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No pictures sorry but my "Rifle" would be my Mossberg 500 with Slug choke and Red dot cause water holes are where the deer are.or my Ruger 77 .260 maybe my marlin .30/30 open sights not fancy or pretty but ugly is as ugly does.

99F .308

Its 98 degrees out with a heat index of 106. If deer season opened today, I'd be carrying iced tea or a cold beer inside my house!

My tricked out LVSF in 7-08 is going to get the nod this year. Never shot a deer with a 7mm anything so it going to be hard to pass scrubs........

What a nice thread you started!

DPMS Panther� AP4 Car. Miculek Comp. in 5.56x45

DAYUM WOMAN!... you ain't foolin' around, are ya?! ... (grin)

Jordan Smith

I have that very gun I bought 10-15 years ago and have yet to scope it and fire a shot. How well does that one perform? I may just have to get it shooting this year.

My go to right now
Ruger SRH, RH or TC 16" 45-70
1886 Winchester (made in 92) in 45-70
or my Searschester in 30-06 with (finally) Winchester bottom metal, Winchester Model 70 "plastic" stock, and 165 BTs with some 4350 behind them.

One of these two...


Remington 700 SA
Rock Creek #3 chambered in 338 Federal
McMillan Compact Stock
Leupold 6x42 w/German No. 4 reticle in Talley LWs
7lb 10oz

OR



Remington 700 LA
PacNor #1 chambered in .280AI
McMillan Edge stock in Mountain Rifle pattern
Leupold 3.5-10x40 VXIII in Talley LWs
7lb 12oz

As of this second:





Mauser 98 270 WSM, Built by Bettin Custom Guns
Richards Microfit stock, finished by yours truely
Zeiss 4.5-14x50 W/ Turrets (Thanks Trey) with data out to 700
Bold trigger, 2 lbs.

If only she shot better then .138!

If rifle season opened today I would have to bring 2 rifles. If the weather is dry the top rifle goes in the field. If it's raining, the bottom rifle get's the nod. Both are Winchester Model 70's chambered in 300 WSM and both will be shooting the 130 grain TTSX. Both rifles are topped off with Talley Lightweight mounts and Zeiss Conquest 3-9x40 scopes with the Z-plex reticle. Top rifle is a Custom rifle done by Mike Burnett with the Featherweight checker pattern at 24 LPI. The bottom rifle I bought from Huntr off of this website has a McSwirly stock. It will see a lot of action on days I can't hunt with the wood stock due to the rain or rough terrain.

WIN: Man, what an UGLY pair of guns ....

While I don't think we have ever comunicated, I can assure you we are of the same taste. Awesome rifles!

LouisB,
I have other hunting rifles, but I can't seem to pick up anything else when it comes time to head out to the field. The rifle balances and shoots like a dream. It's obviously nice and light, so is a joy to carry, and it puts any load into 1.5", most into 1", a few loads into 0.5" and one load into 0.3" quite consistently. The rifle is balanced so well that it just seems to float up to my face for a good cheek weld and back into my shoulder. It then proceeds to point itself at the target with very natural fluidity. The action is slick as sh**, feeds extremely reliably, and is very strong.

In case you can't tell, I'm extremely pleased with the gun, and if you are interested, I'd love to take yours off your hands...

Three or four are ready to go,but I'd likely grab a pre 64 M70 FW 270 with Brown Precision kevlar stock,Kreiger #1 barrel and 4X Leupold.Alternate would be another pre 64 FW, 270,all original except for the trigger job.Scope is also a 4X Leup.Loads would be 130 Nosler Partition at about 3100 in each.

Great thread , lot's a nice rifles here.

For me , it would be a Marlin . Whichever one called the
loudest that morning.

hehe, nope Wish I had the DPMS though...

Guess if I had to pick from the 2 carbines we got here, I'd probably go with the Ruger 44 Carbine


DH's go to gun is the other carbine, an inherited Rem 742
Woodsmaster, .30-06 in pristine condition (no pic at the moment)