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<blockquote data-quote="Country Bumpkin" data-source="post: 1525739" data-attributes="member: 92230"><p>I'll play too. </p><p></p><p>I "used to be fickle" in that everything I currently had wasn't quite right and my "favorite" was being saved for. I started with a military surplus Smith & Corona pumpkin-chunking 30.06, given its name because I've seen pumpkin chunkers on history channel with better accuracy. It had a cherry stock which beat the snot out of me (and felt like an anvil in the mtns). Then when in college we saved up and my wife bought me a Use Rem 700 in 7RUM. I couldn't get that beat-up barrel to shoot (the whole gun looked like it had doubled as a walking stick and hatchet). Bought a takeoff barrel online in 300RUM. That shot almost as bad ..... I gave up and hunted archery-only for 3 years while coming to two conclusions 1) I'm not willing to spend any more money on factory hunting rifles as my primary stick and 2) I don't enjoy shooting the Ultra Mags. Eventually I found myself with a 300WM custom with Defiance Deviant, Bartlein, EH2 with VX6. Man, that gun SHOT!!! I went on a rifle-hunting spree for 3 years and killed some of my best animals with that. Ultimately I decided that it was too heavy for the way I like to hunt. It was a dream to shoot though and I struggled with parting from it. </p><p></p><p>Now I have an 8.5 lbs custom built off rem action, proof cf, stockys cf stock with same VX6 in a 7RM. I think this gun has the potential to shoot as well as my 300WM but I haven't had the time to shoot anything other than Barnes out of it (consistently under 3/4 with factory TTSX 150). It's still a pleasure to shoot and I love having it in the mountains. In its first season of service I took my first black bear, a Sitka blacktail, a nice mulie and my biggest elk. I think I finally have a favorite in the 7RM. If you made me pick another, it'd be the 300wm.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Country Bumpkin, post: 1525739, member: 92230"] I’ll play too. I “used to be fickle” in that everything I currently had wasn’t quite right and my “favorite” was being saved for. I started with a military surplus Smith & Corona pumpkin-chunking 30.06, given its name because I’ve seen pumpkin chunkers on history channel with better accuracy. It had a cherry stock which beat the snot out of me (and felt like an anvil in the mtns). Then when in college we saved up and my wife bought me a Use Rem 700 in 7RUM. I couldn’t get that beat-up barrel to shoot (the whole gun looked like it had doubled as a walking stick and hatchet). Bought a takeoff barrel online in 300RUM. That shot almost as bad ..... I gave up and hunted archery-only for 3 years while coming to two conclusions 1) I’m not willing to spend any more money on factory hunting rifles as my primary stick and 2) I don’t enjoy shooting the Ultra Mags. Eventually I found myself with a 300WM custom with Defiance Deviant, Bartlein, EH2 with VX6. Man, that gun SHOT!!! I went on a rifle-hunting spree for 3 years and killed some of my best animals with that. Ultimately I decided that it was too heavy for the way I like to hunt. It was a dream to shoot though and I struggled with parting from it. Now I have an 8.5 lbs custom built off rem action, proof cf, stockys cf stock with same VX6 in a 7RM. I think this gun has the potential to shoot as well as my 300WM but I haven’t had the time to shoot anything other than Barnes out of it (consistently under 3/4 with factory TTSX 150). It’s still a pleasure to shoot and I love having it in the mountains. In its first season of service I took my first black bear, a Sitka blacktail, a nice mulie and my biggest elk. I think I finally have a favorite in the 7RM. If you made me pick another, it’d be the 300wm. [/QUOTE]
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