Posted on 07/16/2018 4:51:15 AM PDT by w1n1
My hunting rifles don’t have an easy life.
So when I had a series of Texas hog and varmint hunts lined up in January and February, it was decided for me to test the Mossberg Patriot Revere.
Originally, I wanted it chambered in the popular 6.5 Creedmoor, but they were in such demand that they were unavailable, so I went with the old tried-and-true .30-06.
My first deer rifle, which I bought with my paper route earnings in sixth or seventh grade, was a .30-06. That's what my dad hunted with, so of course that's what I had to have.
They're still one of the most versatile calibers on the market to this day.
You can buy factory ammo from 55 grains all the way up to 220 grains. Some modern writers try to discount the validity of the ol' .30-06.
I don't diss on other writers, but I'd have to say they need a few more years under their belt before they earn the right to criticize it.
MAYBE IT'S JUST PERSONAL taste, but when I opened the box and saw the stock, I was impressed with its looks. To me, it's a beautiful rifle at a great price.
It doesn't hurt to be a little vain, does it? I also like that it has a detachable clip.
That way you can carry a couple of extra clips, which is really nice when you're hunting dangerous game.
That way you aren't digging for loose shells out of an overstuffed pocket when it's panic in the disco. Read the rest of this Mossberg Patriot Revere .30-06 story here.
If it require cleaning after only 15-20 shots, then I’ll look elsewhere.
You shoot the 6.5 I’ll stick with my Weatherby’s.
“A couple of extra clips.”
Stopped reading right there.
They are magazines, any gun fan worth his salt would know that.
Amen.
I, also, have a Mossberg 30-06 with a Nikkon scope. Fine gun.
Have a Mossberg 20 guage and just bought, 3 days ago, a 12 guage.
Use the 20 guage for the long tail rats that eat apples and pears off our trees and I’ll use the 12 guage for turtles in our pond. Or, anything else as the need arises.
Anybody into guns also knows the term "clip" and what it means even though it is "incorrect".
I seldom heard the term "magazine" referring to a container of cartridges until the last 20 years or so.
My father, who was a Marine in the Pacific theater in WWII, my grandfather who was in WWI, and our neighbor who was in the Army in WWII, as well as every other "old timer" hunter I knew all called "magazines", "clips".
Never, in the '60s and '70s did I hear the word "magazine", except for referring to "Outdoor Life", "Look", The Saturday Evening Post", etc.
There is often a "right word" for something, and there is the slang which everybody calls it.
“A couple of extra clips.”
Stopped reading right there.
They are magazines, any gun fan worth his salt would know that.
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You shouldn’t be so judgmental.
During the Vietnam war we all called magazines clips. We all knew they were magazines but what we all talked about were clips and knew what that was. Just maybe the guy is Vietnam Vet.
Turtles?
You’ll have to explain that one.
It’s not a “clip”, it’s a magazine.
When it comes to versatility, it is hard to beat an ‘06. There is a reason that it has been so popular over the last 100 years. My first rifle was a Mossberg Model 800 chambered in .308. Still have it. Nice rifle.
Yes, that's because the rifles they were issued used actual "clips".
The last person that I heard of calling a magazine a clip was the dude who said "don't have a clip in it, bro'" just before his buddy got shot by a crazy chick on drugs pointing a handgun around at people.
I wish that a gun writer would be more technically correct but it is not a fatal misstatement. A magazine is commonly called a clip and everyone knows what is being talked about. Anyone who corrects the speaker is being THAT guy and at a gun range runs the risk of being chased down range to become the target.
The Mighty Garand used “En Bloc Clips.”
IIRC
Yes, and the Springfield and Enfield rifles both used “stripper clips”.
OK, two years ago, I saw a large turtle pull a baby Mallard duck under water and it never surfaced.
Right then I went to war on turtles in the pond.
Turtles will eat anything they can catch including fish.
With the 12 guage, I can feed them a side order of 00 buck.
You shoot pond turtles?? With a shot gun? WTF for?
Anyone who uses clip for magazine at our gun range has their stripes ripped from their dress blues, then their sword broken in half, then marched out the gate while the band plays “Branded”.
Lunacy, sheer lunacy.
That boy’s elevator doesn’t go to the top floor!!
Shotgun is the best pond turtle gun by far!!
I liked your pictures and your ribbons. Now, I have to learn how to post my ribbons and wings on FR.
Flew many a mile in P3C(s)
Vietnam? Flew in P5M’s out of Cam Rahm Bay. Old sea planes if you go back that far.
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