Primary hunting rifle is a Browning A-Bolt 300 WSM with a Leupold VX5HD zeroed at 100 yards with handloads.
I hope to get the model 94 out this year and take one with irons.
Why do you feel you need to crank out 100 hunting rounds an hour?
it is my opinion you have unrealistic expectations. With my reloading, hunting rounds only, I spend a lot of time on load development: Various charge weights, different bullets and bullet weights to maximize accuracy. I’m looking...
There are so many options for a hunting rifle and caliber less options for finding private land to hunt on.
While I appreciate the sentiments of others about “overkill” on whitetail, I don’t fall into that line of thinking. If you want a versatile rifle I’d recommend 270 Win, 308, or 30.06...
No recommendations but the only MD restriction would be a 16” barrel unless it’s a pistol.
I put together an Aero upper with a faxon barrel thats going to be shot this weekend.
Agreed, that’s why I want to buy a whole bunch of them and then worry about which one I want to choose on any given day. I have a 300 WM, 300 WSM, 308, 30.06, 6.5-284, 30-30. And a Sako in 270 is on the short list.
I recently bought a Cooper Excalibur in 6.5-284 and topped it with a Swarovski Z5 to be my primary deer rifle. This year I’m still hunting with my Stainless ABolt in 300 wsm.
I’m relatively new to hunting, 3 years, and have killed 5 deer with 4 different guns. What I’ve found is that deer...