Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Your favorite deer caliber and rifle?

Mine was for a long time the 257 Roberts till I had my Dads m70 rebarreled to 250 savage. Went and bought a 700 classic in 250 and loved it.

[quote=buffybr]







FAN tam tastic pix ! ! ! !

Great Track List !!!


Jerry

7mm-08 in a carbine configuration

Took 20 minutes for it to happen but about 7 years ago I bought a Kimber Montana in 7-08

Easily my favorite over the last 30+ years and I don't see anything passing it up.

Barrett fieldcraft 7mm-08 rifle 21"
To me it's the perfect whitetail gun

YEP ! too hard to pick one. I usually choose depending 'where' I hunt.



6.5X55 Win 70 XTR FTWT (New Haven)




30-06 Rem M Six


This One For Anything, Anywhere in No. Am.


Tikka T3X Lite, SS 7mm RM.

et.al. Can't pick just one.


Jerry

Been thinking about this all day - still don’t have an answer. So many great memories & guns to go with them. (Thanks Hanco for a trip down memory lane. I’ll post when I decide what #1 is - beautiful 99 on your end!)

Winchester 70 classic rebarreled to 6.5 x 55 Swede

Winchester M70 Classic SS Fwt in 270Win in a Fwt pattern McMillan, 140gn TSX.

The last couple of years it has been a JC Higgins Model 50 30-06 with a Leupold 6x LRD scope.

I have many to chose from, but settled on that 284, really like them all. I once thought it was a 7 mag minimum, but grandkids killed stuff with 243’s plenty dead, then began dispatching pigs with 223’s, so I’ve changed my opinion.

Ol' Git Meat for me is my Marlin .30-30 for hunting in the timber. For areas where a longer shot is possible or for hunting in the rain, I'm right fond of my Ruger M77 Hawkeye all weather .30-06. So I guess you could say my favorite caliber is .30.

Interesting question...I guess it depends on where and how I'm hunting that day. If I'm out wandering around in the woods still hunting, I usually carry my Ruger tang safety 30-06. If sitting on the rock that overlooks a huge hollow where I can shoot 400 yards, I carry the MarkV 270 Weatherby magnum. If we're driving I carry the Marlin guide gun 45/70. However I recently got a Sako AV project in 7mm rem mag. Needs reblued and has a small crack in the stock that needs repaired. Also have a model 70 in 338 win mag that hasn't drawn blood yet. Way overkill for whitetails, but it'll kill em dead. As far as a favorite, can't pick as I love em all!

Rem Model 700 in 7mm Rem Mag topped with a Leupold 3x9. Been carrying it since I was 13 years old and I'm 58 now. The rifle has been used in more than 10 states, 2 Canadian provinces and has been to Africa 5 times. I have no idea how many heads of game it has taken. If I miss with that rifle I know it is my fault and not the rifle's.

Right now it's 35 Remington in a Marlin 336.

I guess it's a 270, although I've been using a 6.5 Creedmoor for the past 5 years.

TC Prohunter Encore (thumbhole) and .357 Max barrel (23")

When I'm buck only hunting 280, when I'm just deer hunting 243.

I hunt in multiple states most years. This includes the badlands of Montana, Texas scrub, and upstate New York. My western and eastern hunting shots are usually 225-400yds, but can be close. Texas shots <125 yds. If I was forced to pick one rifle for all, it would be a Tikka T3x in 270wsm. Packing a 300wby in eastern woods or the Texas brush simply isn’t ideal. Same can be said using a 7600 in 35Whelen for the badlands. Of course, as a acknowledged rifle loony, I object to the very suggestion that one rifle could ever suffice for all deer hunting….

Still getting use to this one but I like it better than any other deer rifle I've ever owned.

Rem 700 in .308Win with a McMillan Edge, Douglass Spout and a TriggerTech Special. It will put three 150g Hornady Interlocks moving along at 2800fps into 1/2" at 100. Clean/dirty/hot/cold. Lots to like bout it.