Prefered "Woods Loafing" Rifle

[Turkeyslayer 1300]

What gun do you reach for when you are taking a walk in the fall or any time for that matter? Not necessarily a serious hunting rifle but a gun you could use for targets of opportunity or shooting stumps or whatever.

I used to like my Marlin 1894 loaded with .44Specials, 240 Grain Keith style bullet over some H-110. Today I mostly take a .22 Henry with Skinner Sights.

I also liked a Mossberg 500E .410 loaded with 4's or slugs.

Let's hear about or see them.

 

[saskcop]

Stainless mini 14 or CZ 858 with the hopes that some liberal granola eating hikers will see me with something evil looking.

 

[lyktohunt]

Thuty Thuty

 

[lilsurfer]

During the deer hunt I take the pre-64 Model 94 in 30.30. Any other time I take my Iver Johnson 410 or my Marlin Model 57 Levermatic in .22 magnum.

 

[brybenn]

9422 or rossi 37. For plinking. Mossy 400g dual pistol grips ghost sites heat shield 6 shot side saddle with a barrel mounted laser for serious plinking

 

[pharaoh2]

Usually when I go for a walk in the fall I carry a shotgun, sometimes a .22.

 

[diananike]

I usually have my sxs 20gg loaded with #6s and a couple of slugs in my pocket.

Sometimes my Marlin .357 with mid-range magnums.

 

[jimmyjazz]

If Deer is open 7X57 Mauser always... if not 12 ga Webley and Scott

 

[H4831]

Thuty Thuty

If he puts a little more tobasco sauce in that 44, it becomes more potent, at least at shorter ranges, than the Thuty-Thuty.
I might start something here, but that 1894 is much slicker to handle and cycle than is a 94 Winchester.

 

[Canadian_Zuk]

I used to carry a .22 in one shape or another, then I started grabbing a shotgun on my way out the door and thats what its been like for a while now. I just picked up a marlin 1894ss in 44 mag myself this past Thursday. I can't wait to get out with it.

 

[catnthehatt]

Depends on what tweaks me at the time, if i'm hunting deer it's usually my 6.5X55 express gun.
if birds, Heaven only knows, could be a BPC shotgun, muzzle loader, 28SXS the list goes on.....
Cat

 

[liberty]

For just wandering and a leisurely walk, has to be an old Winchester 94, 30.30... like holding the hand of your first girlfriend.

 

[southwest maddog]

BLR in .223

 

[diananike]

If he puts a little more tobasco sauce in that 44, it becomes more potent, at least at shorter ranges, than the Thuty-Thuty.
I might start something here, but that 1894 is much slicker to handle and cycle than is a 94 Winchester.

Absolutely!
I find the Winchester takes a pretty stiff shuck to toggle out that bottom gate. I think at the ranges you'd shoot with open sights a good '92 or Marlin 1894 in .44 magnums got a lot going for it.
Mind you mines a .357 so I'm not really in the running.

 

[live4therut]

Savage 1899, depending on the time of year, and what my fancy is that day 22hp, 250-3000, and yes the o'l 30-30

 

[leverboy]

For just wandering and a leisurely walk, has to be an old Winchester 94, 30.30... like holding the hand of your first girlfriend.

. . . sigh . . . x2

 

[kamlooky]

Usually my Ruger 308win.
Lately, eye've had the desire to pack the 1954 94, 30-30 but the sights just
don't work with my eyes anymore.
Hopefully I'll find a peep sight at the Kamloops gun show for it.
Might try and bless my 250-3000 this year.
Last year I took out my old covered in dust 1892 in 44-40. Nee 1910.
Just cuz......
I have been holding her hand for more than forty years.....
Looky.

 

[Camp Cook]

Locally my Marlin 1895GS 45-70 loaded with 350gr Swift A-Frames @ 2100fps up country my 21" barreled Rem 700 LSS in 375RUM loaded with 350gr TSX @ 2450fps.

Neither have scopes mounted when I am not hunting both have XS sights ghost ring sights mounted...

CC

 

[lyktohunt]

If he puts a little more tobasco sauce in that 44, it becomes more potent, at least at shorter ranges, than the Thuty-Thuty.
I might start something here, but that 1894 is much slicker to handle and cycle than is a 94 Winchester.

Yes you are correct but I dont have one of them but I guess I could take the Rossi 45 Colt instead. I think my old PCMR has more cool factor though.

 

[Longwalker]

Might be my Anschutz .22 Hornet, or Browning T2 .22LR. or Puma .38/.357 lever, or any number of shotguns, probably my Browning Citori 16ga. most often.
When I can't decide between rifle and shotgun it might be a Heym BBF .222/16 ga, or a Kreighoff drilling 16x16/7x57R. I like wandering around with a good gun in hand!