Old Do All Rifle

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All porpoise rifles wear MacMillans
 
I also love these threads, get to see some pretty great setups.

Mine is also a Win M70, all original and new production though. Shoots 130AB at 3200fps which is good enought for me.
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Potashminer said:
As per Post #6, I would think across Canada, back in the day, a .22 (Cooey 39 single shot or Cooey 60 repeater, or similar), a break action single shot 12 gauge - full choke - or perhaps a double barrel 12 gauge, and a milsurp 303 British or a 30-06 M1917 was considered a pretty complete battery to own
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That's pretty much what my Dad owned. His guns were only tools to him, whereas most of us here are toy collectors (myself included) and have safes full of expensive firearms, most of which we really don't need or use.

As per the OP ..... My Do-It-All gun is an older stainless SPS 700 in 30.06 in a Brown Precision topped with a 3.5-10. Ironically, I did not hunt with it this year. One of the other toys went out instead.
 
Chuck, you should start building those rifles in both hand drives in appropriate ratios, amazing. No idea what they would cost in the end but I bet you'd busy with orders regardless. Awesome set up and aesthetics.

Conor, nice set up also.
 
That’s a good point. A left hand rifle that works well with the entire family is uncommon. What are the odds of the entire family being left handed?
 
They aren’t. My daughter is left eye dominant so she shoots left handed. My son has just used my rifle a couple of times because it was convenient. My rifle was on the pack when this buck appeared. Our window was extremely short so he got behind it to shoot. My wife just thinks all rifles are built that way.


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pathfinder76 said:
An all around rifle certainly does not need to be custom. This rifle came out of the box as a 7MM RM and it could just as easily have done the same thing virtually unmodified. A Remington 700, Ruger 77, or Tikka etc as well.

Cartridge selection could run the gamut with equal success. My Grandfather did it with a 22 Savage Highpower, My dad with a Remington 700 7MM Remington Magnum, My uncles with Winchester Model 70’s and Remington 700’s in 270 and 30-06, my brother with a WBY MK V in 7MM WBY, my cousin with a Remington 700 and Ruger in 280 Remington. The list goes on.

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I wish I had a "old do-all rifle. I use different rifles and cartridges most of the time when hunting big game. This year I used a 9.3x74R for my bull moose and a 270 Winchester for my whitetail buck. If I was antelope hunting it would be my 240 Weatherby, 257 Weatherby for mule deer. My son has a Cooper Model 56 Custom Classic, chambered in the 7mm STW which he used for everything for the past ten years, except antelope. I have a Sako Model L61R Deluxe re-barreled (unfired) to a 7mm Rem. Mag., but can't see myself using it for a do-all rifle, although I believe that the 7mm Rem. Mag. is one of the top three cartridges for North American big game.
 
All my rifles are old do it all rifles lol, old BAR 30-06, old Mauser 8x57, old Husqvarna 9.3x62, old Ruger 77mkII 30-06, old BrnoZH304 7x57r, old savage 99 in 300 savage… the Ruger is the only one I bought new, in 1998! Not all of them would be legal for everything up here because of bison minimum bore and energy minimum, but other than that all of them would do anything else!
Still waiting for my Bradshaw rotary action in 7x65r and 9.3x74r to be finished and show up that could be a do it all rifle but it won’t be old until it’s old!
 
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