Photo Album: Favorite hunting rifle aquisitions of 2009

Here was my last purchase last year. A Krag 30-40 in great shape with a bore that looks like it did in 1898!
It came with two full boxes of vintage Dominion ammunition, also looking like when they came out of the store some fifty years ago.
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DIGGER2 said:
This gun did produce some decent groups for the limited number of rounds I actually shot at 100yds, about 1" with some 95gr Vmax. Somethings else caught my eye, so this gun is on it's way to it's new owner in Sask.:) I'm sure he will be very happy with it. Great caliber in a fine hunting rifle IMO.
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I shot 1/2 inch groups at 200 yards with mine with 125 gr partitions and H4350. The rifle was amazing actually. I could hit rocks on the 500 metre burm at the Ft Mc gun range over and over again. REcoil was mild enough you could see almost see your hits at that distance.
 
Win 38-55 said:
I have dibs on the wheelweights from a few local garages, so I'm accumulating lead faster than I am shooting it off. Good thing too, because one pound of lead only gives me fourteen, 500-grain bullets for my Springfield.
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I have about 1500 pounds right now - not sure it that's enough to wear out my Guide Gun 420 grs at a time, but Il let you know how it goes...:D
 
todbartell said:
wait...7!

my favorite of the bunch, a Sendero SF in 7mm SAUM. Kinda project gun at the moment. No stock, no scope, no rings, no bases, no bolt shroud or firing pin, no bottom metal....just a barreled action

here's a pic of it before I tore it up

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Tod, what's the photo style you used in this? I understand it has something to do with layering three exposures, one setting too fast, one just right, one too slow or something of that nature... I'm sure new auto flash bang cameras can be set to it automatically. I'd love to be able to take my hunt photos in the same style. Overall, nice photo.
 
In 2009 I bought or traded for the following...

used s/s T/C Contender carbine in 375 Win had it rechambered to 375JDJ and installed black/gray laminate butt stock/fore end installed Vari X 111 2.5-8X36mm B&C scope

new Sako 85 Grey Wolf in 22-250 installed VX111 4.5-14X40mm Varmint 30mm side focus scope

new Rem 700 LSS in 280 Rem 50th anniversary edition installed Vari X 111 4.5-14X40mm fine duplex scope

new Rem 700 LSS in 30-06 had Guntech shorten barrel to 20" installed VX3 2.5-8X36mm B&C scope

new Rem 700 LSS in 300RUM installed VX3 4.5-14X40mm B&C scope

new Rem 700 LSS in 375RUM had Guntech shorten barrel to 21" and many other mod's installed VX3 4.5-14X40mm B&C scope

This year already ordered two 45 Colt Contender barrels and an OD Green Robinson Arms XCR in 223...

Today is a bad day though my wife had to fly in a panic to Calgary to be with her sister who is only 31 years old she was rushed to the Calgary hospital by her husband of only 2 years yesterday she underwent emergency surgury but it sounds as if it is too late all of her major organs are shutting down I'm just sitting here waiting for the call telling me it is over...

She is dying and the doctors have already come to the family to tell them that there is nothing anyone can do anymore it is in God's hands now...

So guys if you believe pray or even if you don't say a prayer for Tammy she needs all the help she can get right now...
 
Today is a bad day though my wife had to fly in a panic to Calgary to be with her sister who is only 31 years old she was rushed to the Calgary hospital by her husband of only 2 years yesterday she underwent emergency surgury but it sounds as if it is too late all of her major organs are shutting down I'm just sitting here waiting for the call telling me it is over...

She is dying and the doctors have already come to the family to tell them that there is nothing anyone can do anymore it is in God's hands now...

So guys if you believe pray or even if you don't say a prayer for Tammy she needs all the help she can get right now...[/QUOTE]

CC....Our thoughts and prayers are with You and Yours tonite.
May God Bless.
 
Kevan,
Terribly sorry to hear such news. Maybe you could tell us some more of what in the world went wrong.
Bruce
 
Blr

New to me is a 1984 Browning BLR-81 steel receiver in .308 with a Leupold VXII 1-4 power scope. Handles great and is pretty much in excellent condition. It is going to be my "go to" big game rig for years to come!!!

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Johnn, that's a really beautiful Husqvarna. That lightweight model, called the "Husky," with the barrel shortened a bit from the standard, was maybe their most accurate rifle, right out of the box. We sold them in the 60s.
If I was going to advise anyone on a mountain rifle, where a lot of tough climbing would be involved, I would tell them they couldn't do better than that rifle, in 30-06 or 270.
I had the earlier Husqvarna, with the Beechwood stock, almost from day one for mountain hunting. Probably thirty different mountains have scarred it's stock, it's been soaked in drenching rain and wet snows, but it never failed to hit what I shot at.
 
My son for his 25th birthday present from his grandfather was given a Husquavarna Featherweight in 30-06 as well it is a beautiful over 50 year old rifle that may have only fired 2 - 3 boxes tops and hadn't been fired in over 40 years. (yes after I cleaned it up we went to the range and fired it right away... :) )

The bluing is perfect on it the stock is a little rough from getting banged around in the closet for so many years though...

So I understand the positive thoughts on these rifles...
 
H4831 said:
Johnn, that's a really beautiful Husqvarna. That lightweight model, called the "Husky," with the barrel shortened a bit from the standard, was maybe their most accurate rifle, right out of the box. We sold them in the 60s.
If I was going to advise anyone on a mountain rifle, where a lot of tough climbing would be involved, I would tell them they couldn't do better than that rifle, in 30-06 or 270.
I had the earlier Husqvarna, with the Beechwood stock, almost from day one for mountain hunting. Probably thirty different mountains have scarred it's stock, it's been soaked in drenching rain and wet snows, but it never failed to hit what I shot at.
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Yes, it is pretty and I could see Dad drooling when it arrived. He had ordered two standard grades but this was all that was available. He got that and I found a Parker Hale in 308NM.

A few years ago on my 1st successful Mule Deer draw in AP, the '06 was what I used. Sort of a nostalgia hunt in that I hunted with my Daughter, used Dads rifle and used some of the remaining handloads I had made up for Dad using a 180gr Norma BT. I'm in the process of 'training it' on Barnes TTSX bullets.

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Then, for the icing on the cake, when I returned home and the package of trim thawed out, I ground it up usind Dad's old Husqvarna hand grinder.

My Granddaughter, when she gets into hunting, may end up with it, being one of the few right hand shooters in the family.
 
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