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Let’s see some pics. Those both sound great.

I have a number of rifles and I will use them interchangeably. That being said, my go-to now, overall, is an older Rem 700 action, with a Criterion 6.5 cm barrel and a Savage 110c with a heavy Criterion .260 barrel. I use the 6.5 for much of my fall deer hunting and the .260 for my summer depredation control work. As I said, I use my others often, too, as I kill on the average 20 deer a year. It is fun to have several options.

My go to rifle:

Afternoons in fields or open areas:
Browning A-Bolt stainless stalker, fluted barrel, .308
Meopta 3-12x56 scope. I could probably hunt all night with this scope if I wanted to.

In a stand in the woods:
Remington Model Seven
7mm-08
Leupold 3.5-10 x 50mm

APR Altitude 280 Ackley

APR builds a good rifle for sure

My Ruger 77 Hawkeye in 30-06 with Docter 6X scope which is a 26mm scope that sits in 30mm rings that use 4mm spacers. 😳

My GAP 6.5 SAUM.

If it’s just grab something that works near or far on anything in NA I usually grab my Voere in 270Wby. It’s pretty much point and click out to as far as I like to shoot and it’s nice to carry being under 8lb loaded and ready to go.

Most used would be my 18” PSA AR15. It’s a 223 and rides in my truck year round. It gets the lion’s share of the pig and varmint shooting with the occasional deer or other game animal thrown in. I’d say I average between 50 and 100 head of critters a year with this rifle.

What scope ya' got on that Kid?

So, all you wankers take nukes to a firecracker party, hey?

Tikka T3 SS in 30/06. VX 3 3.5-10 with CDS. 168 ttsx

Cz 527 has become my go to rifle in the last 15 years in a number of caliber, some factory chambering & others aftermarket chambering.

For deer hunting the 6.5 Grendel has been my go to rifle for the last 6 years. Or that is up to this last fall where I have put this CZ 527 together in 6mm ARC. Did a fine job of turning out the lights on this brute on the 2nd day of this last season.

My go-to is nothing fancy at all. It is an older Savage 110 in 30-06 that I have had for years. I have floated and bedded it and replaced the trigger with a timney, given the stock a homemade rattle-can camo paint job, and it wears a Bausch & Lomb 3000 Elite scope (Basically an older Bushnell Elite 3200). The rifle has always held zero and shoots better than I do. When I go on a hunting trip I usually take the flavor of the day rifle and this 06 and it usually gets carried at least half the time. It's never let me down and has been stated so many times, If I get to where I'm going and lose my ammo............... Nuf said:)

As far as loads go, I have 4 which shoot to virtually the same point of aim. 150 Sierra BTSPs w/RE19 and 165 Nosler BT's, 180 Gr Rem Corelokts, and 180 Gr Partitions (all with varying charges of IMR4350). I usually pick the ammo depending on the game but it has been deer and hogs for the most part.

Leupold VXR 1.25-4 in an SWFA SSALT mount.

Only rifle I use every year is my T/C Omega. My centerfires change every year. I’m on about a 20 year rotation. 😂

Man, now that’s a beauty!

Remington 700 .308 & Leupold VX-R 3-9x40.

That's nice!

New for last year, a winchester 70 classic left handed, in 7mm rem mag. Too much gun for my hunting, but I love the rifle. Also use a left handed tikka lite in 308, and a left handed savage 10 in 243.

Used to use a Kimber classic select in 270, but it went down the road. Only centerfire rifle I regret selling.

This one covers a lot of bases for me. No real good pics on my phone though.

7mm SAUM Lilja Mod8400 contour.