Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters If you could Start ALL over - and ONLY own 1 Rifle + Scope ???

Something similar to this but probably with a scope somewhere in the 2-7 range.

I started my hunting career in 1956 with a Rem.721 in 30.06, it's long gone now. In the meantime I've used a bunch of different cartridges and they all worked. I have a rifle in the works now, a pre-64 Winchester, Hart#3 barrel, McMillan stock and a Leupold 6xLR. I plan to finish my hunting career with the the cartridge I started with. If all goes well, I use it on an antelope, a buck mule deer and a bull elk this coming fall.

I like my Howa 1500 in 30-06.



I just wish I could afford a real scope.

I hope we are talking game rifles. I would still NEED, a bunch of .22s and a Bee or Hornet.

It's in the safe. An early post war commercial FN, .30-06, 24" barrel, tight grain custom English style stock with short forearm and a Neidner butt plate, wearing a 2.5-8 Leupold in Kimber of Oregon detachable mounts, and a Browning leather cobra carry strap let out just enough for a hasty sling. Oh yes fine line, and oak leaf bordered checkering.

If you are going to make me sell all the others, I will change the scope to a Zeiss Conquest HD5 2-10x42, and have a few scrolls of engraving put on the action and rings. Maybe just the rings to keep the rust blue intact. It has a front post and I have a NIB vintage Lyman receiver for a back up.

Truthfully, a small ring Browning Safari .243 or a like .308 both sitting near the above would also work from here on out. Likely the .243. One of the daughters wants the .308. She will get it whenever I decide......

Jack

What have now as a primary hunting rifle. Sako Finnlight, 30-06, Be putting a 6x42 Leuplod LR on it soon, use a 200gr NAB.

i was feeling sorry for all the disatvantaged people i.e. the right hand bolts, and you made me feel better. I have a 760 carbine in 30.06 with a redfield on it, lupy's little brother, and i think in reality it would do just about anything you would want done, properly loaded.

my kimber montana in 308 with LW Talley's and a 6x42 scope with german #4.

This my do everything rifle. 1941 Winchester Model 70, original 30/06 barrel rechambered to .300 Winchester Magnum, reworked and restocked in Australian walnut by Al and Roger Biesen. It now wears a fixed 6x36 Leupold, holds zero perfectly with 180 grain Nosler Partitions over 72 grains/IMR 4350 (Winchester brass) for 3012 fps and MOA accuracy. Weighs 8# 10 oz., feels lighter.

I expect a 30/06 would suit me just as well, but this is the rifle with which I have a hot love affair that happens to be a .300.

Geez�..dats NICE!!!!!!

If ONLY one for all my purposes,... then a .243 I suppose. My current Model 7 with Loopy atop would suffice.

Dave

tough to one rifle but for me 7mm stw and ahve to load to game
MRC left hand action
26" barrel #4 contour 1 in 9.5 twist in stainless
mcmillian stock
luepy qrw rings
current scope which has been acceptable is nikon 4x16

One of my gone but not forgotten New Haven Model 70 stainless short actions. Chambered in .308(or possibly 260). Talley lightweights. 2.5x8 Leupold. In a Bansner "pounder".
Or the factory 270 I already have lol

Nice!

This one



308, McMillan, now wears a VX3 2.5x8 in Tally LW's, bolt has also been sexyed up by Karl since photo

Weight is perfect, caliber handles most anything I'll ever hunt.

Rem. 700 action, 23" stainless PacNor light conture barrel, McMillian light fill mountain rifle stock, Leupold 6X42mm in Tallies.....AND, in .....30-06 cal. (grin!)

And just hunt the crap out'a it!

If just one rifle for Varmit hunting, a Ruger 77V Lam. W/ Leupold 3.5X10 A.O. ..In 22 Hornet.

Virgil B.

That is breathtaking!

I'd want my "one rifle" to be a show-stopper like that: if I only get one, it might was well be a beauty. Chambered in something that burns 40-odd grains of powder, I could easily take any NA game short of big bears, and look fine doing it.

4x32 Conquest for me, please.

FC

If I were convinced I would never be hunting brown bear or African dangerous game, it would be:

.280 Rem. cal.
Pre-64 Winchester M70 action
Custom #2 contour barrel, 22" length
McMillan Edge or Bansner stock
Talley LW mounts, Leupold VX3 3.5-10 scope, probably CDS
1" Pachmayr Decellerator pad

Actually, I already have this one, with a Bansner stock, which tips the scales at 7 3/4 lb. all up, crazy accurate with a number of bullets and powders. The only thing I would change, if there were a next go-around, would be to use the Edge stock instead of the Bansner.

I told my son to study calibers for game that he waned to hunt. He asked if I would just recommend one to him.

"If you want every excuse to get another rifle to be gone forever, get a .308" was my response.

He spent much time and energy handling rifles from all major manufacturers, and promptly fell in love with a left-handed SS Tikka T3 Lite in .308. I can't disagree with his decision! It wears a 3-9x40 Burris, its got a butter-smooth action and is accurate beyond belief.

What more could a guy need? Well it would be better with a scope on it

If I could only have one but had the cash I would pick a left hand Cooper or Forbes in .25-06. I would scope it with a 3.5-10x40 AO Leupold.

If I did not have much money it would be a Savage left hand .25-06 with a Burris FFII 3-9x40.