What's everybody use for a deer rifle?

[VTbrshbstr]

So whats everybody's favorite rifle to carry while deer hunting?

When in my tree stands I use a Savage 14 in American Classic chambered in 250 Savage. I have an older 2-7x33 Redfield Wide View Scope on it and it shoots one hole five shot groups at 100 yards with 100 gr. Winchester Silver-tips.

When still hunting or doing drives I carry a Thompson Center Contender G2 carbine chambered in 45-70. It's topped with a Leupold VX-1 1-4x20 shooting 325 gr. Hornady Lever evolutions

[bowhunter97]

Pump Remington 30-06 springfield with a synthetic stock

[Zizzer59]

What's everybody use for a deer rifle?

I like my Remington Model 700 .270. That or the ole -06

[wtnhunt]

Remington model 700 in .270. Been hunting with that rifle since about 1995. Topped with a 3-9x40 nikon monarch.

[WHISKEYSWAMP]

In the UP Michigan, I use a savage 30-06 as my choice. No rifle here in Ohio but my 20gauge encore is my gun of choice for gun law. I'll be switching the barrel in a couple weeks for muzzle season.

[okiedog]

Savage model 16 Weather Warrior Accu-Stock/Tigger Left Hand bolt in 7mm08 with Nikon 3x9x50 Buckmaster.

[redkneck]

Depends on my mood, lol. So far this season I've taken a cheap Rossi 243 typed with a Simmons (my daughters gun), my 300wby vanguard, my 45-70 handi rifle (legal in our joke of a primitive season), a Marlin 30-30 and tasco expo (just cuz it looked lonely the other day). I guess that's about it, I really don't have just one I have to have, still bow hunt most of rifle season.

[Strut10]

Whichever one tickles my fancy that day. Really do very little deer hunting with a rifle................. 95% archery for the last 25 years.

The last couple years I've been liking to carry a Weatherby MK V Ultra-Lightweight in .25-06. It's a shooter !! And at 5 3/4 lbs. it feels just as light at the end of a long day of walking as it did in the morning.

[too_pointer]

I don't own several rifles like I did at one time, but carrying a Marlin 336 lever in .35 Rem. using the Hornady leverlution in 200 grn. A great cal. for where I

I hunt in Northern Michigan. Have a Bushnell Trophy XLT 3x9x40 on top.

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[smha6784]

What's everybody use for a deer rifle?

T/C 7mm topped with vortex diamondback 4-12x40 using Winchester slivertip 140gr or like redneck above during our so called primitive weapon season H/R 45-70 topped with vortex diamondback 3-9x50 shooting leveroutions 325gr, that when I'm not bow hunting. IMO the best all around caliber is the .270.

[VermontHunter]

My go to rifle is my Browning A-Bolt Stainless Stalker in .270 topped with a Tasco World Class 4-16X50, using the Fusion 150 grn Soft Tip round.

[Ultradog]

I used a 30 30 Marlin for nearly 40 years and layed down a lot of deer with it.

But as i grew older and my eyes started to change I had a bit of trouble focusing between the rear sight, front sight and the target.

I figured a scope was the answer but

I couldn't really see putting a scope on that Marlin so I bought a new rifle about 5 years ago.

I now use a Tikka T3 bolt in .270 with a Leupold 3x9 scope.

I probably wont ever knock down as many deer with it as I did my good old Marlin but at least I can still hit them.

I can also take longer shots with much greater confidence than before.

Where I hunt there are a couple of places where I can see out to about 250 yards.

The first deer I shot with it was a doe about 225 yards out.

That was pretty cool to reach out and touch one that far away.

[Shaun_300]

Depends where I'm hunting, I'd say 80% of the time I carry my Browning BLR .300 WSM topped with a 3-10x40 Bushnell Elite 3200. But in the evenings when I sit in the fields I usually carry my Ruger M77 Mark II .25-06 topped with a Bushnell Legend 4-12x40, that thing is a tack driver, have yet to kill a deer with that one though.

[deer slayer]

What's everybody use for a deer rifle?

Can't hunt deer with rifles here

[Ethan Givan]

Depends. I usually hunt with the old .308 win but this year I took out the Savage .270 every time. It shoots a little flatter, which is what I wanted hunting the other farm where long shots are more likely.

[clrj3514]

My personal rifle is a Remington 700 in .30-06 with a 3-9x40 Nikon Monarch.

After my Granddaddy passed away last year I inherited his Ruger M77 in .30-06 with a 3.5-10x50 Leupold VX-III.

This year though I've been using Daddy's Ruger M77 Mark II in 7mm Rem Mag with a 3-9x50 Leupold VX-II.

We shoot 150gr Remington Core-Lokts in mine & Daddy's rifles and 150gr Winchester Silvertips in Granddaddy's.

[Hunter Dave]

Remington 7400 auto. Wood stock. Real straight shooter

[Ravin R10 man]

Remington 700 bolt with Leupold 3 to 9 dot crosshair

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[dbHunterNY]

right now it's a 30-06 chambered Browning Abolt II Stainless Stalker with a walnut stock, millet rings and bases, as well as Nikon Prostaff 3-9x40mm scope. I've got a Slogan Outdoors ultraflex sling on it.

[PotashRLS]

Either my old style all weather Ruger M77 Mark II stainless 7mm Rem Mag or from my wife for our wedding my Browning A-bolt Hunter 300 WSM. Both are topped with Weaver Grand Slam scopes. My T/C Encore .50 cal. muzzleloader sees more time during the firearm seasons now too.

One of these years I intend to get Grandpa's rifle back out in the woods......a Savage model 99 .300 savage with a very early Bushnell scope.

[VTbrshbstr]

Those 99's are great! My grandfather has given me two over the years, the first is a 99 H 30-30 win, made in 1924. It has been refinished, drilled and tapped for a tang mounted sight and has a badly fitted replacement forearm but it shoots very well. The second one he gave me two weeks ago, its chambered in 250-3000 and made in 1919 and in unmolested original condition.

[Turkeygirl]

Don't use a rifle...use a 20 ga shotgun with rifled barrel, sabot slugs...thing shoots more like a rifle though;)

[dbHunterNY]

right now it's a 30-06 chambered Browning Abolt II Stainless Stalker with a walnut stock, millet rings and bases, as well as Nikon Prostaff 3-9x40mm scope. I've got a Slogan Outdoors ultraflex sling on it.

feel i've got to add this stuff.... my first buck i shot with a Winchester Model 94 30-30 with a tasco pronghorn scope (my dad used it when he was a kid to shoot his deer and now my brother uses it after me). my dad's main gun is a Remington 7600 pump in 30-06 he got at woolworth's when he was 20 or so. i've used that to kill deer too. also before my Browning my grandfather passed down to me a Remington 742 Woodsmaster in 30-06. I've used that. Those are just the rifles I've used.

[cmiddleton]

normally the mathews but when i rifle hunt i like my 270 m 77 ruger ss or my weatherby vanguard 300 mag,

haven't taken my 243 788 rem in two years but its my go to rifle on white tail or antalope mainly its my coyote rifle but even it has to share with the 22-250 788 rem and now once i site it in the 223 dpms AR.

then there is the win 670 30-0-6 i haven't carried YET it was my sons and he did a lazer engraving of a elk on the stock so when he went to sell it we got it to save for his son.

[Rhino]

Depends on when & where I'm hunting with a rifle.

For places that might require a long shot or the need to try to hit & DRT (dead right there), I use my Weatherby Mark V in 30-378 Wby Mag. I shoot hand loads using Barnes Triple shock 165 gr. bullets. They are great at limiting damage so the wound channel is not much more than my .308 at short range.

I'm usually hunting places with limited range in cover so then I'll use my Remington Model 7 in .308. shooting 180 gr. Barnes X bullets, also hand loads.

The MS primitive weapons season allows the use of single shot, center fire rifles provided they are .35 cal or larger. Then I'll use my Uberti reproduction of the Winchester 1885 single shot rifle in 45-70. Action is breech block like the old Sharps.