Low budget truck guns let's see them

[rebel]

What kind of powder charge and powder are you using to get the 90gr xtp's subsonic? Im looking for a good load for my savage 300 blackout.

Rifle - AAC handi rifle
Can - AAC Cyclone
Load- .309 Hornady xtp
4.5 gr of Trail Boss
COAL - 1.738
Winchester Small rifle primer ( hammer extension will not pop magnum primers 100% )
Light LFC ( lee factory crimp die)
I generally take this in the box stand with me as an anything other than deer rifle. It works and doesn't spook a thing when suppressed.

Tested bullets from wet pack.

The veiw out of Stand 1

A rabbit at 65 yards, with a few young deer in the field when shot. They just looked up and went back to eating clover.

 

[ebb]

This is my truck gun , it's a Turk Mauser, with Montana Rifleman barrel that I got really cheap, the scope is straight 6x Leupold that I got for mounting a new scope in its place. Its chambered in 30-06. Has a Bold trigger and shots a ragged hole at 100yds. A member here Ggmac chambered it for me.

 

[Bully]

I live in NJ.
I'm not allowed to have a gun in my truck...

 

[timeout]

I live in NJ.
I'm not allowed to have a gun in my truck...

Move to WI. friend. We can carry long guns uncased and loaded inside the truck. Can't shoot from inside a vehicle or leaning on it, but that's not a big deal. We can conceal carry or open carry handguns. Life's too short to be in New Jersey!

 

[jds holler]

Here in Mayberry, there must be a lot of truck guns in use. When you get out of your rig at the post office, grocery store, gas station, or anywhere along the curb, there are numerous cases laying on the pavement. Mostly 22's and 17's.

And no, we don't hear gunfire in the streets at night like ya do in Sacramento and other places where it's illegal to carry a loaded gun in the truck. jd

 

[ebb]

A few years ago Florida passed a law, the range protection act. It allows anyone who owns over an acre to have a range on their own property. No bullets must not leave the property.

 

[R.Morehouse]

My truck gun is a short Mossburg 12ga. pump gun that is there pretty much in case i run across any Sand Fleas screwing around with my fellow Americans trying to better please their God..........Pray for London to have the courage to take their country back.

Perfect Paranoia Is Perfect Awareness .................Sorry about the hi-jack.

 

[jds holler]

Here's another shot of my low budget "ride-along" buddies. I like the folding stock benefit for cutting the length down when stowing them, and have actually gotten used to shooting both of these with good accuracy. Just ripped of a ten shot, 1 inch group with the 10-22 the other day. The Colt Woodsman wouldn't normally be considered a budget gun, but I actually picked that one up for a hunert bucks about twenty years ago. God was with me that day. jd

 

[AckleymanII]

Low budget, how does $125 sound?

Was at an auction, guy held up this Fabrique Nationale 7x57 Mauser made for Venazulian Police, bolt had been professionally bent, action drilled and tapped. I honed the trigger, worked up loads with 140 Nosler Partition, ballistic tip, accubond, 150g Nosler of the same. The carbine shoots 1" at 100, 2" at 200, and 2.75" at 300, kills like the Hammer of Thor!
Was lucky that the barrel was pristine and was chambered with a short throat, plenty of room in the mag box for the bullets to touch the lands and still use mag box.











Rifle has not been bedded or barrel freefloated...load development was done with the 3x9 Pentax, and there was some wind! I have killed deer, crows, and hogs with it, no coyotes yet.

 

[snert]

I live in NJ.
I'm not allowed to have a gun in my truck...

seriously??? THAT sucks. How the heck do you go to the range...pony express, shoeleather express, bike???

 

[Knotwild]

The Colt Woodsman wouldn't normally be considered a budget gun, but I actually picked that one up for a hunert bucks about twenty years ago.

Is that Woodsman able to handle the high velocity rounds? I have one like yours but it is so old that they recommend only using standard velocity stuff.

 

[snert]

Here in Mayberry, there must be a lot of truck guns in use. When you get out of your rig at the post office, grocery store, gas station, or anywhere along the curb, there are numerous cases laying on the pavement. Mostly 22's and 17's.

And no, we don't hear gunfire in the streets at night like ya do in Sacramento and other places where it's illegal to carry a loaded gun in the truck. jd

I used to patrol what is known as a "Revolutionary Block" in our county. After that war veterans got a mile x mile land grant. Now they have roads on the boundary, one after another for miles and miles. Coyote hunters with hounds will "surround the block" with trucks, radios, hounds etc and run
yotes inside the boundry. When one busts out of the woods, the guys might bail out of a truck that might be parked by a road and might empty a rifle at the running yote. Now mind you, having a loaded gun in a vehicle in NY is agin the law, so to speak. Being the curious type I once pulled my patrol car up behind a nice Ford F type full of guys watching a distant woodline. When I wandered up to see if they had killed' brother coyote or three, I noted that they all had a unique method of transporting ammo. Most of it, apparently 30 or more rounds, was stored open/loose on the floorboard mixed with mud and snow. But not one dang gun was loaded!! Made me wonder how the heck they ever shot anything..... So JD, I bet maybe your folk get out of the truck and maybe kick an empty out by accident....

And frankly, I did not care and still don't what those boys were doing. Those boys never scared me, though they pissed off the squirrrel cop all the time. And worried a lot of yotes.

 

[snert]

They all had "truck guns".

 

[jds holler]

Here in Oregon, we can have a gun in the rig, loaded, chambered -- ready to rock. On a 4 wheeler though it's a different story.

I've got a personal rule though, -- if ya ride in my rig, your rifle isn't chambered. CCW's are OK. I've seen too many episodes of guys bailing out of the rig with rifles pointed all directions when a buck crosses the road. My friend sent a round from his 30-06 about an inch away from his wifes legs, through the cab of the truck, and into a front tire in one of these episodes. At least she got off with just ear damage in stead of a couple of shattered knees. jd

 

[jds holler]

Is that Woodsman able to handle the high velocity rounds? I have one like yours but it is so old that they recommend only using standard velocity stuff.

Yeah, mine's got the grip frame that designates being OK for modern high vel rounds. You want to see horizontal lines where the web of your thumb rides the grip. Good Lord what sweet pistols these are!!

 

[Bully]

seriously??? THAT sucks. How the heck do you go to the range...pony express, shoeleather express, bike???

I was being mildly dramatic.
Handguns in the state of NJ are essentially illegal unless they are being used/transported within the narrow confines of the state mandated exemptions: Home, transporting to/from range/gunsmith/shop. If one owns a business a handgun may be carried there by the owner.
Long guns are not as strict however I can promise you that a loaded gun, whether cased or not, would be more than mildly frowned upon.

Back to the thread, I really want a single shot, break action rifle now. I should never have looked at this thread!

 

[rebel]

Since Freedom Group essientally killed H&R, there are fewer choices. CVA makes a decent one, Rossi's are so-so and Henry has just come out with one.

 

[TC260]

I've got a personal rule though, -- if ya ride in my rig, your rifle isn't chambered. CCW's are OK. I've seen too many episodes of guys bailing out of the rig with rifles pointed all directions when a buck crosses the road. My friend sent a round from his 30-06 about an inch away from his wifes legs, through the cab of the truck, and into a front tire in one of these episodes. At least she got off with just ear damage in stead of a couple of shattered knees. jd

Just off the top of my head I know of two instances where guys killed themselves with loaded long guns in vehicles. One was a friend of a guy I hunt with and the other a game warden. IIRC both were removing them from behind the seat and shot themselves in the gut.

 

[deadwooddick]

Just off the top of my head I know of two instances where guys killed themselves with loaded long guns in vehicles. One was a friend of a guy I hunt with and the other a game warden. IIRC both were removing them from behind the seat and shot themselves in the gut.

Familiarity breeds contempt ! (i.e., cover nothing w/ the muzzle that you don't want to destroy… goes the warning)

 

[snert]

Just off the top of my head I know of two instances where guys killed themselves with loaded long guns in vehicles. One was a friend of a guy I hunt with and the other a game warden. IIRC both were removing them from behind the seat and shot themselves in the gut.

And the cop who upon exiting patrol car tried to wrestle his 870 out barrel first...doesn't hear so good no more. Hence the mandate, "chamber empty, slide forward, safety on, four in the mag, one on the stock sock".