What's your fav. deer rifle?

[k0xxx]

Yep, it's hard to beat the good old 30-30. For over 100 years, the 30-30 has been knockin' 'em dead.

 

[THEFAN]

I'm a 30-40 Krag find of guy when I deer hunt. A nice 180 grain soft point will do the job everytime. My choose this coming season

 

[ScottSD]

I'm a 30-40 Krag find of guy when I deer hunt. A nice 180 grain soft point will do the job everytime. My choose this coming season

I love the 30-40 Krag!

My dad has one with the open site. My son used it to drop 3 deer in the last half our of the day last year.

Pretty nice for a nearly 100 year old gun.

Another favorite is the 270.

 

[Bierwagon]

T/C .35 rem or

Trusty .270 Tikka. (350yrd tack driver)

 

[fisherman]

When I first started deer hunting as a kid all I had was an old military surplus 303 british with peep sights,,That was a smackem down hard hitting bullet

 

[Tatter]

Marlin 336 in .30-30 handloaded with 173 grain Lyman 311041/311291 slugs for varmints and food. Tis all one needs really.

 

[bmiss]

good to see love for the 30-30... no one in my circle seems to use them anymore, but its my fav. deer rifle.

 

[Bettacreek]

Finally went with a 30.06 Savage Axis. Went with this gun because of the brush situation around here. .243 doesn't really go through anything. 30.06 is supposed to knock just about anything dead. The bullets are cheaper than a 7mm 08 too, by about $10 per box.

 

[lipoptena]

the deerrifle I prefer is my Carl Gustaf 2000 mkII, 30-06. A perfect stalking rifle.

Edit: because of me beeing a newbie I couldn't insert an image of this smoth beauty.

 

[lipoptena]

the deerrifle I prefer is my Carl Gustaf 2000 mkII, 30-06. A perfect stalking rifle.

Edit: because of me beeing a newbie I couldn't insert an image of this smoth beauty.

I have another 30-06 which is more of a long range rifle. It is a custum built Husqvarna 1900, the gunsmith is named Tomas Albrechtsson who worked at the Norma smithy before they outsourced gunsmithing. It has a heavy varmint barrel and supressor. Together with av Trijicon 2,5-10x56 it can be used very late at night as well as daytime. Not that you are allowed to hunt deer at night time in Sweden (well, roe deer can be hunted from 1 hour before sunrise untill 1 hour after sunset) but we are allowed to hunt wildboar and redfox at any hour.

And of course I have a rifle in 6,5x55 Swedish mauser, the old national calibre of Sweden. Nowadays I use it more for practice and redfox huniting than for deerhunting. With a Schmidt & Bender 4-16x50 it's very accurate long range rifle. My father in law gave it to me when I started hunting.