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Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? Live2hunt941 #19112179 01/15/24
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vmax204 Campfire Greenhorn V Joined: Feb 2018 Posts: 98 Montana / Alberta	I've been using a Ruger M77 RSI in 243 for the past 35 years for most of my deer hunting and switch up between 7x57 and 6.5x55 in the same RSI configuration for elk and moose. I love carbine rifles and even more if they are dressed in full wood stocks. The Ruger RSI's are hard to beat for a handy little carbine. I thought growing old would take longer.

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Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? Live2hunt941 #19112200 01/15/24
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HNIC Campfire Member Joined: Feb 2022 Posts: 144 texas	i put together a 358 on a remington 600 action, 19" barrel and a 1x5 burris in quick attach rings, with a peep sight and ivory bead front. its a bastard to shoot off the bench, but its a deer and hog stomper.

Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? Live2hunt941 #19112265 01/15/24
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FSJeeper Campfire Regular F Joined: Jun 2016 Posts: 1,375 South Texas	For inside 200 yards, which is 99% of what I do, I moved up from the .358 Win. in a Savage 99 to a 16" re-barreled Savage 99 in 450 Bushmaster. Also have 2 commercial Mauser 98s a 16" and 18" barrel in 450 Bushmaster. I have not had a deer or hog run since switching to the 450 bm, but if they did there would be one hell of a blood trail. I couldn't be happier with the 450 Bushmaster. Attached Images Pair of 450s resized.jpg (37.97 KB, 404 downloads)

Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? Live2hunt941 #19116407 01/16/24
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jobyjob Campfire Tracker J Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 4,397	Box stock Ruger American Ranch 350 Legend. Winchester Deer Season XP 150 grain Extreme Point. Vortex Crossfire ll 2-7x32 V-Plex. Eat your hearts out.

Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? vmax204 #19116457 01/16/24
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Cruiser1 Campfire Tracker C Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 6,153 Down South	Originally Posted by vmax204 I've been using a Ruger M77 RSI in 243 for the past 35 years for most of my deer hunting and switch up between 7x57 and 6.5x55 in the same RSI configuration for elk and moose. I love carbine rifles and even more if they are dressed in full wood stocks. The Ruger RSI's are hard to beat for a handy little carbine. They are nice:

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Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? irfubar #19117987 01/16/24
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Seabreeze1970 Campfire Member S Joined: Dec 2020 Posts: 164 Texas	Originally Posted by irfubar Short light rifles are my favorite rifles. Several years ago I decided to build my ultimate what was referred to as "mountain rifle" back then. I love Mausers so I tracked down a G33/40 action. Went with a Douglas barrel in featherweight contour, chambered in 30-06 cit to 21" I decided on a blind magazine to save weight. Sorted through stacks of English walnut blanks for the right combo of lightweight and figure. Weight came in at 7.25 lbs. with scope and sling. Things didn't work as well as I had hoped. Accuracy was lets say finicky, my best load was a 200 gr Nosler partition and recoil was stout. So I decided to re-barrel in 7x57, McGowen barrel this time , same fwt contour and now I have found the sweet spot! Good looking rifle.

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Nzlhaed Campfire Greenhorn N Joined: Jan 2021 Posts: 53	Those alpines sure are something! JO the bottom upgrade!

Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? Live2hunt941 #19118463 01/17/24
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Ken_L Campfire Regular K Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 2,686 South Central PA	I am going to try the Ruger RSI in 6.5x55 this year for my short barreled rifle. Attached Images pix408227708.jpg (17.05 KB, 307 downloads) NRA Lifetime Endowment Member

Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? Live2hunt941 #19119052 01/17/24
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River_Ridge Campfire Tracker Joined: Mar 2015 Posts: 3,589 Likes: 2 Upstate NY	I don't know how important the barrel length is to you but I'm loving up on my Kimber Hunter in 308. All my other deer rifles have been pretty much ignored since I bought the Kimber. Wag more, bark less. The freedoms we surrender today will be the freedoms our grandchildren will never know existed. The men who wrote the Second Amendment didn't just finish a hunting trip, they just finished liberating a nation.

Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? Live2hunt941 #19123976 01/18/24
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Hotshot828 New Member H Joined: Oct 2023 Posts: 18 Bohemia NY	Ruger American go wild in 243 or 6.5 creedmore. 16 inch barrel.

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Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? hanco #19124379 01/18/24
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diamondjim Campfire Outfitter D Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 11,691 Nebraska	Originally Posted by hanco I really like the 50’s F model Savage 99’s. They are light and quick pointing. This. ____________________________________________________________ Dying gets closer every day Lloyd McCarter and the Honky Tonk Revival

Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? Live2hunt941 #19142811 01/24/24
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SquibLoad Campfire Member S Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 141 Va	I recently picked up a first year Rem 700 in 6mm I'm going to try next year. It's shorter than what I'm use to and fairly light. I guess I'll see if it becomes my "favorite".

Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? Live2hunt941 #19143847 01/24/24
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flintlocke Campfire Outfitter F Joined: Dec 2014 Posts: 9,130 Likes: 2 Siskiyou Co.,Jefferson State	1903 Mannlicher Schoenauer, 6.5 x 54, 18 inch, 3X Lyman PCH. 156 gr PPU roundnose...ground-to-venison cruise missile. Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.

Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? flintlocke #19143870 01/24/24
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beretzs Campfire Ranger B Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 15,310 Likes: 1 Northeast USA	Originally Posted by flintlocke 1903 Mannlicher Schoenauer, 6.5 x 54, 18 inch, 3X Lyman PCH. 156 gr PPU roundnose...ground-to-venison cruise missile. That's a cool rifle! I was just looking at them on GB today. Pretty handy! Semper Fi

Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? Live2hunt941 #19143915 01/24/24
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Poconojack Campfire Tracker P Joined: May 2010 Posts: 7,360 The West Mountain	I’m fond of Ti’s and Montana’s, IMHO 22” is the perfect barrel length for a Sporting Rifle. "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson

Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? Live2hunt941 #19143994 01/24/24
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Sasha_and_Abby Campfire Tracker S Joined: Apr 2017 Posts: 3,259 Columbia, South Carolina	Ruger Ranch with 16" 5.56/.223 barrel and sweet trigger. Topped with Swarovski 2.4-15x56 shooting 55gr SP's "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went" Will Rogers

Re: Your favorite lightweight shirt barreled deer rifle??? Live2hunt941 #19144203 01/24/24
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richj Campfire Regular R Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,658 Likes: 1 NY	Win 670 carbine 30-06. Blind box with original wood stock or with floorplate in the plastic. Only hunted it in the wood stock

Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? Live2hunt941 #19145707 01/25/24
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MallardAddict Campfire Tracker Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 5,233 Rainy Western Wa	While it won’t ever be a superlight rifle my 18” 7mm-08 will fill that rifle for me. Have a lighter stock enroute as we speak. Attached Images IMG_2052.png (78.14 KB, 201 downloads)

Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? Live2hunt941 #19145786 01/25/24
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Brokenarrow Campfire Member Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 368 SW Oklahoma	For many years this little .243 was the first one I'd grab as I headed out , Lately I've been cheating on her with a cute little Browning 7mm08. Your life is made up of two dates and a dash, Make the most of the dash.

Re: Your favorite lightweight short barreled deer rifle??? Live2hunt941 #19145876 01/25/24
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dpd Campfire Regular D Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,596 Likes: 1 somewhere " downdabayou " in ...	I have a Rem. 788 carbine in 7mm08. It’s not particularly light but it’s very handy and shoots like a laser .

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