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1929-vintage Springfield Armory M1903 NRA Sporter. For $45 + NRA membership card the Armory would build you one and mail it to you. Less than 5000 made total, 1922-ish to early 1930's. Production stopped when commercial gunmakers bitched about the gov't competing with them for sales of hunting rifles. This one is documented and in original configuration. Very accurate, well balanced, a joy to carry all day - it's become my go-to deer rifle. .30-06, naturally. I got it from the grandson of the original owner who lived in Alaska and toted it on his regular trips to Kodiak Island. The bears it has accounted for give it some good ju-ju IMO! Last 60-70 years before I got it, it lived in a closet. Nice to see the old girls get some exercise!!
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308 carbine bought here on the fire. I have lots of no frills hunting rifles, but this is one of my favorites. As my home place is still stuck in the 1970 slug gun mentality zone, this one has been making most of my meat for the last decade. 11/87 youth 20ga with a Leopold 2-7. The short stock works great with a heavy coat. Oh I almost forgot my Ohio meat stick in 44mag. Also bought here on the fire.
They say everything happens for a reason. For me that reason is usually because I've made some bad decisions that I need to pay for.
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I've shot that .450 Howell. Me too, and I saw it flatten its first critter. miles
Look out for number 1, don't step in number 2.
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My go-to lately. Tikka .243 in a Sako Edge. 90gr NBT @ 3100.
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Too close for irons, switching to scope...
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Take your pick - all mine are no-frills: Not gonna hunt them up and pic em, or list them. The most no-frills is likely the Rem770 POS. Swapped out the no-name scope that came with the $400 Walmart special for a 6X40? Tasco (proven scope). MOA, factory ammo, no mods except I think I tuned the trigger a bit to about 2.5 lbs. Crisp and light anyway. Worked to well over 300 yards, 2 years ago. Corelokts too!
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I have a few Marlin X guns that have been rebarreled with Savage, Stevens, and/or Savage specs barrels in 223, 22-250, 250-3000, 257 Roberts, 260, 6.5 CM, and 7x57. Pretty much interchangeable in how they feel, shoot, and allow me to punch tags.
A lot of people used to discount the old Adams & Bennet barrels that MidwayUSA sold for a little over $100, but the 4 Savage specs ones that I have in 250-3000, 257 Roberts, 260, and 7x57 all shoot good groups and are easy to clean, not jacket collectors like a lot of Savage factory barrels are.
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This one has put a bunch of meat in the freezer since 1969! .3o/o6 One sweet deer killing rifle and caliber right there Kenneth
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Take your pick - all mine are no-frills: Not gonna hunt them up and pic em, or list them. The most no-frills is likely the Rem770 POS. Swapped out the no-name scope that came with the $400 Walmart special for a 6X40? Tasco (proven scope). MOA, factory ammo, no mods except I think I tuned the trigger a bit to about 2.5 lbs. Crisp and light anyway. Worked to well over 300 yards, 2 years ago. Corelokts too! Now THAT'S what I call no frills. Some of the ones here are pretty frilly...
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Just picked up a Yugo M48 Sporterized by Zastava. Factory re-matched, high polished milled floorplate, re-blued with a nice piece of Elmwood. Factory tapped for bases. Rugged looks and functions great! This could make a great meat getter. Will post pics later. For sale at various locations on both sides of the border. These were sporterized in 1997 and stored away for nearly 3 decades only to resurface for the western market. I suspect these were made-up for the Serbian "home guard" in Kosovo before hostilities broke out there, but who knows. Zastava M98 Sporter
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Last edited by DeanAnderson; 11/16/23. Reason: add pictures
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Dean, that’s a nice looking 300 & Western!
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Big 2nd that, rather have that entire outfit as most showcase rifles & scopes, and in a great hunting cartridge!
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1929-vintage Springfield Armory M1903 NRA Sporter. For $45 + NRA membership card the Armory would build you one and mail it to you. Less than 5000 made total, 1922-ish to early 1930's. Production stopped when commercial gunmakers bitched about the gov't competing with them for sales of hunting rifles. This one is documented and in original configuration. Very accurate, well balanced, a joy to carry all day - it's become my go-to deer rifle. .30-06, naturally. I got it from the grandson of the original owner who lived in Alaska and toted it on his regular trips to Kodiak Island. The bears it has accounted for give it some good ju-ju IMO! Last 60-70 years before I got it, it lived in a closet. Way cool gnoahhh.
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That's a sharp-looking rifle.
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That's a sharp-looking rifle. Here's my no-frills rifle, the Remington 722 .257 Roberts that my grandmother used to kill everything from pronghorns to elk in central Montana. It was given to her by her second husband in 1953 (my grandfather died during the Great Depression), a hardware store owner in Denton, Montana. At least six family members have used it to take big game. It's still very accurate, and I killed this pronghorn doe in 2016 at 350 yards on pretty breezy day with a 100-grain Barnes TTSX handload. Also used it some when guiding during the late 1980s, in one instance killing a wounded pronghorn buck at around 550. Of course, that was before laser rangefinders, but by using the plex reticle as a rough RF, managed to get it done. Might have to take it hunting again this fall....
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Kinda tough to make out in this pic but it started life as an Interarms Mark X in .30-06 some stock modifications and a barrel band later it is the "go to" gun when I think I'm gonna shoot something bigger than a deer. This was culling in Africa...I have a tad over $200 invested in this rifle Just in case no one has told you lately: YOU SUCK! You're welcome.
"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that lightening ain't distributed right." - Mark Twain
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Take your pick - all mine are no-frills: Not gonna hunt them up and pic em, or list them. The most no-frills is likely the Rem770 POS. Swapped out the no-name scope that came with the $400 Walmart special for a 6X40? Tasco (proven scope). MOA, factory ammo, no mods except I think I tuned the trigger a bit to about 2.5 lbs. Crisp and light anyway. Worked to well over 300 yards, 2 years ago. Corelokts too! Now THAT'S what I call no frills. Some of the ones here are pretty frilly... I had a 770 in 300wm that had the grittiest factory trigger conceived by man and that would rust if you looked at it too hard. But it drove tacks.
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