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    Short Rifles, Short Range Hunts, Long Heavy Bullets

    I get so tired of hearing hunters brag about shooting big game at super long range. Reminds me of the joke about an American client bragging to his African PH how he could shoot every in site from 500 to 600 yards. The PH listens then says “That is very impressive! “But, how well do you shoot...
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    Someone Stop Me

    What other rifles/calibers do you have that would do the same job? I am a "less is more" type of guy. Usually when i get the itch for a new gun. I scratch that itch by opening my gun safe and re-appreciating a firearm i all ready have.
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    Mountain Rifle Caliber? Ya- I know...

    Also high quality factory brass for the 280Ai is easy to get and there is plenty of loading date for it. What is not like about the 280AI. And lastly you could use 280 Remington factory ammo in a pinch at a slight loss of velocity
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    Mountain Rifle Caliber? Ya- I know...

    My Kimber Hunter 280AI cost me under $800 with shipping several years ago. Weighs 5.75 pounds. Add less than a pound for a Leopold 2.5 to 8X scope. It is so close to a 7mm mag, maybe 20 feet per second less. Great stock design, big recoil pad, not a kicker. Very efficient with powder. The thin...
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    Mountain Rifle Caliber? Ya- I know...

    One of the things we hunters can have in common, myself included, is that we can tend to be "know it alls" When I look back I can chuckle at myself in that regard especially when I see the different periods I went through. There was the Elmer Keith "big gun" era of two 35 Whelens, Two 338 Win...
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    Mountain Rifle Caliber? Ya- I know...

    Years back I had a 243 I just adored, It was a Browning made by Sako with medium action. A real tackdriver. As now I lived and hunted in the mountains. The 243 just got pushed around by the wind way too much. Lacking the anchoring punch of larger calibers it needs real great accuracy to be an...
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    Mountain Rifle Caliber? Ya- I know...

    I had a Remington Mountain Rifle in 280 Rem. Very accurate. I was on a four day deep deer hunt. That first morning a real bad dust storm came up. My trigger pull went from under three pounds to over 5. That boxed trigger was a trap for dust. Another time I had a Remington model 7 in 260 Rem. I...
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    Mountain Rifle Caliber? Ya- I know...

    A couple points which you might appreciate OH. The four big game rifles which sooth my old hunters soul while also reviving my hunters spirit all have one thing in common. They lack any form of rubber recoil pad and have hard vintage putt plates. My model 54 Winchester 30-06 bolt gun has a...
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    Mountain Rifle Caliber? Ya- I know...

    Having had the .243, a 257 R, a 260. a 6.5x55, a 270, a 7x57, a 280 and a 280AI i would go with the 7m08
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    Anybody else Hunt with Browning Safari Grade Rifles ?

    Lots of them for sale on Guns International for big $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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    Anybody else Hunt with Browning Safari Grade Rifles ?

    whats wrong with the original one
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    Awesome SW Revolver

    I admire to no end vintage firearms that are NIB, as New in the Box. That said, I never buy such firearms as they are for serious collectors willing to pay top dollar. I am a shooter and once a cylinder ring from firing appears, that model 10 is no longer as NIB and it's value falls drops...
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    Awesome SW Revolver

    One of my all time favorite handguns, I have had most all classic S and W's. How much $ for it, I have a Model 10, 13, 15, 49, 60, 66, and a 44 mag 4" and 41 mag" both stainless. Is yours 4 or 5 inch barrel? Very great purchase!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Anybody else shoot or hunt with a Model 39 lever action Marlin .22?

    I also have a Remington Model 511 Beehive clip fed bolt action .22. I bought it used with original peep sights. Even though lighter it is a bit more accurate than my 39A, just a bit but enough to win a shooting match. Still it is not in the same class as a Model 39A.
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    Anybody else shoot or hunt with a Model 39 lever action Marlin .22?

    I went to the range today with my 39A rifle. At 75 my eyes do not get along with peep sights anymore. I now have an old 3x weaver scope on it. At 50 yards my best groups could be covered with a penny or a nickel, My worst were covered with quarter. This rifle set a world wide record for it’s...
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    Anybody else shoot or hunt with a Model 39 lever action Marlin .22?

    I just looked up 39A's on both Gun Broker and Gunsinternational. YIKE$$$$$ Seems like they start at $700 to $800 and go way up from there especially the 39A Mounties carbine. $1,100 and up for them.
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    Anybody Else Hunt with the Same Rifle for Half a Century ?

    I was just thinking about the father of my closest friend as a teen. Hs dad was a WW2 vet. He served as a tanker in the Battle of the Bulge. He was pretty deaf and talked real loud. He owned only three rifles. A Marlin 39 .22, a Marlin 336 in 35 Remington and a Savage 99 in 300 Savage. His...
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    Anybody else shoot or hunt with a Model 39 lever action Marlin .22?

    Anybody else shoot or hunt with a lever action Marlin Model 39 .22 ? I bought mine near 50 years ago and have hunted every type of small game with it, marmots, ground squirrels, cottontails, forest grouse, mountain quail. Even shot some sitting ducks with it and retrieved them with a fishing...
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    Optimum magnification range on scope for elk rifle?

    I could not agree with you more. I used to be a guide, mainly for huge black Russian wild boar, (up tp 400 plus pounds) hunting them in thousands of acres of barley. Even when I warned them too may clients came up with a big rifle with a bipod then a huge scope,,,,when we had 2 or 3 feet of...
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    Optimum magnification range on scope for elk rifle?

    What follows is a small part of a hunting story I wrote years ago about desert sheep, my hunt for a desert ram and about my preference for scopes and the shooting skills i practiced for many decades on the Mojave Desert. Here is the quote; "All are important inclusions to a serious rifleman's...
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