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With today being Father’s Day I’ve considered many of the ways my Dad has been influential in my life. From work ethic, family dynamic, self reliance, spiritual stability etc. Of course he was a huge influence on my love of hunting and shooting. Really my only mentor here. His hunting career has mainly consisted of him being a one gun hunter. In the early 70’s he bought a new Remington 700 ADL chambered for the 7MM Remington Magnum. He took no end of grief from the locals over the lack of factory ammunition available for the relatively new cartridge. But he hand loaded, so why should he care? I’m certain that rifle has never been fed factory ammunition.

He hunted solely with that rifle for over 40 years and killed all but two of Alberta’s huntable big game species with it. Of course many of those multiple times over. He was an exceptional game shot with that rifle and I remember as a kid another local saying that it was the fact that he was ambidextrous that made him such a good shot. I think it had nothing to do with it. Financing college and other pursuits shooting muskrats as a teenager was probably a more logical reason for it.

In more recent years he has done all of his hunting with a beautiful little Kimber 84 chambered 7-08 that a nephew bought it for him when he refused to take payment for installation of a heating system in his home. I’m not sentimental about cartridges but I am about this one and will alway have one around. Honestly, it would be all I ever needed.

Has anyone else’s father or mentor influenced their cartridge selection?

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I just lost my father a few weeks ago...

He had a 3006 for many years, I think it was a FinnBear. When he got older he traded it for a Marlin 4570 because of the soft recoil.

When he was too stove up to hike in the forest any more he gave me the Marliln.
 
A man of good taste. The Model 700 is the best rifle built. Great chambering too. Looks to be nicely refinished as well.
 
westcoaster said:
I just lost my father a few weeks ago...

He had a 3006 for many years, I think it was a FinnBear. When he got older he traded it for a Marlin 4570 because of the soft recoil.

When he was too stove up to hike in the forest any more he gave me the Marliln.
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I’m sorry for your loss.
 
Lost my father in January.
I'd guess he's killed 99% of his game with a .270 Win.
When I was younger he'd drag me along to the gun shows to display his Ruger collection.
Sometime in the 80's he started buying a few Sako's. His favourite was a AV Mannlicher with a 6x Leupold. He shot everything with that.
My brother, myself, and dad were walking back to the truck once after deer hunting. A coyote took off and my dad put the old Sako over a fence post and poleaxed that coyote about 400 yards out.
He turns around and says, " That's how that's done!".
My first rifle was a Ruger RS in you guessed it. 270 Win. Killed a lot of deer with that rifle but then the gun loony took over.
The Sako is in the safe, maybe I'll take it out this year.
 
I really like pics of guns in a nice setting or background .. Well done
Am gonna try post of fav of mine
You should frame that in memory , history in there too
 
Funny thing with my Dad, he was never a gun guy. Growing up, pretty much all he had was a .22LR for shooting gophers. When we were growing up, he had bought a 10/22 had a cooey 71 his dad had bought back in the day.

When I got my PAL, that's when he went into collecting. Helped him find the .22 he grew up with, which is a Remington Targetmaster.
 
pathfinder76 said:
With today being Father’s Day I’ve considered many of the ways my Dad has been influential in my life. From work ethic, family dynamic, self reliance, spiritual stability etc. Of course he was a huge influence on my love of hunting and shooting. Really my only mentor here. His hunting career has mainly consisted of him being a one gun hunter. In the early 70’s he bought a new Remington 700 ADL chambered for the 7MM Remington Magnum. He took no end of grief from the locals over the lack of factory ammunition available for the relatively new cartridge. But he hand loaded, so why should he care? I’m certain that rifle has never been fed factory ammunition.

He hunted solely with that rifle for over 40 years and killed all but two of Alberta’s huntable big game species with it. Of course many of those multiple times over. He was an exceptional game shot with that rifle and I remember as a kid another local saying that it was the fact that he was ambidextrous that made him such a good shot. I think it had nothing to do with it. Financing college and other pursuits shooting muskrats as a teenager was probably a more logical reason for it.

In more recent years he has done all of his hunting with a beautiful little Kimber 84 chambered 7-08 that a nephew bought it for him when he refused to take payment for installation of a heating system in his home. I’m not sentimental about cartridges but I am about this one and will alway have one around. Honestly, it would be all I ever needed.

Has anyone else’s father or mentor influenced their cartridge selection?

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Great day to have picked to start this thread and the memories they bring.
Wonderful pics and an equally wonderful rifle and cartridge combo.
Lost dad a few years back just before Fathers Day and shot of a knee mail letting him know...
Regards to all the Dads present and past.
Rob
 
My dad is the one gun hunter. The same 700 from the mid 80s. It’s a beautiful rifle and the only one he has hunted with since then. 30-06. I myself have had a bunch of different rifles and chamberings, but I have gone full circle and am back to the old standby. 30-06.
 
It is because of my Dad that i have a fondness for the 308 Norma. I still have the Model 70 he hunted. It was re-chambered from 30/06 in 1962. I have the rifle now, and have had for 35 years. I rebarrelled the rifle soon after I got it and have barrels in other chamberings for it. My favorite is still the Norma.
 
Lost my dad almost 30 years ago.His hunting rifle was a Savage 99f .300 savage that kept our home fed with moose and deer.He expressed that his rifle go to my son when he was gone. My son used it to harvest his first moose at age16. Was truely an emotional day.
 
My Dad's only rifle was a Model 1907 Winchester in .351 WSL.
I did kill my first deer with it, and I have a soft spot for those rifles, but it's not the most practical choice.
 
My dad had a couple different rifles when I was really young. He did not do much hunting when we moved to the island (I was 7). Last rifle he had was a pre 64 model 70 (standard weight) in 270 which was used mostly for mule deer, at least 3 black bear that I know of, and I think at least one moose. Previously he had a "czech 7mm" (Brno 21H) and a winchester 94 in 32 special.
I have evolved to featherweight pre 64s over the years (slow learner sometimes!) and have used 270s for a long time (40+ years) on 3 species of deer and a couple black bear. Could have saved a bunch of time and money if I just went to a pre 64 fwt 270 right away, though the journey was interesting! Along the way I also tried a few Brno 21/22s in 7x57.
 
I grew up with a father that was in the firearms industry (30 years with C.I.L. , finished up as shooting Sports Development manager).
He was a World class competitor/coach, and hunted everything that walked or flew.
He hand loaded of course, but whenever he was invited to a camp or on a hunting trip, it was C.I.L. factory ammo only for him, with a 30/06, or a .303 British, and mostly the .303.
He would also find out who was shooting what and naturally make sure he had a supply of factory stuff for them as well!
His whole philosophy for hunting big game was to get as close as you can, and " shoot 'em where he's biggest" in the boiler room.
I ran the gamut of cartridges in my life but keep going back to the .303 British and because of his suggestions of getting close hunt the way he suggested .
Cat
 
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It was a Churchill Lee Enfield for my dad, with a 4x scope. As a kid (early 1970's) I thought it was the coolest rifle anywhere. I have fond memories of fresh snow in moose season. Dad would pick me up at school and we would drive the back trails looking for fresh tracks. He would send me on a fresh trial and follow quietly 300 to 400 yards behind. His theory was that I would get the moose up out of it's bed and it would circle around me to check me out, bringing the moose into his range. Worked at least once that I remember.
 
bam7mm said:
Lost my dad almost 30 years ago.His hunting rifle was a Savage 99f .300 savage that kept our home fed with moose and deer.He expressed that his rifle go to my son when he was gone. My son used it to harvest his first moose at age16. Was truely an emotional day.
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That was my stepfather's choice as well. Bought it shortly after he came back from the war, always told stories about Corbett the big game hunter who used one. - dan
 
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