Photo Album: Favorite hunting rifle aquisitions of 2009

[blargon]

10 guns...............that is the final count. but 2 were gifts

And you only sold 8...

 

[Win 38-55]

Here's another favourite hunting rifle I acquired this past year .... an original Winchester Model 53 44-40 made in 1928. I used it this fall to harvest a nice Whitetail doe.

 

[bob347]

I always wanted a nice vintage bolt action 243Win. This little rifle finally found a new home. It is a 1958 first year production Savage Model 110., and is in exellant condition. I put a VX II on it and it will shoot 5 into a quarter all day long with 80gr. factory ammo.

 

[mediatrigg]

beautiful design

A gift from my father his .300 Weatherby Mark V Lazermark never hunted.What was he thinking ya gotta love Dementia.

Wow ... that's a beautiful design on the stock.

I hope it shoots as nice as it looks.

S.

 

[Johnn Peterson]

Here's another favourite hunting rifle I acquired this past year .... an original Winchester Model 53 44-40 made in 1928. I used it this fall to harvest a nice Whitetail doe.

That's sweet.

 

[mudgunner49]

Nice Model 71!!! Here's a photo of one of my 'new' hunting rifles I acquired this past year. I plan to take it deer hunting this coming fall. It is an original Winchester Model 1876 .45-60 made in 1886. Gives me 5-shot groups of less than 2" at 100 yards.

Sweet "new" rifle Kirk!!! Good luck in the fall, but do you really think you can actually kill a whitetail with an old-school lead bullet and black powder velocities??? C'mon, get real... I think you might just make it mad - I mean we all know that our forefathers had to finish them all off with an axe or the ever-efficient butt-stroke...


I keed, I keed...

blake

 

[martinbns]

This is my only acquisition this year. It's now wearing a Zeiss Conquest 3x9x40, Sako 85 Bavarian in 30-06.

 

[Win 38-55]

... but do you really think you can actually kill a whitetail with an old-school lead bullet and black powder velocities??? C'mon, get real... I think you might just make it mad - I mean we all know that our forefathers had to finish them all off with an axe or the ever-efficient butt-stroke...

Heh, heh! Good to hear from you Blake! I wouldn't have it any other way. So far, I've bagged deer with a couple 45-70's, a 38-55, a 44-40 and a 30-30, all with cast bullets. Next year it is this .45-60 and the following year I have an old single shot Springfield Model 1888 .45-70 that is waiting in line to help fill the freezer. I've got about 800 pounds of lead wheelweights in my garage to practice with too!

 

[99trix]

Picked this one up this past fall, a 99H barrel band carbine in 30-30, DOM 1935. Pretty sweet condtion complete with a stith no drill mount set up.

This one is a 99C in 284, I did use this one to harvest a white tail doe this year.

 

[Win 38-55]

I love those old Savages. I've been fighting off the temptation to get an old Savage for years.

 

[martinbns]

This one is a 99C in 284, I did use this one to harvest a white tail doe this year.

That is a Savage I could learn to love.

 

[99trix]

I love those old Savages. I've been fighting off the temptation to get an old Savage for years.

I like Winchesters, but I know how much my savage education cost me and I am really shy to pay for a Winchester education
So I just leave the Winchesters to the Winchester experts.

 

[MadDog]

This one is my first pick when I head out the door.

Savage 99 in 375 Win, great on deer and moose.

 

[Crankbender]

This little double in 7x65R was my biggest purchase of 09. My Stevens 223 was the smallest purchase. Both great rifles.

 

[99trix]

This one is my first pick when I head out the door.

The rifle or the beer?

 

[MadDog]

Touche!!!!!

And what are you talking about all educated now? Been collecting the damn things longer than you and I still ain't edumacated. Seems like just when you get em figured out Savage throws a loop at you.

 

[CV32]

Sako 75 lefty in .30-06

 

[Dang]

[This is my only acquisition this year. It's now wearing a Zeiss Conquest 3x9x40, Sako 85 Bavarian in 30-06.




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Beautiful rifle and a great Caliber

 

[Mauser98]

My only acquisition in 2009 was this FN Mauser 98(actually a JC Higgins M50) that Bill Leeper converted from .270 Win to .375 Ruger.

21" McGowan barrel
Timney trigger
Talley-style bolt handle
Pachmayr Decelerator Old English recoil pad
Talley barrel band
Talley steel rings and bases
Leupold VXII 2-7X33 scope

I modified the original stock to handle the heavier recoil, increase the length of pull and generally improve the look.

I also did a slow rust blue on it.

And it shoots very well. This target shows a group at 200 meters using Hornady Interlock 300 gr RN bullets

 

[H4831]

QUOTE=Win 38-55;3998804]Heh, heh! Good to hear from you Blake! I wouldn't have it any other way. So far, I've bagged deer with a couple 45-70's, a 38-55, a 44-40 and a 30-30, all with cast bullets. Next year it is this .45-60 and the following year I have an old single shot Springfield Model 1888 .45-70 that is waiting in line to help fill the freezer. I've got about 800 pounds of lead wheelweights in my garage to practice with too![/QUOTE]

Gee, you have a newer Springfield!
This one is an 1884 Model. When I was 16-17 years old, I carried it in the bush and harassed the elk and deer with it. In those years 45-70 ammunition had not been made for some time and a neighbor gave me two boxes of Winchester, 405 grain jacketed. I used them so sparingly that the boxes shown in this recently taken picture shows I still have most of them!
I still shoot the rifle, but I load the ammo for it. However, I wouldn't hesitate to shoot that old Winchester ammo, that probably dates back to the 1920s. As a matter of fact I was going to shoot one or two in it and chronograph them, but currently I don't have a chronograph. Probably in the spring I'll get at it. By the way, the bore in the rifle is absolutely perfect.