USA: Deer & Double Rifles

[Rubberhead]

@Manwe

This is my growing up deer rifle...I still have it... 308 Savage.

A friend literally just asked how I can stand the straight stock on my current deer rifle. Spending a childhood with this gun across my lap is the answer to that question.

 

[Rubberhead]

Woops - I just noticed the typo - it's .303 Savage...

 

[Rubberhead]

There's still another month left in the SC season and I've still got three buck tags but I thought I'd share a season update.

An Under deer (150 grain Accubond)

An Over deer (180 grain Ballistic Tip)

 

[jcs271]

Sorry - I was hunting and AFK (away from keyboard).

Yes, it's a plain old .30-'06.

Of course just to have fun, you could always speak in a very sophisticated tone and tell folks that it's chambered in 7.6 X 63.
Then watch their eyes get really big as they ponder using suching a fancy rifle and exotic cartridge on whitetail deer.

 

[degoins]

I posted this doe I took this past Saturday with my H&H no.2 in .375 2 1/2 over on the double rifle board before I saw this post....

 

[degoins]

I don't know what happened to the pic. It showed 100% loaded

 

[Rubberhead]

The second buck of last season made the SC record books (125" minimum). It grossed a 133 0/8" and netted 131 3/8" because of nearly perfect symmetry.

It's still early in our season but I've taken an early deer. Setting up a double as an everyday deer gun was one of the best decisions I've ever made. This gun doesn't just shoot where I'm aiming...it shoots where I'm thinking. I've gotten reliably generous with the second barrel but this one only took a shot from the under barrel. He went about 25 yards and collapsed with a heart shot.

 

[VertigoBE]

The second buck of last season made the SC record books (125" minimum). It grossed a 133 0/8" and netted 131 3/8" because of nearly perfect symmetry.

It's still early in our season but I've taken an early deer. Setting up a double as an everyday deer gun was one of the best decisions I've ever made. This gun doesn't just shoot where I'm aiming...it shoots where I'm thinking. I've gotten reliably generous with the second barrel but this one only took a shot from the under barrel. He went about 25 yards and collapsed with a heart shot.

Waidmannsheil! I love seeing people taking their wood and blued traditional double rifles out for hunting in this age of carbon, plastic and alloys.

Well done sir!