Left hand 308 for deer. Help me find the perfect one.

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So i am gearing up for deer season and while i normally hunt with a 30-30 with iron sights up to 150 yds. i am looking for a little bit longer shot from the deer stand and would like a good 308 for a lefty that i can carry all day and it wont kill me. so far i have found the Ruger gunsite 308 to be a good choice or possible a Remington 750 due to the auto loading feature it wont be a problem for my wrong-handedness. it will be used for deer and also i have several coyote around my property with neighbors who have cattle and have expressed the need to have the coyote dropped even on there property. so the people of THR can you help me?
 
The remington 750 is an ok rifle and 7600 is too. There is also savage who has a large selection of lefty guns.
 
Fellow southpaw here. This is what I have found to be very lefty friendly....

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The rifle at bottom to be specific,(ARMS 18 mount)...... and minus the 20rd mag.

With scope, rings, and 5 rd mag, she weighs out at a shade over 9lbs, so most would claim that the M1A Scout/Socom/Bush, and M14/S Tankers weigh too much for a field rifle. in my case, I simply enjoy shooting this type of rifle, and shoot them rather well. The deer I have taken with them don't seem to notice that it is not a dedicated "deer rifle".:)

I have a buddy who is also left handed, and loves his pump action rifle, but I cannot recall who produced it. Remington if memory serves here.

Another idea for you to chew on is something such as the Browning BLR, if you like the lever guns, and want to move into a 308 for deer hunting.

Other folks have already mentioned the Savage, and Tikka lefty bolts.
If I was interested in a left handed bolt action in 308 as a "perfect" rifle for hunting deer in specific, The Ruger GSR lefty version would be high on that list.

Good luck with your search, and have fun with it.

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MY buddy has a Tikka T3 Varmint in .308 Right hand. That thing is a nice gun to shoot, but the heavy barrel makes it a pain to carry. I'm assuming you're going with a hunter-Profile barrel for weight?
 
I have 2 Brownings an A bolt and an X bolt both left handed and shooting the 30/06 and they are by far the best out of the box rifle I've ever owned. No "tuning" or trigger jobs or anything else needed just take em out of the box, put a scope on em, sight them in and your good to go. By the way everyone is born right handed but about 3 months after birth the really smart ones change over to the good left hand. Frank
 
so i think i might just have fell in love with the x bolt hunter in left. it just looks beautiful and like it over the ruger now just to decide on the browning or a tikka or remington.
 
I don't have a Tikka, but I have 2 X-bolts and a remmy 700.
I like the x-bolts better due to fit, recoil pad,action bedding, trigger, accuracy.
 
i think x-bolt is going to be the choice but i do believe that i will have to save up and get a Springfield M1A and use it to have some fun as well as hunt. so thanks all for the help and if anyone else has more just throw down and help possibly change my mind.
 
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Frankly after 40 yrs of shooting and sucking up...to the bolt action frenzy...I am back to the first rifle I ever bought: Rem 308 pump.


Oh don't get me wrong, I like bolts and semi-auto's it's just that I am fickle towards all, partial towards one...


I have a thousand dollar Rem R5, stainlss bolt 308 [ a few actually] and I have a Rem 7600 [ a few actually] and at 100 yrds the 3-shot grouping, with factory ammo...all I can say is: one is a 1grand rifle and the other a little over a 1/3 of that.

At 200 yrds there is not a whole hell-uva-lot of difference in 3-shot grouping that warrants carrying the heavier bolt action.


Since they say nearly 98 per cent of all shot's on Deer are at less than, way less than 200 yards .... think I'll hunt again with my 7600P and it's 16" smack'em-down-barrel...


So stay with your bolt action hype, I will stay with my pump...
 
My favorite rifle for still hunting is a left hand Remington 700 short action in .308. It wears a Leupold FXIII 6x42 scope. That gun has taken a lot of deer for me: It's a consistent <moa gun (five shot group).
 
The recoil pad on my T3 is about the only thing I don't like about it. But with a 308 or my 6.5x55 recoil is not an issue. Now if I had a medium caliber magnum I would have to replace it with a limbsaver. Overall I LOVE my tikka. featherweight, very egronomic, PERFECT trigger and action, and very accurate.
 
TheRyno865;

I'm a fellow lefty & have spent a good amount of time & more than a coupla dollars amassing a left hand battery of guns. Several are Tikka's & I have no regrets at all about that. OTOH, I've yet to find a use for a .308, but have .30-06's instead.

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Stay away from the Remington rifles. Unless you want to spend a few extra hundred getting it to shoot factory ammo under 1MOA.
 
Abel said:
Two words: X Bolt.
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Yep, you would never catch me saying a bad word about a Browning either, I love the egronomics on the X-Bolt, I got the tikka becuse they offer it in my favorite caliber (6.5x55) and I got a Stainless for $408 with is WAY less then then the X-Bolt Stainless.
 
Please dont buy a remington they are not the rifle they used to be. The X or A bolts are a bit more money but well worth it and no fooling around tuning once you buy it. Never had a Tika so I can't comment on them. Frank
 
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