If you could buy a new whitetail gun...
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Lehigh County Pa
Posts: 180
RE: If you could buy a new whitetail gun...
I would have a nice custom .35 whelen be made for me. 700 action, 24'' douglas barrel, ahhh I have to stop or these dreams might turn into a reality and my Visa can't handle anything else with the holiday season.
Have a wonderful holiday
Kyle
Have a wonderful holiday
Kyle
#15
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NY METRO AREA
Posts: 294
RE: If you could buy a new whitetail gun...
I'd try and find a nice nice browning low wall in .243 and if you can't find one, then spend the money on one of those blaser k95 single shots. beautiful guns, clean lines, light weight, and they sure seem accurate in my imagination. One day I'm going to bite the bullet and get one of them myself.
#16
RE: If you could buy a new whitetail gun...
I would buy a Ruger No. 1 Stainless Steel with the laminated stock. Mount the best leupold on the top of that sexxy thing and go have a sit at the sand bag. Picking out the caliber would be the hardest part of the whole deal. Have always wanted one of those told my wife several times that was going to be the next gun.
#17
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location:
Posts: 28
RE: If you could buy a new whitetail gun...
Don't care for rifles. Winchester super x2 3-1/2 in. Rifled barrel. Still have money left over so I would get a Remington 870 smoothbore though, and a Ruger lever action 22. I get 3 guns instead of 1.
#18
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: south western, wy USA
Posts: 496
RE: If you could buy a new whitetail gun...
browning .300 wm ss stalker
leupold vari x III
take the rifle to the gunsmith get a few adjustments (trigger job) (glass bedded) sized good decellerator yada yada yada...
take it to the range set up a load for it
.180 gr bullets (your choice)
less than MOA @ 100 yards
sight it in for 200
then go coyote hunting for practice
all that should burn 2Gs pretty fair
lol
leupold vari x III
take the rifle to the gunsmith get a few adjustments (trigger job) (glass bedded) sized good decellerator yada yada yada...
take it to the range set up a load for it
.180 gr bullets (your choice)
less than MOA @ 100 yards
sight it in for 200
then go coyote hunting for practice
all that should burn 2Gs pretty fair
lol
#19
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Vinton VA
Posts: 2,978
RE: If you could buy a new whitetail gun...
I mostly hunt with a Rem model 700 in 7mm mag. It's a great gun, accurate powerful and easy to shoot. The problem is with the 24" barrel it's not really suited for my style of close range hunting. I have been using it for 15 years and don't know of the deer I have killed with it. If I were to pick up a new rifle for deer hunting in my neck of the woods it would probably be something on the order of a short action 308, probably a Rem Mod 7, with a 2x7 leuplold scope. really I would want something with a 20" barrel, quick handling, and still be effective out to 200 yards. caliber is not as important as how the rifle handles and the quality of the scope. anything from a 7mm-08 up to a 35 whelen would be fine. As it is though I can't really justify the exspense when the old 700 has been getting the job done for so long, who cares if I have not shot over 125 yards with it, LOL.
#20
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Georgia
Posts: 2,032
RE: If you could buy a new whitetail gun...
remington 700 sendero in a 270 cal, varmit barrell and 26 inch barrell, scopes i have a simmons 3.8x12x44 with a extender on the end of the scope for the sun and i wouldnt have it any other way, love the ruger single shot that they posted the picture up of though