If I decide to go close and iron sights, 9.3x57.
Nobody has said 450 Bushmaster. May have to dig out the Ranch rifle....

Winchester 1895 in 30-40 Krag. Be taking it it to the "pig" stand.

6.5x47 Lapua is not very common. Good hunting caliber with proper bullets.

I would figure I would be the winner in this contest , as I have many rifles in cartridges that I developed . 35 Carcano , 8.8mm Mosin , 8x47 mm Mauser , 357 Bandit , 44 Bandit , 45 Bandit , 500 Bandit , 7x48 mm Mauser to name a few . I also hunt with some rare European rifles . Gew-88 in 8x60 mm , French Lebel in 450 Nitro express , 11.2 mm Sc Mauser .

Where do you ever find casings for such loads?

He aint shrugging that off lol.

I am guessing you are shooting a .58 caliber Muzzleloader of some sort. Which one are you shooting?

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

Shoot, most everything I carry around these days would be considered odd by "modern" standards...

Scoped bolt rifle? 6x45 (6mm-.223) if I'm feeling wild, a .250 Savage or 7 Mauser if I'm truly serious...most likely my old warhorse .375 H&H. I refinished its original French walnut stock this last year and it deserves to spend time afield as well (and the .375 is a helluva versatile cartridge and has been since 1912).

There'll be "double rifle days" where I'll be afield with a .30-30 double, a .45-70 double or even a 9.3x74R (almost as versatile as the .375).

"Small" days will find me with a .25-20 or a .32-20 in my hands (levers, of course).

My God, how boring it must be to only hunt with one rifle...that's why I avoid it at all costs!

Mark

257 Roberts

I’m gonna buy a 240 Page Sooper Pooper and win this next year. Or is that today’s 243? I need to consult Mr Ackley’s book.

I make them . On some of them I even have to make the jacketed bullets .

450 Marlin

1956 Remington Gamemaster chambered in .300 Savage. Inherited from my Dad. Used to carry it occasionally, now it’s all I deer hunt with.

9.3 X62

Just curious how some of you end up with these rifles chambered in some of these calibers. Don't take me wrong, my point isn't to call such decisions into question, but rather, if there's a story behind the decision.

The 9.3×62mm (also known as 9.3×62mm Mauser) is a rimless, bottlenecked rifle cartridge designed in 1905 by German gunmaker Otto Bock. It is suitable for hunting medium to large game animals in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.

The 9.3×62mm was designed to fit into the Mauser 98 bolt-action rifle.[2] European hunters and settlers in Africa often chose military rifles for their reliability and low cost, but colonial governments in Africa fearful of rebellions often banned military-caliber rifles and ammunition. The 9.3×62mm was never a military cartridge and so never had this problem.

I might take my Marlin 336ER in .356 win.

I picked up a beautiful custom Mauser this year in 9.3x62 it will do fine for a whitetail, just put it behind the front shoulder and let her rip. I hope to be posting a picture of it after this week. As big a bullet as it is it kicks like my 30-06 using 220 grain bullets

After owning and shooting rifles in about all the commercial and military cartridges , I went looking for the real old European hunting rounds . After that I started designing my own cartridges that did what I wanted to do a little better and building rifles to shoot them . For example I developed the 45 Bandit for pig shooting over 25 years ago , before pig hunting became so popular .

Is that the Graham shooting range?

Thanks for the reply.

Hopefully we'll see that 126 post count grow at lot in the future.

I like going through old estate sales sometimes to find things you don't see every day. I have an old 6.5 japanese rifle with bayonet, and a 303 british I shot my first deer with.

Austin Rifle Club Range. That picture is from 2005. I had sponsored a little vintage military rifle shooting match that year. I won the scoped rifle class in 2001 with a M41B and though I also won in 2005, it did not count because my part time business sponsored it. I gave away antique Turkish mausers to the winners. Good times back then.

475 linebaugh in a revolver. Haven't seen that listed yet

I am a long time gun collector and own over 200 long guns. Mostly military Curio and Relics focused on collections of USGI, Swedish, Antique Centerfire, and a curio collection of rifles of unusual design or provenance. And the rest just an accumulation or investment. I used to pick one rifle from the collection every year to find or make a hunting load for, sight in, learn it's limitations, then hunt with it for one season. With my eyes not what they used to be and most of those rifles being open sighted, it has pretty much ended that practice for me.

I'm using handloads for deer this year, and i plan on carrying my 7X57 if any hogs arrive.