Dream gun for hunting

[glockgod]

I am dreaming about a Sharps .45/70 for deer season. First, I need Illinois to adopt straight walled cartridges for deer hunting.
Neighboring states have done it, but I'm not holding my breath.

If straight wall can be adopted for deer in Ohio it can happen ANYWHERE!! A more backwards state for hunting regs doesn't exist!!

 

[Kevinq6]

I'd like to hunt with a heavy full sized English longbow.

 

[H&Hhunter]

I'd like to hunt with a heavy full sized English longbow.

looks like they are available and easily purchased.

 

[Laphroaig]

I was browsing around on another thread, and ran across a pump action rifle that I had never heard of: a Krieghoff Semprio. I must have one!

https://krieghoff.com/firearm/semprio-inline-repeater/

Lo and behold its switch barrel without tools! Must haves are 7 x 64 and 9.3 x 62. A .223 for practice wouldn't hurt either. Oh wait, that whole package would run about $15K sans glass. I can still dream

 

[Skoghund]

I was browsing around on another thread, and ran across a pump action rifle that I had never heard of: a Krieghoff Semprio. I must have one!

https://krieghoff.com/firearm/semprio-inline-repeater/

Lo and behold its switch barrel without tools! Must haves are 7 x 64 and 9.3 x 62. A .223 for practice wouldn't hurt either. Oh wait, that whole package would run about $15K sans glass. I can still dream[/QUOTE)

I looked at the Semprio at a hunting show a few years ago. Personally not a rifle that I could get excited about. Krieghoff do make very nice guns though. I think they made the Semprio so they would have a fast loading ,change barrel rifle in their range. Merkel have the Helix, Browning have the Marel and then you have the Blaser range. People need a fast shooting rifle after watching the, wild boar fever video's.

 

[9x56MS]

https://www.purdey.com/guns-rifles/new-bolt-action-rifle

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That is a terrible picture. First rule of photography is contrast. Can't even make out the wood on that dark background but I digress. My dream rifle other than the ones I already have would be a Mannlicher Schoenauer in the classic 6.5x54.

 

[Nature Boy]

That is a terrible picture.

Have a video then.....

 

[9x56MS]

Not any better. Brown and black on a black background equals terrible contrast. They do a terrible disservice to a beautiful firearm.

 

[pwillie]

Dakota Model 10 in 257 Weatherby...

 

[Nature Boy]

Not any better. Brown and black on a black background equals terrible contrast. They do a terrible disservice to a beautiful firearm.

Use your imagination then!

 

[PonyKiller]

I'd like to build a Bolt gun for hunting,that would be fun, it would be cool if they made kits, kinda like a muzzle loader. I enjoyed building one of them.
Start off with the action and go from there. Building it, finishing it, handloading for it. That would be a dream scenario.

Remind me of my racecar days

 

[entropy]

Get a Savage. Start from there.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I'd love to own a nice custom bolt rifle in an obscure caliber like .300 H&H or .308 Norma, stocked in something like Bastogne Walnut.

 

[musket57]

I’ve never been much of a magnum fan, but if I was, I’d have a 300 H&H. Love nostalgia.

 

[9x56MS]

I am also not a magnum fan but I do enjoy handloading obsolete cartridges and hunting with them. Currently use 30 remington and 9x56 MS. My 250-3000 is headed in that direction but as long as they keep making the 22-250 I will have plenty of brass.

 

[Choctaw]

I would look fantastic carrying a Rigby double rifle afield.

 

[9x56MS]

You gotta have a pith hat though for the price of a rugby they may throw one in.

 

[jmr40]

I put this together about 10 years ago. I picked up a used Winchester 70 EW in 308. A year later found a used McMillan Edge stock that fit it. I've tried several scopes but have settled on this. It has Cabelas badging on it, but is a Meopta Meopro 3-9X40.

Total weight is just under 7 1/2 lbs as shown which is a good balance between light weight for mountain hunting and shootability. With the SS and Kevlar stock I don't worry much about the elements and while it may never matter I prefer CRF. It is pretty consistent 1 MOA with several loads and often a little better.

Any of about a dozen cartridges would have worked, but 308 is sorta middle of the road and is capable for any animal I'll ever hunt and at ranges farther than I can shoot. Recoil is very tolerable. It ain't nothing fancy, but I can't think of a more practical all around rig.

 

[9x56MS]

I put this together about 10 years ago. I picked up a used Winchester 70 EW in 308. A year later found a used McMillan Edge stock that fit it. I've tried several scopes but have settled on this. It has Cabelas badging on it, but is a Meopta Meopro 3-9X40.

Total weight is just under 7 1/2 lbs as shown which is a good balance between light weight for mountain hunting and shootability. With the SS and Kevlar stock I don't worry much about the elements and while it may never matter I prefer CRF. It is pretty consistent 1 MOA with several loads and often a little better.

Any of about a dozen cartridges would have worked, but 308 is sorta middle of the road and is capable for any animal I'll ever hunt and at ranges farther than I can shoot. Recoil is very tolerable. It ain't nothing fancy, but I can't think of a more practical all around rig.

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358 winchester would make it more better

 

[.308 Norma]

It ain't nothing fancy, but I can't think of a more practical all around rig.

This thread is titled "Dream gun for hunting," and as far as I'm concerned, "fancy" doesn't go well with "practical" when it comes to a hunting "rig."
Early in the thread, I stated that I already have my "dream gun for hunting" - the custom .308 Norma Mag that I had built as my retirement gift to myself. And my beloved .308 Norma Mag is stainless with a synthetic stock - because I ordered it that way.

 

[MacAR]

Get a Savage. Start from there.

That's what I'm doing right now, matter of fact. Picked up an old Savage 110 30-06 really cheap at the local pawn shop. Got a really, really nice wood stock for it from Numrich. Found a take-off .243 barrel on ebay, and a $50 no-name scope. Going to be putting it all together in the next few weeks, and when it's all said and done I'll have about $500 in a mighty nice looking rifle.

But to be honest, I'll never be able to own my dream gun. Because I'll never be able to make myself pay out tens of thousands of dollars for a rifle that won't do one damn thing better than my old Remington 700 will. Like @jmr40 said about his rifle:

It ain't nothing fancy, but I can't think of a more practical all around rig.

No truer words, my friend.

Mac

 

[alsaqr]

This is my reality gun:

 

[Grumpy_old_Fart]

In 1983 Remington chambered the 700 classic in300 h&h. Only time ever. 24 " barrel.

Find one. They exist.

 

[horsey300]

@LoonWulf has a switch barrel project that really ticks a lot of boxes!

 

[LoonWulf]

@LoonWulf has a switch barrel project that really ticks a lot of boxes!

Might be working on the LR box tomorrow for a few mins, got some more loads to test.