Ruger compact laminated
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Pal Val
Buckeye
None of those calibers, but I have one in 7mm-08. Easy to carry and shoots well enough for a hunting rifle. Last year, it surprised me by making a 5/8" 5 round group at 100 yds. Never before or since. It averages about 2". Also, it's LOUD. The bark from that short barrel is no joke.
cmacrph
Bearcat
My safe contains two compact Ruger models that were called Frontiers: (forerunner to the Gunsite Scout Rifle) a .243 manufactured in '05 as a Davidson's Special Edition with a 16.5 inch barrel with a mounted quarter rib for scout scope mounting and a green mountain laminated and checkered stock. The other is a .308 with the same length brushed stainless barrel with quarter rib and a smooth grey laminated stock. Although it is labeled as a Hawkeye on the receiver, it is numbered as a Frontier (M77FRBBZ Mk2). This is one of my favorites for Texas whitetails and was put to work dropping a cow Elk in 2011 (about 170 yards out) at "The Timbers at Chama". It is set up with a 4-12X40 Pentax Gameseeker scope and has proven to be very accurate over the years.
Light weight with only 35.5 inches overall and 6 3/4 pounds without the scope, makes it easy to carry and maneuver in a deer blind.
I had to match them up with the Scout Rifle when it first came out. Paired it with the Bushnell Elite 3200 5-15X50 Firefly Scope to reach out a little farther.
I hope you enjoy your short barrel Rugers as much as I do mine!
cmacrph
Light weight with only 35.5 inches overall and 6 3/4 pounds without the scope, makes it easy to carry and maneuver in a deer blind.
I had to match them up with the Scout Rifle when it first came out. Paired it with the Bushnell Elite 3200 5-15X50 Firefly Scope to reach out a little farther.
I hope you enjoy your short barrel Rugers as much as I do mine!
cmacrph
Mine was NIB 8 or 10yrs years ago. Put a Springfield Armory fixed power 7.62 scope on it and shoot 168gr MGHPBT ammo in it with great success. Until recent shoulder and neck problems it was my go to rifle.
Got my wife one in .260rem, that is her go to rifle. She stacks the deer like cord wood with that thing. Got her first bear and hog with it this year also.
Got my wife one in .260rem, that is her go to rifle. She stacks the deer like cord wood with that thing. Got her first bear and hog with it this year also.
