The just one rifle.
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If thats what you want I say good for you as you are a better man than I.
There is no way that I could relegate myself to only one rifle especially when sitting here staring at four full rifle safes.
Whats my excuses... too much of a huntable game variety ?
too much nostalgia
I really do not know.
There is no way that I could relegate myself to only one rifle especially when sitting here staring at four full rifle safes.
Whats my excuses... too much of a huntable game variety ?
too much nostalgia
I really do not know.
I'd be more likely to keep the 308 over the 375.
I too sold down a lot of guns over the last couple years. Mostly stuff I wasn't using anyways. What's left over is a 223, 257Roberts, 270Win and a 35Whelen on the way. One that I sold was a 375 and could live without the Whelen as well no problem.
X2, it would see far more use in my type of hunting
It started two years ago when I rattled a monster buck to a clearing I was hunkered down in the middle of, he stuck his head and neck out of a poplar thicket at about 275 yards. I tried for twenty minutes to coax him into the open. I had decided to pack my gs45-70 that day and a neck shot at that distance with a gun with a rainbow trajectory is just not something I wanted to do. He had my location pinned so there was no crawling across the open to close the distance. I kept thinking of all the over rifles I could have brought that would have been better suited for the situation. I had a rifle for this and a rifle for that but what I didn't have was a rifle for all. The next year I thought I had it all covered when I finally got a 308mxlr. Then someone decided it was time for Africa.
Just let me know when that is about to go down so that I can get that 358 win.....
.... (That's just a joke, at the rate I am grinding myself into the gound at work, it may happen to me before you)....Op, I really like the .375, and contrary to popular belief, it doesn't leave great big steaming holes in whitetail and such........ And it is very capable out to 300 yards, likely more for people more skilled and adventurous than myself........ I am assuming you don't hunt predators?.....
Just let me know when that is about to go down so that I can get that 358 win.....
Op, I really like the .375, and contrary to popular belief, it doesn't leave great big steaming holes in whitetail and such........ And it is very capable out to 300 yards, likely more for people more skilled and adventurous than myself........ I am assuming you don't hunt predators?.....
Not for keeps.
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You might want to hang onto rifle number 2 . I like to bring a backup on my hunting trips in case i damage one or knock the scope, or yaknow just want to change it up and exercise a different rifle.
THIS... One of my 1st trips I thought my rifle got trashed on the ride up to a secondary camp. Luckily I was wrong, but I thought about how stupid I was, bringing only one rifle when I had a safe full of em at home... About 500 miles from home...
I came very close to suffering from the "1 hunting rifle syndrome", cleared them all out except for 2, A 308 and a 30-06. The Do-all for me was the 308, but the 06' was just too accurate to part with. As per normal the safe is now fully restocked, and so goes the cycle......
The 375 is certainly versatile, loaded up or down will handle all big game needs. I don't blame you for parting with the Marlin, the 308 Express is a fine cartridge, and the 308mxlr is a nice handling rifle, but it's really just a 300 savage (not that there's anything wrong with that) just not a do-all in my book.
I've owned 2 of the MXLR's and 2 of the ME's. I wouldn't be able to make my primary (or only) hunting rifle a lever action, but they are fun to shoot.
But boy, I bet it would be clean and shiny!
