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Thread: Favorite Hunting Rifle
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April 21st, 2017, 09:50 PM #31
Re: Favorite Hunting Rifle
I have an 835 too so I know what you mean, it gets handed off to my kid because I'm used to the pattern the old one spits.
There's no issues with how the BPS patterns but I'm shooting Bismuth not steel out of that one, mostly used for goose.
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April 21st, 2017, 10:32 PM #32Active Member
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Re: Favorite Hunting Rifle
I have to admit I've never hunted waterfowl or really anything with a shotgun. Shotguns just don't hold nearly as much interest for me as rifles do. Consequently I only own two, a Winchester Model 12 I got from my grandfather and a maple stocked Browning Maxus that I picked up last year.
The Model 12 I used for years and ran thousands of round through it shooting single and double trap until I shattered the firing pin shooting trap on my 23rd birthday. Replaced the pin with a titanium one but decided I should ease up on it a bit since it's 70 years old which is why I bought the Maxus. The Maxus runs great and I saw a definite improvement in my score with a semi auto.
Edit: It just occurred to me after typing it out that the firing pin on my Model 12 broke exactly 10 years to the day that I last saw my Grandfather alive. He passed away less than a week after my 13th birthday which we spent looking for a new hunting cabin, the one he liked best was the same one we hunt in to this day. So there is my bit of sad nostalgia to add to this thread.Last edited by CMP703006; April 22nd, 2017 at 12:15 AM.
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April 22nd, 2017, 07:29 AM #33Senior Member
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Re: Favorite Hunting Rifle
I love my Ruger M77 Mark II. Mine Is in the 270 cal. I have killed a bunch of deer with it and I intend to kill a bunch more with it. Very nice gun!
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April 22nd, 2017, 10:52 AM #34
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Never was much into waterfowl, but I have a New England 20 gauge that has seen much of the same abuse on pheasant, grouse, rabbit hunts. I got it for my 10th or 11th birthday and its seen plenty of use over the last several decades. My go-to for birds is now a Mossberg 500 (it's only about 5 years newer though) and small game is a savage .22mag over 20. I still take take that little single 20 out on occasion and it spends most of the summer in the back of my truck to cull the pigeon population at the farm I work on. It's scratched, pitted, and beat up in general and I wouldn't want it any other way .
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April 22nd, 2017, 12:42 PM #35
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I did a lot of waterfowl hunting when I lived in the PRNJ and I also used a BPS. I used it to shoot in a trap league at the old Winchester range across from the Raceway Park entrance.
My dad had a Sears Ted Williams pump too. That's the one I shot a hole in our old living room wall with.
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April 22nd, 2017, 10:09 PM #36
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April 22nd, 2017, 10:48 PM #37Banned
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Re: Favorite Hunting Rifle
I don't have one now, but I'd love to have one of those Bavarian Manlicher stocked rifles like CZ, Blaser, etc..... in 6.5x55.
Close second would be a Savage 99 in 308.
Close third would be a Marlin lever in 45-70 or. 444.
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April 22nd, 2017, 11:16 PM #38
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April 23rd, 2017, 02:07 AM #39
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April 23rd, 2017, 07:10 AM #40Senior Member
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Savage 99/300 Sav
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