His or Hers, which one would you choose?

His or Her's??

  • His

    Votes: 6 18.8%

  • Her's

    Votes: 15 46.9%

  • More of a reason to build another rifle!!

    Votes: 12 37.5%
  • Total voters
    32
  • Poll closed .
mikeyb said:
Hers, without question.

In a stand or out on a mid-day stroll through the grasslands, the Blaser would be a fine companion. Splendid in fact, one worthy of a tweed jacket and a good hunting dog.

On the side of a mountain though, definitely a featherweight short-action powerhouse. 6.5 PRC, 6.8 Western, 7mm SAUM all pretty good choices depending on what you are hunting. Maybe a 300 WSM if there are things that bite back on those mountains. 22" barrel doesn't lose much. A high end 1" hunting scope in ringmounts can already reach out to 700+ yards with the aforementioned cartridges.

IMO you should be able to put together a wicked mountain rifle for well under 7 pounds, scoped. Heck, a Mark V Backcountry Ti can do it off-the-shelf with a VX-3HD at 6 pounds, unloaded.
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So funny story, solo sheep hunt, got distracted seeing curls, plan my approach, pack my gear up to include strapping the rifle to my pack because it was going to be a climb, turn around to see a brownie 20meters just on the other side of the river looking right at me. I talked to him, said all I have is pepper spray so it's just going to make me taste bad, he stood up, huffed a little, then went on his merry way.

That night in a thunder storm sense I forgot to bring a book I was listening to the JOMH pod cast with Omar from Precision Optics talking about what makes a mountain rifle and how the 6.5 guys either are packing serious.... gurth..... or are crazy...... when solo in bear country, made me rethink that whole 6.5 thing being that close.

For this two years ago I built a 300wsm that was 6.8lbs scoped probably thinking it might be a good idea again.
 
MilitaryCollectorMark said:
A 12 lb "mountain" rifle. Though a mountain rifle was supposed to be light to take into account the distance your going to be lugging it?
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Trust me never claimed it as a mountain rifle. Never thought I'd be a resident and have access to my dream sheep hunt without forking out 10k for a guide alone. The Blaser has been with me on alot of hunts in Ontario and it works perfect for that style, plus I trust it. Was hard at that time to get a new rifle that I wouldn't have the same trigger time behind. So you make sacrifices... besides I trained with the equal amount of weight I'd be taking so it didn't seem as bad.

That is until I took the wife's rifle this year, that was 3 extra days of food!!
 
baker42 said:
Trust me never claimed it as a mountain rifle. Never thought I'd be a resident and have access to my dream sheep hunt without forking out 10k for a guide alone. The Blaser has been with me on alot of hunts in Ontario and it works perfect for that style, plus I trust it. Was hard at that time to get a new rifle that I wouldn't have the same trigger time behind. So you make sacrifices... besides I trained with the equal amount of weight I'd be taking so it didn't seem as bad.

That is until I took the wife's rifle this year, that was 3 extra days of food!!
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Reread what you posted. You claimed what is now “hers” as a mountain rifle. Which, in my opinion, it is not.
 
Southcountryguy said:
Reread what you posted. You claimed what is now “hers” as a mountain rifle. Which, in my opinion, it is not.
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I did mention it was my mountain rifle build, so what you say could very possibly make sense as it is what I would interpret as being what I would want to take in the mountains.

Very interested in hearing others concepts, takes, and opinions of what is a mountain rifle. I mean why else would one read and follow forums but to participate in discussions.
 
If I ever get one built for the mountain hike it would be 7mmSTW.
No carbon barrel stuff.
It shoots out to a mile, just ask DMAY.
Honestly I would never hike a mountain at my age. But I can dream. I would probably just use my 270 because that is all I have used for 18 years.
 
baker42 said:
I did mention it was my mountain rifle build, so what you say could very possibly make sense as it is what I would interpret as being what I would want to take in the mountains.

Very interested in hearing others concepts, takes, and opinions of what is a mountain rifle. I mean why else would one read and follow forums but to participate in discussions.
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Haha well I often come across wrong.

My mountain rifle was / is a rem 700 SA with a number 1 contour 22” barrel in 260 rem. I have shaved metal away where I could and it sports a wildcat stock. Fully loaded it’s 5 12. I don’t hunt the hills so much anymore so it sits.
 
Southcountryguy said:
Haha well I often come across wrong.

My mountain rifle was / is a rem 700 SA with a number 1 contour 22” barrel in 260 rem. I have shaved metal away where I could and it sports a wildcat stock. Fully loaded it’s 5 12. I don’t hunt the hills so much anymore so it sits.
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That sounds exactly like the 300wsm I had mentioned above as my first Crack at a "mountain rifle". I had a Smith work a barrel and action down and threw it into a Wildcat stock, man love their stuff. End goal with optics wasn't as light as yours as I only had a Vortex Crossfire to mount on it and didn't want stupid light with the 300wsm. I never took it to the hills.

It's funny if I had chosen a round like 260 I probably wouldn't have sold it, but new to this whole brown bear concept so that got the better of me. Go figure I then head to the hills in a 6.5 class anyway.
 
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