Greetings From a Scout Shooter!
Greetings all from a scout rifle shooter! I will be 62 this year and started hunting with a beater 340 when I was six. My passion is leverguns but I also dabble in all types. I've owned a 99 takedown and 111 chambered in 300 Savage plus a 170 chambered in 35 Rem but currently shoot both the 308 Win & 7.62x39 10FCMs and own a 340A chambered in 30-30 Win (not the one I started with).
I live on a ranch where the Post Oak Savannah mixes with the South Texas Plains and my overall interest in firearms is centered on hunting, most of which is done on my place. I'm a bullet caster & handloader and all my firearms do see plenty of exercise on my 300 yard range.
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My 10FCMs are probably the most accurate rifles I've shot. Savage hasn't really tickled my interest with the new Scout as, like I noted, my interest is in hunting and I see the 10FCM much slicker for that purpose. I also have so much hunting history with the two rifles I would be had pressed to part with them. I shoot a 165-grain cast bullet in the 7.62x39 and a 180-grain cast bullet in the 308 Win, both bullets of my design.
Feral hogs feel the terminal effect of these two rifles, I spend a lot of time in that endeavour!
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Whitetail hunting is a big deal for me but I also love desert mule deer hunting. Here is a 7½ year old mule deer that bit the dust after a well placed standing shot with the 10FCM 308 Win this past season. The shot came very quick as the buck was running away from me. At 171 yards it finally heard me baying at it and twisted around to look, the bullet cut across the top of it's heart and it went down. I had not had time to take a proper rest as I was afraid that if I took my eyes off of it, I would loose it in the desertscape. As I was watching it run through the Weaver Scout, I had slipped my supporting arm through the stock Savage scout sling and tightened up against it. When the deer twisted back around and the heart area was exposed clear of his hip, the shot was out. It actually surprised me as not only had I been able to get braced in the sling but that beautiful AccurTrigger had been brought right up to the "bang" point and all it took was the thought; "NOW!" All that range time does pay off!
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I always thought the 340 and 30-30 Win was a great combo for South Texas hunting and had wanted to "Scout" an appropriate sample of that firearm. I recently found a candidate and took care of business.
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It was placed in immediate service as a ranch rifle!
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