The majority of the guys that participate here are LOONYs. WE are afflicted or addicted to firearms. I have multiple rifles of diff manufacture, diff stocks, diff cals, diff cartridges. I don’t keep a rifle I don’t like PERIOD.
Of all of mine, MY personal FAV is the Tikka T3 Lite SS in 270 OR 7 RM. I’d just as soon to hunt one as the other. Some don’t believe me but it’s true nonetheless — I cant tell the diff WHEN hunting.
For Big Game Hunting, not varmint, not small game, not plinking. — What is your personal FAV ?
That's a tough one, all my favoritea re pre 64 M70's of some sort, my most used/favorite is likely my 280 AI/mcm edge, but then there's the .270...or 300 H&H..
Still working on it..............I’ve had a lot of favorites, but things change.
Yeah, I understand. I’m not a semi auto fan but I really like bolts, pumps ( Rem Six ) and Quality Single Shots. I can tell you what I like about any of them but for B G hunting the LIGHT, S S, bolts Checks ALL the boxes for me. They MUST be flat shooting.
The frontier is 16" scout rifle, made for a short period before the Ruger Gunsite scout. It doesn't have the detachable magazine, muzzle brake and sights like the gunsite scout.
Can't make up my mind. Probably one of them between .22 to .45 caliber (inclusive) and either a levergun, a bolt or single shot, or mebbe a O/U, SxS or a drilling.
I bet that tack driver is a pussycat to shoot with that brake on it. Excluding the extra noise of course. That's the first McWhorter I've seen that wasn't some kind of cannon like a 7mm STW a RUM's or a Phased Plasma Rifle in the 40 watt range.
A Steyr Pro Hunter in 6.5X57 one of three imported. It was the rifle my Daughter learned to shoot with. My deer rifle for many years. When she got married and moved I gave it to her. Still use it when I visit, doubt I can find another.
Barrett's cerakoted special run Fieldcraft in 6.5 with 22" #2 barrel. I've got several custom's that follow the same pattern that I really like but this is a straight from the maker that puts the things I like together. Light overall with a sporter barrel at 22", slightly forward balance so it settles down a little better for me offhand, stainless, coated, accurate...
The last rifle I'd ever want to get rid of is a second year Model 700 Classic in 270 Win. Back in the day, I killed a truckload of whitetails with it, and if I've ever lucky enough to draw a Kentucky elk tag, it's the rifle I'll use for that.
As far as a favorite goes these days, I have several Model 700's and 7's that I hunt with. On any given day, I might have a certain "favorite" for that particular hunt.
I bet that tack driver is a pussycat to shoot with that brake on it. Excluding the extra noise of course. That's the first McWhorter I've seen that wasn't some kind of cannon like a 7mm STW a RUM's or a Phased Plasma Rifle in the 40 watt range.
I bet that tack driver is a pussycat to shoot with that brake on it. Excluding the extra noise of course. That's the first McWhorter I've seen that wasn't some kind of cannon like a 7mm STW a RUM's or a Phased Plasma Rifle in the 40 watt range.
Thats a sweet rifle!
Thanks. My wife likes the cabinets and countertops more than the rifle too! It is a pussycat to shoot with the brake, but I hate the noise they make. It shoots so good I just haven't messed with taking it off so I'll likely keep it on there. McWhorter makes some great rifles for sure.
My favorite is a little '74 Shiloh Sharps Montana Roughrider half round chambered in 40-65, with 400gr paper patch bullets I cast and patch myself, it has accounted for nine deer over the last couple years, something about blackpowder, paper patch bullets, and barrel sight hunting has hooked me hard.
It's really hard to say which one is my personal favorite. They're all my favorites or I wouldn't keep them, I guess. For now it's my Barrett Fieldcraft in 6.5x55 topped with a Swaro Z3. Runing a close second is my new Christensen Arms Mesa in 6.5 PRC topped with the Sig Whiskey 3 BDX system.
My current favorite is a Tikka T3 hunter in 6.5x55 with a 3-9 VX2 on it in DNZ mounts. Loaded with 129 grain hornady interlocks it is just about perfect for the PA hunting I do.
[quote=JCMCUBIC].......... but this is a straight from the maker that puts the things I like together. Light overall with a sporter barrel at 22", slightly forward balance so it settles down a little better for me offhand, stainless, coated, accurate...
My ‘06’s are always good to go. My 270, 700 shoots 1/2 MOA 5 shot groups with mono bullets and Hornady bullets, my 7mm RM 700 is a 1/2 MOA shooter too. I hunted with an ‘06 for 30 + years. 4 power scope (Weaver, then Leupold) ‘03 then 721. Now I like to try something different every year. This year it’ll be two 300’s, one a Savage 99 - for two deer hunts, and the other will likely be a new to me 300 Weatherby 700 (Unless it doesn’t shoot) then I’ll be using my old 300 Winchester Mag (700 of course) - for a moose hunt.
I may take a 358 Win on another deer hunt too (700 short action).
Favorite????? Ones that shoot accurately, handle nice, point nice etc.
T3 270 Win or same in 7 Rem mag. A slight edge goes to the 270, simply because it shoots so well with the whole spectrum of big game bullets. 110,130, & 150. Straight up factory synthetic stainless. Tough and repeatable. Good cold bore accuracy. I have no qualms about getting it filthy,wet, or bumped about. I do prefer a Yo Dave trigger spring,but can live without it.
I alternate usually between these two, and every season I make a resolution to take one of the following into the woods. 221 Fireball, 223AI, 22-250, 243AI, 250AI, 6mmBR, 270Win, 300RUM, 450 Bushmaster. The 375H&H & 458Win don't get out much, except for range sessions and the occasional bison hunt.
But it always seems to be one of these 2 that comes with me....................
A somewhat older very accurate Browning A Bolt SS Stalker in .308. Wears a Kahles 2-7x36 AH with a German 4A reticle. Feels right on the move or in the stand.
That's the way to make very SPECIAL Father / Daughter / Family memories !!!!
I have a FEW pix of my kids in the woods with some game but NOT nearly enuff !! We didn't have cell phone cams which makes it TOO easy not to catch times like that in PIX !!
It was Nov or Dec of 2007 and I was in that stand. NO deer were moving and around 9:30 AM I got down and came down that hill into the C/O. I turned 90* R and took 2 steps and the buck was bedded down w/a Doe.
The buck took off straight away from me and I had the impression he was going to my L, I led him a little and shot BUT he went straight before turning R. This time I led him a little more and shot. He SOMERSAULTED landing on his back - white belly up. That skinned streak on his back is where he landed on a stump.!
That was 3 yrs. before I joined the 'fire' and didn't think to take a pic -- white belly shining in the sun. He weighed @ 185 #, Look close, that is the scale straight above his head.
This one is really growing on me...slightly customized Ruger Hawkeye in .30-06. Hill Country Rifles did the work. Bob
RGK
What manufacture are the scope rings on your Ruger ?
What customization work was done? Which model Leupold is that? Details man. Spill 'em.
Nice rig with the bolt on the correct side.
Rings are Leupold, as is the scope...a VX III 2.5-8X. I had Hill Country Rifles rebarrel in .30-06 (24" tube), glass the action/barrel channel, cerakote the bolt, triggerguard and floorplate and engine turn the bolt body. Pad is a 1" Pachmayr red decellerator. Bob
IDK. I'm caught in a situation where I have a bunch of rifles around but no clear favorite? I mean my 1892 Winchester in 38-40 is my favorite rifle but is it my favorite big game rifle? I don't know about that.
I do "need" a favorite all around rifle. I like the looks of the rifle JCMCUBIC posted above. Barrett Fieldcraft with the 22" #2 contour barrel. I wished I could find one to handle.
Currently a first gen 700 titanium in 270 win topped with a swaro z5 3.5-18. Empty it weighs 6lbs.9oz. Light, accurate, rugged. Covers everything I need to do in PA. Second favorite is a Christensen ridgeline in 300RUM topped with a nightforce shv 5.5-20 for out west and long range work. I’ve got a ton more rifles, but those two would probably be the last to go as far as pure big game hunting rifles go.
Currently a 2006 ish Remington SPS 308 with barrel cut down to 20". Bedded it into a 60's era stock and mouted a 3-9x40 Conquest with Mil dots. It just satisfies.
My pet is a 280 put together by Greydog. Transition 1947 M70 action, 23” Stainless Pac Nor barrel in a Douglas type contour with a .575” muzzle, blind magazine with the metal all GunKoted. It is bedded in a Brown Precision Kevlar Pound’r stock. It wears a FX-II 6X36LR in super-low Leupold DD rings, weighs exactly 7 pounds and is a bit muzzle heavy. Perfection.
The photo shows it on the left with the green stock, and it’s tan 9.3X62 mate on the right.
Here's my favorite. 6.5x284. It was reamed to be able to shoot both the NORMA and Winchester versions. I've killed 6 elk with it in the last 4 years, plus some deer and antelope.
Here's my favorite. 6.5x284. It was reamed to be able to shoot both the NORMA and Winchester versions. I've killed 6 elk with it in the last 4 years, plus some deer and antelope.
My absolute favorite is my "Old Warrior". It's an early, 5 didget serial number, Remington 700 that started life as a 30-06 and got reamed out to 308 Norma Mag and put into a McMillan stock and either a Jard or Jewell trigger, all happened a long time ago and don't exactly remember anymore, and wears a Leupold Vari-X III 2.5-8. Recoil pad gave it up a while back so I just use a Limb-Saver slip on. Sorry, not a picture guy, and pretty much all of my hunting was before the digital age. And cameras and film wasn't something I brought along on the remote hunting I used to do. But this rifle accompanied me on many an outing around the US and Canada, it's ridden in a scabbard beside me, floated in a canoe with me, walked many a mountain trail or meadow with me, slept in a tent beside me... accounted for moose, elk, deer, antelope and bear. And it's on about it's third sling. I'll try to get a couple pics attached.
J great whitetails... You don't need long range for a .300, it kills up close just fine...
Well......
Originally Posted by elkhunternm
My .460 Wby is not practical for varmints,I still use it though.
Okay, I'll REthink this. ATST not all the deer I killed with my 300 WM were at long range on the lease but 2 were. 389 lasered & 402 lasered. But several were between 100-200.
It is a shame to have a great rifle and one you really like only to have it take up space. THNX I put a new and different scope on it last year ANYWAY! ! It's a Swift Premier, 4-12 AO
This 70 Black Shadow is something of an enigma. It weighs MORE than it FEELS. It's a tad over 8 lbs but I was SURPRISED it weighed that much. It has a trim stock - forend / grip and balances SO WELL, it feels good.
Here's my favorite. 6.5x284. It was reamed to be able to shoot both the NORMA and Winchester versions. I've killed 6 elk with it in the last 4 years, plus some deer and antelope.
Today it would be the 7mm Mexican Mauser custom below. It just needs checkering to be finished...
I have seen that posted before. Beautiful rifle. I love the classy but basic look with the nice wood and matte finish metal. I don't know that I would even want it checkered.
A delightful thread. Like many I can't do just one. The first I always reach for though is my Guide Gun in 45/70. I fullstocked my oldSwedish Mauser a while back. Had for over 30 years. It deserves a good hunt now. 722 in Bob is up there too. My 280 on the Encore platform i a great one. Who knows? That Swedish Rolling Block out in the shop is getting new wood and sights. Throwing more than an ounce of lead is a wonderful thing.
I have a nice custom Mauser 98 in 7x57 Mauser AI. Shilen barrel. 3100 FPS with a 140 grain Sierra. Very accurate Most of my killing though, is with a Marlin 1894 .44 magnum lever rifle.
I'm partial to the m1917 action, that has been sporterized properly. Having grown up with one, they just seem natural for me to use. The safety lever is very easy to manipulate, even though I shoot left handed. The m1917 rifles are my favorite and among my most trusted hunting rifles:
BSA Model D 30-06:
BSA Model E with a custom left hand stock. Soon to be chambered in 308 Norma magnum:
Today it would be the 7mm Mexican Mauser custom below. It just needs checkering to be finished...
I don't know that I would even want it checkered.
Thinking exactly the same thing !
I know what y'all are saying. Every time I get ready to send it off to be checkered I put it back in the safe. I don't know that it will ever be "finished." I love a rifle with a fiddleback grain in the stock. The Husqvarna I showed has fiddleback grain from end to end if it is seen in the right light.
Jerry, that is a nice looking stock on your 284. It has the shape I like around the grip. I have a couple of 284's. I call them my only wildcats....7X6.5X284 Winchester, because of how I have to get the brass.
For me it's 100% utility and I could give 0 [bleep] about wood, fancy, etc! I've sold all my fancy rifles and hunt 99% with a 6.5 swede Tikka T3 stainless with a fixed 6 SWFA. My only other rifle is a 223 tikka with a SWFA superlite! Gitter Done!!!
What does get my goat is the hunt, stalk, outdoors, mountains and streams, good association, and meat in the freezer. I am sentimental just not in the materialistic sense
What does get my goat is the hunt, stalk, outdoors, mountains and streams, good association, and meat in the freezer. I am sentimental just not in the materialistic sense
For me it's 100% utility and I could give 0 [bleep] about wood, fancy, etc! I've sold all my fancy rifles and hunt 99% with a 6.5 swede Tikka T3 stainless with a fixed 6 SWFA. My only other rifle is a 223 tikka with a SWFA superlite! Gitter Done!!!
Trystan
I get the 'hunts, outdoors, friends' thing. I only wish I had quality PIX from over the years to show places, people, game etc.
ATST when things ( a plan ) comes together and drops the dew of heaven on ya, what's not to like ?
I had wanted a 284 Win for a very long time ---- 'after' they were easily available !!! I got this one from a Campfire Friend in ?? 2016 ?? It took me a while to mesh together the things to make it work for me.
In Oct 2017 it did what its suppose to do: Opening Day of our Doe Only Modern Gun Season !!
THEN on Opening Day of Regular Modern Gun Season It Did It Again !!
THEN again Friday of Thanksgiving It Did it Again !!
This guy was walking directly AWAY from me @ 175 yds. I had my Stoney Points and W/O hesitation >> I shot him in the BACK of the NECK ! Knocked His Nose in the DIRT ! Literally his nose hit the ground FIRST !!
Now this Rem M Six 270 W. I inherited from My Dad who passed 12/98 ! It's one of 4 Mod Sixes I have/had. My Son has my First one. They work dependably. NO AMOUNT of $$$$ could buy this one!!
I hadn't missed you Trystan. I checked the post count and this is what I found.
All Posts Made By Trystan Title Forum Post Time Re: 2019 Fitness-Workout thread Backpack Hunting 1 hour ago Re: Your Personal FAV. Hunting Rifles 1 hour ago Re: Let's work together with and on Leupold Hunting Optics 06/03/19
Re: Lots of swfa ss for sale lately... Hunting Optics 04/26/19 Re: Another big surprise from Hornady Hunting Rifles 04/25/19 Re: Rem700 7mm/08 Hunting Rifles 04/23/19 Re: Rem700 7mm/08 Hunting Rifles 04/21/19 Re: Rem700 7mm/08 Hunting Rifles 04/21/19 Re: Rem700 7mm/08 Hunting Rifles 04/21/19
This one is a Mdl 98 8x57 wearing a 60's? vintage Bishop stock. Barrel was turned down and cut to 20". It's kinda bubba-esque but it handles well and was given to me when I was 14 by an old man that was like a grandfather. I've killed quite a few deer and black bear with it. I just like it, and with 195gr hornadys it stops stuff pretty quick. My 13 yr old has commandeered it now and that's fine by me.
A Kimber 84L in 25-06. Things always line up when I carry it.
I've got a Kimber Montana in 25-06 and agree, its a great handling rifle and when it goes to the woods meat is coming home. Never huge deer but good amount of meat comes home. I recently got a Bergara Ridge and its making its way toward the top spot in a hurry, but not quite there yet.
This one is a Mdl 98 8x57 wearing a 60's? vintage Bishop stock. Barrel was turned down and cut to 20". It's kinda bubba-esque but it handles well and was given to me when I was 14 by an old man that was like a grandfather. I've killed quite a few deer and black bear with it. I just like it, and with 195gr hornadys it stops stuff pretty quick. My 13 yr old has commandeered it now and that's fine by me.
This one is a Mdl 98 8x57 wearing a 60's? vintage Bishop stock. Barrel was turned down and cut to 20". It's kinda bubba-esque but it handles well and was given to me when I was 14 by an old man that was like a grandfather. I've killed quite a few deer and black bear with it. I just like it, and with 195gr hornadys it stops stuff pretty quick. My 13 yr old has commandeered it now and that's fine by me.
This one is a Mdl 98 8x57 wearing a 60's? vintage Bishop stock. Barrel was turned down and cut to 20". It's kinda bubba-esque but it handles well and was given to me when I was 14 by an old man that was like a grandfather. I've killed quite a few deer and black bear with it. I just like it, and with 195gr hornadys it stops stuff pretty quick. My 13 yr old has commandeered it now and that's fine by me.
I like that a lot, your son obviously has great taste since he has claimed it.
This one is a Mdl 98 8x57 wearing a 60's? vintage Bishop stock. Barrel was turned down and cut to 20". It's kinda bubba-esque but it handles well and was given to me when I was 14 by an old man that was like a grandfather. I've killed quite a few deer and black bear with it. I just like it, and with 195gr hornadys it stops stuff pretty quick. My 13 yr old has commandeered it now and that's fine by me.
I like that a lot, your son obviously has great taste since he has claimed it.
SHEESH Whitbird !! Man you have great taste in GORGEOUS Black Walnut stocks ! So do I but..... I haven't found them like you have. You COULD sell me your 6.5/06 and you wouldn't notice it was gone!
[quote=Gringo Loco Nice 88 Odessa. Mine is a post-64.
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NICE II (two)
That's another rifle similar to the 284 w THAT I learned about and wanted AFTER they were readily available. I have seen some at Gun Shows but that Supply/Demand price was more than I was willing to pay.
elkhunernm you are worse than a woman with a shoe fetish..... hahaha you couldn't pic a fav if your life depended upon it... I know I couldn't....
IRF
Yeah it'd be NEAR impossible ! But If I ABSOLUTELY had to choose ONE..... It has taken a lot of years and a lot of rifles, calibers, cartridges, etc but FOR ME, my hunting and hunting future..... it'd be THIS ONE. Tikka T3X Lite S S 7 mm RM. ---- I'd put a NEW scope on it....that one is @ 30 Years Old.
It weights ONLY 3 oz more than my T 3 Lite SS 270 w/ identical scope >> on the same scale.
And it worked perfectly last season 2018 Opening Day Doe Only
Anywho, I aquired this rifle before deer season started here last year. It is the Browning Hell's Canyon Speed Long Range, 26 Nosler. Due to the negligible difference between their custom brass and loaded Trophy Grade Ammo, I purchased 5 boxes of loaded ammo.
I find that here lately, when I choose which half dozen rifles I'll take with me it seems to always be included.
Believe it or not, don't always hunt over bait. There is a water trough say 120 yds in the foreground. Turkey and hogs come to water, of an evening.
Sure enough, this sow came in with a sounder of shoats. My first shot clipped the concrete cistern and knocked her spinning.
As she was spinning away I caught her with a second shot over the cistern.
My favorite is a 700 classic 35 Whelen with a Leupold Vari-X III 2.5 x8. It isn't pretty has a few scratches and worn bluing. But when I'm serious about bringing some meat home. It's the one I want in my hands.
EDIT -- I've NEVER had a Red/Black plaid coat ! Gotta get me one. really
Jerry
Jerry,
That old jacket is a 50's vintage Woolrich I picked up on eBay many years ago. My wife has fixed a few things, tightened up button holes and fixed the cuffs. It's still a great old coat. The moose was a two year old cow. Some great eating.
That old jacket is a 50's vintage Woolrich I picked up on eBay many years ago. My wife has fixed a few things, tightened up button holes and fixed the cuffs. It's still a great old coat. The moose was a two year old cow. Some great eating.
Mart
I'd like to hear more about your LH Model 70. What's the vintage? It kind of looks a little older but I'm not sure how far back lefty's were available in model 70's.
It's your Imagination,simply Pretend with it as you MUST. Congratulations?!?
I enjoy that your Melting Snowflake Routine,sure in the fhuqk is no "act".
Bless your heart.
Hint...................
You sure got the melting snowflake routine right! This guy gets his delicate liberal feelers hurt pretty easy. In fact hes so sensitive he thinks I don't like him when I've never had a problem with him. You should see him melt when JB sets him straight it's epic
That old jacket is a 50's vintage Woolrich I picked up on eBay many years ago. My wife has fixed a few things, tightened up button holes and fixed the cuffs. It's still a great old coat. The moose was a two year old cow. Some great eating.
Mart
I'd like to hear more about your LH Model 70. What's the vintage? It kind of looks a little older but I'm not sure how far back lefty's were available in model 70's.
As close as I can come in a quick search is it was made after 2002. I bought it around 2009-2010. I don't remember for sure which year I got it. I had it rebarreled locally by a gentleman who only takes on a small amount of work and then only what he wants to work on. He had a Petrov 400 reamer and is a big fan of the cartridge. The stock is the original factory stock. I hogged out the barrel channel for the Shilen barrel and had another local smith, Andy Fields, drill and tap for the Lyman 48, install the barrel band swivel and front sight, both NECG. Andy also did the rust blue. He's no longer in Alaska. Arizona now I think.
I rather like deep bluing and well figured Walnut.
Hint...............
Oh hell where's the eyebleach? I have to go pull out the pre war model 70 and stare at it awhile just to get my eyesight back. Might be the single ugliest POS I've ever seen.
I rather like deep bluing and well figured Walnut.
Hint...............
Oh hell where's the eyebleach? I have to go pull out the pre war model 70 and stare at it awhile just to get my eyesight back. Might be the single ugliest POS I've ever seen.
I'd like to hear more about your LH Model 70. What's the vintage? It kind of looks a little older but I'm not sure how far back lefty's were available in model 70's.
As close as I can come in a quick search is it was made after 2002. I bought it around 2009-2010. I don't remember for sure which year I got it. I had it rebarreled locally by a gentleman who only takes on a small amount of work and then only what he wants to work on. He had a Petrov 400 reamer and is a big fan of the cartridge. The stock is the original factory stock. I hogged out the barrel channel for the Shilen barrel and had another local smith, Andy Fields, drill and tap for the Lyman 48, install the barrel band swivel and front sight, both NECG. Andy also did the rust blue. He's no longer in Alaska. Arizona now I think.
Just reading about this in the latest Rifle magazine, beautiful rifle that actually gets used for hunting. Thanks for sharing, always look forward to seeing the levers and single shots you use to take game. Jay
That old jacket is a 50's vintage Woolrich I picked up on eBay many years ago. My wife has fixed a few things, tightened up button holes and fixed the cuffs. It's still a great old coat. The moose was a two year old cow. Some great eating.
Mart ----------------------------------------------------
Thnx Mart
First, I'm not a 'shopper' as such so I've never looked for a r/b plaid coat, so if I don't remember ever seeing one for sale.
Second, I showed your pic to my wife and told her to keep an eye out.
After a reasonable amount of time I plan to hit Ebay or Amazon etc. to see what might be available.
Couple pics of my "Old Warrior". Lightweight and accurate.
NICE ! Character of Use not abuse.
I'm glad to see GUYS telling or showing pix of their FAV being a 700 ! ! It's NO surprise to me tho. I bought my first 700 in 270 W *no less* in 1976 IIRC and have HAD and DO HAVE several that never gave me a single solitary problem.
As long as we are talking 700s this is my favorite 700 at the moment. Blueprinted stainless 700, bartlein #3 1:9 @ 25", McMillan Stock, Timney trigger, chambered in 6mm-06. Shoots the 105 berger well.
Well, nothing wrong with a 700 - this was my favorite rifle for many years, still one of the rifles I own that has the best hunting Mojo of any I've owned since. KS .280 that was also "enhance" by Mr. Feldkamp.
[quote=MedRiver]As long as we are talking 700s this is my favorite 700 at the moment. Blueprinted stainless 700, bartlein #3 1:9 @ 25", McMillan Stock, Timney trigger, chambered in 6mm-06. Shoots the 105 berger well.
Well, nothing wrong with a 700 - this was my favorite rifle for many years, still one of the rifles I own that has the best hunting Mojo of any I've owned since. KS .280 that was also "enhance" by Mr. Feldkamp.
[quote=WyoCoyoteHunter]J great whitetails... You don't need long range for a .300, it kills up close just fine...
Well......
Originally Posted by elkhunternm
My .460 Wby is not practical for varmints,I still use it though.
Okay, I'll REthink this....
It is a shame to have a great rifle and one you really like only to have it take up space.
This 70 Black Shadow.... It has a trim stock - forend / grip and balances SO WELL, it feels good.
Boy are youse Guys 'enablers' ! ————————
OKAY - since we are having very good WX, temp @ 80* I plan to pop a few caps in the Black Shadow tomorrow.
I have plenty ammo loaded for it. I sighted it in last Fall after replacing the scope. It has never given me a problem about holding zero BUT I never depend on shooting from months past.
I’ll post pix whenever I get to shoot it, hopefully tomorrow.
Currently running 140 AB’s as it has given me no reason to look any further. Have yet to even toy with 150’s, which is my favorite bullet weight in 284 or 308.
My fav is a Ruger mini 6.8 SPC, quick handling and mild recoil, big enough bullets for my needs of deer, coyotes and maybe a hog or 2. The gun I shoot the most is a Ruger 10/22 TD, great plinking and cheap shooting.
I don't recognize that Gun ? Weapon ? Rifle ? Tell me more please.
Jerry
It is a Colt Lightning large frame. They only made 6500 total rifles in the large frame in 4 chamberings. This is a short rifle in 40-60-260 which is the same as the 40-65 Winchester. Winchester also made a 40-60 cartridge in the 1876, but it is different than this 40-60 and the 40-65...
I'm not sure how Y'all can pick a favorite rifle but this one gets a lot of use in the thick woods every fall. I have finally gotten it set up like I want with a peep sight and a nice recoil pad. I'm not sensitive to recoil at all, it just keeps it from slipping when I lean it in the corner. A warm 45/70 load in a light rifle does sometimes shift your point of balance which might not be good in a tree stand.
What were the "odds",that besides being a CLUELESS Fhuqk,that you are also a Lying Piece Of Fhuqking Schit...as you yet again "forgot" about your Imaginary Pretend Ignore? Hint. Congratulations?!?
I enjoy that your Melting Snowflake Routine,is assuredly NO fhuqking "act".
Hey now, in those conditions, turrets are very important!!!! Watch that wind dummy!!!!Haha
5 Mils on the reticle,is plum handy for steering windage,in Real World conditions. 'Course you've zero clue what a Mil is,or what that means. congratulations?!?
Bless your heart for Whining.
At least imagination and Pretend are free,so you can "afford" to "contribute".
You've probably gotta be one of the dumbest of fuucks, trying to invent what Roy did 5 + decades before you.... Haha I'm laughing and crying so hard!!!! 😂😂
Hey now, in those conditions, turrets are very important!!!! Watch that wind dummy!!!!Haha
5 Mils on the reticle,is plum handy for steering windage,in Real World conditions. 'Course you've zero clue what a Mil is,or what that means. congratulations?!?
Bless your heart for Whining.
At least imagination and Pretend are free,so you can "afford" to "contribute".
Hint..................
Dummy, can you even see far enough to make it useful????? Nope..... Hint...
You've probably gotta be one of the dumbest of fuucks, trying to invent what Roy did 5 + decades before you.... Haha I'm laughing and crying so hard!!!! 😂😂
Hey now, in those conditions, turrets are very important!!!! Watch that wind dummy!!!!Haha
5 Mils on the reticle,is plum handy for steering windage,in Real World conditions. 'Course you've zero clue what a Mil is,or what that means. congratulations?!?
Bless your heart for Whining.
At least imagination and Pretend are free,so you can "afford" to "contribute".
Hint..................
Dummy, can you even see far enough to make it useful????? Nope..... Hint...
GUYS - This thread has gone quite a bit farther than I ever thot. I appreciate ALL participants who have contributed in the proper spirit of the thread !!
I have a genuine courteous suggestion.
If you don't STIR the SEPTIC TANK it'll settle down. ATTENTION and ARGUMENT are it's CRAVED goals !!
I don't look IN septic tanks! I don't play in septic tanks! I don't WANT anything that's IN a septic tank !
Jerry; sorry for the crappy pictures I know I have better ones somewhere...
Here are the two favourites
1 Cheapy vanguard 7-08 with the Tupperware stock with the rubber inserts griptonic I think they call it. SHV 3-10. Heavy thing but it shoots well, easy to practice with and stuff dies, boringly reliable
2 M70 factory rifle would not co-operate so it got a new barrel, Macmillan stock, Swarovski 2-12. Of all my rifles past and present this has the most miles travelled, the most game taken.
I'll see if I can find pictures of the rifles on their own.
I have other favourites but if I need to be 100% confident of the rifle on a hunt one of these two get picked.
Oh my,your ballistics "understanding" is simply offa the fhuqking charts HILARIOUS. Congratulations?!?
Couldn't shoot much past the 1450yd line,from the muzzle,as pictured...in said conditions.
You are doing "great".
Bless your heart for Whining.
Hint.................
From the muzzle??? Are you [bleep] me??? Haha
1450 yards.... you lying cuunt...
Imitation is the sincerest form of red assery!!! Savvy?
She sobered up! Congratulations?!?
Your inability to formulate a single coherent thought,is simply plum fhuqking AMAZING. Let me tell you a little "secret" and which is that your STUPIDITY and Do NOTHING Dumbfhuqktitude,are not the plight of others. That which AMAZES you,is blasse' for others and simply called "Thursday".
Winchester M 101 12 gauge. I do wish Winchester would make a M 101 in 20 gauge or 28 gauge. Not the old 101's,I cannot afford those in 20 gauge or 28 gauge.
Georgie...weren't my intent to horn you up. Now what were the odds that besides your being a CLUELESS Fhuqk,that you are also a Lying Piece Of Fhuqking Schit and yet AGAIN..."forgot" about your Imaginary Pretend Ignore? Congratulations?!?
Say something in Spanish,then come crashing out of yet another closet.
Have to admit that my favorite hunting rifle is nothing fancy. Just a Rem 700 CDL in 30-06, topped by a simple 6x scope and shooting Noslers. Well heck, it carries well, shoots great and has brought me elk, wolf, pronghorn, mule deer, black bear, and grizzly. Yup, it's a favorite.
Ya, it's been a good rifle, the one I rely on most while hunting. It's 100%.
My fav...Browning A-Bolt II Stainless Stalker 270 WIN ( yeah but it’s always been a one shot DRT for me ). I love the take up, pull weight and over travel adjustments. The trigger now has the glass trigger break that everybody seems to want.
Elkhunter looks to be pining for more guns so I reckon I'll oblige him. Browning X bolt 375 Holland and Holland Magnum. This one would hurt 'Sticks shoulder.
I can’t believe a guy as savvy as you say you are, hasn’t set a trap to catch the pack rat that keeps dumping all that $hit you have in your tunnel. If you put a picture of yourself near the trapdoor of that bunker, that rat may just feel sorry for you and start taking that junk instead of leaving it for you to take pictures of...
Laughing profusely, watching your continual misuse of a camera and the English language...
Does your retardity know no bounds?
Stupidity has got you beaten and you don’t even know it...
Elkhunter looks to be pining for more guns so I reckon I'll oblige him. Browning X bolt 375 Holland and Holland Magnum. This one would hurt 'Sticks shoulder.
Since you ruled out varmint rifles.................. my favorite "other" rifle is a Winchester M70 Classic Synthetic Matte, restocked in a B&C stock, 24" standard barrel, in .270 WInchester. It has a Leupold Vari-XII 3-9X scope, Pretty plain vanilla. It shoots great, though, throwing 130gr. Sierra ProHunters into a 1/2" when I do everything right. It still shoots well when I don't do everything right. I call it "Old Death", and whenever I have it in hand, deer just come in and fall over, because they know they can't outrun the bullet. It's a "lucky rifle", and that can't be discounted at all.
If you include varmint rifles, that would be a CZ 527 in .204 Ruger, I've never missed a shot at a critter with it. It's "lucky", too.
Being loony's we DO have more than 1 fav. Guess it goes with the disease. < grin
It sure is nice when game co operates ! IIRC it was '99 when I could not BUY a deer to see. Finally I did something they had never seen before. I snuggled in among small pines on a fire break overlooking a deep draw. BINGO ! I earned that deer and I don't care that it was a Doe. lol That was the hardest season I've seen in a long time.
Being loony's we DO have more than 1 fav. Guess it goes with the disease. < grin
It sure is nice when game co operates ! IIRC it was '99 when I could not BUY a deer to see. Finally I did something they had never seen before. I snuggled in among small pines on a fire break overlooking a deep draw. BINGO ! I earned that deer and I don't care that it was a Doe. lol That was the hardest season I've seen in a long time.
I appreciate it.
Jerry
I had to turn in my looney card Jer...and I’m a trophy doe hunter that uses factory ammo and Leupold.
Being loony's we DO have more than 1 fav. Guess it goes with the disease. < grin
It sure is nice when game co operates ! IIRC it was '99 when I could not BUY a deer to see. Finally I did something they had never seen before. I snuggled in among small pines on a fire break overlooking a deep draw. BINGO ! I earned that deer and I don't care that it was a Doe. lol That was the hardest season I've seen in a long time.
I appreciate it.
Jerry
10/4,
Copy that!
Besides calling my lease at Reagan Wells, "the Petting Zoo", I also refer to it as my "Beer Lease" as opposed to a deer lease. I've now been there 14 years. When we first got on it was not uncommon to see six or more bucks in a 3 day period, plus does. We allow for two bucks and two does even though Uvalde is a 5 deer county. Around 2007 the Rancher decided clear out some of the brush and cedar. To do this they take two TD-30's or equivlalent and stretch about 100' of anchor chain between the dozers and take off. It knocks over every thing in its path. Then they come back and push up all the brush in piles. After that, my original location which was a deer high-way previously, I did not see a deer for the next three years. Next we had a drought, and then anthrax which we believe caused a pretty good deer die off. What with the coyotes, the big boars and a couple of cougars, the deer number remain scarce.
In addition, we are located on a ranch road that folks have to pass through on to get to their leases. One of the reasons I go up during the week rather than the weekend.
I had not shot a deer there in 3 years before I went ahead and took this buck I called "The Claw". We are on a 1,700 acre pasture, that if you flattened out the hills would probably be more like 3,000 acres. For 3 years, on occasion, and only at night we would catch this guy on game cam on different parts of the lease a mile or so apart. He had a growth under his jaw about the size of a baseball, which made him very easy to distinguish. Never once did I actually lay eyes on him, nor did we have a picture of him during the day. Not only did I shoot him on my birthday, about 10 minutes before the end of shooting light, but also found a knife that I'd lost two years before in a dry creekbed. I shoulda' gone and bought a lottery ticket that night.
Another one of my favs, Steyr, Mannlicher Classic, 6.5 x 55 SE
STUFF happens !!! Due to my F M D all I can remember is that our deer had shifted, food ? pressure ? I don’t remember.
The older a buck gets the smarter/warier he gets UNTIL the little head does the thinking !!
EVERY older buck I’ve killed was pushing or hot trailing a good smelling Doe. Your post reminds me that we had an Ice storm Christmas Day in 99 and before the ice melted, a big SNOW storm on New Years Day 2000. Timber Cos lost kkk acres of timber in 2000. We lost deer to starvation.
I’ll try to add some pics later but my fav is my cz 550 in 308. Standard 98 length action. It’s the old model with very nice irons and a slender low combed stock like a 54. Very very well finished barrel and it’s been shot enough that the action is as smooth as glass. Trigger breaks at 3lbs and it’s set mode breaks at 10 oz. Shoots well.
Ziess glass on qd mounts and the irons are regulated at 50 yards for its load.
Beautiful Turkish walnut with an oil finish. Solid steel everything...what’s not to love.
Marlin XLR in .338 Marlin Express. It's a caribou and moose killing machine. Also, it just looks darned sexy in the success photos. I have a matching silver Bausch and Lomb Elite 3000 that sits atop it.
Question: how do you folks get larger size photos to attach? The size limit when I try basically limits me to a postage stamp. Thanks in advance.
Marlin XLR in .338 Marlin Express. It's a caribou and moose killing machine. Also, it just looks darned sexy in the success photos. I have a matching silver Bausch and Lomb Elite 3000 that sits atop it.
Question: how do you folks get larger size photos to attach? The size limit when I try basically limits me to a postage stamp. Thanks in advance.
AKT, one of the forums here is called "Image gallery". I upload the picture there and copy and paste it to my post.
I'm not going to look through 20+ pages of post to see if I already posted something here. Were I to post my favorite again it would probably contradict a previous post.
I'm not going to look through 20+ pages of post to see if I already posted something here. Were I to post my favorite again it would probably contradict a previous post.
I Know I have big game hunted with Mosin Nagant, Sav 99 308, Swedish Mauser, Win M70 270, Ruger #1 7mmRM, Rem700 7mmRM, Win 1885 257RAI, Rem700 7mmRM, VZ24 7mmRM, Browning 1885 7mmRM, Mosin Nagant 300WM, Dumoulin Mauser 6.5-06, Win M70 25-06, Rem 700 6mmBR, another Rem700 7mmRM, Kimber 280ai, Win M70 280ai.
In 2019 probably a Defiance deviant 7mmSTW and a Rem700 6.5-06.
Beware of the man with one gun. He knows where the safety is.
Appreciate the kind words - it carries well, shoots very well, and a 140 accubond and just shy of 3100 is pretty skookum out to 600 yards or so.... Haven't shot a good bull elk in a few years and the first 3 elk I ever killed were with a .270 - so I am kind of going back to my roots...lol
I have in my pocket an Idaho Antelope Super Tag (Won the lottery!) Elk, Deer, Bear, and Wolf tags....There should be something this things bloodies this fall.
Appreciate the kind words - it carries well, shoots very well, and a 140 accubond and just shy of 3100 is pretty skookum out to 600 yards or so.... Haven't shot a good bull elk in a few years and the first 3 elk I ever killed were with a .270 - so I am kind of going back to my roots...lol
I have in my pocket an Idaho Antelope Super Tag (Won the lottery!) Elk, Deer, Bear, and Wolf tags....There should be something this things bloodies this fall.
I think I remember you running a 270 quite a lot. That’s the same rifle as my 300 RUM and I like it quite a bit. Huge departure from the 70’s I usually carry but so far the rifle is doing real well for me.
Good luck with those tags. I hope to be in Idaho in Oct for elk and deer myself. Can’t wait to hit the hills!
The .257 Roberts is my favourite cartridge but my favourite rifle that would be the one, if I could have only one, would be my Ruger 1A in 7x57 with a 6x36 Loopy scope.
I find that the older I get, the older are the rifles, and calibers, that I prefer. In the time I have left to hunt, I plan to only use those favorites and have been getting rid of the ones I no longer favor. I no longer own a composite stocked rifle, the last one (1992 M700 stainless 280 purchased new), went to a friend a couple of months ago. The newest rifle currently in my safes is a CZ 550FS 6.5X55. The next newest are a couple of M600 Remingtons and then it goes back to the fifties and beyond. My current favorite is a 1939 built 1903 M-S stutzen with a 4X Hensoldt Dialytan scope.
It just occurred to me that I forgot about the 3 ARs I have. They're new and composite stocked, so I guess I lied about that. Anyway, I consider them merely tools to have and play with.....not to hunt with. Mainly, I keep them around just to pizz off liberals!
The majority of the guys that participate here are LOONYs. WE are afflicted or addicted to firearms. I have multiple rifles of diff manufacture, diff stocks, diff cals, diff cartridges. I don’t keep a rifle I don’t like PERIOD.
Of all of mine, MY personal FAV is the Tikka T3 Lite SS in 270 OR 7 RM. I’d just as soon to hunt one as the other. Some don’t believe me but it’s true nonetheless — I cant tell the diff WHEN hunting.
For Big Game Hunting, not varmint, not small game, not plinking. — What is your personal FAV ?
There is no wrong answer !
Jerry
Win M70 in .264WM... It might be the very last rifle I ever sell..
the 700 classic in 250 sav is a mighty fine rifle. accuracy, little recoil, great stock design, decent wood, aged purple bolt handle, jeweling, balance, low report ... whats not to like.
I can’t believe a guy as savvy as you say you are, hasn’t set a trap to catch the pack rat that keeps dumping all that $hit you have in your tunnel. If you put a picture of yourself near the trapdoor of that bunker, that rat may just feel sorry for you and start taking that junk instead of leaving it for you to take pictures of...
Laughing profusely, watching your continual misuse of a camera and the English language...
Does your retardity know no bounds?
Stupidity has got you beaten and you don’t even know it...