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Some mighty fine stuff there guys!!!


Best,

GWB

My other classic, since it has laminate.

This one is pretty classic to me...

The No. 1 is def. a classic in my book as well.

Very nice!

How about Ingwewife with a Rem 722 in .257 Roberts?

Classic enough?

Damn - I need a 257 Bob

Works on Mule eared deer too....

That's more like it...!

My WW Model 70 Featherweight in 7x57 with a Leupold 2.5x8

Ingwe-san,

will that be what your darlin' bride will be totin' when ya'll come a axis killin' here in Texas next year?


Best

GWB

The secondhand ADL in 270 WCF I bought about 20 years ago seems lucky. Got the 3 biggest whitetails I've shot.


It's going along again tomorrow for 3 days in a scabbard.







Other 2 bucks were taken in more classic whitetail country, down on the riverbottom.



Glamour shot.

There have been a lot of beautiful rifles posted here.

Geedubya, since you asked for more pix, here are some that relate to recent posts.

I had a sporterized K-98 in .257 Roberts which I sold to buy the .270.



I also have a No. 1:

You guys are killing me with these beautiful pictures.

Sam Olsen that is beautiful country where ever you are brother you're a lucky man!

Public land but be prepared to see other hunters.

No lease whitetail....grin

That is one of the good things about the "net".

IMHO having regular guys post pictures of their rifles, and the country they hunt, along with their stories is 10 times better than anything on the hunting channels.

Here's an attaboy to all ya'll

Best,

GWB

Amen to that!

This is as "Classic" as I got(she's sporting an old steel Weaver K3 now)


Although my CZ-550(.270) is still my favorite...

Two sides to every coin.

I'd love to be in one of the Western states where ya'll have public land, elk, bear, cougar, sheep and goats. But I don't and in all likelihood will never in this lifetime.

So I make the best of it I can. I do hunt private land and have either one or two leases (depending on my finances).

Some folk in the western states make fun of how we hunt here.
However I'm not a bit ashamed of how I hunt. I hunt working mans leases. I've never paid over $1,700 a year for an annual lease. With the exception of the bear I killed in New Mexico last year, everything on my wall has been taken DIY, no guide and no trophy fee. I've never hunted high fence, and most likely never will.













Yes we hunt over feeders, but on a 50,000 acre low fenced ranch with similar land around it for about a 50 mile radius, that don't mean killin' deer is a cake walk.
I hunted three different weekends during this bow season. Got to my lease on Thursay in time to hunt. Twice I stayed through the Monday morning hunt. That is 14 days in the stand, most days morning and evening. I've seen one doe and two fawns during that whole time. We've had so much rain and such an acorn crop the deer don't even bother coming to the spin cast feeders. Heck I even got skunked by hogs one weekend and that almost never happens.

G, I know you hunt.

Didn't mean to sound negative.



I just wanted to be clear that most of the big pieces of public land around here get a lot of pressure. The whitetail I shot was a total lucky fluke.

You'd really have to look to even find any whitetail out there now.


I did see a decent 5x5 last week right before dark here close to home on deeded.

Haulin' ass, the other direction, just got a 2 second glimpse through bino's.