Your Favorite Rifle

[rspillers]

my favorite is the model 94 30-30 second is my winchester 70 chamberd in 7mag then my pump remington 7600 in 30-06

[nmplott]

I like the calibers that I can go and buy ammunition for if I want to play around, my father has a lazzeroni in 7.82 warbird and talk about money to shoot. From my experience if you can buy it at most stores it can be reloaded now for cheaper, and the lazzeroni is still a couple dollars a piece to shoot.

[Brianshounds]

i like my 30-378 WBY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SujB1MNTJcw

[Brady Davis]

Ruger #1 IN .338 Win.Mag. shooting 250gr bullet, bbl cut to 22" with quick detach scope and interchangeable peep sight. Light and fast handling. Shoots 1 inch groups. Hell of a timber gun. So far has killed 17 Bull Elk and 4 big bears with one shot each.

I HAVE THAT GUN....SWEET SHOOTING GUN FOR SURE. IT WAS A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION PRESENT AND WHAT A GOOD ONE IT WAS!!!

[horshur]

I hunt most game with a model 70 lightweight in 308 win with a 6x40 leupold scope...it is a practical mnt rifle.

my favorite carry gun however is a Marlin 336 in 35 Rem....

[Chad]

I will also have to say my 300WM but for shorter shots I love my 22-250 savage in mossyoak brush.I cant wait till the hog's and the yotes realize that I am back in the state and plan on makeing up for lost time

[houndcrzy]

Colorado B&T--- I, along with two of my buddies all shoot the .30-.378 Weatherby. We love them! My friend loads for himself as well as us other two. His best thus far is a 5 1/2'' group at a thousand yards. We shoot these guns because long range shooting, hand loading, and Big Bore Ballistics are interesting to us. We also like to be able to sit on the hill in an open quater section and shoot over the whole quarter if need be. We shoot ALOT around here!!!
oh and by the way....when people say the .300 RUM is better! I say have another !

[Lynxhunter]

Surpriced to see some european names here. Would have guessed there'd be Remingtons, Rugers and such....

That Sako 85 is a nice gun BlacktailStalker. - Did you ever try the former model? - The 75?

My favorite for the time beeing would have to be my really old Mauser. The action is from World War II, with the original Nazi markings. There's probably nothing I hate more than Nazi's, the markings themselves is not the reason why I love it, but they are a symbol of what this actions been throught. Think about all the things this action has seen...., from production in 1936, comming to Norway 1940 to beeing seized at the 9. of April 1945 and given over to the Norwegian army and going from soldier to soldier doing their service for probably 30-40 years.... Fitted now with a 9,3x62 Mauser barrel, Hogue overmoulded stock and a M-70 safety. Got a Leupold Mark 4, 2,5-8x36 on top of it.


Hans

[Majestic Tree Hound]

Well I shot out my Favorite !! 7 X 61 S&H ... Fill the Case to the Sholder with IMR 4831 69gr. and Put a Nosler Balsitic tip on top Just at 3250 fps .. As I kept loading up these loads the Recoil just went away, primers were just alittle flat.. But these belted Mags could really hold the pressure.. I will soon Build another one out of Ruger and Douglas Stainless Parts .. The first one was very Acc. and Killed at least 100 Antelope, Hundreds of WhiteTail and Mule Deer .. I could hand it to any Client and they were Happy..

[Rem700]

Rem 700, blued, real wood, .260 rem.

[Brady Davis]

Colorado B&T--- I, along with two of my buddies all shoot the .30-.378 Weatherby. We love them! My friend loads for himself as well as us other two. His best thus far is a 5 1/2'' group at a thousand yards. We shoot these guns because long range shooting, hand loading, and Big Bore Ballistics are interesting to us. We also like to be able to sit on the hill in an open quater section and shoot over the whole quarter if need be. We shoot ALOT around here!!!
oh and by the way....when people say the .300 RUM is better! I say have another !

THATS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT MY FRIEND!!! GLAD TO SEE ANOTHER LIKE-MINDED GUY ON HERE....CHEERS

[sheimer]

I'll chime in on this one.....

Mike, you make some very good points and what has been done is not to be argued with. Proof is in the puddin so to speak. My "longest" shot was with my Marlin 30-30. I shot an elk at 398 yards-perfect rest and have proven the shot several times on inatimate objects before attempting.

Larry, math does not lie. Balistic calculators and chronographs are real and accurate. Without them we couldn't do what we do. You are very correct with the fact that without velocity a bullet will not perform as required to terminally affect an animal.

Shorty, the 7mm Rem will in fact walk away from all of the 30 cals after about 500-600 yards. Ballistic Coefficients are sooooo high with the Berger VLD's, the 30's can't compete. I shoot side by side with another guy who shoots a 300 winnie and we practice on a 3/4" thick, 2' square steel plate. Under 500 yards the 300 leaves a more severe mark on the plate, but after that out to 1000 yards, the 7mm will definately do way more damage.

After John Burns left the Best of the West I havn't had a lot of use for the show. That man can shoot and knows why a bullet and gun does what they do.

[Mike Leonard]

Well if you will go back to watching the Best of The West you see Shorty there do some mighty fancy shooting.


Sheimer you talked about that long range elk kill with the 30-30 and I beleive it.

I had a good friend in highschool and we did all kinds of shooting together. His Grandfather was one of those well known old trick shots that would put on demonstrations and shows around the country. Well he would take us down to his shooting spot on his ranch and let us burn up a whole lot of ammo. Ammo manufactures you to send him cases for advertizement. Well no telling how much Peters 22 LR ammo we went thru but it was a bunch. Unlike a lot of the trick shots of earlier days who used Winchester Model 62 and 63 pump action and gallery type 22's he shot remington rifles. His favorite I wish I could remember the model but it was a semi auto that fed thru the stock sort of like some of the Winchesters, and Brownings but it was mad by Remington. Probably a knock off of some John Browning patent. He had the front sight slimmed way down and there wasn't much for rear sights just a notch. He was so fast with that thing he could line marbles up and this board he had with little pockets in it for the marbles. Walk off to 25 yards whirl around and in what seemed like a second shatter all of them. He was great with hand thrown coins and washers and such, and he was also a great shot on running game. Jack Rabbits, coyotes white tail antelope you name it one shot and that was it and it didn't matter if they were close or on the other side of a quarter section field running flat out. He was very fond of his Savage 99 250-3000 with a K-3 Weaver Scope with a DOT.He coached us with our model 94 30-30's and furnished enough ammo till we got pretty deady with them.If a white tail or mulie busted out of a brush draw and tore off across the other side of the canyon we never thought of waiting for him to stop or for us to sit down we just threw up those rifle swung thru them like a shotgun and rolled them.Kent and I both used the open semit buckhorn sights. We knew where to hold and after shooting so much instinct just took over. I wish my eyes were as keen as they were back then I don't think I would do so well at that these days but young eyes are pretty adept at this game with practice.
WE occasionaly guided a sportmen in the fall on the ranches for a trophy buck. Many of these would come equipped with the finest high powered rifles and scopes of the day. They would scoff at out cowboy guns and ask us if we would like to try a real rifle for a change. Well we loved guns and we would try all of them they would bring. I remember that is where I shot my first 300 Weatherby and I thought I had arrived.
Well we had this well to do fellow with us one time and we had spotted a very large mule deer buck coming off an alfalfa field early in the morning. He went up into some clay hills and bedded down. We worked our way around and got the wind right and began to stalk as close as we could. This deer was an old crafty buck and his outside spread was over 30 ". He was white faced and roman nosed and he knew the score. Well we got him up to within 100 yards of the buck bedded on a bare clay shelf under a rimrock. He had a difficult time seeing him thru his scope and kept fidgeting around. He had a Winchester Model 70 in a 308 Win. Caliber and a K-4 Weaver scope. A very adequate set-up for this type of hunting. Well we finally got him settled and he had a cedar fence post for a rest. We watched and BOOM! went the shot. Dust flew three feet over the buck's back. He jumped up and just took off full speed. Evidently he had been missed before and he was leaving. Well he went down thru a big grassy bowl and headed out across the other side of the hill making those huge mulk deer bounds. His rack really looked huge as he was going away. I said shoot him again DWight! He said I can't find him in this damn scope I can't see him! Then he said here you shoot him and handed the gun to me. Well That was all it took,. My buddy was standing there holding his 30-30 and he said I 'll get him!He threw up that old gun and shot and he broke that buck's back right in front of his hips. The buck went down but was still able to drag himself some. Well we walked over there and let this guy finish him off at 50 feet. This was a great deer, and even though he blew the first shot he was happy with his trophy. He just kept saying that was the luckies shot I ever saw that guy hit that deer at over 300 yards on the run with a little old 30-30.


We never said much but I couldn't help but give my buddy a ration for hitting that deer so far back. He said well he was jumping pretty high and I might have pulled my shot a little. THERE IS AN OLD INDIAN SAYING THAT GOES LIKE THIS

ANY GUN GOOD IF SHOOTEM GOOD

[liontracker]

Aim small, shoot small. I use to outfit on a private ranch and have seen it all when it comes to dudes and their shooting. Once we were standing by the truck in the early am in the dark getting ready to split up for the morning hunt. The guy beside me gun went off and it felt like he hit me in the leg. It was just frozen dirt, but after I shoved it up his where the sun don't shine, I unloaded the thing and sent him packing...he had a long way back to the cabin and the walk hopefully did him some good! One shot I will always remember was on a 353 net bull elk. The guy was a crack shot and was shooting a .270 WBY Mag. I got him and his buddy to 150 yds and we ran out of cover. Their were 7 bulls in the bunch. After a look see, I had them both lined up and on the count of 3 the shooting commenced. Nothing dropped and the .270 WBY guy shot 7 times. The other guy shot 5 times. The big bull came into view on the next ridge over at 350yds and we only had a split second. I could see through my Swarovski's that it was hit. I put the old Ruger #1 on him with peep sights ( used to have pretty good vision too!) I was sitting down w/ my elbows on my knees and said to him shoot and he had an empty gun! He said take him and I did. That 250gr. nosler partion dropped it in it's tracks. Just then I noticed the bull the other guy had shot at standing under a big Ponderosa at what I figured was 900yds. I sat the guy w/the .270 WBY in front of me and a little down slope so I could see over his head. I asked him how high was he sighted at 100 yds and he told me 2 1/2 inches. I said, hold for the top of the tree and he said no way this thing shoots way flatter than that. I said don't argue, just do it! He was prone, over a log and a jacket and at the shot the bull dropped in it's tracks like it was hit by lightning. We got to the first bull and the guy had hit it all 7 times in a 12 inch circle. Now that other bull was a different story. The only hole in it was the killing shot, right in the neck. That was the proudest Texan you ever did see!

[Shorty]

Now liontracker I don't believe that for a minute. I'm not talking about the shot. You just need to come visit me and I'll show you all the proud Texans you want to see. Thats one thing you can never take away from a texan is their pride. I'm not a native but you can always tell a texan, (you just can't tell them much) LOL!