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Share a pic and information of your Whitetail Hunting Rifle for 2025...
- Thread starter Clintstone
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Winchester 1895 in 405. I bought this rifle 3 years ago when ammo is hard to find and $100-120 box when you did. Didn’t shoot it much. This year Hornaday decided to finally make another run of ammo that sales for roughly $70 a box. So after acquiring a lifetime supply of ammo and reloading supplies I mounted a Lyman 21 peep sight made by Peabodyrifles. Located a grade IV stock off eBay that came of a 125th anniversary edition rifle. It’s needs refinishing and will be refinished after hunting season. Lastly mounted a recoil pad that will be replaced when the stock is refinished. Recoil and steel butt plate was a little on the brutal side. I don’t consider myself a recoil sensitive person either.
Should be fun. Just have to zero it this week with the peep sight
Should be fun. Just have to zero it this week with the peep sight
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I don't really have a GA deer hunting rifle. I just push something into the role. Closest thing I have to a "hunting rifle" is a Ruger Marlin 1895 in 45/70. AR10 or Scar platform in 308 of 6.5 generally get the nod. So has a Noveske in 556, another in 300blk, an 8.6blk, etc have gotten the nod in the past as well. Deer at ranges I generally hunt in GA don't require anything special. Good optic, consistent rifle, proper projectile, and a decent shot are all that is needed.
I didn't get any hand-me-down or childhood rifles that I was attached to emotionally or have a cool story. Run what I bought
I didn't get any hand-me-down or childhood rifles that I was attached to emotionally or have a cool story. Run what I bought
My wife's savage 110 in 350 legend, Vortex crossfire II 3X9X40. She shoots Winchester power point 180 grn.
And my Ruger Ranch 7.62x39. Also has a Vortex 3x9x40. I shoot 123grn hornady sst.
I use it for deer and pigs.
Our longest shot is 150 yards and everything else is a thicket, so these work out great for us. I really do more dragging my wife's deer out than I do shooting.
And my Ruger Ranch 7.62x39. Also has a Vortex 3x9x40. I shoot 123grn hornady sst.
I use it for deer and pigs.
Our longest shot is 150 yards and everything else is a thicket, so these work out great for us. I really do more dragging my wife's deer out than I do shooting.
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Picked this up a few days ago Interarms Mark X in .243. If anyone knows any info about it, please share!
Please verify but I believe:
It’s a Zastava barreled action from Serbia. They put it in a stock in England and a few companies imported them to the US under a couple names. Very cool commercial Mauser.
Very nice shooting rifle! Excellent grouping there Kemosabe. I will be using a AR-10 in either 6.5 Creedmoor or a AR-10 in 308 two self built rifles. This is a target from the 6.5 Creedmoor. This was a quick 5 shot group I did last week for something on a thread. The 308 is about the same or maybe a hair more open then the Creedmoor but I really haven't shot the real good ammo out of the .308 yet. I just scoped the 308 a few weeks ago but just ran some of the white box XM80C generic stuff.
I may be sporting a new Bergara 6.5 PRC this year if I can make up my mind on which model. I have the money put up for it. I just keep going from one model to the other. 🤣 I may just take this one out if I can't settle on one. It's a Howa 6.5 PRC and groups as well as the the other two I mentioned. Any one of them will get the job done.
Good luck this year boys. The time is close at hand!
Very Nice… can’t go wrong with Bergara. I have a 7PRC in a Crest and I had the 308 before the above rifle was finished.
