Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles The Highlander Contingency -- if you could only keep one hunting rifle...

WOW!

Great thread title for the subject matter. "There can be only one". Those were great movies, especially the first one.

Hard for me as I shoot tiny deer for which anything more than my 243 is way overkill. BUT I hunt moose once a year.

I'd have to use my 6.5x55 but I much prefer a 243 and 06 pairing

My M70 SS Classic FW All Terrain .30-06 with 2.5-8x36 Leupold and iron sights. Tupperware stock is floated and bedded with Steel Bed. I swapped out the cast trigger guard floorplate assembly for a lighter one and added a Decelerator pad.

I shoot mostly 180' s in it. Usually NPT's or Hornady IL's. Handload is 57 gr H-4350. I also use some factory Core Lokt ammo but not much.

Probably my personal admission that I am boring and dull at heart. That or I like to hunt and not have to think about what I am carrying. I have lots of other rifles and hunt with a few of them regularly but this is the one that goes with me every time.

If I could only have one I would have to buy a new one. I would go all out with the Highlander theme and order a Rigby Highland Stalker in 9.3x62mm

That would work.
Bob

GEE WHIZ that’s gorgeous. !!

1 thing wrong with it tho.......



It’s not mine.

Jerry

Ruger mk2 standard in 30-06. Think I got it in 96' or thereabouts.

My favorite rifle I own is my700 classic 35Whelen. If I could have just 1 rifle it would be something in 30-06.

Here's a pic of my Mauser 66 in 7x64.
Just loaded some 139gr btsp's to go shoot.
It sure has a deep throat, where bullets aren't even the casing of the oval gauge !
Gonna start over with loading for it.
Gonna try modern, mono bullets, and Accubonds.

Exactly. Mine is a 308 Win, but I could be equally happy with it as a 7-08 or (gasp) 6.5 CM:

Sticking with blue steel and walnut, M700 Mountain Rifle, 7mm-08, Leupold 2-7x33.

The older it gets, the better I like it.

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My LH Rem 700 in .308 because ammo

Brno 22F 8X57 is my favorite.

My lucky rifle is an ole ugly blue metal and plastic stocked Tikka T3.300 WSM with 2.5-8x36 Leupy and I've always seen bucks when I take it.

My favorite is a M70 .270 but I've had so many dry runs of not seeing a buck, that I hardly take it anymore.

If I had to choose one from my small collection to keep, I would have to go with the lucky one.

Ruger M 77 tang safety (circa 1984) 7x57 has been a real work horse.




I have stuck with it even though I have been told the stock is like a 2x4, barrel is no good, can't seat the bullets close to the lands, have to bed it, not accurate, need to replace the trigger, it is too heavy for backpack hunting and it is unsafe because the safety does not block the stricker. In other words it is a piece of crap.

Despite all that it has done in Goats, Antelope, Elk, Moose, Bear, Mule deer, Whitetail deer and with the Speer 115 grain HP coyotes and other varmints.

Ruger stocks have always fit and felt the best to me.

R O =

If that's all it's done,..... I'd be lookin for somthing better!

Congrats.

My long time friend and hunting pard has MY very first 77 tanger in 243 that I bought in 1977. Dang ole thing just keeps
on killin stuff !


Jerry

My answer would be a Winchester 70 Classic Stainless NH .270 Winchester in a McMillian Edge Hunter Stock, 1 piece bottom metal, with a NF 2.5-10X42 scope on top.

I suppose at my age and in my physical condition I would have to go with my BRNO 22F in 8X64. It's light and handy and can take care of anything I'm likely to encounter (and some unlikely ones, too).