Do you bring a backup rifle to your hunting camp?

Do you bring a backup rifle to your hunting camp?

  • No

    Votes: 55 21.5%

  • Yes (please specify in a post)

    Votes: 201 78.5%
  • Total voters
    256
If I'm gone for more than one day i always bring a second rifle. You never know when a gun will get bumped and dropped, or one may just want to switch calibers. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
 
I usually bring one, particularly if we are a group.

3 of 4 years one our our group earlier this decade shot their deer with my backup rifle, they each had a problem with theirs.
 
I took five rifles with me this year . . . used one; the one I have owned the longest. I still subscribe to more is better. I could have done everything with one but things change daily - shorts, boots, rifles, loads, weather, wind, moon - how boring if everything stayed the same.
 
Always, especially on a hunting trip but will often bring an extra along even on a day hunt if I'm hunting with others. The rifle and caliber are dependant on the game hunted and the country and/or terrain being hunted in.
 
Never have, but the cabin s only 20-60 minutes from where I hunt dependng on whether I go north or south.

If I was in the bush or huntng from a base camp then absolutely.
 
Always bring my never fail deer slayer as back up(rem 700 in .243) but try to hunt with whatever has been bought recently and has yet to be christened. Last year, it was the 700 300WM, This year it'll be the new winny 94 30-30.
 
I always take 2 rifles to deer camp, usually a scoped bolt for on my deer watch, and an open sighted rifle (usually my Win 100 with a peep sight on it)for when I'm dogging, as the shooting is usually quick when dogging.
 
I hunt at my cottage and the safe usually contains at least 4 deer "calibre" rifles depending on where I hunt field/bush..........I choose what I wish......this year I brought a 35 rem, 35 whelen, 44 mag and a 260 rem to choose from :).
 
I use a Tikka T3 in 300 WSM as my primary but always bring my Browning x-Bolt 280 with me. Before the x-bolt it was a Ruger. Travelling 10 hours to go a good hunting area for 10 days + only to break your gun, have a malfunction, etc., one would be a fool not to! Seriously, how many times have we heard of something going awry on a hunting trip? The fact that it has not always involved your gun, doesn't mean it won't be that the next time. My buddy thinks I'm nuts and a bit paranoid but I'd rather be prepared than sorry. Anything less than that is denial in my mind. Denial kills ya twice: first when something bad happens (and it will happen eventually) and you didn't prepare, second when you realize that were in fact unprepared and could have done something about it. I'll have the last laugh if my buddy's guns goes on the fritz (I hope it doesn't of course) and he turns to me to borrow my backup... I would of course let him use it but would nag and harangue him of his lack of preparedness!! :D
 
I take a backup rifle on everything but daytrips. Even then, if habitat varies wildly like in and out of the bush. For instance I haulled a portable .257 Weatherby to go with my 17 pound .338 Edge for mulies
I can only think of one failure that cost me a deer. (Broken firing pin) We had a shotgun try to disassemble itself this fall, which was remedied by giving my kid one of my O/U's to shoot. Friends have used my backups a lot more than I ever have.
 
This year I brought the .300 Savage, .308 and 30-06... Was fairly random as to what I took out, but always have more than one available.
 
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