What firearm and load will you be carrying to your stand on Opening Day?

Since I'll have a pasture on one side and a wooded pond on the other, I'll be carrying my Winchester Model 70 Featherweight chambered in 25-06. One of the earlier wildcat loads that's good for both short and long distance, the magazine will be loaded with Hornady 110-grain ELD-X.

270 with 130 grain Hornaday.

Bear Super Kodiak pulling 47#. 528 grain black eagle instinct arrow with a 100 grain outsert collar tipped with a 125 grain Magnus Snuffer

Browning A-bolt. Leupold Vari-x iii with 3.5-10x50mm. 7mm mag Hornady BTSP 164 gr interlocked.

Winchester XPR .300 WSM. I don’t plan on doing any tracking this season.

Whenever my "opening day" will be, I'll be carrying my usual Marlin 36A 30-30 with Win Super X 150gr power points.

Tikka 260. Nosler 120 gr BTs. Leupold VX5 3-15 scope.

Trusty 'Ol 7mm-08 with my handloads.

140 grain for deer, keep a couple of 160 gr rounds in my pocket in case hogs show up.




160 gr. Load:

I'll be bow hunting tomorrow and Friday, but if I haven't stuck a deer by Friday night, I have packed the Browning BAR that I got from 603Country for Saturday AM. .270 topped with 130gr accubonds.

Remington 700 416 Remington Mag with 350g Speer soft points

Going old school. Plan on carrying my 1970s Rem 700 in 30-06. Will be using 180 grain Remington core locs.

I’m curious to know what wild hog currently walking the earth cannot be swiftly dealt with using a 7mm-08 and a 140 grain ballistic tip?

The 160 gr. just makes them more dead, lol.

Lately, I’ve really become fond of my 1971 Marlin 30-30 with 4x weaver scope. My uncle gave it to me years ago. Never really took it out to last year.

My ol 270 with whatever shells that were left over from last year.

Mossberg 500 12 ga Winchester Super X rifled slugs with a ATN 4K Pro 3x14

I always use the same three rifles for every opening weekend: dad’s 760 30-06,(150 grain Hornady ) granddad’s Mauser 35 Whelen (200 Nosler) and grandmother’s Mauser .257 (Nosler 100) It’s a tradition/honor thing for me, may seem silly to some…but not to me.

Remington 700 Classic in 6.5x55. Currently using the Swift 130gr Scirocco. Backup and walk around rifle is an over under Barnaul combination 6.5x55 X 12GA, but I use cheaper PPU soft points in that one.

A Benelli Lupo in .300 WM shooting Hornady 150 gr Interlock. My opening day is in New Mexico for mule deer.

Tikka M695 in 25-06. Hornady 117 GR. SST, plus some new 110 GR. soft point reloads. All I have to do it point it in the right direction, it does the rest.

Browning 270 A-Bolt Boss with a Leupold 3 x 9 x 40, shooting Remington 130 grain CORE-LOKT.

My trusty old Winchester model 70, featherweight. 130 gr Nosler partition

Probably this...I want to take something with the 7.62x39

My Ruger 10/22 or possibly my M2 Browning .50 cal. Will decide before I head to the stand.