What gun do you use for deer

kadejones2 · Post by **kadejones2** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:56 pm

what gun do you use for deer?

AGCHAWK · Post by **AGCHAWK** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:54 pm

Kade, for years I used my trusty .270 which was pass down from my father to me. However, a few years ago my lovely wife bought me a new 30.06 and I've used that ever since.

My son uses a .243 and my brother uses a .270 or .308.

bigbuck92 · Post by **bigbuck92** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:35 pm

my white whitetail muzzleloader. or my dads old 30-30

OHIOFLATLANDER · Post by **OHIOFLATLANDER** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:45 am

Winchester Model 70 7mm Rem Mag. also use Browning composit hunter in .243 WSSM but have not taken an animal with the short mag yet.

Post by **MuleyMadness** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:36 am

I prefer the good ole 270 also.

But 30.06 is a great gun also, and 243 and others. But some are a bit to powerful in my opinion.

Don Fischer · Post by **Don Fischer** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:08 am

Right now my favorite is my Win Mod 70 Featherweight in 6.5x55 w/22" barrel and 1-4x Redfield. I've come back to it again, the 6.5x55. In the past it's been a number of things. Next year this may change. My favorite is determined not by the cartridge but by the rifle itself. That in turn is determined by the country I'm hunting. My featherweight is a compromise of light weight to carry around, handy enough to move well, enough barrel to swing well but short enough to work well in somewhat tighter cover, a scope that gives me lot's of light in dim light, lot's of field of view for tight shooting and sufficent power for shooting at game farther than I do, without hurting the handling quality of the rifle much. It's chambered in a cartridge that's shoots good bullets in weights that work well for Antelope to Moose. That have sufficient velocity and remaining energy for 300yd shots on deer (which I don't do much of), and bullet's that have sufficient velocity and penetrating qualities for game much larger than deer, farther away than they are normally shot. I would be just as well served with the rifle in a number of other cartridges but I like 6.5's and 7mm's.

legacy · Post by **legacy** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:28 pm

Savage .30-06.

chet · Post by **chet** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:46 pm

Hey bigbuck,
does doc white still live over that way?

bigbuck92 · Post by **bigbuck92** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:40 pm

ya he does. he lives over in roosevelt

dahlmer · Post by **dahlmer** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:03 am

7mm mag with 160 grain nosler partitions.