crestoncowboy
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still a light and handy rifle. 700 mountain rifle in 257 Roberts
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still a light and handy rifle. 700 mountain rifle in 257 Roberts
Gerd33
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My father bought this rifle, a 1952 Marlin 336 SC 30-30, from someone he worked with so that I could use it for my first deer rifle in the mid 1980s.
He borrowed it back/reclaimed it a few years ago and has been using it as his primary deer rifle since. He's taken several deer with it, including one this year.
He borrowed it back/reclaimed it a few years ago and has been using it as his primary deer rifle since. He's taken several deer with it, including one this year.
Armored farmer
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This is one if my .223 handi's in thumb hole version
That's a scary-looking rifle!
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I have a weakness for rifles with Mannlicher style stocks like this Remington Model Seven from Rem's Custom Shop. It's in .260 Rem. which I think is a near ideal caliber for lightweight hunting rifles. The Talley Lever release scope rings make it fast and easy to switch to open sights.
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Space Ghost
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I loved it, but wanted a take-down. Sold it, and got a Chiappa done up like it.
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Still waiting to be hunted with..is this Remington Custom shop M-700 in .280 Rem.
9x56MS
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You sir have a great eye for gorgeous wood.
I'd have a very hard time taking that rifle into the Maine woods in November. It's just too beautiful!!!
My Tikka 453, picked-up as a .22 Mag, but after installing a .17 HMR heavy-fluted barrel. It's a great shooter and my first .17 HMR. It's also very accurate. I really love the .17 HMR for disposing of various varmints from squirrels to crows and coyotes at reasonable ranges. It's a blast on the range too. This rifle rides next to me in the front seat of my pickup more than many other rifles, because it will dispose of lots of critters yet relatively easy on the ears. I was looking for my (takeoff) .22 Magnum barrel the other day, but it may have been given away. I like this barrel/chambering more than the other, but had a few boxes of .22 Mag ammo that I was planning to shoot. The neighbor across the street might use them up in her ongoing battle with varmints attacking her critters.
These are my .223 Rem rifles, the stainless one gets the bulk of hunting chores, but the blued one goes to the range more often. They both shoot well, but I don't want to wear out the stainless one and it's my older one. Neither one gets a whole lot of shooting, since I've stopped doing Turkey Shoot competitions. There aren't any near home these days anyway.
The only reason I bought the bottom one is that it was at Marden's Discount in Waterville and had a very good price tag on it and it was new-in-box. If you're like me, we never let a bargain varmint caliber rifle get away, especially at Marden's prices!!!
Both rifles are epoxy-bedded at the receiver and a bit up the barrel channel, then free-floated in the forend. They both shoot 0.5" MOA, or better with handloads. The Stainless one loves to hunt varmints and I think it was the one used to shoot two coyotes in less than a minute, down back in the blueberry fields. The second critter was running flat-out about 200 yards away, directly away from me. One shot kill...offhand.
The only reason I bought the bottom one is that it was at Marden's Discount in Waterville and had a very good price tag on it and it was new-in-box. If you're like me, we never let a bargain varmint caliber rifle get away, especially at Marden's prices!!!
Both rifles are epoxy-bedded at the receiver and a bit up the barrel channel, then free-floated in the forend. They both shoot 0.5" MOA, or better with handloads. The Stainless one loves to hunt varmints and I think it was the one used to shoot two coyotes in less than a minute, down back in the blueberry fields. The second critter was running flat-out about 200 yards away, directly away from me. One shot kill...offhand.
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Tikka sure does make their guns look a lot like a CZ 455...
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I actually like that carving a lot better than most of what I see, which tends to look machine-done, or tends to be flowery and all.
Funny thing...it even says CZ 455 on it!!! LOL!!! Some days....!Tikka sure does make their guns look a lot like a CZ 455...
marksman13
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I hunted with my dad’s 336C a little bit this season. I’m not really a lever action fan, but I wanted to take a piece of my dad back to the woods with me this year.
Armored farmer
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Here's a montage of my most prolific game getting rifle. This one has probably put more venison in the freezer than all my other guns put together.
A little different than most hunting rifles of the 21st century.....but this is Illinois so.
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A little different than most hunting rifles of the 21st century.....but this is Illinois so.
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A hunting buddy wanted to buy a new deer rifle, back in the early 1960s, so I showed him a Marlin like yours at a Firestone store in Waterville, ME and he loved it, so he bought it and probably still has it.
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That's a fine rifle.....and a huge tree.
Pudge
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Dad is still hunting, but he carries his father's rifle. This is what I think of as a deer rifle, it was dad's when I started hunting, and I love carrying it myself.
Obturation
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bought this as a rifle to com0ly with recent state laws. Cva scout 45-70. I've put a one piece scope mount 9n it and I'm working up some loads using barnes 300 grain tsx bullets and I'll be deer hunting with it this fall. Need a better scope, Bushnell I mounted isn't very nice.
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Thanks. That old oak may have seen the civil war. We’ve got five of them in the back yard. There was a sixth, but it fell on our house last year. I debated cutting all of them down, but there’s just too much history and I love the shade of a big oak tree during a hot Mississippi summer.
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I like the rifle!!!! And the tree!
This tree is in Colonial Williamsburg.
No nice rifle by it.......
This tree is in Colonial Williamsburg.
No nice rifle by it.......
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That is still a lot of gorgeous wood!
