Ultimate Stalking Setup

GixxerThou

Right lads if money was no object what's your perfect stalking setup, rifle, scope etc? I've been chopping and changing between steyrs, sakos, blasers and tikkas for four years now and I'm still searching for "the right one".

It wasn't me!

Got to be light enough to carry all day up all sorts of terrain, balance well on the sling so it's not slipping on the shoulder, weatherproof, with a scope that transfers lots and lots of light, and with a decent, simple reticle. It should be stainless and synthetic and shouldn't weigh more than about eight and a half pounds. It should have a barrel around 24" to give a bit of steadiness for quick shots. It should fire a cartridge powerful enough to kill with ease and surety out to 300 yards, with a trajectory which allows you to zero 1.5 to 1.75 inches high at 100 yards and which shouldn't be more than about eight inches low out to 300; however it shouldn't generate recoil you're not comfortable with or muzzle blast that rattles you overly, as it wouldn't have a moderator on it. The trigger should be very crisp, between three and three and a half pounds so it doesn't go off unexpectedly, even when your hands are cold. It should sit naturally and easily in the hands and should be bedded so that point of impact doesn't change between shooting off a rucksack, a bipod, sticks, freehand, off a fencepost or a tree trunk or branch. Currently using a Sako 75 in .25-06. In future, that'll be rebarrelled with a stainless barrel, around 24", in .30-06, and put in a McMillan synthetic stock and glass bedded, with a one-piece rail for switching between optics, with something like a Zeiss Conquest in the mid magnification range. If I can get a barrel vice and action wrench to enable changing calibres at home, I'll get a spare barrel in 9.3x62 as well for bigger game. That's just me though, but I don't think anyone would be too badly served by that setup.

steyrman2

H-S precision pro series in 300 winmag scope 4x16x50 s&b scope and a 12x56 fixed scope for long range work set of leica rangefinder binos harris 6x9 bipod good wide strap buck knifes and the ground to use it on

Tackleberrywho

GixxerThou wrote: »

Right lads if money was no object what's your perfect stalking setup, rifle, scope etc? I've been chopping and changing between steyrs, sakos, blasers and tikkas for four years now and I'm still searching for "the right one".

And my Current Rifle, a lot of tweaking, But I am happy with her, just need more versatile transport

ballistic

Remmington 700 titanium action or stainless tikka t3 action fully blue printed. Carbon fibre lazzeroni thumbhole stock in olive green fully bedded. Lothar Walther lite weight aluminium wrapped barrel 22 inch in 270 win. Rifle to weigh about 6.75 pounds. Talley lite weight mounts. Swarovski 2.5 - 15 x 44 with ballistics turret. Atec cmm 4 can. Barrel and action to be duracoated matt black.

Some day maybe!

crackcrack30

Which Non slip comfortable sling???