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My first was a Savage 99C in .308 Win with a Redfield 3-9 Widefield Low Profile. Shot Winchester factory Silvertip 180-grainers. Killed deer like a tri-axle coal truck on the highway. But it was a 2.5-3 MOA shooter on a good day. The action worked with all the smoothness of a set of tank tracks. It kicked like Festus' mule , Ruth. It just, plain sucked.
I traded it for a Model 70 Lightweight Carbine .308 Win somewhere in the '80's and was never happier.
Wollen nicht krank dein feind. Planen es.
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Very first a 303 Enfield for $18 at an Army Navy store. Don't have it now, and that was replaces with a Rem 600 6mm which I sort or still own. Usurped by Cookie for deer and pronghorn use.
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Yes I do. Marlin 336 30-30 I got for Christmas when I was 12.
Also have the first gun I bought with my own money after saving up all summer at 16, Winchester 120, 12 gauge pump combo.
Have them both and use them very little now but not getting rid of anytime soon Yes I do. Marlin 336 30-30 I got for Christmas when I was 12.
Also have the first gun I bought with my own money after saving up all summer at 16, Winchester 120, 12 gauge pump combo.
Have them both and use them very little now but not getting rid of anytime soon I have a Winchester 120 as well. Bought it with my own money when I was 13. Still use it 35 years later.
If ifs and buts were like candy and nuts, it would be Christmas every day.
“The .30-06 is never a mistake.” - Col. Townsend Whelan
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Long gone.
My first was a Savage 99C in .308 Win with a Redfield 3-9 Widefield Low Profile. Shot Winchester factory Silvertip 180-grainers. Killed deer like a tri-axle coal truck on the highway. But it was a 2.5-3 MOA shooter on a good day. The action worked with all the smoothness of a set of tank tracks. It kicked like Festus' mule , Ruth. It just, plain sucked.
I traded it for a Model 70 Lightweight Carbine .308 Win somewhere in the '80's and was never happier. My first big game rifle was a Savage 99E with an El Paso Weaver 4x, it killed just like yours and kicked just like yours, even after installing a recoil pad it was still just too brutal. It is long gone - Thank Goodness!! I had forgotten how hard that 99 kicked until a couple of years ago a friend asked me intall a scope and sight-in one for him, I did but I couldn't give it back to him fast enough. drover
223 Rem, my favorite cartridge - you can't argue with truckloads of dead PD's and gophers.
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Gone long ago: Rem. M700BDL Varmint Special, in .243. Made in 1964. Bought it from a NJ State Trooper when I turned 18 in '75. Bedded and trigger tuned, crazy accurate. Way too heavy to tote in the deer woods, so it went bye-bye. Like so many, I wish I had kept it.
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Girl friend gave me a model 70 30-06 for Christmas in 77, 2-7 Redfield wideview scope. Gave her a fur coat that year thought it was a fair trade. Still have the rifle and the lady.
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Mine was a Ruger 77 MKII sporter stainless and laminate in 280 rem my dad bought me when I was 14 it wore a Simmons 3-9x44 until I bought a Kahles Helia C 1.5-6x42 when I was 19 and that’s the way it still sits. I have quite a few rifles now but that’s still the one I grab most of the time. The first one I bought I was 19 or 20 it’s a number 1 22-250 with pretty nice wood I still have that too.
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I killed my first whitetail, a six point buck, my second year hunting in 1975 with my uncle's Remington 742 in 30.06. Christmas that year I had a new 742 in 30.06 under the tree. I kept it and killed a good dozen deer with it over the next 15 years. It would never group better than about 3 inches. In 1992 I moved to Colorado and thought I better buy a bolt action so I purchased my first center fire. It was a used Sears M-53 in 270 Winchester. I paid $150.00 at a gun show in Denver. It had a no name Jap 3x9 scope and looked like it had never been cleaned. I scrubbed the gun clean and it was shooter. That rifle shot every load accurately, but would put 130 grain factory Hornady interlocks into cloverleafs at 100 yards. I killed a pile of whitetails, some mule deer and my first 2 elk with that rifle. A few years later I frosted the bore with some strong bore cleaner I misused trying to get copper fouling from original Barnes bullets out of the bore. It was still a shooter, but lost the pin point accuracy so a few years later I auctioned it off at a farm sale for a tidy profit. After I sold the 270 and went through an assortment of Ruger, Browning and Winchester rifles in 30.06, 300 WM and 338 WM I have settled on a M-70 Classic in 30.06. It is not the most accurate rifle I have ever owned, but it is rugged and true. The zero on that rifle has never shifted since it was sighted in in 2005. It is scoped with a Khales 3x9 and was full bedded in an unknown brand synthetic stock. I have only used one load in that rifle, Hornady 165 grain Interbonds and still have 6 boxes of the lot I purchased shortly after buying the rifle. It has put down every animal I have ever shot at. That rifle has also been used by 6 other hunters to kill game also. I will never sell this rifle.
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My first was a Stainless Remington 700 in 270. I want to say it was a mountain rifle. But can’t remember for sure. Wore a leupold straight six on top. I killed a bunch of stuff with it. Like a dumb kid does I traded it for the latest and greatest at the time, which was a model 70 LT in 7mm STW.
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Long gone.
My first was a Savage 99C in .308 Win with a Redfield 3-9 Widefield Low Profile. Shot Winchester factory Silvertip 180-grainers. Killed deer like a tri-axle coal truck on the highway. But it was a 2.5-3 MOA shooter on a good day. The action worked with all the smoothness of a set of tank tracks. It kicked like Festus' mule , Ruth. It just, plain sucked.
I traded it for a Model 70 Lightweight Carbine .308 Win somewhere in the '80's and was never happier. My first big game rifle was a Savage 99E with an El Paso Weaver 4x, it killed just like yours and kicked just like yours, even after installing a recoil pad it was still just too brutal. It is long gone - Thank Goodness!! I had forgotten how hard that 99 kicked until a couple of years ago a friend asked me intall a scope and sight-in one for him, I did but I couldn't give it back to him fast enough. drover Forgot to mention.........among the rifle's OTHER endearing qualities...…...the trigger pull was akin to pulling the slack out of an oak 2x10.
Wollen nicht krank dein feind. Planen es.
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Winchester 94 in .30-30. My "buddies" were makin' fun of me for huntin' with a RSB. Said I couldn't hit anything with a pistol. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/mBJN38r.jpg) Mebbe they were right, I dunno. I was younger and more easily influenced back then. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/fOP6vCE.jpg)
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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My first rifle was a Ruger M-77 tang safety 270 Win. It is still a nice shooting gun.
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My Ruger 77 6mm Remington. That. I shot the mule deer buck with this year.
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My first that I bought is a 700 BDL 243. Killed my first deer with it. Still have it.
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My wife and daughter killed their first deer with it too.
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My first big game rifle was a used Remington Model 742 in 308 Winchester. I killed several NY State bucks with it, then sold it to buy a Model 700 BDL in 25-06. I used that Model 700 to shoot a pile of woodchucks and one NY State buck. That rifle is gone, too.
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Marlin 336, 30-30. Centennial edition, has a brass medallion in the butt. Dad bought it from a co-worker $150, 1981. We had a deal, I bought myself a shotgun, he got me a rifle.
Two years later of mowing lawns and saving my lunch money, I bought a Vanguard in 243. Couldnt afford a scope, Dad got me a Tasco for my birthday.
I own every centerfield rifle I ever ones but 1.
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Yup still got it. Remington Model 7 in 308. Still likely the rifle in my safe with the most kills.
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My dad gave me a brand new 1975 700 BDL in 30-06 when I was 13 yrs old. It still wears the 3X9 Vari-X 2 Leupold friction scope. It is still the most accurate factory rifle I have ever owned.
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The first high powered rifle I owned was a Remington 700. It was a Sako 7 mag with a 3x9 Redfield widefield
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