Favorite Deer Rifle

[bullg]

Seekins 6.5 prc element

 

[Pastor Gun.zales]

This may sound weird but I really do not have a favorite. I have discovered that just about any rifle can harvest deer effectively. In the last few years I have started grabbing rifles that I had never taken a deer with just to say that that rifle had taken a deer. My children thought I was crazy, because the first year I used an $80 pawnshop Spanish Mauser in 7x57. I restored it, refinished the wood, and shot a doe at 50yds open sights (I haven't shot it since lol). Then it was a Christiansen 6.5PRC, several different AR-15's in different chamberings, a Henry X in 44mag with subsonic cast bullets, a Remington 700 .308 with subs, and now we're off to find the next one.

I have several, so I wonder which it will be ? Probably 8.6Blackout

 

[sdakotaguy]

CZ 527, 22" barrel in 6mm ARC.

 

[AGGRO]

Savage 110 in .300 win mag. IF I put a brake on it.

 

[johnphx]

308 Winchester M100

 

[fta0303]

My favorite? Might not be the best, but... I'd have to say my minty WWII 1942 Win 1894 .30 WCF has never failed me in the field on Whitetail hunts.
I have other rifles that are more accurate and shoot much, much farther in the sub-MOA range, but this one is dear to my heart, I've taken some very nice Whitetails with it. Just my 0.2 Cheers

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Great rifle, handy to carry, quick to mount, fast second shot. Considered kind of underpowered now, but didi well for years. I read of guy killing a charging grizzly with one, a quick brain shot.

 

[mifune326]

Tikka T3x in 7-08.

 

[264WM]

264 WM Have been using it since 1963 when I bucked bails to earn enough to buy it. It cost all of $65 Was used with only a few rounds down the barrel ( less than a box of 20 ) A Remington 721.

 

[In_Him]

308 Winchester M100

My first deer rifle my dad gave me for Christmas when I was 13 or 14. I still have it and will always keep it close. RIP Joe Kobe.

 

[Dendro]

Remington 700 .270

 

[deerslayer64d]

Depending on where I'm hunting,
TX hill country =257 Robert's
South TX =7mm STW
West TX. = 7mm PRC
Colorado =7mm PRC

 

[tomsd]

Back in the 50's - in thick timber in Klamath Falls, Oregon - a Model 64 - in .32 Winchester Special. Dad - a Sporterized 30.06 - based on the Springfield 03 was it ?

 

[Craveman85]

My favorite is my 700 on 260 rem with a 26" hart barrel on it. It was my first rifle I bought a year before they opened up a rifle season for big game in my part of ny. Although it was a 243 back then. It's never missed or lost a deer. I did take 2 shots on 2 of them but neither of them actually needed the second one.

 

[7mm man]

Savage 110 Ultralite in 6.5CM for east of Miss. My custom 7 SAUM built on R721 action west of Miss. Or Browning x-bolt speed in 280AI, or ......o jeez I just love them all. How could the 7mm Man pick with all those lovely 7mm deer rifles in the safe?