RE: What did your dad hunt with?
 

Well the 2 I remember are the same 2 he uses today. A Rem. 700 in 270 and a Fox SxS in 20g.

When my time came I got a Win. 70 in 270 and a Stevens SxS in 20g

RE: What did your dad hunt with?
 

My dad hunted with a stevens 12 ga single shot using pumpkin balls back in the 40's and 50's.Took the biggest deer in his life with it.After that a marlin 30/30.

RE: What did your dad hunt with?
 

My dad always carried his 12ga Ithaca model 37 Deerslayer. No scope. I always loved the look of that gun. He took a few deer w/ it before he stopped hunting.

RE: What did your dad hunt with?
 

My Dad was always a shotgun guy. Carried a pre-WWII Browning A5 16ga and killed just about any game in Md. with the thing. In the 1960s, when white tail deer were really beginning to make a comeback, he bought a British .303 surplus rifle for $11 and chopped some wood off to "lighten it up". He killed some deer with that rifle. No scope. He also continued to kill deer with the Browning shotgun, until he quit hunting in the 1980s, well into his 70s.
He had been a subsistance hunter as a boy and never viewed firearms as I do. A firearm was no different then a hammer or saw. Just a tool. He would've never dreamed of putting any sort of money into a battery of firearms to go out of state to hunt. Just was not in his scheme of things. I still have my grand dad's Remington Model 11, in 20ga with Poly-Choke. Those guys loved the Poly-Choke. Grand dad never hunted with any other gun that I know of.

RE: What did your dad hunt with?
 

He used a savage 99 in 308 and a sporterized 06 mauser action from the war surplus.

RE: What did your dad hunt with?
 

My dad has had many guns over the years. The first was an old hammer double 12 ga. that quit fireing on both bbls and my grandfather gave up on it. My dad at about age 9, tore it apart, made the missing parts and got one bbl to fire, and used it for many years that way. My brother still has it today.

In modern days, he used an old Remington double bbl 12 guage that he got durning WWII. All of us kids grew up useing it as we got old enough, and i still have it today. I restocked it in some very nice Claro Walnut, and reblued it too, as it was beat up with the stock broken. The last (4) phesants i shot with it was back to back doubles about 15 minutes apart. Dad shot several deer with it long ago too, as did us kids.

Around that same time, he had a single bbl 12 ga, with interchangable 30-30 bbl.. (Savage??) That 30-30 was super accurate, and dad won a fair bit of money betting on his shooting abilities with it! One of my brothers ended up with it, and sold it!!!!!!!!!

He also bought a Savage 12 ga. semi auto, copy of the Browing auto 5, and shot that a lot. My brother with the hammer double still has that shotgun too.

Dad bought a Remington semi auto 16 ga. when i was a small kid, and man he sure shot a lot of ducks and phesants with it!!! I've seen him make many doubles and some tripples with it on phesants. I still have it, and dad and i both shoot it yet today.

One rifle he shot a "truck load" of deer with (i'm NOT exaggerating) was an old Remington semi auto in 35 Rem. cal.. Man he sure shot a LOT of deer with that gun!! My oldest brother ended up with it, and one day traded if off! :>(

Dad moved from the 35 Rem. to a Remington 742 in 30-06, and he never looked back!!! He shot even more deer with this rifle than he did with the 35!!! He also shot moose and blk. bear with his old 06.. My same brother that ended up with the 35, also ended up with the 742, and he also traded that one off!!!!!!

One last gun that sticks out in my mind is, a Remington 788 in .243 my mom and i bought for dad one year for Christmas. Dad shot a LOT of deer with it here on the farm. I have it now, and we both still shoot it.

Honorable mentions, would be a JC Higgins semi auto 22 rimfire, an Anschultz bolt action in 22 WRM, and a Ruger 10-22 rimfire.

He has had a LOT of other guns over the years too, but these are the ones that stand out in my mind.

Dad turned 91 in Feb., and he went down to get a doe tag a few days ago. He plans to be out deer hunting again this fall! :>)

BTW, of all the cals. my dad has owned and used over the years includeing many magnums, he proclaims the 30-06 to be the "best all around cal. even made, and to have all the "power" anyone would ever need for any animials the size of a moose on down, and he has shot many a game animial in his more than 80 years of hunting to come to this conclusion!!!!

Drilling Man

RE: What did your dad hunt with?
 

My pop used a winchester 12 gauge for all bird hunting and a 30-30 for most deer except when hunting out west. He used a 30-06 then.

He's got quite a collection of guns but those are the only ones he regularly used.

RE: What did your dad hunt with?
 

my dad left when i was 2 or 3 , and he never hunted

my grandfather ( whom i call pappy ) basically took over for my father , he's the man who introduced me to hunting , and taught me everything i know about guns , vehicles , home repair , and well , basically my mentor.
anyway , he had and still has a whole collection of guns , his favorites are and still are , .30-30 win. , .348 win. , .300 savage , .22 savage HI-power

RE: What did your dad hunt with?
 

My dad didnt hunt but my grandpa used and sold guns all the time. But the main guns he has been using the past 20 years is a winchester auto 12 he has killed a pile of ducks rabbits and about 15 deer with it. He also use a sears single shot 20 killed plenty of squirrels with it and a Remington speedmaster 22 also a lot of squirrel.

RE: What did your dad hunt with?
 

A savage 99 in .303 Savage, a M-92 Winchester .25-20 an Iver Johnson 12 Ga single shot and a Mossberg .22 LR with a tube feed.