What rifle do you carry in the woods all day?
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That's a nice BRKT you have there (the guns are nice too).When out scouting for deer or just bumming around in the woods, I carry my Rossi 92 in .357 magnum. If It's Deer season I'll have my CZ 527 carbine in 7.62x39.
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Depends. Deer season it's a Remington Model 7 in .308 with a Leupold 2-7X scope. If I'm intentionally out for squirrel, its a 1964 Savage 24 in .22mag/20gauge. Just for the fun of it? CZ 452 American 16 with a suppressor, or a Remington Model 7 in .223.
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If it's not deer season, I'm usually carrying a handgun, either a 629, 22/45 lite, or a Glock depending on whether I'll be in a piggy spot. If I do carry a rifle its a 10/22 or a CZ 455 .17 HMR. During deer season I usually carry the 629 and/or a M70 in .243 or X-bolt in '06.
I suppose I'll have to rethink my load out now that I'm moving to Wyoming...
I suppose I'll have to rethink my load out now that I'm moving to Wyoming...
DM~
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I like a sling too and use them when walking quite a bit. I prefer the leather slings that came right in the box when you bought a new Remington 700 BDL!
I still have several of them, GREAT slings and the price was right!
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tactikel
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Remington Mod. 121 Fieldmaster .22lr pump. With younger eyes I could make head shots on squirrels at 40-50 yards. 
I carried that rifle too may miles to count.
I carried that rifle too may miles to count.bachekermooni
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Kimber 84M Classic in 308 topped with Nikon Monarch 2-7x and a light sling. Fully loaded it weighs 6# 12 oz.
hardluk1
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Old 'rem 788 in 308 rifle I bought in 1976 with a equaly as old bushnell 2.5-10 scope. Been a great old walk and stalk rifle. best sling for me is a Boonie Packers Safari Sling, Allows you carry your rifle across your chest hands free if needed but always at the ready to lift, shoulder and shoot. I have 25 years using them .
Millamber457
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if i carry a long gun it's generally an early model marlin guide gun topped with a 1x4 vari power shot gun scope ! if it has to be shot , it won't get back up !
For almost 25 years now it's been my Winchester M70 in 30-06 featherweight. Bought it for a Wyoming hunt and I like it as much today as I did then. Other days plinking around I have an older 22 not even sure of the model number but it's also a Winchester , a semi-auto, bought it some 30 years ago at a flea market. I have newer rifles that I like but somehow the older ones are hard to put away.
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Mine is a 1968 model 70 in .308 with a Burris E-1 3x9
GBExpat
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The very thought of firing those makes my shoulder ache.
Flatbush Harry
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I'm hoping either my Win M70 EW in 7mm Rem Mag or in .30-06. I bought a shot at a late season antlerless elk tag last week...fingers crossed but I'm developing 168gr loads for both. The alternative is my Ruger 77 RSI in .308 Win for which I have wonderful loads with 168gr Barnes TTSX bullets. That said, I might just decide on my Rem 700 XCR II in a B&C sported stock in .375 H&H (my 260gr Nosler AB loads have virtually the same ballistics as a .30-06 with 180gr bullets but pack a leetle bit more punch on the terminal end. Ah, decisions, decisions...
All my hunting rifles come in between 8 and 10#s with scopes and slings. Since I walk 5 mi/day now, I'm not too concerned but need to ramp that up. To corn a phrase, "that's bold talk for an old, one-eyed fat man...". If only I had more preference points.
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All my hunting rifles come in between 8 and 10#s with scopes and slings. Since I walk 5 mi/day now, I'm not too concerned but need to ramp that up. To corn a phrase, "that's bold talk for an old, one-eyed fat man...". If only I had more preference points.
FH
That's why I buy rifles designed to hold their zero...I check the zero once every two years.....with one round. Never been off even after being dropped. That's what sells Ruger M77's.
When I shoot a deer, elk or bear I don't even notice the recoil or hear the report (which is loud from a 20" barrel). A box of 20 cartridges lasts more than 8 years.
Im assuming you are not talking about what you hunt specific animals with but what your everyday field gun is. Probably more a question for country types. for us, we have two rifles on the back of the mule. One is a Mid seventies Model 70 in 30-06. The other is a Remington 121 Fieldmaster in 22lr. The farmhouse has a scoped Win 94 in 30-30 and an 870 12 gauge. The golf cart has nothing but we will at times throw the 30-30 on it depending on how thick the hogs have been. The 12 gauge will also replace the 22 during bird season.
Those are not necessarily the guns we hunt with. Most of us pull out something different during deer season. But those are the guns we work with.
Those are not necessarily the guns we hunt with. Most of us pull out something different during deer season. But those are the guns we work with.
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Walking in the woods rifle Is most usually a Marlin 336 Texan in 30-30. Unless it's grouse season, then it's a little Zabala Hmns 20 gauge side by side.
To add to my post, of those four guns mentioned the last one bought was probably the 870 sometime in the early eighties. And the day to day armament has not changed since then. My guess is the 70 probably kills 15-20 hogs and 5-10 coyotes a year plus maybe a deer although we usually get into the gun case for deer season. The 30-30 probably gets 2-5 hogs/coyotes/bobcats a year. A lot of the land we work is pasture and for obvious reasons the 30-30 can be limited. But the longest shot from the farmhouse is about 100 yards so it is right down its ally.
I do not work the farm every day. It is a family farm and I have relatives that do. I generally go out there every other weekend or so. Farm is the wrong word as it is actually a cattle ranch. Anyway I don't think anyone out there carries a pistol or anything on them. It is kind of pointless when you are working cows. But if for some reason I am actually going into the woods for something I take the pistol in my truck or the 30-30 now because the pigs have gotten so bad. But that is a rare event.
99.9% of the time when these guns are used it is on a coyote or hog running the other way or a turtle about to dive.
I do not work the farm every day. It is a family farm and I have relatives that do. I generally go out there every other weekend or so. Farm is the wrong word as it is actually a cattle ranch. Anyway I don't think anyone out there carries a pistol or anything on them. It is kind of pointless when you are working cows. But if for some reason I am actually going into the woods for something I take the pistol in my truck or the 30-30 now because the pigs have gotten so bad. But that is a rare event.
99.9% of the time when these guns are used it is on a coyote or hog running the other way or a turtle about to dive.
Not much time for woods loafing anymore, I miss it. When I did have the opportunity, I carried anything from a Winchester 1890 (reworked to handle the 22 LR cartridge) to a 50-70 Trapdoor. And a lot of stuff in between. If I were to go out again, either the 1890 or the Winchester 1895 in 405 WCF.
On the bench is a pile of parts I am assembling into a 45 caliber Stalking Rifle. When done, it should be around 6 pounds and use 150+ grains of gunpowder. It will be a hunting rifle, with a patched round ball and probably 2F powder.
On the bench is a pile of parts I am assembling into a 45 caliber Stalking Rifle. When done, it should be around 6 pounds and use 150+ grains of gunpowder. It will be a hunting rifle, with a patched round ball and probably 2F powder.
GBExpat
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Interesting. None of my many rifles have ever shown any propensity to lose zero. O'course, almost all sport only their original iron sights, perhaps that is the difference.dook said:
I bought a new Ruger M77 in .243 in about 1978. That was one sweet shooting rifle. With a scope mounted I could make amazingly accurate shots. I have often thought of buying another M77, but then I realize that it would just sit in a gunsafe, so ...
I have found when hunting, the adrenaline is flowing as I make the shot and, so, I don't feel a thing, not matter the firearm ... same same with my hearing, but that is another topic.
As a boy/teen it was always a good .22 or a single shot 20, later a single shot 12. In deer season it was always a Mod 94 Classic carbine. I played awhile with an old nylon stocked JC Higgins double in 16ga. It was pure poison with 4's but wouldn't pattern buckshot. I sold it to a friend. Here in Utah, if I'm fortunate to get the time to prowl around, I take at least my dad's old marlin 783 .22 magnum, but usually I'm looking for coyotes, so have a 22-250 Ackley for the past few years. I did use a CZ 527 Lux in .223 a few years, but gave it to a friends daughter. I carried a marlin 94 in 25-20 a couple years, but missed a coyote around 220yds, so then went to the 22-250 Ackley. Its "shame on him time" now, ha. Deer season has almost always been a Mod 700 Mountain Rifle ( either in .280 Ackley or now, 30-06) and I used a Mod 70 Featherweight Classic in 30-06 one banner year ( my first cow elk and doe muley) On elk, I've used mostly Mod 700's from lwt 338 WM to standard weight 300's, 340W, even a .375 H&H ( the Mod 700 SS, a very easy rifle to hunt the mountains with btw) My old friend all along has/is my Mod 700 Classic in .35 Whelen Ackley, in its Brown Precision synthetic, it weighs 7# scoped and loaded, nice. One deer season, about 4 years back, I set up a nice Mod 336 in 30-30 with peep, and had my smith put sling studs on it ( I like the Uncle Mikes Mountain sling, detachable) I got busy and never put the sling on till I got to camp, you guessed it, it wouldn't fit. so I hand carried it all week, which was only bad when I was climbing steep ridges. It was a joy to carry. I always have a pistol, people are crazy nowadays, I don't trust anyone I don't know and I have my eye on those I do, lol!
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