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Does anyone else take three (or more) rifles on a day hunt less than 30 miles from home......
Asking for a friend.......

Took 5 to the annual Campfire piggy hunt a couple of years back...and shot 3 pigs with 3 different rifles.
Bob

I take three when I go to the lease. You never know when a scope will jack up, or a firing pin will break.

After a bad couple of days a few years ago where I cracked the stock on one rifle, then sheared a windage screw off the rear scope mount on my second rifle, that Three is the proper minimum number of rifles to take hunting.

I take two rifles and a pistol on hunts that I go on, you just never know what will happen

I will take 2-3 to the ranch (2 hrs from home) and have a couple more that I keep at the ranch. You just never know...

This is what I'm packing when l show up to the hunt club....

I’m lucky to have access to hunt a farm just 30 minutes from my house. I usually bring 1 rifle and 1 handgun. When I bring 2 rifles, 1 is a Rimfire in case o decide to just do a half day of sitting for deer snd then close out the day hunting tree rats.

If my drive was much longer or if I was going to stay for multiple days would bring at least 2 rifles for the main game, 1 rifle/shotgun for small game (if appropriate) and a handgun.

I take two rifles on hunts. Not very often will the second one ever be used. But sometimes someone in camp has a problem with a scope or Something else.

I've sometimes carried two rifles and a handgun to the same stand. Might be a shorter-range proposition I'm itching to try out, with a conventional rifle in tow just in case animals don't come in range.

Absolutely do. Always have at least 3 rifles, 1 being a 22 mag, 2 shotguns and at least 1 handgun. In the truck. Never know where I will end up or what I will be after.

Not me-----I take my 30/06.

I almost always have a backup to my primary firearm. Might be a 2nd shotgun while bird hunting, or a 2nd appropriate rifle while hunting big-game. I have a pair of SS Classic M70's in 300Win that shoot the same ammo (200TSX @ 2950) and a pair of SS Classic M70 Fwt's in 270Win that also shoot the same ammo (140TSX @ 3030). I can grab 2 rifles, 1 box of ammo for the pair and go anywhere. 3 of those 4 have 3-10x42 SHV Nightforce scopes w/IHR reticle, the 4th has a 2.5-10x42 NXS w/IHR. The backups are every bit as good as the primaries.

There is a 1:8 twist 22-250 loaded w/75gn A-max's that's also almost always in the truck when I leave town for any reason.

I normally take 2 rifles, and where I hunt is only 15 minutes from home.

I always take two on a deer hunt (4 hours from home) and will take two on a long distance bird hunt.

Nope.

No. I hunt 120 miles from home and I take one rifle. Now I do trust my rifle

I built (4) rifles in September 2020:
Rem 700 250 Sav
Mosin 25 Krag Ackley
FN Mauser 6.5-06
Defiance 7mmSTW

I drove 900 miles Oct 17.
I sighted the rifles in to 200 yards Oct 19
I hunted for two hours and shot a doe with the 250 Sav Oct 24
I hunted for 5 minutes and shot a buck with the 25 Krag Ackley Oct 26
I hunted for 5 minutes and shot a doe with the 6.5-06 Oct 27
I drove 900 miles home hualing little packages of venison and dry ice Oct 30.

I always take at least half a dozen rifles on any hunt, but generally only carry two in the field--one my left shoulder and one on my right. Though I switch 'em around now and then.

I took 2 the last time I was out
1 regular centerfire and 1 .22 rimfire.
The previous hunts I hadn't seen any
deer, but saw plenty of squirrels.
I must have also had Murphy in a pocket
and didn't know because needless to say
when I had a firearm on hand for deer, and
one for squirrels I didn't see either one.