Your heavily used hunting rifle

[sickles107]

Oh man I dug through the archives on this one. Bought this Rem 700 in 22-250 when I first turned 18 to call fox and coyotes. In that time it got a stock, chopped barrel, trigger, wood block comb riser, then when I moved to Montana I rebarreled to 308. If this rifle could talk...

 

[grfox92]

I wish I had a picture of my uncles Remington 760. The receiver had his wrapped-around handprint very clearly worn into the bluing. My grandfathers Winchester 94 (now in my possession) and my personal Browning Citori aren’t too far behind.

I want a 760 so bad. Should have bought one years ago, because now they sell for a premium.

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[HappyHuntr]

I want a 760 so bad. Should have bought one years ago, because now they sell for a premium.

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Sell your wife’s purse and fur coat to go towards the funds. ( she won’t know )

 

[HappyHuntr]

Love all your guns!!! Beautiful

 

[handwerk]

I'm blessed to have quite a few model 70's to enjoy but these two have seen the most use:
A mid 50's .270 Fwt.

 

[handwerk]

And my customized 300 H&H

 

[01Foreman400]

All mine still look new. LOL

 

[zrodwyo]

Mine is custom rifle built by Borden back in the late 90s (maybe early 2000s) . It started out as a .300 Borden Caribou (basically a .300 wby improved). Now days it’s a 30 nosler.

The stock has fabric inlaid in it from a camo pattern that was popular in the Texas brush country at the time. Talk about custom! As far as I know it was the only stock around made with this pattern other than this rifle’s clone that my dad owns. APR started using this pattern last year though i believe.

Despite being barely 9 pounds with NF optic this rifle just soaks up the recoil. I can spot impacts at basically any range. Back in the day it was equipped with a piece of long range history - a Greybull Precision Leupold VX-3. I was killed so many thing with that scope at long range.

 

[Farmcritter]

This is a great thread!! Hope this one sticks around for awhile.

 

[gerry35]

Mine is custom rifle built by Borden back in the late 90s (maybe early 2000s) . It started out as a .300 Borden Caribou (basically a .300 wby improved). Now days it’s a 30 nosler.

The stock has fabric inlaid in it from a camo pattern that was popular in the Texas brush country at the time. Talk about custom! As far as I know it was the only stock around made with this pattern other than this rifle’s clone that my dad owns. APR started using this pattern last year though i believe.

Despite being barely 9 pounds with NF optic this rifle just soaks up the recoil. I can spot impacts at basically any range. Back in the day it was equipped with a piece of long range history - a Greybull Precision Leupold VX-3. I was killed so many thing with that scope at long range.

Really like the looks of that rig.

 

[grfox92]

Sell your wife’s purse and fur coat to go towards the funds. ( she won’t know )

I'm lucky my wife isn't like that lol. She doesn't even carry a purse.

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[HGL]

My dad's Weatherby Mark V in 270 Wby, circa 1980s with the same year Swarovski 3-12x56. (It was the first year they offered the "fibermark" stock) Its accounted for a good many deer ang pigs over the years, my guess is 800 plus animals. He used it to kill a few culls last year so its still working. I'm not entirely sure the barrel has ever been cleaned either.

 

[HappyHuntr]

I'm lucky my wife isn't like that lol. She doesn't even carry a purse.

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Lucky man. My grandma has so much of that crap it’s off the charts

 

[Curmudgeon]

Little bit different take on a rifle but this one is one of my prized possessions. Model 514 Remington bolt action 22. This one was built in 1950. I got the gun used as a gift when I was ten years old. It's had thousands of rounds fired through it. I used it mainly on rabbits and squirrels growing up. It's been a trapline gun, a boat gun, a tractor gun, and ridden in a lot of pickups I've owned over the years. I think the stock has been refinished at least three times. It has no bluing left, just what you could call a rusty patina.

 

[ArcherAdam]

The only rifle I own for myself and use. My early 90's Ruger m77 mkii skeleton in 30-06. 6 years ago I won a cerakote job in a silent auction. At the time I didn't know it was a sin to modify a Ruger skeleton. It was my 13th birthday gift 30 years ago. It's wearing its 3rd scope. I have taken it to 4 western states and a buddy borrowed it for a Canadian bear hunt. I have been blessed to take many whitetails, a black bear, 2 pronghorn antelope, a muledeer, and an elk with it. Lord willing more states will be added to the list with a coues deer, moose, and caribou some day.

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[KenLee]

This was my Granddad’s 1965 model 70 in .270 he bought new. It was handed down to my Dad and then to me. Complete with the Bushnell 4x scope they bought him for Christmas one year. It’s killed it’s fair share of deer and quite a few trees. Granddad got buck fever pretty good. He use to tell me story’s about stopping the school bus to look at deer because there just weren’t any around, so when he was finally able to get a deer tag it was a pretty special thing.View attachment 527808View attachment 527812

Some trees just need killin. How dare they get in the way!

 

[displacedtexan]

I have a scratch on one or two of mine and it bugs me everytime I see them! lol

One scratch is ugly.

A bunch is a different kind of beautiful and interesting.

 

[KenLee]

I want a 760 so bad. Should have bought one years ago, because now they sell for a premium.

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I never thought Remington models six, 76, 760 and 7600 would be collector items.
They are now expensive because almost everyone I know that has one, has at least 10.
Most of those folks are at least 50 years old. If you outlive them, you might pick one up cheap.

 

[Balderdash]

Wish I'd have taken more up close pics of a Savage 116 300 WSM I used heavy for about 10-12 years.

Was one of the first of that caliber around, and I recall waiting for the initial ammo offerings to become available.

It started with a poor quality, OEM plastic stock. After a year of shooting it a lot, I picked up a wood stock for it that had a raised comb, which fit me quite a bit better than the original plastic handle. I took it on a rainy-snowy backpack elk hunt, and by the time we packed out most of the original finish had worn off because the stock swelled so bad.

I did a lot of cutting, shaping, and glueing new pieces of wood and Bondo onto the stock to get the comb and palm swell just right and the recoil pad raised. It looked like hell, but it fit and I shot it very well. I hit it with a bunch of coats of Deft hardwood floor varnish for gym floors that did a great job of sealing the wood for a few years, but off gassed chemical odor for seemingly the entire time I had it on there. Eventually, I sanded the stock down and covered it with textured bed truck liner, which worked great and only flaked off if the wood received a significant dent.

That rifle was carried on a lot of western hunts, and it was used for a lot of whitetail crop damage work. Had to have killed over 100 animals with it. Could be more as I often loaned it out to the farmer who we were helping to fill crop damage tags, and to others who would come along to help with the crop damage work.

Had a couple of scopes on it over the years, but mostly had a 6x Leupold with LRD reticle, mostly because it actually held zero.

By the time I started using other rifles, it was really beat up. Like a lot of "Salvages", it always grouped tight, but had a few troubles with the extractor abd ejector, which were replaced a time or two. Ended up selling it to a friend who borrowed it for an elk hunt and loved how well he shot it.

 

[JasonWi]

My primary rifle since the 90s, Ruger M77, 7mmRM. Bought it in HS for $350

Original barrel was shot out by me, wood stock replaced to a McMillan (stock only cost me $200) new Timney trigger when factory stopped working. Had a 24” Benchmark barrel put on it. The metal was Ceracoated after the original blueing was all splotchy.

I finally took the Zeiss conquest 3-9x40 off of it after years of use and just placed it with a new NF NXS 3.5-15x50. She’s got a lot more critters to add in the upcoming years.

It’s killed pig, deer, antelope, elk.