lets see your thick bush guns!

[conor_90]

Thanks Ardent, attractive weight/cartridge combo but my car is not worth 3k...

It's a blind mag if that matters to you

I like drop boxes and blind mags, but it might to you if you are hunting from a jetboat, which I assume you do at times in your territory.

Watch out with that .338 WM you might find yourself using it instead of the H&H! 250 and 300 grain round noses were the loads I was suggested in NW BC.

Will you be doing anything to the .338?

 

[hoytcanon]

Action's extremely smooth, no hiccups, chambers the .375s like greased lightning.

I like the sound of that... makes me feel... warm and fuzzy.

 

[Kevan]

And better yet is a well constructed .375 bullet at 2,500+ fps.

And is far better than a 338......

 

[torontogungal]

Completely tuned up 16" bbl pre safety amadeo rossi 92 in 44 mag.
My brother bought and applied one of the steves gunz spiff up kits and dvd and the gun is smooth and sweet as melted butter and maple syrup on a stack of hot cakes.
He used tru-oil on the jungle wood stocks and they look fantastic.
Photos don't do it justice.

 

[Dogleg]

M70 Alaskan in .375, posed in a log jam just south of its namesake location. It managed to quit raining long enough to snap a picture. Seem to remember that it chambers a shell way faster than you can say "grizzly".



Another M70 in .458, this one an African in the Zambezie Delta in Mozambique. Picture was snapped in the brief interval between a buffalo charge and a monsoon hitting us. We had just waded through waist deep water and cane so thick that you could only see about ten feet through it, and popped into the open long enough to get into a fight over the only semi dry ground around. Then it rained hard enough to drown a frog. Timing is everything in hunting.



I think that sling is bad luck, its been on the 3 wettest trips of my life.

 

[Dogleg]

A somewhat less posed picture of Ardent and his Merkel.

 

[chuck nelson]

A somewhat less posed picture of Ardent and his Merkel.

Don't blued rifles melt in the rain?

 

[Camp Cook]

Naah.. they just rust unless you spend lots of time cleaning them at the end of every wet day...

I got tired of always cleaning my blued guns I now have mostly stainless guns or have started getting them Cerakoted I do not like having to deal with cleaning every day.

 

[fingers284]

Completely tuned up 16" bbl pre safety amadeo rossi 92 in 44 mag.
My brother bought and applied one of the steves gunz spiff up kits and dvd and the gun is smooth and sweet as melted butter and maple syrup on a stack of hot cakes.
He used tru-oil on the jungle wood stocks and they look fantastic.
Photos don't do it justice.

"92" and "bush defense" don't belong in the same sentence...no matter how slicked up, picture perfect purty you make them, in a panic situation a stovepipe or ejected live round makes it just a real purty club. Don't get me wrong, I have 4 "92's" that I enjoy very much but they are the last guns I would trust in a bear charge.

 

[Mr.Rigpig]

Another 45-70 Marlin. One of the early guide guns with the ported barrel. Ya, it has a Wild West guns big loop, but it gets cold here during hunting season and gloved hands just don't fit in the normal lever very good. At least it's not as hideously big as the Rossi ranch hand lever....

 

[Camp Cook]

Seriously?

I'm the opposite of you then.

I carried my LSI Puma M92 in 45 Colt/454 Casull and Marlin 1894 Cowboy in 45 Colt for bear defense for years they are/were so slick and jam free it amazed me.

Maybe its the operator?

 

[Dogleg]

Don't blued rifles melt in the rain?

I got tired of wiping rust off it everyday and parked the .375 in favor of a stainless Sako/McMillan/Gallaird/pushfeed in 300 RUM and popped the bear with that instead.

After getting the buffalo I parked the .458 for a synthetic, stainless barrelled Weatherby. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

 

[Camp Cook]

Here is a short video of my 81 year old dad shooting my Marlin 1895GS in 45-70 that is set up for defense/ thick bush hunting for the first time it is loaded with a top lever action 405gr hard cast = I don't load then hotter than this cause the action can't handle hotter.

Warne 2 piece nickel scope bases
XS Sights low Weaver backup ghost ring sight
Leupold 1X14 Prismatic with lighted reticle option
XS Sights taller front sight post
Wild West Guns tactical light mount
Kick Eez grind to fit magnum recoil pad
Marlin supplied black/gray laminate stocks first ones they had ever sold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA8GD-7OwzA&feature=em-upload_owner

 

[Ardent]

Naah.. they just rust unless you spend lots of time cleaning them at the end of every wet day...

I got tired of always cleaning my blued guns I now have mostly stainless guns or have started getting them Cerakoted I do not like having to deal with cleaning every day.

All I've been using is liberal doses of Eezox, no actual maintenance, been working alright. I don't think it could be considered a long term plan. This said, stainless is better of course, but they don't make double rifles in it. Means I'll hang up the double rifle in favour of a stainless bolt gun is all.

 

[j_06]

"92" and "bush defense" don't belong in the same sentence...no matter how slicked up, picture perfect purty you make them, in a panic situation a stovepipe or ejected live round makes it just a real purty club. Don't get me wrong, I have 4 "92's" that I enjoy very much but they are the last guns I would trust in a bear charge.

Why does every thread pertaining to handy rifles in the bush end up being a bear defence thread? People do go out into the bush without the constant fear of a bear charge deciding what rifle to bring.

 

[Camp Cook]

All I've been using is liberal doses of Eezox, no actual maintenance, been working alright. I don't think it could be considered a long term plan. This said, stainless is better of course, but they don't make double rifles in it. Means I'll hang up the double rifle in favour of a stainless bolt gun is all.

I started switching to stainless about 15 - 17 years ago after I was on a jet boat fishing/hunting trip up the Kasixs (spelling) river near Prince Rupert at the end every day I pulled my blued Rem 700 apart and oiled it up I also had my stainless 22" barreled T/C Contender carbine in 45-70 along all I had to do to it was spray the iron sights each night.

Convinced me to start swapping over.

I rebuilt my grandfathers made in the spring of 1958 Husqvarna 3000 that he had rechambered to 270 Wby last year bought a McMillan stock that I had Cerakoted OD green and I had the barreled action also Cerakoted satin black so I do not have to worry about rust.

 

[kamlooky]

Man is skeered of dogs and a bear of some sort is a big mean ugly dog.
Did you see the argewmint on the other thread on the Grack or Blizz bear?
Only thing they agree awn izz it's a bear.

Ugly bear, big teeth and toe nails tuh make one.............

 

[fingers284]

Why does every thread pertaining to handy rifles in the bush end up being a bear defence thread? People do go out into the bush without the constant fear of a bear charge deciding what rifle to bring.

Sorry man I was reading another thread and got my turds wixed up on the wrong answer.

 

[Bartledan]

All I've been using is liberal doses of Eezox, no actual maintenance, been working alright. I don't think it could be considered a long term plan. This said, stainless is better of course, but they don't make double rifles in it. Means I'll hang up the double rifle in favour of a stainless bolt gun is all.

I humped my blued Marlin 1895 all over the coast mountains for years. I'd give it a good clean before heading out, rub it down inside and out with boring old CLP, wait 15 minutes and wipe off the excess, and that's it. No in-trip maintenance, and never a spot of rust. These were 7-10 day trips, often solid rain.

I've been switching to stainless because of my old 270. After cleaning it would shoot all over the place for 10-15 rounds, then it was a laser (Vanguard series 1). I took this to be a barrel that likes a bit of fouling.

A fouled bore and 10 days of rain doesn't sound like a recipe for success, so all my hunting rifles are stainless.

Including the barrel on that Vanguard... And it's not a 270 any more

 

[torontogungal]

"92" and "bush defense" don't belong in the same sentence...no matter how slicked up, picture perfect purty you make them, in a panic situation a stovepipe or ejected live round makes it just a real purty club. Don't get me wrong, I have 4 "92's" that I enjoy very much but they are the last guns I would trust in a bear charge.

What stovepipes?
This is a win 92 not a 94 action.
Ever see the youtube with potter from midway usa cycling that win 92 with about 3 cartridges in the air with 1 finger?
My rossi 92/44 is that smooth.
Your 92 may stovepipe.
Mine doesn't.
My idea of an ideal brush defence gun for bear is my brothers tuned up 16" barrel rossi 92 in 454 casull.
Stovepipes come from a gun that isn't tuned properly and bad technique (short stroking).
Stovepipe indeed.