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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
[Re: Creekrunner]
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01/04/22 02:58 PM
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TX_LT230FH
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 Well done. What'd you kill with the .300? Just time so far.... 
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
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01/04/22 03:00 PM
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Took my new .264 Win Mag. Interarms Mark X Mauser action with Myrtle stock. Old school wood and steel. Shot this cull buck opening day and a decent Auodad a few weeks later. ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/userpics/2022/01/full-19403-330379-c06a329b_c2b0_46eb_8a13_73f060a08e0f.jpeg) That's a beauty of a rifle and nice animals too. I have a Mauser-actioned curly maple stocked 243 somewhere if I can find it I'll post up some pics of it.
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
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01/04/22 06:02 PM
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I went old school last season using my British .303 made in 1918. It was sportorized when I bought it. Still a great shooter. Bolt action on it is so smooth.
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
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11/01/22 03:38 PM
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thedoveshooter
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Dug deep after thinking this would be a good year to go "old school" on opening weekend and pulled out the 257 Roberts Model 70 and the 300 H&H Model 70. The plastic stocks will have to wait until later in the season.... And I think it's time to rebuild the shooting bench... Nice choices! I'm taking my Win. Model 70 pre-64 300 H&H this weekend. Can't wait to try it. Taking my FN .270 as my secondary. ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/userpics/2022/11/full-19403-368351-win3.jpg)
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
[Re: TX_LT230FH]
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11/01/22 05:56 PM
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Texas Dan
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It's the grain in fine wood that gives a firearm its unique character.
"When the debate is lost, insults become the tool of the loser."
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
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11/01/22 08:34 PM
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Buzzsaw
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following again this year
SPACE FOR RENT
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
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11/02/22 12:59 AM
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Old School is the only school I know. That 300 without the recoil pad wouldnt be fun to shoot. Awesome gun though. I love pre64s.
At some point in life its time to quit chasing the pot of gold and just enjoy the rainbow. FR Keep your gratitude higher than your expectations. RWH
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
[Re: TX_LT230FH]
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11/02/22 05:26 AM
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hetman
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Model 70FWT - 1 of 3 consecutive sn# we ordered in 257 Roberts (long action for reloading) & Ruger 50th Anniversary Model 77 - Limited Edition rifle, in 243 - 1 of 1000(just for some pig whacking/has not been blooded yet) 
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
[Re: TX_LT230FH]
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11/02/22 06:05 AM
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I carry different calibers depending on where I’m hunting but I pulled out the the 1990 416 Remington Mag for Saturday’s hunt and loaded some fresh freedom pills. Tracking jobs suck,
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
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11/02/22 07:48 PM
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thedoveshooter
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I carry different calibers depending on where I’m hunting but I pulled out the the 1990 416 Remington Mag for Saturday’s hunt and loaded some fresh freedom pills. Tracking jobs suck, 416 is more than I want to shoot. My 9.3x62mm is enough punishment.
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
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11/02/22 11:12 PM
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Jstocks
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My old school rifle is a Browning BAR 30/06 with a ghost ring on it. I love that old gun. My Dad hunts with a Marlin lever action 44 mag, and sometimes we use the old school tube fed Ruger 44 carbine.
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
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11/03/22 10:38 AM
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![[Linked Image]](https://imgur.com/IKGnG68.jpg) This is mine for this year.
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
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11/03/22 01:27 PM
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thedoveshooter
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![[Linked Image]](https://imgur.com/IKGnG68.jpg) This is mine for this year. Nice No.4! One of my bucket list rifles is a No.4 Mk1 (T).
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
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11/03/22 02:14 PM
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C.K.
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I love taking this one out ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/userpics/2022/11/full-41811-368569-f9129c1d_e10b_4c70_a441_bab79787dc6c.jpeg)
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
[Re: HicksHunter]
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11/03/22 07:22 PM
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![[Linked Image]](https://imgur.com/IKGnG68.jpg) This is mine for this year. For those that forever debate the term "clip" vs "magazine", I assume that would qualify as a clip.
At some point in life its time to quit chasing the pot of gold and just enjoy the rainbow. FR Keep your gratitude higher than your expectations. RWH
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
[Re: TX_LT230FH]
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11/03/22 09:03 PM
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Sniper John
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It has a removeable magazine, but it was not intended to be removed. The rifle has a charger bridge for loading with chargers. As such the magazine can hold two charges of 5 cartridges. I have one of these rifles in my collection, but it is still in the original mummy wrap, so I can't shoot or hunt with it. His No4 is a great choice to hunt with. I do often pick one different mulsurp rifle from my collection each year. Find or make a hunting load for it. Sight in and learn it's limitations, then hunt with it some days during season. Never really got around to picking one this season, but I might choose one before it's over.
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
[Re: TX_LT230FH]
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11/03/22 09:30 PM
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![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/userpics/2022/11/full-46306-368637-c8372846_3a1d_4751_8bf6_08e78c37c7b3.jpeg) Breaking my Winchester XTR 280 Remington out of the gun safe for this season.
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
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11/03/22 10:39 PM
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I'm planning on hauling this one down into the pasture and rolling a hog with it. A Uberti copy of the 1885 Winchester High Wall in .38-55. 265 grains of cast lead in front of 10 grains of Unique...a load I call "Old Painless". Despite its pedestrian velocities compared to modern stuff, it carries well enough as the distances grow. Its current sight setting will pound my 200 yard swinger and yet moving my staff down from "4.5" to "3" puts me dead on at 100. No one on the place is liable to mistake me for Tom Selleck, but this darling will hold up its end if I do my part! Mark ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/2ZMI7xKl.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/PhKMJu9l.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/LxGFn2Yl.jpg)
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
[Re: 218 Bee]
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02/17/23 02:36 PM
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Where did you get your sight for that rifle? Have same one but in 45 LC and would like a sight like yours for it. Good looking rig!
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
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02/18/23 01:19 AM
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Good thread. I am an admirer of nice walnut on a rifle also, but perversely I admire it so much that I put synthetic stocks on rifles that come to me with nice wood in order to make sure it remains nice wood. A thought crossed my mind at work just the other day and I looked to see if walnut stocks are still available for AR15s...it was kind of novel some years ago. I quickly found a website that showed an image of an AR15 so decked out and I was immediately reminded of why I was not interested back then. Nope, nope. I like stuff like this: A super Grade in .280 Remington... ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/DRkrB1H.jpg) This is a 788... ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/qos4l9G.jpg)
![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/T84Bps5.jpg) "Arguing with you always makes me thirsty." -Augustus McRae
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Re: "Old School" Opening choices
[Re: TxYoteHunter]
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03/02/23 11:53 AM
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I went old school last season using my British .303 made in 1918. It was sportorized when I bought it. Still a great shooter. Bolt action on it is so smooth. I also bought a similar one) Now I'm restoring)
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