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The Hunting Rifle Picture Thread

Here’s my Winchester Model 70 Featherweight in .223 Rem. I ordered it just before getting, unexpectedly, deployed to the sandbox in 1990. I had paid for the rifle up front and didn’t get my hands on it until 9 months later.
It’s seen a lot of range time and has been very deadly of several groundhog hunts.
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Some of the familys new "hunting" guns.......and my primary hunting rifle with another dead thing.

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One of my favorites, a 20” .375 H&H stainless model 70. It was a standard truck axle barrel that I cut to 20” and had fluted and blued, you heard that right it’s blued stainless. It lives in a McMillian stock and has hunted the world.

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H&Hhunter said:
One of my favorites, a 20” .375 H&H stainless model 70. It was a standard truck axle barrel that I cut to 20” and had fluted and blued, you heard that right it’s blued stainless. It lives in a McMillian stock and has hunted the world.

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H&H, As the pictures show it is very effective :)
Does the short barrel come with any negatives?
Of course there is some loss in velocity. But does the rifle balance better? Is recoil unbearable?
It is a cool looking rifle!
 
WisBorn said:
H&H, As the pictures show it is very effective :)
Does the short barrel come with any negatives?
Of course there is some loss in velocity. But does the rifle balance better? Is recoil unbearable?
It is a cool looking rifle!
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Everything about that rifle is better at 20”. I lose about 100 FPS over a 24” barrel. Which is not noticeable on game.
 
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Another favorite is a box lock Searcy PH double rifle in .470 NE. I used it to stop this buff in a full charge inside of ten yards.
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Later on my way back from Zimbabwe I shot this white tailed gnu on a buddies farm in South Africa at 258 yards after an argument that doubles aren’t any good outside of about 50 yards. Argument solved.
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This tuskless cow had been raiding local farms and was believed to have killed several people in the area. She meet her end with a 500 Gr solid to the brain in Northern Zimbabwe.
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South Prairie Jim said:
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Nothing wrong with that! None of mine are fancy.

My primary rifle:

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This Remington 700, in "30-Gov't-06", has put a heck of a lot of meat on my table. It now wears a Leupold 3-9x40 scope, much easier for me to shoot out to 300 with it than the peeps.

This little jewel is my "cheap & cheerful woodchuck killer", a Springfield 840 in 222 Rem:

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I only got in last November, and it has slain a lot of varmints on the farm. A few months ago I got an old El Paso Weaver 3-9x38 AO from a THR member, and it's a marked improvement over the old Bushnell 6x40.

Unfortunately I don't have any photos of my home-built Savage .243 or my Marlin 336. I'll have to gather a few up and add them to the thread.

Mac
 
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Ruger M77 International Stainless in 7mm-08
Ruger M77 Hawkeye in 7mm-08
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Nice rifles. I love the Mannlicher.
I have a similar laminate Hawkeye Compact in 6.5mm-08 that gets plenty of use. Very accurate and easy to hump or work in a blind.
 
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