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I'm always excited to see what guys bring to deer camp.

We have mostly guys who don't much care if they get a deer, but really like they're rifles.

First two days of PA Rifle season and so far we have kills with a Browning BLR in.300wm , a marlin 1894 in .357, a marlin 336 in .30-30 and a savage 110 .350 legend.

Still trying tomorrow are a couple marlin .45-70s, a 20ga Mossberg 500, a Ruger Blackhawk.44mag and a Remington 760 .300 Savage.

Hopefully we add a few more to the list!

-Jake

Majority at ours is 30-06. Pump and Bolts.

Two Ruger 77 280s, two Ruger 77 7RM, a 700 270, a M70 270, a Mannlicher 7x57mm, and a Ruger stainless Hawkeye UL 7mm-08.

Sako 85 finnlight in 270 Winchester

Sako 85 stainless in 25-06

Sako 75 stainless in 7mm Remington magnum

Remington model 7 in 243

Remington 700 in 300 win mag

I was the only one that killed deer at our camp this season. 1st was a 760 30-06. 2nd was a win m70 xtr in .243

Rob hunts with a synthetic / stainless 7mm-08. Dwight prefers a Winchester 94 in either 30-30 or .44 Magnum. Frank & Ross both shoot .35 Whelen. I'm a Ruger #1 guy & I let whimsy or a coin flip decide what I'm going to hunt with. Last year I used my .303 British. This year I'm going to hunt with my 6.5x55 SE or my .275 Rigby RSI.

Most of the hunters own but one hunting rifle and used for deer and bear. 30-06 slide action rifles are common but always a 30-30 or two. - Sherwood

Kinda old school in our camp. One Remington mod 721 in 270, Marlin 336 in 35 rem. and Marlin 336 in 30 30.

Kimber Montana - 7-08
Winchester .270 (push feed)
Henry 22lr lever action for giggles

lots of 7-08,6.5 creeds, and 280's , guys are trending to smaller calibers. Used to be lots of 30-30's and 06's years ago. Guess they figured out that white tail aren't wearing the body armor anymore.

Just 2 of us in the F250 "camp" this fall.

Kimber Montana 22" 1:8 Lilja 270Win w/2.5-10x42 NXS
M70 SS Classic in McMillan Edge, 25" 1:10 Lilja, 257Wby w/3-10x42 SHV
Kimber Montana 22" 1:8 Bartlein 22-250 w/2.5-10x42 NXS

Barrett Fieldcraft 25-06 w/4.5-14x40 Leupold
Kimber Mt Ascent 280AI w/4.5-14x40 Leupold

My Ruger American compact in .243Win. and my son has a Tikka .270 WIn.

Don’t have a deer camp but pulled all the deer weapons out the safe.Son scored a doe youth weekend with mod 70 lightweight 243 laminate stock.I shot 2 target bucks with the encore muz ldr and wifey stole my 30-30 with her dinky 7 pt.

A marlin .30-30 and a Ruger American in .243 got on the board today.

20 gauge slug missed a doe twice.

I came home until Saturday.

-Jake

Hunted solo out of my house "camp" this year. I had three rifles ready to go. I harvested my buck with a Remington 760 Carbine in .30-06. Also hunted with a Remington 7600 Carbine in .30-06. Unfortunately, my Remington 7600 in .358 Winchester with 20" Krieger barrel did not make it out into the woods. All have lower power Leupold scopes.

In Alabama I saw 7mm08s, 6.5 CMs, 25-06, 270, 7mm mag and a 308. Trend is smaller calibers in durable weather resistant rifles. I used a swaro Z3 on my rifle but most all other rifles I saw had a scopes with a gold ring on them. Newer rifles had 40ish objectives but over all equally distributed between those and 50ish objectives. Younger guys are interested in dials where as the old boys are sticking with point and shoot.

In Ohio where I am now there is a mixed bag of firearms. Newer rifles are definitely trending toward the 350 Legend in scoped bolt guns. Some 45-70s and even a sluggun holdout. I’m shooting a 350 legend in a Winchester XPR with a VX3i 2.5-8x36.

Spent a week in MT chasing mulies, saw all bolt guns:

My Nosler M48 in .270Win with Leupold VX6HD 2-12
My friends Tikka Light in 7mm RM with Burris "something".
Rem 700 in 30-06 Leupold VX3 3-9
Tikka in 6.5C
Rem 700 in .308Win

Tomorrow is our opener and I'll be hunting my neighbors with a Rem M7 in .350 for the wooded and my Nolser M48 for the row crop fields. Next week a bunch of us are doing a couple drives on WIHAs, so I'll see some Marlin 336s in 30-30 and .35Rem. I'll be using my M7 in .350RM.

Wife and I were alone in camp this year. We took a Winlite FWT 270 (mine) and a 700 Classic 250 for her. Also toted along a Ruger M77 Ultralite 257 as a backup and a good 22LR. Actually not a bad battery all things considered.

A weatherby mkv in 30-378 with leupold vx3hd 4.5-14×40, remington model seven 7mm/08 leupold vx3 2.5-8×38, and a remington 783 6.5 creedmoor burris ffIV 4.5-14x42. 2 kills with the 7mm08 and one with the creedmoor.

In our camp:

Couple Browning BARs in .30-06
Remington 700 .30-06
Remington 700 7mm Mag
Mauser M12 .308
Savage 10 .308
Rossi 92 .44 Mag

This will change from year to year depending on what guys have a penchant to bring to camp. Scopes range from Leupold to Nikon to Zeiss. Most of the group shoots factory ammo while there is a handloader in there.