choice of weapon

Lund · 09-14-2002, 09:31 PM

What is your favorite choice of weapon

mine is Browning A bolt 270 W/weaver grand slam 4.5 x 14 40mm.

09-14-2002, 09:42 PM

For what?

Deer, Sako custom 284

Mt. Goat, Ruger 300 Win Mag

Elk & Moose, Ruger 300 Win Mag or Mauser 338-06

Black bear, Mauser 338-06 or Winchester 375H&H

Brown bear, Winchester 375 H&H, Winchester custom 375X8mm Rem or Winchester custom 416 Dakota

Turkeys and other varmints, L1A1 7.62X51 or SKS 7.62X39

Crashin' Bait · 09-15-2002, 02:47 AM

Remington M700 30-06 with a Redfield 4x. Use it for everything with fur. Kinda overkill for bushytails, though. :shocked:

sturgn · 09-15-2002, 06:06 AM

Remington 700SS in 270, taken Antelope, Muly's, Blacktails, Elk and Moose without any problems!

Chukrchaser · 09-15-2002, 06:33 AM

Remington 700 25-06 w/ Leupold VX-II 3x9 for deer, antelope and sheep.

Browning a-bolt in 300 Win Mag ( Leupold VX-II 3x9) Elk, Bear, Moose

CZ 22 (Weaver 4X) and Ruger 17 HMR (Leupold 6X) :grin: for rats and grey diggers.

Still working on a 222 -- don't want a "Caliber Gap"

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24 on/ 48 off · 09-15-2002, 09:15 AM

Deer: Remington Mdl 700 .257 Roberts

Elk: Ruger M-77 .338

Varmints: Ruger M-77SS .223.

--spud-- :smile:

k9jeff · 09-15-2002, 10:32 AM

m77 ruger .270 on deer,,,,
.300 win mag on elk,,
AR-15 A2 for rats...
SxS 12ga coach gun for grouse

09-15-2002, 12:30 PM

K9,
Are "Rats" and "Turkeys" the same varmint?

chummer · 09-15-2002, 02:06 PM

Keta, you shoot turkeys with whaaa? [img]graemlins/eek13.gif[/img]

k9jeff · 09-15-2002, 02:07 PM

it depends where I am hunting,,,,lol!

Flatfish · 09-15-2002, 04:02 PM

Remington SS 700 in 338 win mag.Leupold 1.5-5.
Wife shoots a Ruger 77(old style)in 30-06.Weaver 2-10.
I think I like the '06 better now that the Barnes X and Winchester fail safe are available.
Mark and the dog.

KingFisher85 · 09-15-2002, 06:44 PM

For deer, elk, and all big game, mine is a Ruger M77 300 win mag with a black synthentic stock and a Stainless steel barrel with a Leupold 3/9X40 powerd scope.
Or I like to use my Weatherby,Bolt action MarkV Rifle, 270 with a Leupold scope.
For just for fun is my Ruger 10/22 with a synthentic stock and a few 25 round mags and all the after market stuff.
For my shotguning I like my Winchester model 1300 with the synthentic stock and the 21 inch rifled barrel and the 28 inch bird barrel.

09-15-2002, 07:09 PM

Chummer,

An L1A1 is a British manufactured (in inches not mm) FAL, an FAL is one of the best and most reliable battle rifles ever made.
7.62xx51=308 Win

The turkeys and varmints are skumbags that try to steal or vandilise my property.

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Mtn Man · 09-15-2002, 07:20 PM

If I have to use a modern firearm it would be a Ruger #1 in 25-06 (3-9 Bausch & Lomb) for deer and the reliable Shultz & Larsen in 7mm Weatherby (3-9 Vari-X II) for everything else.

My first and usual choice is a .50 T/C Hawken Silver Elite using a patched round ball and 70 gr of FFFG goex. One shot, one kill. :grin:

bigshark · 09-15-2002, 08:47 PM

Longbow built by Kramer.......68inches length and a bit heavy for me now at 28 inch draw, so I've shortened up to 26 1/2, three laminations of bamboo. Three fletched cedar arrows with Zwickey Eskimo heads.

Damien · 09-15-2002, 09:21 PM

.270 Remington pump action, 4-12X buschnell scope, factory remington 150grain bullet. It has always done the trick. Hard part is getting the guy that pulls the trigger onto the game.

Jellyhead · 09-15-2002, 11:18 PM

Some years elk and deer get a dose of a #70 Jennings buckmaster compound bow..

Turkeys get a dose from a Mossberg 500 w/a load of #5's

Ducks and geese get a load of steel from the same gun.

Most upland birds fall to my 12 or 20 ga. Levfever doubles. Those 80 year old guns kill great!

And Keta, If you need someone to thin out those pesky turkey's on you're place let me know!

Aaron

Fish4Fun · 09-16-2002, 09:09 AM

I only shoot 1 gun and it will cover everything from a mouse to a moose. Out of the box it will shoot 1/2" groups.

Weatherby Ultra Light Weight .300 mag.

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Boedy · 09-16-2002, 10:19 AM

Browning BAR 300 win mag with Boss for Elk

Rem 25-06 or 257 roberts for Deer

chummer · 09-16-2002, 10:23 AM

Keta, i'm with jellyhead, no sense in you expending valuable ammo and burning your barrel up on them lowly turkey vermin :grin: we'll just come on down and do a little population control for ya :smile:

drifter · 09-16-2002, 03:40 PM

One gun fits all - 7mm Rem. Mag, Belgium made, with Leupold Vari II 3x9, Harris Bipod. Only thing that changes is grain weight. Drifter

DRUNK COWBOY · 09-16-2002, 03:46 PM

38-378 weatherby mag for deer and elk :shocked:
10ga for ducks and geese :shocked:

I like power

springer_97011 · 09-16-2002, 04:52 PM

mathews 70# bow w/ sights

John · 09-16-2002, 10:45 PM

Rugar Red Label 20 gauge. Don't big game hunt, just birds.

Small Fry · 09-16-2002, 11:21 PM

I uesd to shot a .270 rem pump for 20+years.
165 grain Balistic tips. Alway able to kill anything I could hit. One thing I didn't like was it seemed like I was making a big mess out of the meat where I hit. Tried several differnt loads didnt seem to have the same knock down power.
Then a couple of years ago I bought a 30.06 pump with 3x9 loupold mounted on it from a work buddy needing money. I've used it 3 years since. I think I'll keep the 30.06

brshooter · 09-17-2002, 01:38 PM

For deer, I use a Remington Model 7 chambered in 708 Remington with a 3-9 Leupold. I shot my last two elk with this gun as well.

For Elk, I like my Remington 700 BDL chambered in 7mm Rem Mag with a 4-12 Leupold. I like this gun if I need to be able to reach out and touch something.

Nosler bullets all the way. I shoot the balistic tips and have never had a bullet failure. I bought about 20,000 seconds from Nosler back in the 80's when I shot NBRSA metalic silhouette. Still have some left.

For varmints, I have several toys. Have a 6ppc built on a remington 700 action with one of my old benchrest barrels on it. Just rechambered & recrowned it and topped it with a 36X Leupold and dropped in a Jewel BR trigger.
I have a couple of handguns chambered in 7mm BR that I like to use as well. One is a MOA Maximum with a 10" barrel and a 5x Burris. I also shoot a XP-100 with 14" barrel with a 10X Burris.

KingFisher85 · 09-17-2002, 04:48 PM

Also I just shot a coyote early in the morning today, I was getting ready to go to school and there was a coyote out side. I went and opened my gun safe and grabbed my Marlin model 882SSV 22 mag with a 3-9X32 powered scope, one shot one kill baby. It was a little over 100 yards away. Nothing like putting a 30 gr. hollow point round into one of them things, drops them like a rock.

MountainLion84 · 09-17-2002, 05:26 PM

Ruger M.77 30.06 for everything.

DAB · 09-20-2002, 04:48 PM

Winchester Pre 64 .264 Win Mag. you name it I'll kill it, I wish... Good for deer, Elk, Black Bear, Antelope, Singing dogs,
DAB Had to edit this. I had .284 win mag should have been .264 Win. Mag.

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nerta · 09-20-2002, 06:35 PM

:grin: :grin: :grin: deer .308 and 30.06 elk the same plus a .338 win depends on how far the walk is that day!I'm getting old, all three work just fine. Pick your shot! :grin: :grin: :grin:

09-20-2002, 07:20 PM

Would that be your daughters 308? :grin:

SLEDDER · 09-21-2002, 12:54 PM

Hechler and Koch MP-5A For the two legged critters. :grin: or a 7mm ultra Mag for 4 legged critters. Shoots very flat like a 22-250. Over kill for deer, excellent for elk or 300-500. yd shots at deer.

09-21-2002, 08:53 PM

Sledder,
I don't like to let the varmints get close enough to use a 9mm MP5 on, My L1A1 can reach out and touch them.