Pictured below are my M70 I just finished this year along with my Leica Ultravid HD 10x32s and back-up Leupold VXIII 2.5x8 B&C Ret.

( Rifle Specs )
-M70 Stainless Classic Action
-Pacnor 26" Super Match in 7mm Rem Mag
-McMillan Hunters Edge stock
-Nightforce 2.5x10 NXS with Velocity Ret.
-Williams 1 Peice Bottom Metal & Extractor
-Rifle Basix Trigger
-Barreled & action squared by Pacnor
-Talley rings & bases
-Murray Custom Leather sling

I'll go first. I am breaking in a new Kimber 8400 in .270 with a Swarovski 3x-9x scope. I hope to also Christen a Husqvarna 98 Mauser in 9.3x57 with a Schmidt & Bender 1 1/4x-4x. Two vastly different firearms for the whitetail problem.

RSM 458,

Nice build and nice rifle. I built this Winchester 4 or 5 years ago.

- SS Winchester Model 70 Classic action, blueprinted, with a Williams extractor.
- Trigger set to 3 pounds
- Williams one piece SS bottom metal with the Obendorf style magazine release.
- .338 wm Pacnor #4 weight sporter contour 26" SS supermatch grade barrel, fluted.
- Macmillan Hunter stock.
- Nightforce 2.5-10 x 32 scope with the NPR2 reticle. Nightforce rings and mounts.

The picture below shows it with an elk I took this fall.

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Your rifle sounds great. I can't see your picture though. I am working on another M70 like this one in 375 Ruger. It has been barreled by Pacnor and drilled for 8x40 scope base screws. It will be a very light 375 when I finish it.

Good looking rifle and congradulations on your elk. How do you like the Nightforce mounts?

I very much like the Nightforce rings and mounts. Very well made.

I am buying some new mounts this winter though. I originally had a 3.5-15x50 on this rifle and the mounts are meant to clear that larger scope. I will buy a lower profile mount so that the way my cheek ride the stock feels better with this lower profile scope.

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What are you hunting with this year?

I guess i'll hunt with my "go to gun", and see if i can make it number 26th "one shot kill on big game" in a row.



It's a Krieghoff Semper, 16-16 8x57jrs, loaded with 200NP's at 2,550fps. It has an auto flip up iron sight when you select the rifle bbl.,



I also have two scopes for it in claw mounts, the latest one a 3x9 Zeiss, that i like very much...



I've harvested everything from moose and bear on the big end,



To deer, havolina, turkey and coyote on the smaller end,





I'll probably hunt later on with my Chapuis DR a bit too...

DM

I think those drillings are neat.

For Antelope I put another notch in my old Mark X .257 AI shooting a 115 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip bullet at 3156 fps. It's topped with a Leupold 6x.

That's also the rifle that I use for deer.

For elk I'm carrying my .300 Weatherby Vanguard wearing a 4-12x Leupold and shooting 168 gr Barnes TSX bullets moving out at 3290 fps.

Ruger Hawkeye 338 Federal with Conquest 2.5x8 shooting 200 grain Ballistic Silvertips at 2660. Hunting boar and have the opportunity to take a red deer hind on my buddies brother's game ranch.

06 in none other then a rem 700 and a ruger 44 special. Sure hope i dont shoot myself or my old man

If you'd asked me 6 weeks ago, I'd have taken my .375 H&H out to Texas for Whitetail. Now I'm not so sure!

My Ruger #1 is shooting 145gr. HotCore's at 2,750 fps into 1/2" groups. My new to me 300H&H is coming along very well, delivering 165gr. Horn. IL's at 3,115 fps into 1" groups, with two shots touching. The .375 delivers a 300 gr. Sierra at 2,550 into 3/4" groups.

I've kinda reached the point of "done playing" with the .375. It simply loves 300 gr. bullet and 80.0 gr. of H4350. Doesn't seem to matter if the bullet is a Horn IL, SGK or Partition - it's going to group 3/4" if I can hold onto it. It's short (20" bbl) so it fits into a blind as easy as the No. 1. Topped with an e-dot 3-10x44 Burris Euro-D, I can go hoggin' late into the night.

The big plus is that it's a "virgin"! Yep, that's right. It's never been blooded. So there's a certain joy in that.

So, it has little to do with accuracy. I suppose it's just going to depend on which rifle I'm "feeling" the moment I leave the door to head to Texas in 26 days!

Remington LTR 308

35 Whelen 700LH Rem bolt action
375 H&H Blaser R93 bolt action

From across the pond
My go to moose and red deer rifle is a M77 35 Whelen with 22" Shilen barrel.
Scope is Zeiss Victory 3-12x56 with #60 illuminated reticle.
Bullet is Woodleigh 250 grs RN



My "light" rifle for lesser deer and fox, is a Kimber Montana in 308 Win.
Scope is Zeiss Victory 2,5-10x50 with "4 reticle.
Bullet is 150 grs Nosler PT.

Guess I´m a bit "americanized" in my taste

I'll either be using a Remington XCR II in 300 RUM or a Remington CDL SF in 300 WSM

8X57 built on a VZ500 Intermediate length M98 action, military take-off bbl re-contoured to my spes' by Dennis Olsen.The chamber & throat were left un-touched.

Leupold 3-9X40 VX-II on Leupold 2 piece bases/low rings.

200gr Nosler Partitions over 53.5gr Vv N550, cases formed from once fired 30-06 GI brass picked up @ the local CMP shhot. CCI LR primer, 3.132" COAL. 2730 fps out of the 23 1/4" bbl.

I have fitted a 3-pos M-70 type safety since this photo was taken.

7 1/2# as shown, balances W/the hand right under the floorplate & is a joy to carry in the woods.



I've already taken a Whitetail buck @ 240yds W/it. I shot, DRT. The bullet hit right @ POA @ 240yds. The gun was sighted in 2 1/2" high @ 100yds.

I'm leaving in a few days for a deer hunt in Montana. I will be using:

My grandfathers Remington 721
ReBarreled by Benchmark 23" Hill Country Taper in 270 Win
LoneWolf Summit Stock
Topped with a VX-2 3-9x40


I know it will work


ddj

since my gal hi-jacked my kimber montana in 260 I am pulling out my uncles pre-64 270. If I cant go modern I will go nostalgic and I used Grandads .338 alaskan last year.

SSR

I would not complain about having to use my M70 Pre.64 over a Kimber. I have always wanted an orginal Alaskan in 338.

You're a lucky man in my opinion.

I'm headed Mule deer hunting with my .25-06 this weekend. Metal work by HTC rifles and the stock is an old Whitworth that was donated to me. I did the refinish work on it.

I used my .257 Roberts for a small whitetail buck this year. I love this rifle and have taken Mule Deer, Antelope, Coyotes and now a Whitetail with it. It shoots 117 grain Sierra's at 2825 fps into tiny little groups if I'm "on". It is a 96 Husqvarna with a 3 position Gentry safety, cock on open, Timney trigger, Pac Nor super match 23" ultra light contour barrel, Leupold compact 3-9, Warne rings and my own version of a re-worked and re-shaped stock.


My Elk rifle this year is my .338 Win Mag Win M70 Supergrade. This rifle shoots excellent groups with 225 grain Sierra bullets going 2815 fps. I have only killed Coyotes with this one so it is due to take a game animal. I recently had the BOSS cut off this rifle and I'm pretty happy about hunting with it this year. I replaced the 50mm scope pictured with another Leupold 3-9 but with a 40mm objective this time.

Last weekend I took my wifes 300 wsm camo ultimate shadow stainless mod 70. This weekend if I get some ammo loaded I may take my 375 H-H Savage Alaskan guide rifle.

Tc Encore pro hunter 25/06 pushing 100gr tsx. Dead deer right there!!!!

I'm using a Browning A-Bolt II Composite Hunter w/BOSS in 7mm Rem Mag with a Leupold 3.5-10x40 shooting 175gr NP handloads for western Nebraska deer and elk. It's butt ugly, but it shoots consistantly and makes meat year after year. 'Purty is is what purty does...'

2 rifles, Model 70 featherweight in 270 3x9 sightron big sky 2 and a remington 700 7mmRM bell& carlson stock 3.5x10 sightron big sky 2. it was cold raining & snowing in montanna so the remington took the buck woth hornady 160gr bullets at 221 yds.

No surprises what I will be using this year and for as many more as I can.
Custom DWM 7x57 with a Rigby bolt aperture but will carry a 4.5-14 Nikon in QD rings in day pack.

Von Gruff.

I think I'll take a different gun each day I hunt. I will choose from my 257 AI, 7-08 IMP, 7.62x39, and 35 Whelen IMP. I can get one white tail buck, and up to four does, so if I get more than one a day it will cut down how many rifles I'll take hunting this year.

I am with Mad Jack and will use a different rifle everyday or two. Gotta play with them all.

I used my go to rifle, a 700 in a 30-06 Ackley,and my 700 in a 270. The season was good. In September I shot a Wy. moose, November a cow elk, and a Wy. buffalo. The 270, a couple doe antelope, and a doe mule deer.

7x64 most of the time for deer and pig hunting. Big bores at evening or when there's need to shoot faster.

I used a Winchester M 70 LRH chambered in 7mm STW. I was also fortunate enough to bloody my Schmidt Rubin K31 on a nice doe just last week. On paper and on game that old Swiss rifle is becoming one of my favorites.

As some of you know, I got hit in Iraq this year and had near-death injuries. For that reason, I am using my .25-06 to lessen recoil. The rifle is a left-hand Remington 700 with a Sako extractor, trigger reworked by myself and very crisp at 2-3/4 lbs, and the action has been blueprinted. Barrel is a Douglas, 24", that was installed back in 1979 (accurate still). The stock is one of Chet Brown's fiberglass models. Bullets loaded are Nosler 120gr partitions which group five shots just under an inch. Only will be hunting deer and antelope this year. No way am I able to pack out an elk...and I have a grandson who is able to hunt with me on weekends, but not able to take a week off from school.

Maybe my 1903 in 30-06, with either 180 round nose or 150 pointy Hornady's.



Maybe my VZ-24 in 35 Whelen with 200 g hornady's, it now has a 2-7 Weaver shotgun scope.



Maybe a Savage 338 Win Mag.


After opening day, I have a 44 Mag NEF, another 1903/30-06, a Savage 458 Win Mag, a 308 Savage 99, and a 260 Rem 700 Mountain Rifle, all ready to go. Also have a Ruger redhawk 44 Mag and my bow. I can't chose a gun, but I love talking about them! Good luck and a safe return home, folks.

Day one:

I took my 7-08 Imp. out today opening day, and I got one very big doe, and one huge doe. So meet in the freeze.