Favorite deer rifle

Favorite deer cartridge

  • 234

    Votes: 5 3.0%
  • 6.5 creedmore

    Votes: 8 4.8%
  • 25-06

    Votes: 28 16.7%
  • 30-06

    Votes: 21 12.5%
  • 270

    Votes: 61 36.3%
  • Any magnum 7mm

    Votes: 25 14.9%
  • 300 win mag

    Votes: 15 8.9%
  • Cannon

    Votes: 5 3.0%

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Retired Educator

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How many of you claim your favorite deer gun as the one you started with. When I was 14 my dad bought me a Rem 700 - .270. Have shot probably 70-80 deer with that gun. One with a friend's borrowed .308 and 2 more with my recent .25-06. Did you have a choice on your first actual deer rifle? Knowing what I know now I wonder if I would have picked another caliber. Hard to say in my case.
 


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The 243 wssm is the first deer rifle i ever owned. I got a late start in hunting and bought that rifle when the caliber first came out. It's been an awesome shooting rifle but getting ammo for it is a pain! I hope to pass that on to my kids at some point.
 

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How many of you claim your favorite deer gun as the one you started with. When I was 14 my dad bought me a Rem 700 - .270. Have shot probably 70-80 deer with that gun. One with a friend's borrowed .308 and 2 more with my recent .25-06. Did you have a choice on your first actual deer rifle? Knowing what I know now I wonder if I would have picked another caliber. Hard to say in my case.
OK, I'm old. My first gun was a sawed offed Type 38 Arisaka in 6.5 Jap and my old man had a 1903A3 with a Lyman peep. We shot quite a few deer with that combo. We both grew older and aquired quite a few newer rifles in all kinds of calibers but I'd give my left nut for a weekend with the old guy and those two rifles. I still have them both.
 

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If the WSSM's had been launched with a 1:8 twist and a 6.5 option, there'd be no CreedMoor.

Hell yes.

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1. Low-Recoil

2. They got the twist correct for the current as well as future crop of higher BC projectiles.

3. They got the chamber dimensions to mate up with magazine-box confines, even with long bullets you don't have to seat the bullets so deep that you're robbing case capacity.

4. Excellent support from the ammo manufacturers by providing "target" as well as "hunting" ammo that's not just "good enough" but exceptionally accurate.


Wow. Hell Si.
 

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First gun was my great grandfathers model 94 pre 64 30-30 when he gave me the gun he still had a half a box of the shells winchester silver tip, shot my first buck with it when I was 15. This was the year1990
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Now I shoot a 6mm remington Herters u9 bsa it was made in England but you could buy it through herters catalog and have it shipped right to your door.
Its looks exactly like this one but isn't as nice of shape, my little brother cracked the stock when he was trying to get down form the tree stand. It had a redfield wide view 3x9, I replaced it with a 3x9 trijicon AccuPoint TR20-1G scope which is night and day difference in glass, nice thing about the trijicon its got a tritium powered fiber optic green dot that never needs to be charged. Its only first focal plane which for me doesn't bother me since I shoot at around 5 to 6 power and turn my cross hairs to almost nothing and just use the green dot when aiming.
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308 has killed a few critters in it's day. That's my choice even though this blasphemous poll doesn't have it.

On a second note....I'd rather AI a 308 than buy any ugly red headed stepchild of a 30-06. :cool:
 

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How many of you claim your favorite deer gun as the one you started with. When I was 14 my dad bought me a Rem 700 - .270. Have shot probably 70-80 deer with that gun. One with a friend's borrowed .308 and 2 more with my recent .25-06. Did you have a choice on your first actual deer rifle? Knowing what I know now I wonder if I would have picked another caliber. Hard to say in my case.
In my case I started deer hunting with my grandfathers 30-30. Then I inherited my uncles 243 and have been using another uncles 270 for the last 15-20 years. All have their pro's and con's.
 

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Started out with model 94 30/30
Tried a 22-250 for a couple years with terrible results
Bought my 270 in early 90's and have been using it since. one reason for 270 was ability to purchase ammo in a pinch anywhere.
Shot my deer this year with my S&W 44 mag
Inherited a Winchester model 100 in 284 but have yet to hunt with it do to limited ammo and cost, if it can be found.
 

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Bought a new Model 100 Winchester .308 in 1968 and have been killing deer and coyotes with it ever since. It has only let me down once when it hadn't been fired in a while, it was colder than heck, and the first deer that got up the firing pin was sluggish and didn't detonate the primer. I'll take the fault on that!
 

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Bought a new Model 100 Winchester .308 in 1968 and have been killing deer and coyotes with it ever since. It has only let me down once when it hadn't been fired in a while, it was colder than heck, and the first deer that got up the firing pin was sluggish and didn't detonate the primer. I'll take the fault on that!
my dad had all three calibers in the 100. 243, 308, and 284. He hunted with the 308 as far back as I can remember until he passed. My son sat with him on his last hunt where he shot a doe. The next year my son had his first doe tag at 12 and wanted to hunt with his grandpas 308 and out of the same stand they used the year before which ended with him shooting his first deer.
 


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my dad had all three calibers in the 100. 243, 308, and 284. He hunted with the 308 as far back as I can remember until he passed. My son sat with him on his last hunt where he shot a doe. The next year my son had his first doe tag at 12 and wanted to hunt with his grandpas 308 and out of the same stand they used the year before which ended with him shooting his first deer.
Just on the subject 300 short mag all the way
 

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Had recall on firing pin on win 100. db
 

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Pin can break causing gun to blow up. Call 800 852 5734 to see if yours has been replace. That is all I know db

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to add i believe all 100 and maybe 88 model to. Winchester will send new parts and funds to take to gunsmith or replace yourself. when it breaks gun can become fully auto or maybe donate shell before in chamber causing a major problem or just not work depends on break. d
 

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The older I get the smaller the caliber I seem to like. Getting punched in the shoulder and having my ears ring to shoot a deer just isn't as appealing today as it once was.
 


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The older I get the smaller the caliber I seem to like. Getting punched in the shoulder and having my ears ring to shoot a deer just isn't as appealing today as it once was.
Hell KDM, I got kids older than you. LB
 

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