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Re: Whats your backcountry rifle/ caliber?
« Reply #60 on: March 11, 2017, 04:54:17 PM »
Easiest Cheapest way to cut weight is off your body, which i need to do after this long winter
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Re: Whats your backcountry rifle/ caliber?
« Reply #61 on: April 18, 2017, 03:28:44 PM »
7wsm from a custom Remington 700 with a Benchmark barrel. Topped with a Vortex VIPER PST 6-24X50 FFP. Good glass is more important than the gun in my opinion.
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Re: Whats your backcountry rifle/ caliber?
« Reply #62 on: April 18, 2017, 03:55:51 PM »
Well I ended up buying a weatherby wilderness in 30-06  . I need to get a scope and start shooting. This will be my first hunt ever. Never to late to start. Scouting beings asap.

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Re: Whats your backcountry rifle/ caliber?
« Reply #63 on: April 24, 2017, 01:36:11 AM »
Winchester model 70 300 wsm or a tikka m695 6.5x55

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Re: Whats your backcountry rifle/ caliber?
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Re: Whats your backcountry rifle/ caliber?
« Reply #65 on: April 24, 2017, 07:07:34 AM »
Remington 700 titanium chambered in 7mm SA Ultra Mag running 160 grain Nosler accubonds. Topped with a Leupold 3.5x10-40 it is still light enough for the steepest backcountry.

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Re: Whats your backcountry rifle/ caliber?
« Reply #66 on: April 26, 2017, 08:44:05 AM »
Kimber Mountain Ascent in .280 Ackley Improved topped with a Vortex Razor 2-10x40mm, I also have and shoot a Savage Lightweight Hunter in 7mm-08 topped with a Leupold VXIII 2-8x28mm...I love both rifles/scopes!


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Re: Whats your backcountry rifle/ caliber?
« Reply #67 on: April 26, 2017, 10:35:11 PM »
never went much back country that is, but when I did I took my .270
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Re: Whats your backcountry rifle/ caliber?
« Reply #68 on: April 27, 2017, 12:42:07 PM »
I dont think lighter is always better when it comes guns, backcountry or not.

Yeah, I hear "lighter is always better" from a lot of dudes, many of which who've never actually shot a really light rifle.  If it works for you, great, but I think more folks need to actually hunt with one and kill an animal before banging the "lighter is always better" gong.  A lot of times that extra weight helps stabilize the rifle while firing and firing the light weights can feel like letting off a fire cracker and less like firing a rifle.
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Re: Whats your backcountry rifle/ caliber?
« Reply #69 on: April 27, 2017, 12:48:35 PM »
This may sound funny but its a little trick I started years ago.  I start out the season bear hunting with about a 10lb Remington 270.  Carry it around for awhile to get my arms used to carrying a load ( I don't use a sling).  Then I change it out for the 7lb Kimber and it literally feels like you are carrying nothing. Really makes a difference on long days.   I don't use a sling cause I hunt some thicker stuff and the time it takes to take rifle off of sling is sometimes the difference.

Have you tried the safari slings?  I can have the rifle ready to fire in the same time it would take if I were carrying it.  I'm a believer and frees up my hands to climb over stuff and use my binos. 
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Re: Whats your backcountry rifle/ caliber?
« Reply #70 on: April 27, 2017, 02:19:25 PM »
I also like the 270 it is my go-to gun .rem 700 270 put a plastic stock on it .lighten it up a bit.
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Re: Whats your backcountry rifle/ caliber?
« Reply #71 on: July 12, 2017, 10:05:33 AM »
Custom Ti/Carbon 6.5 GAP 4S and a Kimber MT in .280AI

Long Range Hunting: Rbros (Defiance) .300 Win Mag / Broughton 28" LWLR Contour / NF ATACR Enhanced 5-25-56 MOAR-T / Manners EH1 / Trigger Tech @ 2.0 / Berger 215 Hybrid @2975 fps / Javelin UL Bipod

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Re: Whats your backcountry rifle/ caliber?
« Reply #72 on: July 12, 2017, 10:18:00 AM »
I use a Savage 16 Lightweight Hunter in 7mm-08 with a Nikon Prostaff 5 2.5-10x40mm.  I got it for Christmas so haven't hunted with it yet, but it shoots like a dream and is about 2lbs lighter as a package than the Remington 30.06 I carried last year. 

Really, there are lots of great options.  I chose the Savage because of the low cost, stainless metal and 3-position safety.  I almost bought a Ruger American Predator in .308 but after knocking the action open walking through brush a few times with the Remington, I decided a locking safety was the way to go. 


Last year I packed in my 12lb Sendero 338 rum a ways further than I should of but if I didn't have that rifle I would not of filled my tag.   I am pretty sure a couple people told me I was crazy to pack it into the area but it worked out.
Why do you think you wouldn't have filled your tag without that specific rifle?   :dunno: 


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Re: Whats your backcountry rifle/ caliber?
« Reply #73 on: July 12, 2017, 11:54:09 AM »
Custom Ti/Carbon 6.5 GAP 4S and a Kimber MT in .280AI

Was that the GAP non typical or which model GAP?

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Re: Whats your backcountry rifle/ caliber?
« Reply #74 on: July 12, 2017, 12:20:04 PM »
RBros lightweight 280AI

 


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