What is your favorite deer gun?

[FarByondDrivn]

I'll through another one in there for the shotgunners. I got an 835 Mossberg for free about five years ago. I dropped sixty bucks on a cantilever slug barrel and about the same on a scope. The gun is ugly as sin and weighs about fifty pounds but it shoots great groups out to one hundred and fifty yards.

[Gissert]

I shot a Remington 742 for years in 30-06. Shot a lot of deer with it, it was a good serviceable deer rifle. I just began to hate the crappy trigger.

I picked up a Savage 111 in .338 win mag for elk hunting. That gun ended up being incredibly accurate, and I got very comfortable with it. So much so that I just started hunting deer with it. Overkill? Yep. But it puts the bullet where I want it, and does not damage any more than the 30/06 did.

One of these years I am going to pick up something in 6.5 x 55 for deer, probably a Ruger M77.

[Dahitman44]

For me it has been a synthetic Winchester 30-06. Great gun so far and a little cheper that the Browning I first wanted so badly. Nikon 3-9 scope.

[CSTPETER]

For my first 15 years of hunting my favorite gun was the biggest, fastest, heaviest kickin, sonofab*tch I could find. As I get somewhat older and slightly wiser(my wife would argue that point)I have lost my bigger is better mentality. My new favorite is a Remington model 700 BDL chambered for 7mm-08. If you have never fired this round, you owe it to your shoulder to give it a try, once you realize you can get near .270 like performance with only about half the recoil, that " I need a new gun" look will be plastered all over your ugly mug.

[Dee.M.Zee]

I use two different rifles for deer. For open areas I use my Remington 7MM Mag,for the close quarters hunting I use a Marlin 45-70 Gov't.I usually shoot 300gr jacketed hollow points in the 45-70 and 150gr ballistic tip bullets such as the Scirracco in the 7MM.I have used the 7MM in heavy cover with no problems whatsoever but I will go to the heavier 175gr core lokt bullet in those instances.

[tripper]

My favorite all around (lower 48) cal is 30-06 but because my son and grand kids have claimed all my rifles i bought myself a encore 260 rem. to back up the 14 inch 7x30 waters I have been carring for the last several years.

[lunker651]

I hunt in shotgun only areas but my favorite deer gun has to be my browning A5 12ga. Haven't miss a deer yet with this gun and it shoots great out to 100 yards with regular foster slugs. I don't know that many people that has a smooth bore gun that shoots 2-3 inch groups out to 100yards but I know I got one.