archery. LOL. Over 100 when I quit counting.

It's probably a toss up between two rifles.

The older of the two is a sporterized Oberndorf 98 in 7x57 Mauser. I was working for the years that I carried it and generally got a deer or sometimes two with it for over a decade. The second is a Weatherby Vanguard SUB MOA in 270 WSM. While not owning it as long as my 7x57, I was retired when I purchased it and there is an abundance of deer on the farm that I now hunt with it. The game laws have also changed, allowing us to take three deer instead of one to two.

I haven't hunted with the 7x57 in quite a few years, I kind of miss doing that. I just haven't had a suitable property to hunt that suits the rifle well.

Dan

Ruger .257 Roberts

Remington 725 in .270 Win. caliber... Bought the rifle in 1960 and been hunting with it ever since.. Lost track of the number of deer I have shot with it, but all but one have been one shot kills.. A large Mule Deer in Colorado required two shots because he didn't know he was dead yet and I gave him a 2nd. shot just to be sure..

The one rifle I tend to reach for more and, the one that has taken the most deer, is my Win Model 70 in 338WM.
I have more than 30 rifles, and this is the one that I gravitate towards subconsciously, I guess.

The one rifle that has taken the most deer in a day is completely different though, it’s my Ruger M77 MK II in 25-06, doing culling work it took 18 fallow deer in an afternoon, I had only 20 rounds on hand, too. All done with Noslers 115gr Partition, every one was DRT.

Cheers.

Beneficial for us downstream opportunists.

A sporterized 1903 Springfield that I inherited from my uncle. I put it in a B&C stock and a Timney trigger. It had come in a very heavy, blocky old-style walnut stock with the original trigger. It shoots very well, and I have actually shot most of my deer while on elk hunts. It seems like when I carry that rifle, I see deer. Most of them were shot with 180 partitions or Interlocks. Interestingly, I usually pick another rifle now when I am specifically hunting deer.

The most game of any variety that I have shot has been with a Remington BDL in .300 mag. Lots of pigs, an antelope or two, my biggest buck and all but one of my elk, which was shot with a muzzleloader.

I have killed every deer since 1980 (at least 30 of them) with my Rem 7mm Mag using plain old green box Core-Lokt ammo in 150 grain. My first in 1980 and my last in 2014.

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