What is a "truck gun"?

GrouseSetter

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I have been around the forum for some time now and have seen "truck gun" used hundreds of times. Around my area in Iowa, nobody seems to use this terminology. So what exactly is a "truck gun"? Is it a certain characteristic, or just a gun that you throw in the pick-up bed and don't care if it gets beat up? (Personally, I baby all my toys.)

Take it easy on me.

GrouseSetter
 
I would imagine a gun you basically didn't clean and could care less if it got banged around with scratches all over it????
 
I suggest that the definition of a truck gun is different with each shooter.

I will muddy the water a bit.

I own a "tractor gun".

My Tractor gun is also a truck gun, but it's NOT a horse gun! Since this rifle is a bolt action I don't like the bolt handle digging to either my or the horse's leg. Lever actions make better horse guns. Hows that for bias????

I believe in cleaning my Tractor gun. It must live a harder life than I care to admit because it is in pieces right now. The Ramline stock (plastic) is broken.

Now, let me tell you about my "Back-up Tractor Gun". It is a horse gun as well ..........

Three 44s
 
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Trucks guns are guns carried in your truck and are there for extended periods of time, they do get there bi annual and sometimes it turns out to be just and annual cleaning, But most are deadly accurate and are of good quality but not babied, they may have scrathes and a few nicks but will shoot. most trucks guns are owned by ranchers or people who are out and about nearly everyday.
 
So should one assume that this "truck gun" is being (or is able to be) fired from within a truck? Maybe that is why I don't hear the term in Iowa. It is illegal to have a gun uncased, or loaded within a vehicle.

GrouseSetter
 
I actually don't own a truck, tractor or horse gun ..I'm so infatuated with all of mine ..I clean them whether they need it or not and I get unreasonably upset at the slightest strach..so disregard my comments regarding "truck guns" I'm unqualified...bty I don't hunt from my truck
 
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Trucks guns are guns carried in your truck and are there for extended periods of time, they do get there bi annual and sometimes it turns out to be just and annual cleaning, But most are deadly accurate and are of good quality but not babied, they may have scrathes and a few nicks but will shoot. most trucks guns are owned by ranchers or people who are out and about nearly everyday.



Good description, my truck/tractor gun is also my calling rifle, 16" bushmaster v-match. I'm not afraid to shoot a stinkin' badger or yote from my truck or tractor when out out in the pastures or fields. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif
 
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Truck Gun? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
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NEF rifle with an average scope.....that'd make a great truck gun in my opinion /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Well my idea of the truck gun is as described above but also one that I won't break the bank replacing should it get stolen!
 
Usally a truck gun is/was a lever action 30/30 Winny or Marlin that ranchers and i imagine farmers too carried in the back window racks of their pick ups for quick shots on yotes and other vermin that they saw fit to put a hole thru. I have read that the SKS seems to be the prefered gun truck as of late as they are tougher than hell, cheap to shoot and have quicker follow ups. But like everything else it would be up to the individual as to what rifle he prefers to haul around, so i bet there are quite a few exceptions. I believe the window gun racks and gun trucks are a thing of the past or are soon to be in most of areas thanks to all the [beeep] anti gun crybabies and bullsh*t legislation nowadays. I never see them anymore and to me it's just another example of American rights & tradition being tossed into the crapper! I miss the good old days.
 
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Black wolf. To go back to the good old days. I truly believe there could have been no such thing as a Columbine shooting in my HS back in the 70's. I will relate a story the old timers on here will remember. Every year at my HS, the day following Christmas break, all the male teachers and students would gather in the parking lot after lunch. The purpose was to examine the guns we had gotten for Christmas and brought to school that day. It was not uncommon during deer season for a student to come to school late with blood on his pants and a deer in the back of his truck. Guns were carried in the back windows and parked in the school lot. No one dared to open the door and steal that gun. Most of the trucks were unlocked. If some idiot had started shooting the school up, there would have been at least half a dozen kids running to their trucks to get their own guns. The LE would have arrived in time to carry the body to the local morgue. Now fast forward to today. If I go to pick up my son at school, I have to make sure to take my carry weapon out and leave it at home. If it happened to be found, I would be arrested.
 
Welcome to the board .243.

I would have to agree with howler in his defin. This reference usually comes from out west or here in the south where they are used on field roads not general roads where it is not legal. They are easy to get in and out of a pick up if you need to make a shot.
 
I know what ya mean Cajun. Growing up in the 70's myself, guns in the back window were commonplace and no one was intimidated by them or were they to be feared of. Did some growing up down in Texas around Amarillo and would ride around with Ranchers and folk that all had the old Winny in the window. Nobody messed with the guns because thats just how it was. People had respect back then which is something that is lacking nowadays. Even when i lived in the midwest you would see trucks with the shotgun or the 22 in the window and it was the same thing nobody cared. But now, look out! Just isnt right! To blame something that isnt the problem while the real problem festers, and that is society, just sickens me!

See you are from Shreveport. I know your neck of the woods well. My fav cousin was killed in a hunting accident over in Waskom TX back in 79. His/my family still live there.

Nice to meet ya Cajun
 
My "Truck Gun" is the gun you have when you have no other...its not a hunting gun...although you could hunt with it...I sold my "Truck Gun" last fall at a gunshow...so I am building a Marlin 781 .22 to fit the bill, I also have a Smith and Wesson M&P .38 Special that is in the truck...that covers most needs...with the exception of big game...but thats hunting.

Scott
 
Yep SteveM i guess there could be a wide variance when it comes to this subject. My experience was the lever rifle was there when riding out in the boonies on the ranches or land parcels and if ya got thirsty head to town for a Dr Pepper, hit the store leaving the windows down, gun would still be there when ya came back and head out maybe stopping to shoot at a yote or two from the road. But, back then shooting from the side of the road was not frowned upon and nobody, not even the law cared. Thats how things were done and thats what the long gone west Texas oldtimers i knew then called "truck guns". It might differ from region to region, who knows? In the midwest we did not have that terminology, it was simply a "gun". Thanks for the welcome, Steve. Nice to be here /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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Truck gun??Hmmm.Wouldn't a .50 cal with armor peircing rounds be well suited for stopping charging/fleeing trucks? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
My truck gun that is used during deer season is my Savage .243 lever action Model 99C. The C stands for clip model so I can legally drive back and forth during the seaon and have the clip loaded but not in the gun. If I see something (has happened more than once) I can pop the clip in as I'm getting out of the vehicle. Then all I have to do is be off the road a bit to fire a round.

This is one of my favorite rifles so it gets tender loving care all year round.
 
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