Low budget truck guns let's see them

[misfire]

I've seen an awful lot of beautiful high-dollar rifles on this site was wondering what y'all carried for truck guns. Show off your working-class pride and tell us a story about them

 

[nakneker]

Here is my first "truck gun". An older Bdl flat safety that wears a 16" douglas no taper with a 1 in 12. I couldn't afford much at the time and this gun went everywhere with me. Theres some pig farms north of town and back in the mid 90s we were coyote control out there. Our best 60 day kill total was 167, thats was two of us. If you look at the butt stock you can see some coyote teeth marks where me and big Yote tangled. I thought he was dead but on the way back to the truck he became a zombie and I ended up using the rifle as a club after I got him to let go of the stock. He hangs on the wall just cause of the story. When we skinned him he had three toes on one foot, 9 other coyote teeth enbedded in his back, a few broken bones that had healed, both ears were ripped, one eye was cloudy, just a big bad yote. I don't use the rifle much today but it sentimental value is off the charts. I've almost butchered a couple of time but then I come to my senses. My friends nicknamed the rifle "Stubby".

 

[nakneker]

View attachment 1010557 View attachment 1010558 View attachment 1010559 View attachment 1010560 View attachment 1010561 Here is my first "truck gun". An older Bdl flat safety that wears a 16" douglas no taper with a 1 in 12. I couldn't afford much at the time and this gun went everywhere with me. Theres some pig farms north of town and back in the mid 90s we were coyote control out there. Our best 60 day kill total was 167, thats was two of us. If you look at the butt stock you can see some coyote teeth marks where me and big Yote tangled. I thought he was dead but on the way back to the truck he became a zombie and I ended up using the rifle as a club after I got him to let go of the stock. He hangs on the wall just cause of the story. When we skinned him he had three toes on one foot, 9 other coyote teeth enbedded in his back, a few broken bones that had healed, both ears were ripped, one eye was cloudy, just a big bad yote. I don't use the rifle much today but it sentimental value is off the charts. I've almost butchered a couple of time but then I come to my senses. My friends nicknamed the rifle "Stubby".

He is on the far left. All of these yotes ended up on the wall because of a story when they met their maker. 99% of them go to the auction.

 

[RaySendero]

Truck Rifle = Sporterized No.4 MK1* - Was FREE!!!

Had to fix alot of Bubba on this one from hacksawed stock and barrel to
a miss-drilled front sight.
Original military trigger is very good and I've shot some 1" 100 yds groups!!!
With the lob sight; Ghost ring is dead on at 25 yards :

 

[long40shot]

Here is my 223. It's a 20" sps barreled action. I picked up that old vls stock and bedded it. 4.5 x 14 Bushnell on top. It's a fun little rifle.

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[jds holler]

Chyaneze SKS. Functions with or without scope, and folding stock has tools on board to make the change. Shoots 2 MOA with cheap steel cased ammo, and I've ALMOST achieved 1 MOA with reloads. I've spent a lot of time fixing this rig up, but no real money. jd

 

[SpikeDiesel]

Ruger American ranch .223/5.56. Light, compact and accurate. Grab and go! Ps if anyone is wondering why the safety is off it's because the firing pin is not cocked and is unloaded of course

 

[nakneker]

Chyaneze SKS. Functions with or without scope, and folding stock has tools on board to make the change. Shoots 2 MOA with cheap steel cased ammo, and I've ALMOST achieved 1 MOA with reloads. I've spent a lot of time fixing this rig up, but no real money. jd

Nice and that truck is one of my favorites!

 

[B Mize]

One of the premium PSA rifle kits on a Delton lower with upgraded trigger and a VXIII 1.5x5.
According the psa this particular kit is and upper built by FN marked psa with magpul furniture.
It has been 100% reliable over 5-6 range trips and moa accurate.

 

[snert]

Chyaneze SKS. Functions with or without scope, and folding stock has tools on board to make the change. Shoots 2 MOA with cheap steel cased ammo, and I've ALMOST achieved 1 MOA with reloads. I've spent a lot of time fixing this rig up, but no real money. jd

Now that is a camper mister!

 

[snert]

This one fell off a horse...and will generally stop one with one shot, if I do my part It has occupied Model T's, a Packard, a 56 Dodge, a 81 Datsun and maybe a mini-van or three.

 

[EWaugh]

Chyaneze SKS. Functions with or without scope, and folding stock has tools on board to make the change. Shoots 2 MOA with cheap steel cased ammo, and I've ALMOST achieved 1 MOA with reloads. I've spent a lot of time fixing this rig up, but no real money. jd

Nice truck

 

[timeout]

Ruger Ranch .223, 16.5" barrel 1 in 8 twist, brake, magazine modified to accept 75 gr. Amaxes loaded to .010" off the lands, Leupold VXR 3-9X50 with illuminated 3 dot reticle and flip up covers. Shoots pretty well for a short barreled factory gun. Can watch hits like shooting a 22 rimfire. I like it a lot.

 

[misfire]

Awesome Gentleman Just What I wanted to see some beautiful truck guns and a beautiful truck and camper too by the way.
Stories and memories that go along with these rifles are worth a hundred times more than they will ever be.

 

[long40shot]

This one fell off a horse...and will generally stop one with one shot, if I do my part It has occupied Model T's, a Packard, a 56 Dodge, a 81 Datsun and maybe a mini-van or three.

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[snert]

Tell us more!

I should have said it is a truck gun, able to stop Jeeps, trucks, and horses at a gallop.

It is an 1884 Springfield 45-70. Fun old rifle. Grandfather got it from his. Of course it is chopped up. Interestingly, it almost resulted in fratricide in the late 50's.

My dad (Felix) had a brother (Oscar). Not real names but...

One day Felix came home after work to the farm where under-employed Oscar had helped himself to Felix' tiger maple blank purchased for his new Model 88 Winchester. It had been "adapted" to the pictured trapdoor, which had in the process become a "cavalry model", using a hacksaw and sawhorse. Had there been ammo....

I understand it took a few deer in its day. I only shot one, and I hit it quartering toward me in the shoulder. Bullet rode the meat along the spine doing the chiropractor thing...displacing each vertebra as it passed by. Deer was like a slinky, with totally useless backstraps. I was lucky, deer, not so much.

Ironically, I have a letter penned by my dad just before his death in 2009 (he was often up late and philosophical) telling me to never change it.

i guess he had forgiven Oscar.

I often used this rifle as a demonstrator of an "assault rifle" prior to our department finally authorizing Colt AR for patrol. My Sheriff was a total boob and I was anything but respectful of him because he regularly endangered his men, so jabs like that were the norm. I carried my cartridge in my pocket like Barney Fife. Got lots of chuckles. Then after "shotgun qualification" I would bang steel offhand to 150 yards with the old girl. Made my point about cover verses concealment. And made my point about ballistic advantage of a rifleman against a cop car. I even qualified with an old M1 carbine once, then shot the plate rack at 100 yards offhand to make our guys start thinking a bit about threats at a distance. It was fun to punch holes thru old cars we used for scenerio training, just to make a point. The little m1 would punch right thru both sides of a car unless you hit the framing inside. The 45-70 was loaded with 300 grain jacketed bullets, mildly, so it was not so good against car steel. In its 500 grain lead form, that is a different story.

Finally he saw the light and we got carbines. So this old truck gun is partially responsible for helping men of arms get what they needed 120 years after it was made.

 

[snert]

Ok, kinda wondering if EVERYONE else either does not have a truck gun, or if everyone is just not willing to admit they have one....

Come on guys, it is easy...it starts like this:

Hello, I am Snert and I own a truck gun....ok, several truck guns, and I need help. Here is a picture of my truck gun so you know I am really telling the truth....(fill in the blank)

 

[jkats]

This is the rifle I keep in my truck or tractor most of the year. Its a pretty much a bone stock dpms with a 16inch barrel in 223 with the exception of a collapsible stock to make it a little handier to get out of the window. This fox made the mistake of sleeping in the same spot two days in a row, the first day my rifle was still in my truck but the next I took it with me in the tractor and caught him napping in the fence line again and shot him at 350 yards.

 

[Knotwild]

Home built with PSA parts. 5.56, 1/9 twist SS barrel painted with premium grill and muffler paint, Silencerco Hybrid suppressor, Leupold 2.5 x 8 with Boone & Crockett reticule, Rock River National Match trigger. I also have and like a Remington 660 in .222 that I plan to thread for the suppressor soon.

 

[snert]

Muffler paint! Love it!

i once had a 12 ga single of unknown pedigree, cut at 18 1/2 inches, painted with green Krylon, used as a cat gun. And yes, I have repented.