What is a "truck gun"?

My 'truck gun'
Used and beaten Savage 110C in 22-250 with some scrounged up mounts/rings and an old Leupold VXII 4x12 scope. From outward appearances it looks like something you would row a boat with....bought it from a desperate soul for next to nothing. It rides in the truck when I expect targets of opportunity..........and it will still bust prairie dogs way the hell out there....it just doesn't look great doing it.
 
When I started this post I expected a quick definition, then it would drift off to the second page. It turned out to be both educational and humorous. Thanks for all the posts.

GrouseSetter
 
Well, did you settle on the NEF single shot with a mid range scope or not /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
TCMAN,

Can't have a "truck gun" here in Iowa. I do have two NEF rifles. One is a 17 HMR Sportser that I've had for a couple years. The other I just picked up this week, a .204 Ruger with the heavy barrel. Both rifles have Nikon 4.5-14 scopes on them. I haven't shot the .204 yet, but spent this morning cleaning her up. It is snowing as we speak and we have a little less than a foot on the ground from the past week. Hopefully I'll get out to sight it in soon, should be some good calling time coming up.

GrouseSetter
 
At home in NM, it's a rifle you can unlimber quickly for snap shots at targets of opportunity (coyotes) on the run. Many of the ranchers here use SKS or AK74s with a pistol (long relief) scope mounted on the barrel.

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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.



Yep, when I was in high school in the '60s, I was on the school rifle team. Not only did we have firearms at school, we practiced and competed on the school rifle range.

Leon
 
At home in NM, it's a rifle you can unlimber quickly for snap shots at targets of opportunity (coyotes) on the run. Many of the ranchers here use SKS or AK74s with a pistol (long relief) scope mounted on the barrel.

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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.



Yep, when I was in high school in the '60s, I was on the school rifle team. Not only did we have firearms at school, we practiced and competed on the school rifle range.

We got .22 and shotgun ammo as "bounty" for jackrabbits and rattlers. We turned in the ears and buttons, and collected the ammo from the school administration office.

Leon
 
Yes the good old days of guns in the back window and school rifle teams are long gone for most of us.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
My "truck gun" is a Interarms mark x chambered in .308 that has been cut down to 16" and had a 2" stainless comp added, It sports a synthetic stock with a rattle can camo pattern. It rides on the dash of my scout 24/7/365. I live in rural west Texas and if you see a yote and don't atleast attemp to shoot it and the land owner finds out he's probabily going to chew your butt right in the middle of the Dairy Queen with everybody listening.lol. I clean this gun 1 a year and shoot it probably 30 -40 times a month. It's also my hog gun. Which it kills more hogs than yotes. I have a 22-250 for a calling gun. But my .308 handles most all other deadly deads. It will shoot 1/2" groups at 100 yards
 
Black wolf, Nice to "meet" you too. Sorry to hear about the cousin. I am about 15 miles from Waskom. Welcome to the board

Leon, They still have rifle teams at the schools around here. All Be it, they have to use pellet guns now. there are quite a few schools here that have the indoor ranges. They are all over seen by the ROTC. They compete with other schools. My youngest is the Rifle team commander at his school and the junior team instructor. Last years competitions were halted because some kid in another state had an AD and hit another kid. The Nation wide ROTC competitions were shut down during the investigation of the incident. I have one of the old Remington 22LR rifles that were issued to the schools years ago. It came with a youth stock, an adjustable position front swivel screw and a lyman peep site. Remington made them on contract to the ROTC and there is no serial number stamped in it. I forget the model number.
 
I have always taken it to mean the general purpose gun that will be in the truck either because it is normally left there or it is normally taken along every time you get in the truck except for occasions when you take along a different one chosen for a specific purpose.

I have a designated "truck gun" but don't usually keep it in the truck. It's my Savage 24 in .223/12ga.
 
I use a boat gun instead of truck gun, and that is usually a short barreled 12 ga. I stick in the canoe when I'm on a river or creek in NC. for whatever might arise. I can remember back in high school in the early 80's going duck huntiing before school and running in to homeroom class late with my guns in the car and wearing full camo. No one thought it unusual. Odd how times change. I remember my dad telling me how he would squirrell hunt before school and leave his .22 propped against the wall in his class. That was back in the 30's in NC. I have that rifle now and am teachng my sons and daughter to shoot with it.
 
I tried to make a Remington VS a truck gun but it didn't like turning around in the cab so I put it in the safe and only used it for a field gun. The 788 I replaced it with didn't like being demoted from the field gun to the truck and wouldn't hit squat. I refuse to take any guff off a rifle so I sold it and bought a Remington 700 PSS ltr in .223 with the 20" barrel. We get along fine and since we do, I take it out and clean it often. We both have taught the coyotes on the ranch how to respect us and once seen, running is not an option /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Just started reading this thread. Boy, I agree with Ragncajn. When I was in High School I ALWAYS had my shotgun in my car. Most of the time a "trunk" gun. It was an old Model 37 12 ga. Wish I still had it. Many times I could be found running down the hall to class with a duck or two partially hanging out of the game pockets on my duck hunting coat. That was a "normal" thing to do then. I liked to get in a little duck hunting before school. Times have changed. Gone downhill and still going. Today, I would go to jail for doing that. So now, kids don't go hunting they just do drugs, etc. Pardon me, I think I'm gonna puke.
 
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