Win model 70 in 30/06 with a timmey trigger. 180 gr Hornaday SST. Enough gun for anything. We don't have the little whitetails down here if we did I'd shoot them with something smaller.

custom 7mag with berger vld. they don't run off.

I use a Remington 700 dirty -06 as my walk around gun . As far as hunting from a stand I grab my Remington 700 .300 win mag with a vx III 3.5x10x50 . Love the gun but with the wood stock and long barrel it's to heavy to slip around with. I've stretched her out to 372 yards on a big nanny before. Don't have any reloading stuff but hornady seems to be the best factory load to me.

Rem 700 .308 with corelokt 180gr soft points

I try to never shoot deer with the same rifle twice... serious. Started that about 7 years ago. I shoot 2-5 a year with a rifle and at least one with the bow (always does unless you can mount it). Buying guns is more of a fun addiction than anything else. I've killed deer with a lot of calibers. I'm trying to recall what calibers I've used... 30/30, .257 Roberts, .270 Win, .280 Rem, 25-06, 30-06, .243 Win, 45-70, .338RUM, .338 Win mag, .308, .303, .375 ruger, .325 WSM, 7mm Rem, .460 S&W, .45 ACP, .357 Mag, .454 Casull, 12 gauge slug, .45 muzzleloading pistol, .50 muzzleloading rifle. That's all I can think of...

Rifle season 2014 will be a Montana Rifle Co. in 300 Win Mag. As soon as it arrives, I'll top it with a 4-12 50mm scope.

Sometimes long range shooting is what gets me excited, especially during the January antlerless seasons (when missing isn't going to ruin my day), and sometimes I only take open sight lever guns to mix it up. Deer are easy to kill with just about anything if you have enough downrange energy to make the bullet do its job. Shooting at a responsible distance, hitting the right spot, and using good expanding bullets is all it takes. As far as rifles, I like them all. I have a special love for single shot rifles and lever guns. I'm not picky about brands, other than avoiding the junkier/ very low end stuff.

You get what you pay for in a rifle but if you're the type of hunter who shoots 2 rounds the day before the season to make sure your gun is dead on and then one to kill your deer that season and then put it away until the day before the season the next year (like my dad)... anything will work as long as it hits what you're shooting at. A box of ammo lasts him for years.

Shot placement is most important in my opinion. The rifle and the ammo are almost always better than the shooter anyway.

I use an old Remington 7600 pump in 30-06. I shoot a Hornady custom 165gr

Blueprinted Remington 700 short action with a Lilja #5 contour barrel chambered in the good old 308 win. Factory 150 Fusion ammo shoots .8 inch groups, Handloaded 150 interbonds over 42.6grs of Varget powder produces .4 inch groups. Have killed lots of deer and 100+ hogs with this rifle. I have 5 other rifles from 243 to 7mag and I very seldom use them. The 308 is my confidence gun.

meat hunting .243 100 grain super X
horn hunting .300 Ultra Mag. 180 grain nosler accubond

300 Weatherby Magnum

I lived and hunted a place where we had lots of land and most of the guys lived off the land. A typical family killed about 8-10 deer per year. Rifles were about 40% 3006 40% 270 and 20% other with 6mm being 3rd. I shot a 270 using 130gr Ballistic Tips. My Rifle an original Winchester Model 70 in 270 with a Steel Weaver 3X9 scope. My Rifle was sighted at around 5" high at 100 yds. This put Deer at 500 yds in easy range. Deer further than that are hard to hit due to wind and finding a steady rest. The most run offs were from 22 250 rds with a 3006 using 180 gr bullets a very close second. Lighter Bullets for Deer are much better because Deer are small and easy to kill. Heavy Bullets blow through without expending their energy on the target resulting in more running. I still have my Rifle today 35 years after moving from this place and there is no question it is still deadly on Deer.

7mm browning or my favorite, .300 Weatherby Mag. I know it's overkill for FL deer, but I've never had to track'm far...

BAR 30-06. 150grain and
44 magnum Ruger carbine for up close and personal hunting.

Rem 700 30-06 180 gr Barnes x bullets or 742 auto 30-06


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Browning x bolt in 300 win mag with 180g nosler partition bullets, with 72 gr accurate arms powder. Mainly my elk gun, but will drop anything. Most time around here I take marlin 30-30 with 160gr hornady rounds. Shoots very good up to 200yrds. Both guns use vortex scopes, I think for the price they are hard to beat. Most the time I just carry my elite bow though.

ruger M77 hawkeye 270, winchester supreme 130g.
(use that for right aways)

H&R .444 265g of nastiness
(use this when im huntin in the woods)

.444 is hands down my favorite gun to hunt with.

Remington 700LSS (mountain) with the light contour 22" bbl in 7mm08 if I'm walking a lot or in a treestand that has a lot of branches around it.

Browning stainless X-Bolt in .30-06 if I'm not moving around as much.

Marlin 1895 with 400gr Remington flat points moving at 900fps if I'm in the thick stuff. (Not much meat damage at all; they look like they got poked through with a .50cal dowel rod and the blood trail is incredible if they do happen to move at all.) Same gun for pigs but with Federal 300gr Speer HotCor or 300gr Fusions.