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Your “ go-to” hunting rifle #9164677 01/06/25 08:06 PM
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I don’t want to start a one upper thread here at all, I want to see your go to rifle for Texas blind hunting . The one you use to pick deer and pigs off a feeder at 100 yards.

I’ll start - this is my Remington 700 Tactical in 6.5cm , 22” barrel , Burris XTR-II 5x25x50 and I use factory Hornady 143gr Precision Hunter . I might have $2k in the entire package but it always shoots straight and makes clean kills

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As of late a Ruger M77 in 257 Roberts with a simple 3-9x40. If I got the pipeline things change.

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Use to be a 257 wby. Now tikka 223 24” 1-8 twist and A10 wart hog suppressor. NXS8 4-32

If hunting wheat and need for poke over 300 then 6.5cm or if I need to go Light weight rifle 7prc


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That's a pretty easy one. AR 18" 300 Ham'r with 5X prism scope. Almost like cheating.


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90% of the time I'm shooting a Rem 700 in 308 Win with 16" barrel, suppressed, toped with a scope I won, Primary Arms 1x-8x mil/mil FFP. This year I went to the 152 grain Lehigh Controlled Chaos bullets, and they are awesome!

The other 10% is either my Rem 700 in 300 blk out or my "Black Cherry Pie"


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AR15 300 BO with Rattler IR. Too many dogs around for any day hunting. Hogs, yotes, dillos, possums, etc.

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Since last season by default, it's my Tikka Roughtek, 7mm Rem Mag with a Leupold VX5HD-3-15 x 44. Currently it's my most accurate rifle with an optic set up that I'm 100% confident in out to 600 yards. Killed my buck the last two seasons with it. I want to get back to a .308 and currently trying to move my new Bergara from the clipboard to the starting job. It's getting close.


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Marlin 36a 30-30 currently sporting a Leupold 3x9 Firedot is all I’ve ever used except on public land.



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I have a few I have used a home job savage with prefit 7mmo8 I put together, a cz 30-06, a savage 243, but my original that I e killed most with and have a ton of confidence in is a rem 700 sendero in 270 win topped with a boring old leupold 3x9 vxII. It shoots great, very mild recoil. It’s been a great loaner as well.

Right now I have 3 loads I shoot. 150 grain partition, 110 grain Sierra prohunter (reduced for kids etc.), and some factory ram 140 NBT’s. They will all hit an inch bullseye at 100 with no adjustment.


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My go to all arounder is my Remington 700 in .308 with a 20" heavy barrel, it's a tack driver at 100 yards.


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Originally Posted by onlysmith&wesson
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Since last season by default, it's my Tikka Roughtek, 7mm Rem Mag with a Leupold VX5HD-3-15 x 44. Currently it's my most accurate rifle with an optic set up that I'm 100% confident in out to 600 yards. Killed my buck the last two seasons with it. I want to get back to a .308 and currently trying to move my new Bergara from the clipboard to the starting job. It's getting close.


Looks like you can see forever out there …

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Weatherby Vanguard with Kuiu camo stock in 6.5 CM, topped with a 4x12 Burris E1 scope and Talley rings.
Shooting Nosler 140 gr. Bullistic Tip factory ammo. This factory ammo shoots so good it's the only gun I don't load for.
I won the gun at an RMEF dinner and got the scope on closeout for $125.00. So cost wise I'm way ahead of the game.

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Go to Whitetail rifle is a Rem 700 BDL in .270. Hair trigger and accurate as hell with the Hornady SST 130 grain. Topped with Zeiss Conquest 3x9 40mm.

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Originally Posted by wp75169
As of late a Ruger M77 in 257 Roberts with a simple 3-9x40. If I got the pipeline things change.


I have one of those as well. For whitetails, the 257 Bob in underrated IMO.

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Kimber 84 M 308 22 inch barrel w a break.
NightForce SHV 3-10x40 on it
Very light weight. Fully loaded w a GI 1917 leather sling it's 7lbs 6 oz
150 Nosler Accubonds on top of Varget at 2900 FPS

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Since last season by default, it's my Tikka Roughtek, 7mm Rem Mag with a Leupold VX5HD-3-15 x 44. Currently it's my most accurate rifle with an optic set up that I'm 100% confident in out to 600 yards. Killed my buck the last two seasons with it. I want to get back to a .308 and currently trying to move my new Bergara from the clipboard to the starting job. It's getting close.


Looks like you can see forever out there …

My longest shot on an animal was from there, 550 yards on a coyote. Ranged him, dialed, boom, what seemed like a full second later he flopped. That was with my .308 with an identical optic. You really want something that can get way out there in that country. Most of the stuff I've killed from this stand was inside 200 yards. But it does have those other opportunities where you have all the time you need to range and dial.


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Sako 85 Finnlight in .270 win threaded with a Dead Air Nomad on the end. Ran a zeiss conquest 4.5-14x on it for years but switched to the Vortex LHT 4.5-22x this year. Between myself and friends that have used it, it has killed more animals than I can count. She's a shooter.

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Daytime my NULA 16" 300 HAM'R with a Burris FF2 3-9x40

Nighttime a WC15 AR 300 HAM'R with a AGM Rattler V2 50-640 thermal

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Mine is Tikka T# in 308 that was chopped down to 16.5". Has a brake and is in a Tikka varmint stock. I load a 150gr Nosler BT @ 2650fps. Is now my go-to since last year. Nothing taken this season unfortunately.

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Remington Model 7 243 from 1996. Triggertech special, Trijicon 2.5-12 Accupoint. Threaded original pencil barrel.

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I bought this Remington ADL .270 in 1977. I`ve taken a few of my other rifles but this one gets the favorite rifle and go to gun for me. Killed my first buck with it 3 months after I bought it. Killed my last buck with it on 11-19-24. I`d even go farther and say that it is my favorite possession.
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