Classic rifles in the field

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I am not a sporter type person but fell in love with this one on first sight. Darned accurate and hits hard with my reloads mimicking the original 220 grain projectile at 2050 FPS only with round nose a soft point bullet. 180 yard point blank range out of the carbine length barrel using a 3" up or down instead of 2". The shorter carbine barrel discharges that round at approximately 1875 FPS.
 
Wow, cool beans. I have a 1914 Savage 99 that looks brand new. Some P.O. had it totally refinished. It is in .30WCF.

I'm not a sporter-person either, but sometimes one comes across one that is very well done like your Krag. Sometimes you will find really nice mausers that were done well, classics in their own sense. I try to hunt exclusively with classics, used various SMLE's for years, (non-sporters) use my non-sporter 03A3 once in a while. And of course my "Trapdoors". Also have two nice Argentine Mausers that get out once in a blue moon. One is a first year production, very low serial #, the other is like brand new, the blue looks just like a 1950's S&W revolver. Both unfortunately have been sported, in the style that many of those were. I'm amazed anyone would do that to a 3-didgit rifle with all matching serial numbers. ? Anyhow, now I hunt mostly with a flintlock, or one of my civil war era rifles, but if I'm in the mood for a modern rifle I'll take a classic for sure.

Okay, will search through my pics and see what I've got.
 
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Right on. Here's my half-magazine Model 94. This was kind of a junker carbine I found in a pawn shop in Missouri for a couple hundred bucks, so I made me my own half-mag carbine. Since this pic I've taken two inches off the barrel, making it a half-mag cross between a "trapper" and a carbine.
 
Any SMLE is classic!! For sure. Indeed, it's nice to see a well done Sporter, done in the "classic" sense, and not just a rifle that's had the forend chopped off. I think a professionally done 03 Springfield or Mauser is the ultimate. Don't see many well done SMLE's like that. That is the truth.
 
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Not sure if the Ruger .44 Carbine is a "classic", (well they don't make them anymore) but I dropped this nice muley with it. Look I'm actually using a scope! Came in handy that day, as I saw him standing there, thought it was a doe, took a look through the scope and saw antlers.
 
Round-nose 180's in the '06, you say? They're my favorite!
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They do a darn fine job on whitetails out of this early 80's Remington 700:
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And, the oldest gun I own, Winchester 1897, built in 1914, has accounted for dozens of deer, squirrels, rabbits, and varmints.
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Enjoy!

Mac
 
Some other thread around here has a pic of my #1 RSI. 1985 but classic looks LOL.
 
Patocazador said:
The oldest rifle I have used to kill a deer is a sporterized 1909 Argentine Mauser. She went 3 yards with a handloaded Hornady through her lungs.
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Hornady's are great bullets. I think that the velocity range that the 7.65, .303, etc. throw their bullets is really ideal for excellent bullet performance. More velocity might give one more range, but it also narrows the range where the bullet works well.

Wow, I'd die for that 760 in .35Rem!
 
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