Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting My idea of a perfect Whitetail deer rifle.

Still need to get me some of those 80 grain Ballistic Tips to make blood with.

Forgot to add a hero shot with the rifle

Appalachian Mtn Boar

I like my 257 and I use it some every year.

What bullet are you using presently? Seems effective, nice buck.

Have used the 95 grain Partition on my last 3 bucks. Works fine but always wanted to try the 80 grain Ballistic Tip as a dual purpose for coyotes and deer.

No flies on that Partition.

You don’t pay much attention.. grin, or grins as the cool guys say. 80 bt’s

Fugg I am confused!!

A lot of money could be spent trying to prove you wrong, but I am not sure that amount of money exists.

My deer arsenal consists of the following:
Marlin 336 in 30-30
Marlin 336 in 35 Rem
Ruger 77 in 308 Win (first year production rifle with 3 digit serial number) with 2x7 Leopold
Ruger 77 Mk II 7x57 with 2x7 Redfield (my favorite for deer)
Sportified Peruvian Large Ring 98 Brno Made 7x57 with 3x9 scope
Sportified Persian Mauser Model 98 carbine (19.5 inch barrel) in 8x57 js

Spend most time with either of the 7x57s in my hands when deer hunting. But do like the lever guns just as well.

CJ

Lots of nice rifles but where are the Semi Autos?

The 18 inch 6.5mm CM in an AR might be the best deer rifle going.

Accurate, ergonomic, safe, lots of reach, suppressor ready, and a quick second shot when dealing with property boundaries or rough country.

Father-son duo on WT and Mulie because suppressors are cool.





Works on big deers too.

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For the woods i hunt. Less than 200 ya shoots

Perfect for me is my encore prohinter in 35 whelen.

I’ve only seen 2 that came with a factory brake.

Had the trigger cleaned up by Jim Hendershot. (Sp?)

I’ve killed a pile of deer and pigs with it.

180 ttsx are bad medicine.

Mine shoots factory 100 grain Winchester Silvertips really well!

I don't have a perfect whitetail rifle but I'm not too persnickety.

I like a quiet safety, a variable scope that can be turned down to 3x. a lighted dot reticle is nice, 20" to 22" barrel, a nice after market trigger like Timney or Trigger Tech, power range anywhere from .250 Savage thru 300 WSM, weight between 7lb to 8 1/2 lbs. with scope, length of pull between 13 1/4" to 13 5/8", a rather grippy surfaced paint job on the stock.

That's a sweet string of deer rifles.

Kool rig!

250AI and 250 Savage

Mine is just what the OP said, a Remington Model Seven in 7mm-08. Mine is one of the early models, blued with 18-1/2" barrel. It is mildly customized, with iron sights removed and the holes filled and the works redone in satin blue. I replaced the original stock with a Remington laminate. I currently have a 2-7x Burris on top, but have used both 2-3/4x and 4x Leupold compact scopes in the past. My eyes aren't as good at 74.

This year its a R700 in ,358 w. Might change the scope over to a straight 6x. from 3x9.

My shots here in the SE are 75 yds or less, and property lines are very close. No sense tempting fate.

The world is full of good whitetail rifles... pick something that speaks to you and roll with it. Cartridges are more alike than different, and whitetail just aren’t that tough to kill.