The classic or the new one?

[jklutes]

It's the last day of the season and the trophy of a lifetime is unaware you are there.Say a couple of hundred yards away well in the range of whatever you are shooting.
Do you want the classic rig that was once your granddaddy's,then your father's,now yours that always seems to come to the shoulder perfect,that you never remember the shot with .It looks pretty beat up but damn it shoots
or:
do you want the latest rifle you just bought,brand new ,never hunted with; really too much gun but damn it looks nice and at the range it's a tack driver.Everyone at the range just drools over it and wishes it was theirs. Someday it may be passed down but actually you'll probably sell it for another "must have"?

 

[Boomer454]

The Classic.
IU hunt with an old Winchester Model 70 that was made in 1943, is chambered for .300 H&H ( it just says .300 Magnum on the barrel. It was the only .300 magnum around then...) That was purchased by my Great Great uncle to hunt the Kodiak Islands with in the early Forties.
Now that is a classic.

The first Rifle I ever killed big game with is a Weatherby in .300 Wetherby Mag Made by Roy Weatherby for the same uncle in 1951. Serial # is 3xx.
It Made a trip to the Kodiak's too, and counted for 2 VERY large bears.

The Weatherby doesn't come out much anymore. Someone told me what it was worth.
The H&H and I will be hunting together for a long, long time.

 

[CoryTheCowboy]

I would, without a doubt take the classic.

 

[martinbns]

My grandfather didn't hunt in Ireland, so I would pick my latest rig.

 

[pharaoh2]

Even classics got their start somewhere. Start the new rig out right.

 

[Gibbs505]

Depends, if I felt that was what I wanted to hunt with that day then that is what I would have to take the game with.
However I have no rifles with personal history that you lay out. Although I would love to have a Holland and Holland in 470 NE, but at a couple of hundred yards, that might be pushing it!

 

[gunrunner100]

I have to start a "classic" for my kids, so it can be whatever I want it to be.

 

[crazy_davey]

I have a bit of both, I would pick whatever I had that day. The classic would be the one to have, but it doesn't always happen that way.

 

[BIGREDD]

Classic? Whatya mean Classic? Classic is just a fancy way of saying old... and old isn't bad.
Old or new makes no difference to me as long as it does the job.

 

[catnthehatt]

Whatever I am hunting with at the time.
I have lots of rifles with sentimental value, but if they won't shoot, I won't hunt with or use them in a match.
Cat

 

[uphere]

all my guns may become classics because my dad feels compelled to never sell a gun and i'm trying to be the same way

 

[Joel]

I love em both. Took my first deer with my best friend's great granfather's Savage 99. His folks tell me from Great Grandpa down to grandad to father to my bud, that rifle has killed well over 100 deer.

MY first deer rifle was a beat up old SMLE my dad gave me when I was strong enought to carry it and shoot it well. Never gettin rid of that gun.

I do love my new Winchester 70 Classic in 30-06 and Black Shadow in 300 WM too though.

 

[Noel]

The only hi powered heirloom rig I got of Grampa's was his Enfield with a shot out barrel. Perfect keys holes more often than not, and I mean totally sideways impacts IF it hit the paper.

I was a Remchester buyer for a while but now I go Old school.
Gimme wood and blued in a classic chambering and I am a happy boy!

 

[dan belisle]

Whatever I had to hand. - dan

 

[Lazy Ike]

I probably won't ever find myself hunting with a gun that I regret shooting anything with.