Back up hunting firearm?
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Back up hunting firearm?
do you guys and dolls take another firearm with you hunting as a back up just in case your main firearms fails? i own a Browning Gold Hunter 3.5" w/28"bbl for waterfowling and was thinking of purchasing a Remington 870 Super Mag as a back up. something cheap and reliable, and im sure we can agree that the 870 is more then reliable and cheap at the same time. what do you all think? worth it or no? i do keep the browning in tip top shape so the chance of failure is prob minumal.
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every year when i head up north deer hunting i always take my
Winchester Model 94 30-30
Remington 870 12 guage with slug barrel
sometimes my H&K .45 just for the heck of it
Winchester Model 94 30-30
Remington 870 12 guage with slug barrel
sometimes my H&K .45 just for the heck of it
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In the case of being in bear or wild boar country a 44 mag sidearm would be pretty comforting it seems. Ive read a few stories about where in suprise attacks by wounded or peed off critters, that the fleeing hunter lost his long gun, then was able to terminate the animal eating on him, with his trusty large caliber sidearm.
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Re: Back up hunting firearm?
Originally posted by BigDawg54
do you guys and dolls take another firearm with you hunting as a back up just in case your main firearms fails? i own a Browning Gold Hunter 3.5" w/28"bbl for waterfowling and was thinking of purchasing a Remington 870 Super Mag as a back up. something cheap and reliable, and im sure we can agree that the 870 is more then reliable and cheap at the same time. what do you all think? worth it or no? i do keep the browning in tip top shape so the chance of failure is prob minumal.
-bigdawg
do you guys and dolls take another firearm with you hunting as a back up just in case your main firearms fails? i own a Browning Gold Hunter 3.5" w/28"bbl for waterfowling and was thinking of purchasing a Remington 870 Super Mag as a back up. something cheap and reliable, and im sure we can agree that the 870 is more then reliable and cheap at the same time. what do you all think? worth it or no? i do keep the browning in tip top shape so the chance of failure is prob minumal.
-bigdawg
I don't bird hunt, but I do shoot clay sports, and I usually have a back up gun. You really don't have time to fix a gun if it breaks in the middle of the round. Toting it around isn't an issue on the clay field like it would be hunting. Good luck.
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I just got another 30-30, so that one will be backup if I need it. But there are so many guns in the family, I could borrow if I had to. So far, haven't had to. My guns are well-cared-for.
BuiltToughF250, I can't argue with that! My main gun is a Winchester Mod. 94 30-30, pre-1940. And I like it better than the somewhat newer Marlin I just got.
I just got another 30-30, so that one will be backup if I need it. But there are so many guns in the family, I could borrow if I had to. So far, haven't had to. My guns are well-cared-for.
BuiltToughF250, I can't argue with that! My main gun is a Winchester Mod. 94 30-30, pre-1940. And I like it better than the somewhat newer Marlin I just got.
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From: inver grove heights MN
other bower- my 30-30 was sighted in when the original owner bought it ( made in 1973 or 74 ) then put in a gun safe and never fired til i bought it from him in 2000. the gun is MINT ! i feel bad for taking it out in the field but... what the heck its a gun its built to be shot. i purchased my 1954 russian SKS from him also. he only had 40 rounds through that one too when i bought it. this guy just buys them and puts them in the safe until he needs the cash. its his loss, my gain
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oh yeah.. another winchester 94 story- a hunting friend of mine brought along a winchest 94 25-06 caliber originally bought by his friends great grandfather, brand new in 1897 for $12.00
it still shoots ACCURATLY and took down a nice does that year
its those little stories that are really neat
it still shoots ACCURATLY and took down a nice does that year
its those little stories that are really neat