Thread: Calibre Choice in the 1970's

Originally Posted by bunji

@mudgripz I still have my Rem Mohawk 308, l brought for my 21st in 82, when l got back from a trip Shearing in Oz all cashed up ,in those days long barreled Weatherby types were the in thing & l picked it up on special as no one wanted them & we were mad on our pigging back then & we often used horses to get right up in the back country.I brought it with a Redfield scope, but it got bent like a banana when a horse rolled on it .

Mind you l still wish l had one of the sweetest little rifles l ever owned back in those days ,a little Ruger 44mag semi Carbine a Deer field?? l think the model was ,basically a 44Mag 10/22 & they actually sold matched sets of them back then ,with a non removable rotatory mag ,l had one of those old TV screen type Weaver 2X on it & as well as a truck load of pigs it nailed some nice Sika in the thick stuff ,l often wish l had it when hunting Sika & pigs now .

the closest you can have to the deerfield now is the ruger lever...pretty much identicle to the semi...they DO come up for sale,just not often....Ive always wondered why Ruger didnt do the same with the mini 14 EG make lever 223s would be a sweet wee rifle,and with the 300blk etc gaining suck traction,the action would be very versitile.


for me it was 30/30 trapper 94 then the 303..then back to 30/30 when got factory ammo andrealised how good it was...then swapped it for my winchester model 70 270 (and the 30/30 was my big brothers!!!) used that rifle for 30 years till she died with dodgy reload...sob sob...
replaced with howa...bought new zastava 223 some 24 years ago and wont sell it.geeze that rifle has killed some animals
had big brother to it in 308...still in cabinet but owned by mate