Not a rifle issue more of a operator issue but I slipped on moss covered bedrock landing backwards on my rifle breaking the scope lense and splitting my wood stock length ways into 2 parts. Luckily I never had a round chambered just the internal mag filled and ready to go if needed. On my walk out of the bush I seen a buck lol
Has a rifle issue ever cost you a hunt?
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Thunderhog
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Those are some mighty demanding conditions.
Would a scabbard of some kind have pretended the CZ from gettin that gritted up? I guess only if it completely covered the action?
At least the fix was that easy...
Betting the sand in the 700s was in the trigger group?
From the man who brought you "do I want a stainless or blued rifle? " it's "have you ever witnessed the failure of a mechanical device?"
Featuring the hits: "does encasing rifles protect them from the elements?" "Fell on my scope and broke it blues" and " It's hard (to snap a rifle stock from a ground blind)"
Featuring the hits: "does encasing rifles protect them from the elements?" "Fell on my scope and broke it blues" and " It's hard (to snap a rifle stock from a ground blind)"
Same as I do.
The only failure I've had was a scope that fogged up internally halfway through a week long hunt. That's the only time i needed a backup.
Joel if you saved every dollar you spend on budget rifles you never shoot for a year you could easily build a custom. This is a forum for "gun nutz" after all. Perfectly fine, factory rifles im vanilla chamberings is not the order of the day, at least not for many of us.
You love the Moderna, we all love the Moderna, don't bring it into this. It didn't hurt anyone.
Like most my hunt ruining failure was not mechanical or related to home gunsmithing. I went ass over tea kettle in some melting spring snow on a grizzly hunt and knocked the fibre optic off the front sight of my rifle. Luckily we were hunting from home and I was able to replace the sight and confirm the zero. My buddy would go on to get his bear while I was busy digging holes to pay for more ruger Americans
You love the Moderna, we all love the Moderna, don't bring it into this. It didn't hurt anyone.
Like most my hunt ruining failure was not mechanical or related to home gunsmithing. I went ass over tea kettle in some melting spring snow on a grizzly hunt and knocked the fibre optic off the front sight of my rifle. Luckily we were hunting from home and I was able to replace the sight and confirm the zero. My buddy would go on to get his bear while I was busy digging holes to pay for more ruger Americans
Just use a reliable rifle. My main hunting rifle has been used in the heat, it’s been soaked, full of snow and frozen, ridden 100’s of miles in a saddle scabbard and has never lost zero or failed to function reliably. It feeds 100% of the time, it extracts and ejects 100% of the time, and fires 100% of the time. And I’m familiar with it. This morning I had seconds to shoot a deer at just under 400 yards. Pack off and on the ground, rifle across it and success. No bipod to deploy, zero time to range let alone dial a scope. That rifle is just as effective jump shooting a deer at 10’.
I’ve spent a lifetime building and dicking with rifles. At the end of the day all I really hunt with anymore is a 15 year old rifle carrying its third barrel. In a boring cartridge using a boring scope with a couple of hash marks.
The only failure this morning was that I lost my fired ADG brass in the snow. That will make you pout.
I’ve spent a lifetime building and dicking with rifles. At the end of the day all I really hunt with anymore is a 15 year old rifle carrying its third barrel. In a boring cartridge using a boring scope with a couple of hash marks.
The only failure this morning was that I lost my fired ADG brass in the snow. That will make you pout.
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If only thinking of me and what I do paid lol
That is pretty harsh
Nice work/great shooting. That 70 you've shown a few times is a heck of a rifle
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The Outsider
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I took a shot at a big whitetail buck a few years ago and missed, it was under 100 yards and I should have hit it.
When I got home I noticed my scope base windage screw was on the floor of my reloading room.
When I got home I noticed my scope base windage screw was on the floor of my reloading room.
I had a Sako 85 chambered in 270 wsm for a short while. I took the warm mag out of my pocket and dropped it in the snow on a real cold day. I blew it off and put it in the rifle. 10 minutes later I went to chamber a round and it was froze solid. lol I hated that rifle and detachable mags ever since.
I had the firing pin on an Rem 1100 break, first attempted shot at daybreak on some big honkers. A few years later i was walking along hunting whitetail, rifle was a Win Model 70 heavy barrel 243, slung over the shoulder, right hand on the pistol grip to keep it steady. The top swivel broke, rifle swiveled in my hand with the muzzle hitting frozen ground. Stock shattered, i said fluffy several times.
A few years later i was walking along hunting whitetail, rifle was a Win Model 70 heavy barrel 243, slung over the shoulder, right hand on the pistol grip to keep it steady. The top swivel broke, rifle swiveled in my hand with the muzzle hitting frozen ground. Stock shattered, i said fluffy several times.
My friends Zastava M70 FN clone has about 20% failure to fire in -5, 100% in -20 (no issues in warmer temps). Primers had very light indentations below freezing. Degreased firing pin and raceway inside the bolt, removed factory grease, and no more issues…
User Error : Moose hunt 2010. Bull licence.
Father and I swap rifles for the day. He takes my new to me, but old and used Winchester 70 , I take his sporterized Enfield.
Father in law sits on a rock with his smokes, non-alcoholic beverage and the 70-safety in 3rd position. Bull steps out. He pushes the 70 safety one click forward, aims and ... nothing. Cycles a new round, same. Bull takes off. Realizes that it's still on safe. Puts the safety on fire finally and let's one fly. Misses, Bull is gone. He's not a happy camper. Turns out the 70 is too much high-tech for him and the next day he has his 303 back.
A year later hunting waterfowl with a Rem 11-87 12ga Mag, some internal part broke while hunting. As far as I can remember it was a mag-cut off?? ......or something....jammed all the time, needed new parts. What I remember is that I cut my finger pretty good on something really sharp in the action while finger*** the action, trying to figure out what was wrong.
Not a rifle but a scope almost did. I was on my first fly in hunt, with my daughter and my scope got banged after sighting it in at the lake. Luckily I had some extra gear at the Basecamp on the lake. I hiked off the mountain and got my multi tool and removed the scope and the mount, hiked back up above the trees and shot a billy mountain goat at 40 yard using iron sights on the last day of the hunt. Was picked up 12 hours later.
Exomax, I feel for your father, the rifle in my story was a sporterized no 1 Lee Enfield.
That was in 2022, on the 2024 fly in with he same daughter I brought a win model 70 as a backup rifle.
Exomax, I feel for your father, the rifle in my story was a sporterized no 1 Lee Enfield.
That was in 2022, on the 2024 fly in with he same daughter I brought a win model 70 as a backup rifle.
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Ruger 77 tang safety in 7RM cost me a moose about 45 yrs ago. Operated smooth as silk, click. Needed to push down on bullet to get the butt end of the cartridge high enough for the bolt to pick it up.. That was on a fully loaded mag, bolt closed over, empty chamber. Checked probably 50 more of them at the range or so after that, may have been 5 or 6 that didn't do that, what cartridge, didn't matter. That kinda soured me on the Ruger bolt guns.
