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Spout the Virtues...
« on: December 21, 2011, 07:02:09 AM »
Everyone has their pet Calibre & Rifle combination for Deer Hunting. I have mine, my Dad has his very favorite and my uncles seem to think they have nailed the perfect Deer Calibre & Rifle combination.
 
 
What is your favorite Deer Calibre?
 
 
What is your favorite Deer Rifle?
 
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Re: Spout the Virtues...
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2011, 05:14:46 PM »
I gotta say .45 Colt in my NMB or 45LC Classic Carbine.  ;)  Love my Buffalo Classic, but humping it around gets tirin' hunting as a stalker.  ;)


 
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Re: Spout the Virtues...
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2011, 10:53:02 AM »
At the risk of looking wishy washy, it depends on where I hunt and what is new in my gun rack.
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Re: Spout the Virtues...
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2011, 12:53:08 PM »
Had an old Model 70 (not pre 64) in 30-06 and dropped a couple truck loads of deer with that gun. Worked a load up for it and was awesome on paper also. Liked 165 Hornady Game Kings. Sold it to a friend(to keep it close) and bought an Encore 30-06 barrel, doesn't shoot as good as the Mod 70 but still working on the load.

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Re: Spout the Virtues...
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2011, 01:12:06 PM »
If I were forced to choose just one deer rifle it would have to be my Win 94 .30/30.  Bought it when I was 15 yrs old and we've roamed a lot of miles together.

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Re: Spout the Virtues...
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2011, 01:43:27 PM »
Bushmaster AR15 in M4 configuration, in 6.8mm SPC.

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Re: Spout the Virtues...
« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2011, 04:58:55 PM »
Depend on location I am hunting. But mostly my 6.5 Swedish 96 Mauser I bubba ized a few years back.  Right now I'm hunting with my .54 Lyman GPR with patched round ball.

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Re: Spout the Virtues...
« Reply #7 on: December 24, 2011, 02:18:02 AM »
 Being an experimenter, I looked back in my 48yr deer hunting life ( we didn't have huntable numbers until I was 11, the deer were still recovering from the Screw Worm epidemic, SE Texas) I have used close to 15-17 different calibers in even more rifles. Can't pick a favorite, as I had the priviledge to hunt places from thickets to prairies. Looking back, I's have to say I've shot more deer with standard cased or wildcat 6mm & 7mm (.280) caliber rifles, a few 7mm remmag kills, all bolt guns. A .220 Swift was just awesome on them, and a 30.06 was crowding "magnum territory" on them. For the thick woods, it would have to be 30-30, in either a Mod 94 or Marlin. Good, solid killer on deer and hogs.
  As a son of a Great Depression Survivor, I was taught to "not waste any meat", as if we would starve to death over some bloodshot meat! ha. So I learned early on to shoot all hogs behind the ear, and deer through the heart'lung area or head shots. Not enough meat on a East Texas whitetail ribs to fuss with. I found the 30-30 to be excellent for this, but the 30.06 with the 150 CorLokt was just like a 7 Remmag on them. Sure, I've used 300 winmags and 300 RUMs too, but it was trying to get some use out of my elk/plains game rifles is all. I now use a 22-250 Ackley Improved with a 75 Swift Scirocco or 64gr PP on the smaller deer. It is built on a Mod 7 blued action/blued Shilen fast twist (8") 24" barrel w/muzzlebrake ( to see where I hit on prairie dogs and coyotes) with a set trigger and a 4x12 Nikon, all set in a synthetic stock. Pure poison, ha! It just mimics the 220 Swift I used to have. My synthetic stocked, Mod 700 .35 Whelen Ackley is my Mountain rifle, and it is a sure killer on deer too, doesn't bloodshot any meat ( few medium calibers do) but I don't eat every scrap and cuss Hoover either, ha. (My dad sure did)

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Re: Spout the Virtues...
« Reply #8 on: December 24, 2011, 03:26:58 AM »
.270, Not particular about the rifle, but right now my favorite is a Remington 7600.
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Re: Spout the Virtues...
« Reply #9 on: December 24, 2011, 04:07:36 AM »
Too many "favorites" on the rack...This year it was a Kimber Classic Select in 7mm-08 on "fair weather" days, Savage Weather Warrior in .300 WSM when in the foul weather. Sentimental favorite is my first, Rem 700 BDL in .270.
 
 

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Re: Spout the Virtues...
« Reply #10 on: December 24, 2011, 08:00:16 AM »
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.............................. I bubba ized a few years back. 

LOL ~~  I love that expression !! ;D
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Re: Spout the Virtues...
« Reply #11 on: December 24, 2011, 09:13:05 AM »
 I have only been hunting deer for about 20 years. Since year #2 I have carried a Mossberg 500 12ga every opening morning, Sometimes just as a backup. But for the last 2 my favorite has been a Handi rifle in .357 Maxi. It just plain shoots.
 
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Re: Spout the Virtues...
« Reply #12 on: December 26, 2011, 01:03:20 AM »
This year it's the rossi m-92 44mag. with a 240 gr. xtp.
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Re: Spout the Virtues...
« Reply #13 on: December 26, 2011, 06:14:24 AM »
I have been blessed; I have a safe full of guns for deer hunting consisting of Sakos, Remington, Browning, Winchester and a Salvage or two,  but my “everyday go to gun” is a sportrized 96 Mauser in 6.5x55.  This little gun has taken it’s share of West Texas whitetails and hogs as well as a couple of New Mexico elk and mulies, my next favorite is a Sako .243 for hunting in this area.  When I go to New Mexico or Colorado I take a 7mm Mag and a .300 mag for long range shots, but the little 6.5 is also packed in the trailer. (I learned a long time ago, always take a spare, you never know when something may happen to a gun that will spoil the trip, like slipping and falling coming down a hill resulting in a broken stock, from experience)

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Re: Spout the Virtues...
« Reply #14 on: December 26, 2011, 08:10:37 AM »
I learned after I was married to pack a spare...that was a hard lesson...it cost me a nice HUGE Colorado Bull Elk. Now I always pack a spare.  ;D
“Lost?? Hmmm... been fearsome confused for a month or two, but I ain't never been lost!”
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“Ain't this somethin'? I told my pap and mam I was going to be a mountain man; acted like they was gut-shot. Mother Gue said to me; ‘Make your life go here, son. Here's where the people is. Them mountains is for Indians and wild men.’  "Mother Gue", I says "the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world," and by God, I was right. Keep your nose in the wind and your eye along the skyline.”
Del Gue in "Jeremiah Johnson"

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Re: Spout the Virtues...
« Reply #15 on: January 02, 2012, 09:50:51 AM »
Win. model 70 Featherweight in .257 Roberts A.I.

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Re: Spout the Virtues...
« Reply #16 on: January 03, 2012, 06:57:29 AM »
In shotgun areas I use a 20 gauge Savage 220, 3-9x42 Sightron SII Big sky scope and  Federal 3" with Barnes 5/8 oz tipped Expanders

In rifle areas a CZ 550 full stocked .308, 1.5-6x40 Burris Euro Diamond and either 165 grain Sierra GameKing or 168 grain Barnes TTSX

For muzzleloading I use a Savage 10MLII smokeless powder rifle also with a 3-9x42 Sightron SII Big Sky and load 44.6 grains of A5744 and either a 300 grain Hornady XTP, a 275 grain Barnes XPB or a 300 grain .458 Barnes Original semi-spitzer

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