Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game What will you be toting this year?

Lots of deer (and a black bear if ol' yogi will cooperate ) hunting planned this year. I would like to use all of the following but will be totally happy to use any of the following for freezer filling:

The "Green Hornet" .30/06 6x Leupy and either 155 Hornady A-Max or 165 Nosler BT[img]http://[IMG]http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p170/hillbillybear_2006/mauserand700003.jpg[/img][/img]




Mauser Type C Military Sporter 8x57, peep sights. Bullet and Load TBD


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Remington 700 .340 Wby (its currently wearing a Leupy VXI 3-9) and either 200 grain Hornady or 200 grain CT BT[img]http://[IMG]http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p170/hillbillybear_2006/340Weatherby002jpg.jpg[/img][/img]




Custom Tikka T-3 Heavy Barrel .30/06 4.5-14 Nikon with mil-dot reticle (scope in the photo is a 3-9 Pentax Gameseeker) and 155 grain Hornady A-Max


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Model 7 custom 6BR 3-9 Weaver, load TBD:


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Also hope to use :


.280 AI 3-9 Pentax Lightseeker 120 grain Nosler BT

.257 Wby. 4.5-14 Nikon 100 grain Nosler BT


Ruger 7mm WSM 3-9 Sightron with 120 Nosler BT.

In order of use;
Bowtech Allegiance
.257 Roy Vanguard SS SUB MOA w/ Zeiss 4.5-14x50
.300 WSM Winchester Ultimate Shadow Camo SS w/ Zeiss 3.5-10x44
.280 Steyr Prohunter SS w/ Zeiss 3.5-10x44
and possibly a few others if I get the itch!!

Matthews Switchback XT = Indiana deer......maybe KY???
Rem 11/87 12 gauge = Indiana deer if unsuccsessful with above.
or Rem 700 ML in 50 cal if unsuccessful with both of the above.
Maybe just maybe Rem 700 TI in .308 for deer in KY???
Last but not least, if I decide to get a deer tag in AZ with the leftover draw.....my Rem 700 SPS in .300WSM before it gets a makeover.
I dont seem to draw tags anymore these days.........

For WY antelope, .264 WM Supergrade, with a .25-06 Featherweight as a backup. For MO deer, Pre-64 Model 88 in 308 with a BLR in 358 for variety.

CA deer and hogs- .280 Rem Mountain Rifle w/140 TSX
NM bull elk----- .300 WSM Kimber Montana w/165 TSX
MT bull elk/deer .338 Ruger tang safety w/225 TSX

I'll be packing Red Sonya; CZ 550 9.3x62 in a McMillan stock, Trijicon 3-9x40 tritium illuminated scope.

Jeff & friends,

My primary rifle this year is my NULA M24 .30-'06, and I have a Ruger M77 Hawkeye in .300 RCM that will go in the truck as a backup in case I break something. Or maybe just to have another gun along.

jim

I dunno. I was hoping for a new toy or two but consignment stuff is not going fast enough. I don't think I've got time now to get a new toy and get a load worked up. If that's the case ...

Rem 700 .257 Roberts "LVSF" pattern
Ruger .44 mag super blackhawk hunter
Marlin stainless 45-70 guide gun
TC .58 side lock

... got one deer tag, one bear tag, one cougar tag. I usually only actively hunt deer, the others ... well, if a dumb one wanders by, I'll probably shoot it. Which gun ... depends on weather and cover I'll be hunting in on any given day.

Tom

Kick ass! Very nice rifle you got there.

I'm hoping to knock over one of the young bull moose I have running around my place with my 350 rem. mag. shooting 200-grain Hornady Interlock's.

bearstalker, any idea how fast you are running those Hornady's?

Nothing they've shown me on blacktail would give me any reason to doubt them... I'm more curious to see how close I am to the speeds you are running, so that I'll know how good my .358 would do on moose with that bullet <g>.

Sharp tail grouse at standing distances of 75-120 yds:

Winchester 9422M - FFII 3-9 40mm and or this guy. (savage .17 HMR)


then some of this stuff....

4th up on the bottom right is the other magnum rimfire, it'll hopefully see use again on fox, rabits etc.

Rough grouse will likely be any of the 4 lack luster shot guns on the left (870 youth 20, 870 12 mag, custum camo'd stevens single 20, winchester single .410) and possibly the nylon 66 towards the bottom right... and I'll likely ground pound grouse & a few rabits with one or all 3 of the rimfire handguns pictured.


My number 1 for WT is the scoped rifle in the vert lineup on the left M70 fwt 30-06 FFII 3-9, I've been seen carrying the top right rifle to a deer stand for WT although it's primary use is for elk M70 .300 wby FFII 3.5-10 50mm. I will carry the lever above the encore on the right, 1895M, white tail have successfully avoided this rifle thus far but one cow elk caught lead from this stubby thumper in 2005. The other lever I'll carry for WT, is my fav still hunting rifle, this one.


88 in .308 loopy fixed 4X, love that rifle.

Then for black powder season on WT it'll be the encore pictured with the .50 barrel below it & no scope.

Then for coyotes it'll be these guys. M70 coyote crpf 22-250

and old block stock here, also 22-250 & although not as nice to carry as the above pictured it is my go to varmint rifle because of the insane accuracy.


so, which ones will I be toting? I try to use or at least carry them all

Dave

Average was 2820 fps with max load and 23" pac-nor tube.

You've got 200 fps on me then. Interesting. You've seen them hold together good on big stuff at that speed?

H335 is the powder that I'm running. Powder was about 10 years old and I figured I'd burn it up in the 350. I acquired the rifle over the winter and haven't killed anything with it yet, nor with the 200-grain Hornady's.

Hopefully I'll find out in the next couple of weeks on moose.

Good luck and I can't wait to hear how that bullet does. By all reports, it should do great.

A 308.

Either this one:



Or This one.

Last time I saw that BLR, it had a stuck case <g>.

Not gonna hunt the DPMS, eh?

That DPMS might be the ultimate hog gun... we just need some feral hogs to get loose up here in Oregon.

Jeff there are Feral hogs in Oregon

Check that.

Add a Kimber 257 for KY deer (will have to shoot some does to get blood on the rifle)