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Re: what's your "go to" rifle?
« Reply #60 on: August 27, 2010, 09:15:53 PM »
Winchester classic Stainless All Terrain Featherweight in .30-06 topped with Leupold 3-9.  Pack it all day...if i can SEE the target I can hit it.  Shooting the last of my Nosler 165 grain Solid Bases (the OLD flat base ones) and need to develop a new load for it...no luck so far and I'm into it about $400 in bullets and powder...  :yike:
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Re: what's your "go to" rifle?
« Reply #61 on: August 28, 2010, 01:54:30 PM »
I gotta say my pre-64 Winchester model 70 in 30-06....

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Re: what's your "go to" rifle?
« Reply #62 on: August 29, 2010, 09:17:59 AM »
yorktransport that 338-06 I bought off you, 225 accubond at 2670 1 inch at 200 yards.
          Scott

That's great Scott! That rifle was my "go to gun" until I bought the 375 Ruger. I missed that 338-06, so I picked up a 338-284 Winchester barrel to replace it. Same ballistics, just in a slightly less common package. :chuckle:

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Re: what's your "go to" rifle?
« Reply #63 on: August 29, 2010, 08:52:52 PM »
mine is my trusty remington model 721 bushnell 4/12/40 scope and either 165 grain or 180 grain core lokts in 30.06

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Re: what's your "go to" rifle?
« Reply #64 on: August 29, 2010, 08:57:20 PM »
Tikka T3 Lite in .30-06 with 165 Gr. Loads.  Recoil is manageable and it is my most accurate shooter.  Light weight makes it easy to hike with in the mountains.
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Re: what's your "go to" rifle?
« Reply #65 on: August 29, 2010, 08:58:05 PM »
ruger m77 in 270 win. Killed a lot a deer and couple of coyotes, one grouse not much left :rolleyes:

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Re: what's your "go to" rifle?
« Reply #66 on: September 02, 2010, 08:42:09 PM »
Right now, its a Remington M700 XCR in 7mm-08 Remington.  It has a Leupold VX3 3.5-10x40 on it right now, but its way too much scope.  I'm thinking something in the FX-II 4x or 6x, VX-II 2-7x33 or VX3 2.5-8x36. 

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Re: what's your "go to" rifle?
« Reply #67 on: September 02, 2010, 11:37:19 PM »
Tikka T3 Lite in 300 WSM with a Nikon 3x9 is my got to.

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Re: what's your "go to" rifle?
« Reply #68 on: September 03, 2010, 06:44:10 AM »
I grab my Sako TRGS chambered in Lazzeroni 7.82 Warbird. Bison, moose, mule deer and whitetails, it's whacked em all. I have been known to grab the wifes .270 WBY mag on occasion when she wasn't tagging along for a day hunt up on the pass though. :chuckle:

 


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