Favorite weapon?
01-26-2008, 03:37 PM
#31
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Michigan
Posts: 3,476
RE: Favorite weapon?
My favorite is my very first centerfire. Its a 1903 Steyr Mannlicher with rotary magazine in 7X57 mauser. Veryslim stock, express sights, still has the big ball military bolt handle... easy to work in the winter ...and still has the old military 3 position saftey at the aft of the bolt.
It is the smoothest bolt action I have ever worked and even with the iron sights I can still keep it on the center 4 inches of my target at 80 yards. Took my first deer with it and hope to use it on my last.
It is the smoothest bolt action I have ever worked and even with the iron sights I can still keep it on the center 4 inches of my target at 80 yards. Took my first deer with it and hope to use it on my last.
01-27-2008, 02:48 PM
#32
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: California
Posts: 896
RE: Favorite weapon?
My 10 guage Remington SP-10 Magnum is my favorite. I like it so much that in addition to waterfowl and turkey, I use it for hunting game that it is probably not considered ideal for such as pheasant and rabbits. I have even taken it on a wild boar hunt using Federal1 3/4 oz. (750 grain) rifled slugs in 3.5 inch magnum shells.
Caldoc
Caldoc
01-27-2008, 04:50 PM
#33
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: New Hartford, NY
Posts: 919
RE: Favorite weapon?
Californiadoctor that thing sounds like a cannon, i bet that 1 3/4 slug hits like a truck.
As for the subject of the post, i have a couple fav guns. My first would be my youth remington 870 that my father got for me to start hunting back when i was 10 or 11, that i used to take a handful of turkey and a bunch of rabbits and squirrels. Second would be my father's Model 70 7mm Remington Magnum. He got it back in like the 70's well before i was born and it is an absolute war horse. It's fancy custom stock has all the scars and nicks of a rifle that has been to hell and back. It has been responsible for a couple bear, a couple mulies and piles of whitetail. The action is just as slick as you please and it still throws nice groups. I kind of took it over a couple years ago when my father took me and my brother to Montana for a mule deer/elk hunt with my uncle who lives out there. In a way it felt kind of like the passing of the torch to get to use the "7 mag", the one that i had been hearing about in hunting stories since i was a little kid. It is really heavy with that custom stock but that heft felt real reassuring over my shoulder and on the first morning of the hunt i got a nice 30 inch 6x6 Mulie with it. I have carried it deer hunting back in NY ever since and although it is more gun then you need for our whitetails, that heft still feels reassuring over my shoulder and its still neat to be hunting with Dad's "7 Mag"
As for the subject of the post, i have a couple fav guns. My first would be my youth remington 870 that my father got for me to start hunting back when i was 10 or 11, that i used to take a handful of turkey and a bunch of rabbits and squirrels. Second would be my father's Model 70 7mm Remington Magnum. He got it back in like the 70's well before i was born and it is an absolute war horse. It's fancy custom stock has all the scars and nicks of a rifle that has been to hell and back. It has been responsible for a couple bear, a couple mulies and piles of whitetail. The action is just as slick as you please and it still throws nice groups. I kind of took it over a couple years ago when my father took me and my brother to Montana for a mule deer/elk hunt with my uncle who lives out there. In a way it felt kind of like the passing of the torch to get to use the "7 mag", the one that i had been hearing about in hunting stories since i was a little kid. It is really heavy with that custom stock but that heft felt real reassuring over my shoulder and on the first morning of the hunt i got a nice 30 inch 6x6 Mulie with it. I have carried it deer hunting back in NY ever since and although it is more gun then you need for our whitetails, that heft still feels reassuring over my shoulder and its still neat to be hunting with Dad's "7 Mag"
