Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Your tight cover rigs.......lets see em

Here are mine:


top to bottom:
Ruger #1 RSI, 7x57, Leupy VXI 2-7x32
Browning BLR, 358Win, Leupy VXI Shotgun 1-4x20
Remington 740, 308Win, BBL cut to 18.2", Leupy VXI SG 1-4x20
Marlin 1894, 44 Rem. Mag....made 1977
Marlin 336RC, 30/30Win, Williams FP peep, True glow front sight....1952

Oh.... rifles!! Good thing.. I couldn't find a pix of a box of Trojans...

Ruger BH 41 mag
Remington 760 30-06 w/ Leupold Vari-X III 2.5-8x
Savage M99EG 300 Sav. w/ Leupold VX-II 1-4x
Ruger SRH 44 mag w/ Leupold M8 2x (no pics)

How tight of a rig we talk-in.



45 ACP

Or this one. --338 RUM

Mine is the same as my long range and everything-in-between range rifle.

M700 in 7mm-08.

Shot last year's deer with it at about 50 feet.

Carry it for all of my big game hunting, brush to mountains. Keeps it real simple that way.

I have two .270s, I use the 22" one in tight cover, the 24" everywhere else, or either one, whenever/wherever. The 25/06 also does double duty. It just depends on what I feel like carrying that day.

Been known to use handguns at times, also, pretty much the same ones others have posted, a couple of .44s, a .41, and a slew of .45s and a 10mm.
I'm an equal opportunity user.

Rem 7600 7-08 22" barrel
M70 30-06 24" barrel
Ruger 77 .243 22" barrel

Never had a need for a short barrel even in brush.

Mossberg 9200 12ga. Took the 4X scope off and am planning on replacing it with a 2.5X with either a Heavy Duplex or German #4.

Same here.

....Rossi 92 in 45 Colt with 16" barrel....Winchester AE WranglerII in 38/55, 16.5" barrel...Remington 760 22" barrel in 35Rem...Brown High Country in 284 Winchester with 20" Shilen barrel...CZ 550FS in 7X57 Mauser 20" barrel......Remington 141 20" barel in 35Rem.....H&R Handi-Gun in 357 RemMag with a 18" barrel.....Backup Boar gun=Ruger Black Hawk in 41 RemMag.....

Top: Close QTR Combat.

2nd from Top: Thick woods Whitetail.

3rd from Top: Two-legged varmints, up close and personal.

Bottom: Crack heads

OK, I like shorty's.

It's different now, I just put a Zeiss 1.8-5.5 on it in Talleys... It's a 20" Model 7 LSS in .358 Win.





Freedumb1, I'm right there with you! Got an M1a Scout rifle and an M4gery myself...

Marlin 1895 with Leupold 2.5X scout scope. 45-70. Scope allows for free access to the hammer or loading ports.

I have a couple of carbines and mostly prefer them for horse back hunting which I do a lot of...I have a handy big bore with a short heavy tube and I really like it, but no more than my other big bores and I hunt the same DG in the same bush with all of them. I love my trapper M-94 and its super accurate and handy, but a little hard to snap on target as its so light.

As to tight cover and the fact that I'll be shooting off hand I would opt for a heavy rifle and the barrel length wouldn't be part of the equasion, short or long, no difference to me...IMO short barrels are in the mind of the beholder, how are you going to "pre-know" where the bush is thats going to interfere with the shot? That my friends is an old wives tale. 4 inches of barrel is the length of my pocket knife and can't make any difference in the real world..The old timers, mountain men, folks that lived by the gun mostly liked long tubes on their Winchesters and muzzle loaders and they did well with them,even in tight cover.

If you like carbines and they feel good to you then that is the best/real reason to own them. Trying to justify them one way or the other to anyone that has hunted a good deal is folly..

....Different strokes for different folks it's said. Speaking in absolutes for everyone is folly indeed...... I've done a good bit of hunting myself , about 50 years worth now, and dearly love lightweight rifles with 20" area barrels. Just my PERSONAL preference.The great mass of my hunting has been in our eastern states. I suspect had I lived and hunted out west more than the few years spent there, I well may have preferred the longer barrels for thier flatter trajectories. It's most often splitting hairs I suppose, but then the great portion of all our judgement, whether choosing women, or our firearms, is built on the splitting of such 'hairs'.

.....It's pretty clear that as an assembled group outdoors men have long preferred the shorter carbine configurations for hunting dense growth areas, and in open country longer tubed guns dominate. There are exceptions of course, but such a trend speaks perhaps more loudly than any one man's voice. Such trends are born of L-O-N-G years afield, in M-A-N-Y men's hands, under every weather condition, and in pursuit of various game animals, and can thus be trusted as a solid foundation upon which to make sound judgement free of individual eccentricities, an amalgam as it were of many men's best judgement call, and what has WORKED BEST over the years...

sako finnlight, .270 w/mcm edge