After much deliberation and 4673 questions and opinions I got me one of these here things. Remington 700 in 30-06, left handed. I was looking for the "if you could only have one" scenario and it kept coming back to this. So, so did I.

A beautiful hunting piece, both in form and function. My last one was a 700 BDL in .270. This will definitely be one you can hand down to sons. Congratulations, she's a beauty . . . . Tuck

I haven't put a scope on her yet but I look down her barrel and see two smoked country hams, a rash of smoked bacon, and enough ribs for a summers worth of barbecue.

ooooooooooooohhh yyyeeeaaaaaaahhhhhh...

A great rifle.....classic and reliable.

very nice. i went with a 7mm just in case I needed to blow through a concrete wall to hit a deer.

Great piece. I splurged and got the Browning A-bolt II 30-06 and finished her off with a Leupold VX-III 3.5-10 x 40mm scope. Awesome ballistics. 1.5 inches at 200 yards with a Federal 185 grain.

Good luck breaking her in.

Eric

Now the expensive part, optics.

sgates says:

"very nice. i went with a 7mm just in case I needed to blow through a concrete wall to hit a deer."

The 7 was my very close second choice.

miketv Says:

"Now the expensive part, optics."

Well, the good news is that the same friend that gave me my Trooper is giving me a scope. I don't know which one it is yet but he usually has nice stuff. The price is right though.

Sa~weet!

man, did i really miss this post? anyways cdl's are just beautiful -06 is perfect nearly every hunting firle i own is .30 caliber exception being an older bdl in .338 my dad uses it for whitetail, he doesnt like tracking, but with the way he handloads a .218 bee through the ass could be a drop dead kill shot