General purpose mountain gun??

[Airborn_69]

Could be a SHTF milsurp semi to a shotgun...What would be your gun & caliber of choice?

If I went semi auto or bolt non restricted milsurp, I'd be leaning in the .30 cal category because...

Lets hear your comments.

 

[TheIndifferent1]

My No. 5 Lee Enfield. Light, reliable and powerful.

 

[MiG25]

what are you looking for? a gun for: mountain hunting? hiking? zombies?

 

[Salty]

I wouldn't bother hauling any semi auto, milsurp or shot gun up a mountain given a choice. Of the stuff I have now I'd probably choose my stainless ruger mk11 in 308 with a Nikon 3-9. Weighs about 8 lbs all up..

 

[X-fan]

From what I have read you can shoot pretty well so here goes.

Custom gun all the way!
Blueprinted Remington, barrel of your choice, McMillan Remington sporter.
Scope Leupold 3.5-10 Mk4 with m2 knobs.
Caliber 338 Edge loaded with Nosler brass.
Finished at 8-1/2 to 8-3/4 pounds

The 225 Nosler Accubond at 3400+fps will take care of any mountain critter with alacrity!

I'm building 2 edge rifles for myself!


If you don't like that kind of recoil I would substitute the 300 Win.

Good luck!

 

[soldier506]

I second the N0 5 JC carbine.

 

[Airborn_69]

From what I have read you can shoot pretty well so here goes.

Actually, I'm not a bad shot, thx

Custom gun all the way!
Blueprinted Remington, barrel of your choice, McMillan Remington sporter.
Scope Leupold 3.5-10 Mk4 with m2 knobs.
Caliber 338 Edge loaded with Nosler brass.
Finished at 8-1/2 to 8-3/4 pounds

The 225 Nosler Accubond at 3400+fps will take care of any mountain critter with alacrity!

I'm building 2 edge rifles for myself!

Corlane Sports probably the guys to talk to with a similar concept, Their RMR Alpine series seem to fit your criteria.

 

[todbartell]

gimme a stainless / fiberglass stocked 280 loaded with 150 grain Barnes TSX, with a good 3-9 scope. All up weight of 7 lbs would be great for mountain hunting (sheep, goats, elk, moose)

 

[p-17]

My personal mountain rifle is a Remington 700 Stainless Synthetic Mountain Rifle in .30-06 with an Elite 3000 2-7 scope, pushing 168-grain Barnes Tripleshock. The whole unit, fully loaded, weighs less than 7-1/2 pounds.

 

[Ruttinbuck]

I am running a remy 700 BDLSS in 7mm SAUM.
Bansner stock, leupy FX11 6X36 scope,talley LWHT rings, shoots 140 grain baltips into 5 shot teeny clusters @ 3150fps with 140gr AB loading next.Weighs 7.5lbs with 8 rounds sleeved on the stock.RB

 

[Airborn_69]

gimme a stainless / fiberglass stocked 280 loaded with 150 grain Barnes TSX, with a good 3-9 scope. All up weight of 7 lbs would be great for mountain hunting (sheep, goats, elk, moose)

While working at a certain gunshop today I was bored & got a Rem 700 Alaskan TI in .280 rem..Kinda close to what spec you are refering too..

 

[dpopl8r]

gimme a stainless / fiberglass stocked 280 loaded with 150 grain Barnes TSX, with a good 3-9 scope. All up weight of 7 lbs would be great for mountain hunting (sheep, goats, elk, moose)

My choice exactly. M700 280 at 7 lbs, except loaded with 140 gr Accubond !!

 

[Boomer]

For a general purpose rifle anywhere, it's pretty hard to imagine a scenario that a .375 carbine wouldn't handle.

 

[MTM]

How about my slightly over 9 lbs scoped 378 Mark V. Sit in the valley and hunt the mountains. Actually this year its a Stainless Classic STW, 24" barrel 3x9 Leupold. Shoots 160 TSXs very fast and accurately.

 

[manbearpig]

my .308 frontier, with a 10 or 20rd M14 mag mod (pinned for now. unpinned when the zombies come):

 

[stanway]

Do you have any information you could send me on the mag conversion for your Ruger? Just curious as I have only seen a Remington 700 conversion.

Thanks,

James

 

[Calum]

N0 5 JC carbine, M44 Mosin carbine, or maybe an SKS.

I forgot to mention the venerable 30/30.

 

[Airborn_69]

I considered a 18.5'' Norinco M305 or an M1 Garand if I went semi.

 

[Brutus]

If God forbid, things went really south, my .308 T-26 copy with Leupold 2.5 scout scope.
Not too much one cannot "deal" with using this set-up. If I did not have this short Garand, and hunting only is your concern, the primary rifle, would no doubt be a Remington 788 also in .308.
I have dropped alot of deer with this bolt action set-up , with great success.

This is a terrible question for me, because my 30-30 carbine is very useful as well!

 

[JasonYuke]

The last 2 times I crawled up and down those left coast mountains I was glad to have my T-3 lite with a 2x7 VX on it. very nice and lite to hike with. about 7.3 lbs all in.