Thread: Your best Rifle EVER?

Good idea for a thread,

when i first started hunting i loaned a sporterised 6.5x55 M96 from my uncle for a year or more, and missed a couple deer before nailing one. Then when i started as an apprentice i saved up for a while and bought a T3 in the same calibre. A week before i bought it i had eyed up a blued T3 in a local shop for 999 and went back the next week to buy it, as it happens it got sold and i promptly put a stainless one on layby. I got sick of the layby so went in the next week and paid the balance. later i got Scott to flute the barrell and bolt, and added some talley lightweight rings. This was before guncity and beretta decided to sell lightweight models

The scope is a bushnell 4200 and its taken a few knocks, a memorable time was when i got my first red stag , a 10 pointer from the Tararuas. I fell over in the creek and slammed the rifle on a rock a bit hard. I went back to the range the next week and it was out by a good foot at 25 metres. Its been to the northern kawekas, wanganui, through all of the tararuas, aorangis and rimutakas and recently down to the west coast, the paint on the bolt handle got a bit worn away after having to push it up ahead of me onto big rocks and stuff down there. The closest shot would be, 5 paces and the longest to date would be 210 metres. ive only missed one deer with it so far ( touch wood) and hopefully it serves me well for a few years yet..

Its the rifle that gets taken out the most out of the 3 i have, my mate shot his first deer on a Wanganui forum hunt a few years back, which was cool. He went and bought a ruger 7mm.. bastard. I have a choice of a few rifles in the safe such as .223, Sako 243, Sako 6.5-284 for long range, a 308 bushpig, and this always can be relied on to just go bang and kill stuff when i need it

Heres a couple pics of this year so far:

Originally Posted by scoped

Good idea for a thread,

when i first started hunting i loaned a sporterised 6.5x55 M96 from my uncle for a year or more, and missed a couple deer before nailing one. Then when i started as an apprentice i saved up for a while and bought a T3 in the same calibre. A week before i bought it i had eyed up a blued T3 in a local shop for 999 and went back the next week to buy it, as it happens it got sold and i promptly put a stainless one on layby. I got sick of the layby so went in the next week and paid the balance. later i got Scott to flute the barrell and bolt, and added some talley lightweight rings. This was before guncity and beretta decided to sell lightweight models

The scope is a bushnell 4200 and its taken a few knocks, a memorable time was when i got my first red stag , a 10 pointer from the Tararuas. I fell over in the creek and slammed the rifle on a rock a bit hard. I went back to the range the next week and it was out by a good foot at 25 metres. Its been to the northern kawekas, wanganui, through all of the tararuas, aorangis and rimutakas and recently down to the west coast, the paint on the bolt handle got a bit worn away after having to push it up ahead of me onto big rocks and stuff down there. The closest shot would be, 5 paces and the longest to date would be 210 metres. ive only missed one deer with it so far ( touch wood) and hopefully it serves me well for a few years yet..

Its the rifle that gets taken out the most out of the 3 i have, my mate shot his first deer on a Wanganui forum hunt a few years back, which was cool. He went and bought a ruger 7mm.. bastard. I have a choice of a few rifles in the safe such as .223, Sako 243, Sako 6.5-284 for long range, a 308 bushpig, and this always can be relied on to just go bang and kill stuff when i need it

Heres a couple pics of this year so far:

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Good going scoped , keep it up