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
Yes! Yes! Yes! I lways bring a backup. It's only an hour to go home for another, but why waste googd hunting time doing it. This year I couldn't decide which to bring. so I brought two and sold one of them.
 
i always carry around my winchester 94 in my truck during hunting season because you never know what you might see, plus my Savage 7 rem mag when im out hunting so i guess i do bring a "back up" rifle with me...
 
I voted no, but have a selection at my disposal if I did have a malfuntion close to where I normally hunt.

On a hunt away from home, it would be a good idea to pack an extra rifle.
 
For big game, my general tendency is to want to bring one scoped rifle for stand hunting and another open sighted, probably lighter rifle for pushing bush. Add some sort of shotgun best suited for the types of small game that we might see, an extra loaner or backup rifle and maybe a .22 (or a combo gun like the M6 Scout or .22/20ga Savage 24) and that's what I'd prefer to have.

For a waterfowl or small game hunt, I'll usually have either a backup or a pair of waterfowl and upland guns if I'm expecting to hunt a bit of both.

This year I took a #1mk3* SMLE and 7.62 Israeli K98k for two days of deer hunting. I also packed the CZ858 but wasn't able to pick up any soft point ammo so it didn't go out.

Practicing at the range, I come across enough small gunsmithing issues that probably wouldn't be apparent if I'd just taken the guns out hunting once or twice a season, so it's shown me how easy it is to have an unanticipated problem, and allowed me to fix some before the gun made it into the field.

Next year's choice of guns will depend on which guns I get to glass bed, scope and tinker with through the summer. Worst case scenario I'll have a Norinco/Polytech M14 with a scope and a CZ858, with Russian SKS as backup. If I get my Husqvarnas glass bedded, scoped and sighted in, I might take two 9.3x57 rifles, plus another flatter shooting rifle (6.5x55?). I really like collecting milsurps, so I might throw in one or two guns that I've had a chance to sight in and practice with soft point ammo.

For waterfowl, once my Mossberg 835 comes back from the gunsmith, my Win 120 will once again be relegated to backup status. I use a 20 ga Ugartechia SxS for upland game, but usually will have a Savage 24F or other shotgun as back up.
 
I no longer go hunting, but when hunting locally I would not take two rifles, it is not too far to go to get a replacement if needed.

On paid big game hunts or Safari yes I would carry two rifles, a malfunction in one could ruin an expensive hunt. .303's were the usual primary, or carried as backups to my .30-06. (unfortunately all traded and sold now)

I always carried a shotgun as primary backup, and for night camp security in dangerous areas.
 
I finally have more then 1 rifle now so I'll probably be bringing up a back up rifle granted depending on how I like and how my new rifles preforms depends on which rifles ends up as the back up ...also depends on what I'm hunting. I have the following rifles for hunting. Bottom 2 rifles I'm awaiting their arrival so I can start to play with.

M88 (.308)
CVA Wolf (.50 Cal)
Rossi (.243)

I always have one of my shotguns along usually my BPS 12 Gauge with Buck and slug.

Can always borrow my brothers
P17 (30-06)
If I so felt inclined.
 
I bring two guns to deer hunt camp an A-bolt 300WSM and Winchester 270WSM both lefty. Not sure which one is a back-up although I started with the Winny this year and shot a 6 pointer on the morning of the last day. That night I shot an 8 pointer with the A-bolt as the gun was jealous.
 
Almost always have two centerfires with me. One is my 45-70 for walking in the brush, and then my .300 for sitting and watching slashes. Not really 'back-ups' as I'll hunt with both over a week in camp, but if one was screwed I wouldn't be SOL .
 
Always take two and sometimes three ... but don't consider one or the other as either a primary or as a back-up. Have never had a problem with any of the various rifles I've had while in the field. Generally the game, location & type of terrain/anticipated range will determine which one goes on any particular day or any particular time. Might be one with open sights in the morning for still hunting the bush, another for a stand mid-day and yet another for the end of the day watch in a long field or from a tree stand.

Always take two rods and sometimes three for a day of fly fishing too, depending on target species, type of water, time of year, weather, etc.
 
I voted no, because I hunt mostly only 20 minutes from my house but after thinking about it , I realized that most of my hunting is done from one shooting shack and I usually have along a pellet gun (squirrels, magpies, etc.) 22 Magnum(for bigger more distant pests) and a 22 center fire (220 Swift or 22-250)for long distant varmints .
A man can't have TOO many guns .
I never take a back up gun for my 280 Remington....never had a problem with it .
 
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