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A Mossberg pistol-grip home defense 12 gauge that I upgraded with an extending ProMag rear stock and and a matching vertical fore-stock, along with a TacFire red dot scope and light on a picatinny rail. Alternatingly loaded with 00 buck and slugs, along with my dogs she's my bedroom partner. To nightstalkers, I simply say "Good luck."
I've been a big .41 mag fan for years, since tryin' to handgun hunt with my first Ruger Blackhawk. Raised with ranching and guns, Elmer Keith was my hero. Own nearly every handgun known to man that's made in Elmer's .41 mag caliber, including the movie-modeled Desert Eagle - the only semi-auto manufacturer to use the caliber. Bought it off a guy on GunBroker years ago for a song, with upgraded wood stocks and a scope. My carry guns, however, are a Sig P220 and a Kimber Ultra Crimson Carry both in .45 acp. Sigh, such is the modern world.
Various go-to lever and bolt action hunting rifles for various situations and species, from varmints to antelope, blacktail, muleys, bear or elk. My all-'round favorite is the .30-06 Rem 700 that my dad picked up for me at a local gun show for a whoppin' $200 bucks. I dremeled out the center of the rear stock (picture a modern synthetic, carryable semi-auto stock), re-bedded the barrel, and put on a Decelerator pad, a Vari-X III scope and a Harris bipod. Adding my own custom handloads (for all my pistol and rifle calibers), it's one helluva tack driver on game. Gotta say, though, that my favorite hunting over time has been during archery season with my PSE at close range.
Of all my shooters, my most cherished is an old ranch rifle which doesn't shoot at all... An 1881 Marlin lever-action in the .40-60 Marlin caliber, manufactured in 1885. It was my great, great grandad's gun on the old family ranch and hangs above my living room window between two old mule shoes. Even have a couple o' brass cases for it that I dug up behind a shed when I was a kid while lookin' for worms to go fish at the creek. Damn good stuff. :thumb:
