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[quote=shrapnel]Since it has shifted to birds now, I got this great damascus shotgun and snuck up on this gopher…



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Shrapnel who is the maker of your double rifle in 7X57?

Henry Clarke of Leicester, England

Your a very luck man congratulations.

I bet some people just thought he was stepping up to the microphone.

I seem to have a knack for doing just that!

Shotguns have been my true love sense my first .410 at 8 yrs old, I have always been a avid bird hunter, as the old saying goes " if it fly's it dies " from Black Birds To Geese, up until this last year I have hunted Birds almost every day for the entire season, i still keep about 30 dogs just for Quail,Dove, Pheasant, and Sharp Tail, I think shooting at flying birds with a BB gun or pellet rifle as a kid, teaches us many good lessons on point and shoot, that carries over to snap shooting critters with hair, shooting running Jack Rabbits with a single shot.22 will humble a young guy until he learns how and when to shoot as Mule Deer said. Rio7

Right on. I remember reading that Lanny Benoit was a State Champion skeet shooter. And, for my money one of the very best on up-close and/or running deer in the woods. Last time I heard he used a 3-9 Trijicon. And, once sighted in, the final test is to shoot a can of beans thrown in the air. Having said that, Hal Blood, another deadly son of a gun still uses a peep.

Since my last couple of deer in PA were shot at about 50 yards with a .308 M700, I decided to try lighter and less recoil with a scoped Stevens 325 in 30-30 Win. With Leverevolution powder, I'm getting around 2300 fps with 170 gr Nosler partitions. Puts 3 shots in an inch at 100 yards. Weighs 7 1/4 pounds with 2-7x Leupold scope. Very modest recoil.

This is a close-in rifle.

I used to believe that you needed a woods rifle, mine was a peep sighted Marlin 336 35 Rem, and a field rifle, and I used a Model 700 scope sighted 270. Then I killed a buck in the woods at 10 yards with the 270, and I decided that it would work for both short and long ranges. Practically all of my deer hunting these days in over open fields, and I haven't killed a deer closer than 100 yards in years, but if I ever do hunt the heavy cover again, I will more than likely use the same rifle I'd use for taking longer shots.

"Puts 3 shots in an inch at 2100 yards. Weighs 7 1/4 pounds with 2-7x Leupold scope. Very modest recoil.

This is a close-in rifle."

Damn, what's your long range rifle ?

Hell of a group at 1.2 miles, Even more so considering that the bullet was a 170 grain Partition launched with a muzzle velocity of 2,300 fps.

In SE Texas, the fastest woods rifle I ever used was a Marlin 1894/44 Mag with factory irons. Pure poison! I did almost as well with a Win Mod 94 Classic carbine ( except the heavier barrel made a "slight" difference in getting on target fast.)
Here in Utah, I like the Remington 700 MR, and the Win 70 FWT Classic, or similar. They are a bit "light in the britches" out on the windy prairies, but thats a different kind of hunting too.

Oops! I need to keep the fat finger off the trigger I guess!

This works either close or far. Pre 64 M70 7MM carbine
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Mine is a Bergara B14 SP in 308 Win with a Leupold VX111 2.5-8 in low aluminum Talleys. Shooting 150gr Hornady Round Nose with a middle road charge of Varget.



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That's a cool rifle GSP.

Thank you beretz. This and a 358 are my two favorites.

They’d be mine as well!

This would make a good close up rifle. Nef 44 mag single shot. Picked it up the other day had a 3-9 Burris ff2 but I swapped it for a long tube Burris 1.75-5 x20