Big Game Rifles and Stories

Question

What is everyones favorite Big Game Rilfe?. What do you usually hunt with it? If you have any big game hunting storys please share.

I have a 300. wsm browning a-bolt stainless hunter, and i usually hunt moose

Answer 1

For many years it was my .25-06 built on a 98 action with a Hart Barrel and a Timney trigger {for coyote and deer}, but right now it's my Savage 116 FHSAK .300 Win. Mag..  Of course I didn't use the .25 for Elk but I use the .300 for Elk every chance I can.  

Answer 2

my favorite rifle is my 30-06,i hunt whitetail deer with it and have taken alot of deer with it.story wise i was hunting with a 338 and killed a deer with it,when i got up to it  the whole front shoulder was gone,that was one mean gun

Answer 3

I use a 7MM REM MAG I hunt Mule Deer, Elk, and Lions

Answer 4

Tikka T3 .308 that i hunt deer with. No cool stories other than that i've harvested plenty of deer with it. Though i guess they'd be considered medium game.

Not a big game story but i once turned a prairie dog completely inside out with a .223....thought that was pretty cool when it happened. It was like a little bloody hand muffler.

....the antis are gonna love that ^^^ :)  

Answer 5

Ever since I was a kid I wanted an 'elephant' gun. Two years ago I spotted a Ruger #1-H at a local gun shop I frequent.  I finally got around to asking what caliber it was.  The vendor said it was a .458 Magnum.  I thought he was kidding and so I asked him to let me see it.  Something about the heft and feel of it intrigued me and so I asked what he wanted for it.  It had a 4x Burris Short Magnum scope that he assured me could take the pounding of the .4-5-8's recoil.  I learned it was on sale for $900 even and so I purchased it.  I told him I needed a box of shells and he came back with a box of soft-points.  I opened the box and extracted a shell.  For some reason they didn't look right.  I asked him, "Are these the right shells?"  Then we noticed that they were .458 Lott rather than .458 Winchester Magnum (what my new rifle was chambered for). He didn't have any .458 Winchester Mag shell in the entire store.  He called their other location.  No one had .4-5-8 Win. Mag. shells in town!  Later I heard (from the same man who'd sold me the rifle) that the .458 Win. shells were on 'back-order' because they were being diverted to the former Soviet States.  Seems they found out over there that the .4-5-8 would take out an automobile engine and so suddenly it became very popular there!

Months later I was in Austin, TX. and my wife's cousin suggested we go to Cabella's.  At the big game display I noticed a box of .458 Winchester Magnum shells, the Federal Premium 400 grain soft-points.  I asked the man if the shells were for sale.  He asked the manger and the answer was yes, but they were $100 for a box of twenty and that was the only box they had in the store at the time. Naturally I grabbed them up considering the price small to pay considering the time I'd taken to even find a box!

Then back in town I went to a different gun store closer to home and casually mentioned to the manager that I'd finally found some .4-5-8 shells in Austin.  He asked, "Win Mag or Lott?"  Win Mag... "We have those in inventory..."  What???  Sure enough, he had the Federal Premium for $65 for a box of twenty!  They'd never sold and so he never updated the price.  I got them for the old price!

Finally got to shoot my .4-5-8.  I paced about thirty yards and set out six empty Bud Light beer cans with about an inch of water in them to keep the breeze from knocking them over.  KABOOM!  After I recovered from the recoil (this was the first time I'd fired a .4-5-8!) I was astonished to see that the can was still there!  OMG!  I couldn't believe I'd missed!  Actually I hadn't missed, now there were only three cans down-range rather than four!  The can had disintegrated, disappeared, vanished!  Thirty paces down range I started to find bits and curley shavings of aluminum!  The can had literally vaporized!  Flash forward to last (2007) hunting season.

For the last three years we'd been sighting a trophy class wild boar on my property.  I was hoping to use my .4-5-8 on that huge porker.  I had not retired yet and so I was only able to hunt one day out of the entire season!  The only game I saw that day was a small boar, only about a hundred pounder and way too small to use the .4-5-8 on!  As luck would have it, he was close enough for a rifle shot but too far for a clean shot with my Colt Python.  I observed this piggy for about ten minutes through my rifle scope lamanting not having a smaller-bore rifle with me.  I'd loaned my .25-06 Remington to a buddy who had come out with me that day and all he saw was a small doe which he (naturally) didn't care to shoot!  We went back to Houston without taking any game that weekend but much happier for the experience,  camaraderie and the opportunity to be away from the big city for the weekend!

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Answer 6

This isn't my story but it happened here in Australia some years ago and I read about it at the time. Two lions escaped from a circus so the cops called in the army and a well known local hunter. A group of the soldiers who were armed with Belgian FN rifles chambered for  7.62 X51 (308) found one of the lions and fired a volley and killed the lion. The hunter was carrying a Browning auto 12g shotgun loaded with Brenneke solid slugs he found the other lion nearby. The lion charged him he fired three shots into its chest and it fell dead at his feet. One of the slugs had cut a groove in the lions chin before hitting the chest.

As for me all I have is a cz.22 bolt action rifle so big game is out of my league.