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Lots of people talk about a "truck gun" but what about one for the tractor?

This would be the one you would take with you in the tractor as you were out and about, mowing, haying, ploughing, tending fences, etc.

Guy from GA I used to work with carried a .44 and would use it to blast armadillos and snakes. But there are lots of options, "horses for courses", right?

Anyway, how do you roll?...And why?

We have .223 Ruger Americans in ranch vehicles including tractors. Cost efficient, enough horsepower, brutally accurate. I keep the predator model with me as mine.

Edited to add on mine I wrap a ring of door/window insulating seal tape around both scope bells as the guns always getting banged around. The scope also wears a cheap shower cap to keep dust and crap off.



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9mm or 40 depends on the day don’t have anywhere to prop a long gun on my antique

I made a gun rack for the cab of my tractor and keep a Ruger 77/17 HMR in it year round. It sits in the righthand front corner, and is totally out of the way.

I know a farmer that has a Rem 870 in his tractor cab.

Howa mini in 300 Blackout.

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Back in the early 1990s I bought a couple of cases of NIB NORINCO SKS carbines that went to a bunch of farmers to use as tractor and combine rifles. I wonder what condition they are in 30+/- years later?

I have always thought that a stainless version of the Savage 24 combination guns would have been a great thing, even greater if the rifle barrel could be regulated.

A Marlin 783S/883S/983S might turn out to be pretty useful.

Have 2 friends, father son team that have nylon holsters zip tied to several of their tractors & alternate a few Ruger Single Sixes back & forth. Otherwise, until they quit making them & got expensive, the H&R Handi rifles w/a Tasco or Simmons were very popular.

Glock 26 on a magnetic mount, underneath the loader joy stick

My tractor is a Kubota L3240, with no cab. No place for a long gun, so I carry a Ruger SR22 with RDS. More likely to come across a raccoon or an opossum than anything bigger.

Out in the bush, I travel armed.

S&W Gov. .410's in the first four for shooting rats. 45 ACP in the 2 round moon clip in the last two for armadillo's.

Kimber Montana in .223 lives on the ATV where I spend a lot more time checking fences, etc.

I have a cz 40p. One mag with shot the other with ball.

Is it a big or small tractor you're trying to kill?

I recomend a bullet to the injector pump.

My idea was to use a 12 ga. H&R Partner with 20" barrel, turkey choke and Dead Coyote shells.

Got the gun, never set it up on the tractor. That combo could make it interesting out to 60 yds or so, would be good for a quick shot on a 'yote that you jumped up while clipping weeds, etc.

It's a 3 1/2", but that's a bit much for a light gun. 3" is bad enough. It's deadly on squirrels in the yard using std. #7 1/2 shells.

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Rossi 92 .357 goes with me everywhere on the farm.

Used to carry one. Not any more. Once took a shot at a crow with a 4" S&W 66, full house .357 load from seat of my tractor. Steel floor. steel canopy. Steel fenders. HURT ! ! ! Never again...

I use to carry 17hmr but swapping them out for 233s. Sometimes the yotes hang up a little further than I'd like for the 17s.

Years ago I made my son a 223 mini Mauser stocked in a MPI stock. It's light and short. He's used it a lot for hogs, coyotes, etc while mowing and such. It serves him well. He throws in in the truck when feeding and the Mule also.