Ain’t no school like the old school

[El Jason]

A package showed up today. Retro this year. I haven’t shot the .243 since I took my daughter elk hunting in WY years ago. I think I’ll give it a workout this year.

Pre 64 M70
Leupold M8 6x36

 

[Hem]

A package showed up today. Retro this year. I haven’t shot the .243 since I took my daughter elk hunting in WY years ago. I think I’ll give it a workout this year.

Pre 64 M70
Leupold M8 6x36

View attachment 414927

Wish I hadn't sold my m77 .243
Fun little gun.

 

[Jbotto]

Wish I hadn't sold my m77 .243
Fun little gun.

My wife drew a good pronghorn tag here at home. I told her she had the pick of my rifles or I could hurry and get her Ruger M77 tanger in 6mm ready for her. Her dad got that rifle for her so she could hunt with him for a few years. First season using it since he passed. She made the right decision and now I have a modern scope to mount and a load to work up. She’s got a cooler rifle than I do at this point.

 

[Nick87]

A package showed up today. Retro this year. I haven’t shot the .243 since I took my daughter elk hunting in WY years ago. I think I’ll give it a workout this year.

Pre 64 M70
Leupold M8 6x36

View attachment 414927

Sharp.

 

[Brittany Chukarman]

That's a beauty.

 

[Hem]

My wife drew a good pronghorn tag here at home. I told her she had the pick of my rifles or I could hurry and get her Ruger M77 tanger in 6mm ready for her. Her dad got that rifle for her so she could hunt with him for a few years. First season using it since he passed. She made the right decision and now I have a modern scope to mount and a load to work up. She’s got a cooler rifle than I do at this point.

I shot quite a few deer and antelope with mine. Botched a shot on an antelope with a stiff cross wind and decided I needed something larger so picked up my Sendero in 25.06.
The action on that .243 was silky smooth. Dumb move to trade it off, along with an SKS, for a top notch fly rod...which I later sold.

 

[Nick87]

I shot quite a few deer and antelope with mine. Botched a shot on an antelope with a stiff cross wind and decided I needed something larger so picked up my Sendero in 25.06.
The action on that .243 was silky smooth. Dumb move to trade it off, along with an SKS, for a top notch fly rod...which I later sold.

Does it get old carrying the sendero for that type of hunt? I have a similar 22-250 heavy barreled remington. It never balances quite right now matter how you carry it it seems.

 

[Southern Elk]

I shot my first deer with one of those.

 

[SFC B]

Very nice wood.....VERY nice

 

[Jbotto]

I shot quite a few deer and antelope with mine. Botched a shot on an antelope with a stiff cross wind and decided I needed something larger so picked up my Sendero in 25.06.
The action on that .243 was silky smooth. Dumb move to trade it off, along with an SKS, for a top notch fly rod...which I later sold.

Dumb. We all have those same regrets.

 

[Jbotto]

A package showed up today. Retro this year. I haven’t shot the .243 since I took my daughter elk hunting in WY years ago. I think I’ll give it a workout this year.

Pre 64 M70
Leupold M8 6x36

What bullet are you going with?

Threads like this make me want to encourage my love of old rifles and buy something old-school cool this next year when I’m rifle shopping. I keep going back and forth on whether I go with something very utilitarian with modern materials or old and build the scratches in the stock as I go! Thanks for posting!

 

[MTLabrador]

This is the way… Excellent scope choice.

 

[Point Creep]

Wish I hadn't sold my m77 .243
Fun little gun.

That makes 2 of us. My first ever centerfire & one of 2 I really wish I hadn’t sold. Mine had a Leupold fixed 4x. Still bummed

 

[Sytes]

Classy beaut ready for the wilderness!

Beats synthetic hands down! Viewing this brings back the good days of my '65 Scout with the rack holding my 20g and .06...

 

[redhaze]

Way to go. This never gets old to see fine rifles of yester years.

 

[Ben Lamb]

How crisp is the lettering?

 

[BAKPAKR]

How crisp is the lettering?

TT, is that you?

 

[El Jason]

What bullet are you going with?

Threads like this make me want to encourage my love of old rifles and buy something old-school cool this next year when I’m rifle shopping. I keep going back and forth on whether I go with something very utilitarian with modern materials or old and build the scratches in the stock as I go! Thanks for posting!

I’m going to try Nosler 95 grain ballistic tips.

 

[El Jason]

How crisp is the lettering?

As crisp as a 34 degree can of PBR.

 

[Hem]

Does it get old carrying the sendero for that type of hunt? I have a similar 22-250 heavy barreled remington. It never balances quite right now matter how you carry it it seems.

Not really. I used to hunt antelope every year, now its every third year. So IF I draw a tag, I'm pretty excited to take the Sendero out.