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Kleinguenthers

My Ruger 77 .257 Roberts with Zeiss 3x9 suits my hunting in SC just fine.
GreggH

A lot of truth there, Jacks is why we don't have Elephant, Rhino, etc...

Ruger # 1 custom Brux barrel 257 Weatherby Mag. with a Nightforce scope,always my handloads .

I love to hunt with old fashioned guns and mostly with iron sights. But if the guns were to be judged on the ballistic merits of their power range, accuracy and the trajectory that most closely matched the ability to make hunting easier, the 2 I would choose are:

#1 My 270 Winchester for open ground hunting of deer elk and antelope. (I seldom do this on the 1st one because it makes the hunts too easy and fast. With my 270 hits to 550 yards are quite easy, and getting inside of 550 yards is very very easy )

#2 My 9.3X62 or my 375H&H for brush and timber hunting where we have a lot of elk, some moose and a lot of grizzlies. (I do use these rifles quite a lot because they are both classic Mausers and I like them a lot, but also because the number of Grizzles make me feel a bit better in heavy brush when I have a "bigger club" in my hands to hit with)

The last two years has been my Barrett Fi.ldcraft in 6,5 X55 with a Swaro Z3. I'm pretty scatter brained about what rifle I take so it could be anything. For about 25 years my go to rifle was my Remington 700 Ti in 7RSAUM with a Zeiss Conquest 3-10 and 140 gr. TTSX handloads. Her name is Thumper!

My favorite is my Howa 1500 .308 LW. Shots here can be from powder-burn (The vast majority are short range) to several hundred yards. After hunting with it for several years without too many mods, it's in the process of a few changes.

It will be pillar-bedded, new 20" SS aftermarket barrel of slightly heavier contour, and the VX-3i 2.5-8X36 in Talley LWs will be replaced by a NF SHV 3-10X42 in NF rings and rail. It already had an aftermarket trigger. This project should come together in the next couple of weeks, then we'll start shakedown...

The small weight increase will be well worth the increase in confidence, I hope.

With an overall length slightly longer than a 94 Winchester, it handles good, and a little more weight out front will help it balance better. Being muzzle-light always irritated me a little, so I decided to do something about it.

Before I started...there's just a pile of parts in the shop right now.

Dem wabbits ate'em before they could get a foot hold...

Makes sense to me...

Explains everything...

DF

.284 in a Savage 99. Works well, short or long.

Back when I was a "one rifle for everything" guy here in southwestern New Mexico, it was a semi-custom pre-64 Model 70 in .270 Winchester. I still think that it's not a bad choice for an "all around" rifle in the southern U.S.

I am kind of heading back that way these days and I have my sights set on a 6.5 PRC in a controlled-round feed bolt action--probably an MRC.

Tikka T3X, 20" barrel, in .308. Great for New England and New York.

I had a Winchester Mod 670 in 30-06 that just fit me. I bought it when I was 16 from summer wages working at a ranch we hunted on. I rarely if ever missed with it and made some of my best shots with it. Than I got a pre 64 Mod 70 in .300 H&H. It kind of languished in the safe because I had little time to hunt and would always grab the trusted 30-06. To get myself to use the H&H I ended up selling my 30-06 to a cousin. Now even though I have several rifles, I usually grab the .300 H&H. I have to make an argument with myself not to use it sometimes when there are others as good for the purpose in the safe.

Rem 700 bdl in 25-06 with leupold vari-x III 3.5-10. Local gunsmith bedded it in the factory wood stock, trued the action and did a trigger job. Bought it when I was still in college and have long since lost count of the number of rounds fired and game it has taken. All but one of my kids used it as their first rifle along with several of my friends kids. It is known as the meat gun for a reason. It has never failed to disappoint.

308 Win can handle 90% of worlds game in all field conditions. It is my go to for everything up to and including elk.

Remington 721 in 270 Win

Tikka T 3 270 Win (R)
-------------------------------------Identical Scopes 4-12X40
Tikka T 3X 7mm RM (L)

Take your pick ---> 3 oz diff between them.

OR







Custom M 98, 284 Win, Boyd's, Timney, Nikon 4-12 X 40 >> 139 HBTSP @ 3000 fps.


Take your pick


Jerry

I'm not much of a lever guy, but that one is nice. I believe I could warm up to one like that.

Nice buck, too.

DF

After hunting North American big game (never hunted Brown or Grizzly bears} with an assortment of rifles and cartridges, I have settled on a Savage 99-A 250-3000 for Whitetails and Ruger 77 7x57 for everything else.

Cool rifle! Ive always wanted one.