hey,
there guys just wondering what caliber of guns you all hunt with. I use a ruger ss 338 win mag or a 50 cal muzzleloader. Those are my favorite two rifles. What are yours.

.270 back when i actually rifle hunted.

enfield 303. british and ruger77 7mm wsm, those are my 2 hunting rifles. soon to buy a 300wsm

I went from a BAR .270, to a Tikka Stainless .270WSM. Love it, but the 3 mulies it took this year hated it!!!!

also a Tikkia stainless in 270 cal. great gun.

Savage 270, CZ in 6mm Rem, and Browning A-bolt 338 win mag. That about handles the rifles at the moment. I think I need more.

Savage 270 WSM and Knight Wolverine 50 caliber.

.54 great plains rifle, and occasionally a .338 or .300

Ruger M77SS 7mm Mag w/ 170gr Sierra Round nose. Ruger M77 .338. later

Ryan

Ruger M77RS in .300 Win Mag and my T/C Thunderhawk in .54 cal. these are my primary guns, but I have many more. I also like my Ruger Deerslayer Carbine in .44 Mag.

Remington 700 .270, bought 30-odd years ago with paper route money, has taken lot's of game and is dear to my heart....recently picked up a Ruger 77 .270 that now has 2 deer for 2 shots....also a .50 cal T/C White Mountain Carbine that got my doe last year....love it's small size/weight, it's also taken elk, but I think if I were more serious about the elk I'd get a .54...."Power-Belt" bullets rule! For optics on my modern weapons I like Burris or Redfield scopes, 4x or 2x7. Frankly, I see little use for anything more than say, 6 power. I hunt my whitetails on 3x and my muleys on 4x or 5x.

I've always thought that would make an excellent blacktail gun for hunting timber.

I shoot a vanilla Savage in .270win.

The Deerslayer I have is the new model they came out with a few years back with the rotary magazine like the 10/22, but less capacity. It is number #239 to come off of the line and I have taken two deer and 5 or 6 coyotes with it, and my nephew got his first deer with it.

The hot Hornady loads in 240 and 300 grain weights are perfect for deer, and you don't feel the recoil at all. Load a single round at a time, with none in the magazine, and it is a perfect gun for my boys to use when they get their first deer.

It is a good 100-150 yard gun. Perfect for the timber.

Savage 110 30.06 old faithfull

For Deer I shoot a Winchester Model 70 Featherweight in .270 Win. For Elk its a Ruger M77 MKII in .338 Win.

I'm with Moe - I shoot a model 700 BDL in .270. I went through a few different rifles before getting to this one - it's been a great gun for everything from javelina to elk, although I mainly deer hunt.

Deer I use my Model 700 Mtn rifle in .280, Great gun. For Elk the past few years I have been carrying my Remington Classic in .300 WBY another great shooter with handloads. Looking at buying a .257 Roberts for deer hunting, if nothing else just to have a decent reason to buy another gun.

Browning Abolt .06, T/C thunderhawk .54....love both guns.

I plan on buying a muzzleloader this year to hunt deer.

Don't know which one yet??

later
Ryan

Remmy 870 Express Mag. 12 gauge with a .45LC on the hip.

Browning A-bolt .300 wsm

I won a .300 Wby Mag Ultralight S/S at a banquet.
I put a Swarovski 3-10 on it.
It's been a great gun taking many animals from Blacktails to Kodiak Brown Bear.
In reality though, if I were just a deer hunter I think anything in the .270 win category is just fine.
I love to Bowhunt too!
I shoot a Bowtech Allegiance.

i shoot a 30-378 weatherby or a 243 when im deer hunting with some else but still thinking of getting a 325 wsm

Last year I bought a .243 WSSM to hunt deer with.
The year before that I shot a Swedish 6.5x55 that I sporterized.
Year before that was .30-06 AI that I built from Mauser 98 Action.
Year before that was Savage 110 in .270.
Year before that was Contender in 7x30 Waters.
I have lots of years to go back but will quit there.

I am not sure for next year. If I get a doe tag, I may try a Freedom Arms revolver in .41 mag.

Steve

Only hunting I do anymore is Coyotes and Sage Rats, and I use 5.56 Nato/.223 Remington...

...Olympic Arms K8

Winchester Model 70 chambered in .264 Winchester Magnum. It's well over 20 years old and still in minty condition.
It's a BOOMER!




Then for the two-legged variety, a Mossberg Model 590 Military.

i also shoot a model 70 .264 luv it

For the venison, a Sako Finnbear in 270 Win. The rockchucks get the attention of a 222 Remington Magnum in a Sako Vixen, the L461 action. All old hardware. Early 60s vintage.

I shoot a mod 700 bdl in 30.06 and use the Hornady Light Magnums in 165 grain. Besides my muzzle loader and shotguns it's my only rifle. To date it has taken 8 deer,2 caribou and 3 elk.

BAR 30-06

AK-47

Actually, 7.62x39 Soviet is a really good deer round, especially in dense timber or where you aren't looking at shots beyond 200 yards.

Just remember to use soft point ammo and a 5 rnd mag.

The rifle Ive been carrying more is a 6.5mm Swede mauser. Its a real tack driver.

More than one deer has been taken with my SKS. That 7.62x39 is a sleeper round.

For deer i stick with my faithful .243
Elk and bear i use a .300 weatherby magnum

I have not shot big game (Eastern Wa.WhiteTail) in over 15 years, just upland bird hunting, and so I had let all of my rifles go. A Ruger No. 1A Lt/Wt sporter in .270win, a Ruger M-77 RSI in .243 to a close friend, a Ruger M-77 RL in .250-3000, and a Win Mod 70 / .270 to the kids, and wham no big guns in the safe. So I've started a project gun to back-fill the safe...

Base gun - Benelli 20gage Montefletro SemiAuto
Scope - 2x7 Leupold VX-II
Mount - Remington Canti-Lever Rib Mount
Bullits - Federal Premium 3in mag sabot's

She's on the paper nicely at a hundred yards, and we will be tweaking her in over the next week or two at the range. So far so good...

Redd

My dad bought me a Remington 30.06 when I was 17 & I've used it to kill tons of deer & elk. Now some 25 years later I just got a Tikka .300wsm for the fun of it. I'll be doing some killing this year to break it in.