Show Off Your Vintage Rifles and Their Kills!

[Sharps45-70]

Starting a thread to show off all of your vintage rifles and the game you've taken! Let's see what you've got!

I'll start with my bear from this weekend. Taken with a 1914 Mauser Model B in 8x57 with a factory installed Lyman 48, 133 meter shot.

 

[DGY]

Nice!!

 

[Buckmastr]

Congrats! Good shooting!!

 

[dgradinaru]

Great looking rifle and good shooting. Any details on the load used?

 

[diabeticfreak]

This is a great idea for a thread! I'm hoping that I can add some pictures to it this year. The best one I have as of right now is a rabbit with a double barrel that was probably made around 1970. Not quite vintage or a rifle, but getting there lol

 

[Ashcroft]

These pictures aren’t on digital format, just photos of old trophy hunts on my wall. All of these were taken in the 1970’s.
Yes, three bull moose and two grizzlies on one trip, the rifles are an original Winchester 1886 in 45/70, the bolt action is a Siamese Mauser converted to 45/70.
A mountain goat with a revolver? Yup, S&W Model 19 in .357 Mag. Taken legally in BC, a permit to transport wasn’t hard to obtain and there were no rules in the hunting regs regarding handguns. If you could legally possess it in the time and place you could hunt with it.
Another goat, a B&C record book from near Terrace taken with a Husqvarna Model 4000 in .270.

 

[Decker9]

Great idea! That is one gorgeous rifle there Sharps!! Congrats on a fine bear!!

Other then mountain hunting, I use my grandparents old rifles for everything, each one has huge sentimental meaning to me.


My Dads custom model 54 30/06



My long past grandads old mannlicher in 9.5x57



My first deer, using my past grandads custom zg47 in .280 rem (my dad also took his first deer with it many many years ago)



My first moose with the zg47 (my dad also took his first moose with the same rifle back in the 60’s)



My first goat, taken with a custom mauser 96 in 6.5x55 AI, built for me for that hunt by my grandad.





My last moose, taken with my long past grandmothers pre 64 .375 h&h. That stock is the first stock I ever built, it was a proud moment.



I’d be lying if I said, I couldn’t feel my grandparents presence with each of these animals.

 

[freddyfour]

This is a cool thread!

What do we consider vintage for our purposes?

 

[Sharps45-70]

This is a cool thread!

What do we consider vintage for our purposes?

Some great pictures and stories so far!

As to what vintage means, let’s just have an open interpretation. Anything from your true antiques and their replicas, to well loved classic rifles.

 

[Eagleye]

My 2020 WT doe and my 1910 Ross in 303 British.
180 grain Pro-Hunter and 44.0 grains of IMR4320.
Shot was quartering toward me, exit is visible.
Short run, done. Dave.

 

[fuzzy]

Thanks for sharing guys!

 

[broadhead67]

There’s a pic of a lady in Barkerville that dumped a Griz with her Savage 99 in 22 HP . What’s the old saying “ the best rifle is the one you have “? Something like That

 

[CoryTheCowboy]

Does a 1927 Savage 99H in .303 Savage count?

Cory

 

[chasseur]

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[Desert_Fox]

Great thread!

One of my favourite photos. My wife and I took this WT buck on November 17th, 2019 near Caroline, Alberta. My wife saw it first on the run, but she wanted me to shoot it as she had a splitting headache and morning sickness.

Took him down with a Husqvarna 1640 in 9.3x62mm with a Leupold M8 4x scope. It had swing mounts to enable the scope to be rolled to the side so one could use the iron sights. Used 285gr PPU soft points. Not sure of the vintage of the 1640 and the M8 as I sold the rifle to purchase another.

Great memories of that day, and a Euro mount is hanging on the wall. My wife named him “Bob”.



This second photo is of myself and a wild boar that I took on March 5th, 2021 in Goodsoil, Saskatchewan.

Used my 1928 Husqvarna m/46 in 9.3x57, iron sights, with a 232gr Norma Oryx. Bang flop neck shot. Super yummy eating!



This third photo is of my first bear that I took this year on May 21st, 2022 near Swan Hills, Alberta.
Took him using my 1963 Husqvarna 1640 chambered in 9.3x62mm. Scope is a 1979 Leupold Vari X III 1.5-5x. Used a Nosler 250gr Accubond.

Took the shot, 140 yards, heard the smack, and he ran into the forest. Waited 15min, walked up to look for a blood trail, and couldn’t find a drop of blood or hair…? Went into the thick forest and searched for about 15min before I finally found him. Stone dead, about 50 yards in. Double lung shot.

Roughly 5’6” from tail to snout. Was quite the hunt. Have the cape at the taxidermist and we cooked up the back straps for bear stroganoff the day after the hunt. Very good eating. Tender and tastes like beef! The hams I’m going to get made into burgers!

Note the Husqvarna hat!

 

[freddyfour]

Those are great, especially the one with your wife hunting with you!

 

[Desert_Fox]

Those are great, especially the one with your wife hunting with you!

Thanks! My wife enjoys hunting, and I love when she is able to join me, but it’s difficult these days with all the kids and babies. My oldest will be able to get his first hunting license this year though!

I have other photos of my wife and her hunts, but she uses a Tikka T3 LH in 308Win with a Leupold VX2 3-9x40mm. So not really vintage.

….Ok… I’m going to just post one photo of her with a Mule deer doe she got a few years back. She is wearing a vintage Swiss military wool sweater, so maybe that counts…? Lol

 

[Rob]

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[wesson357]

1941 Maltby sniper repro. I have a goal to kill a deer with all of my WW2 milsurp rifle. This is the first one in line.

 

[jjohnwm]

Not the oldest rifle I have ever used...not the biggest deer I've ever shot...but this one really stands out in my memory.

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This little guy was taken 5 years ago, and was the first actual game animal I ever shot with this C.Sharps 1875 that I've owned for something like 30 years (long enough for me to consider it a classic). My eyes were deteriorating noticeably by that time, and I thought I'd better start using it for hunting while I still could. As it was, I passed on a couple deer, and had to wait for what seemed like forever for this one to present a shot opportunity that I felt comfortable with.

A few years later, the same rifle took my first elk, a Montana cow.

This was memorable mainly because I took a hurried follow-up shot on the same animal, with the tang sight folded down...and recoil drove the sight almost all the way through my cheek. I'm still thankful it was just the cheek and not the eye. The fresh injury is visible even in this atrocious photograph; my buddy thought that the elk had kicked me. Between the cold and the excitement, I didn't even feel it until much later.

Speaking of eyes, I recently had lens-replacement surgery for cataracts in both eyes...and my vision is better than it likely ever has been in my life. If anyone else suffers from cataracts...run, don't walk, to get this surgery done. It will change your life.