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What is your go to rifle and caliber? What do you hunt with it ??? Just checking to see what others run... I am looking to get something new.. Mine for deer is a m77 270win for deer... Hope all is well.....
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Striving to be turdlike.
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Guess that depends on where I am going.. and why I am going there...
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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Remington 760 in 30-06. Used to hunt elk, mule deer, and bear with it, just whitetails, coyotes, armadillos and raccoons now.
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M70 FWT in 280. 140 TTSX.
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I hunt whitetails exclusively, my go to rifle is a pre'64 Winchester M/70 Super Grade rebored to .35 Whelen, its back-up is a pre'64 M/70 Featherweight.30-06. I've never shot a head of big game with other than Winchester rifles going all the way back to 1973.
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Left Hand Rem 700 KS chambered .270 Win. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/medium/179180.jpg)
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Montana in 7-08
120 TTSX
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My heart's in the mountains, my heart is not here.
My heart's in the mountains, chasing the deer.
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Harry Lawson Mauser in .300 win
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Winchester xtr .308
Flip a coin
Memento mori ( remember you must die) enjoy every day for tomorrow you may not wake
You can always borrow and pay the money back but you can never get the time back
Everyone hunter should own a fine rifle, life is short.
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Stevens 200 in 270. So low tech it's not even called a Savage 110 
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Winchester model 70 extreme weather in 300 win mag.
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6.5 Fieldcraft for the hunting I do. I carry my 375 Kimber Talkeenta more days per year though, guiding vs my hunting.
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My Model 70 Classic Featherweight in 25-06 does most everything i want a rifle to do
It's alter ego, a stainless synthetic MRC .260 does about as well and gives me less to worry about in bad weather
"Chances Will Be Taken"
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Left hand KS Mountain 300 H&H. I may flirt with several others but that’s the one I won’t part with and with which I’ve killed the most big game. Close second is my 400 Whelen. Haven’t killed as much with it but man what a hammer.
Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.
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Kimber MA .280ai
Used for anything bigger than coyotes.
Pitter Patter!
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No such thing for me. Variety is the spice of life.
This season it was a Tikka T3 in .300 win mag with a Sako fiberclass in .300 Win Mag for a back up.
Deer rifle was a Weatherby Accurguard in .240 Weatherby for open plains (mule deer)
Deer rifle in the trees was a Model 700 Wood stocked mountain rifle in .280.
Next year... might do it all with a Kimber Montana 280 ai that I have that shoots well. I am also building a Tikke T3x 6.5 Weatherby RPM that should see some use.
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My LH Echols Legend 300WM. Have used it a lot. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/6Q1KZqx3/IMG-0364.jpg)
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Where we hunt now it’s only whitetails and the off chance of a lost bear wandering by. Model 7 stainless in 7-08 shooting hand loaded 120 gr TSX. Bushnell 2-7x32 Firefly.
“When Tyranny becomes Law, Rebellion becomes Duty”
Colossians 3:17 (New King James Version)
"And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him."
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Parts and pieces gathered up from the campfire classifieds. I’ve been packing it around lately. R700 McMillan Mountain rifle barrel Swaro 3-10x42 .270 Win & 130 Partitions ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/J0w0131N/9-FE57155-ACAC-4-F85-B953-6-DBD1-BC1865-C.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/vBy9hdnF/FD6-AFFCC-66-B1-4-D50-844-F-1-F9-CB5-F3-EA85.jpg)
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My 25-284 on a Remington 700 short action. Wears a Meopta.
Deer and hogs hate that little 115 gr CTBT. Haven’t had one yet stop one of them. That rifle gets most of the action these days.
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I took big game this season with TC contender carbine 7-30 waters, ruger .35 Whelen, Winchester .25/06, Rem 6mm-06 and Ruger .300 Win Mag.
When I am serious about getting something on the ground bigger then antelope near or far the .300 win mag seems to get the nod.
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