Personal fav rifle?
#22
Typical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
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Posts: 585
I have many centerfires, but the best I can do is narrow it down to two:
Top is my Remington 700 Mountain Synthetic SS in .243 Win topped with a Zeiss Conquest 4.5x14x44mm shooting Remington Sirocco 90gr
Bottom is my Remington 700 SS SPS in .300 WSM topped with the same Zeiss scope in black shooting Federal Accubond 180gr
These two rifles / scopes / loads have identical trajectory so its like shooting the same rifle. These are the only two rifles that have made it out of my safe in the last four years.
Top is my Remington 700 Mountain Synthetic SS in .243 Win topped with a Zeiss Conquest 4.5x14x44mm shooting Remington Sirocco 90gr
Bottom is my Remington 700 SS SPS in .300 WSM topped with the same Zeiss scope in black shooting Federal Accubond 180gr
These two rifles / scopes / loads have identical trajectory so its like shooting the same rifle. These are the only two rifles that have made it out of my safe in the last four years.
#24
I've had a lot of fav rifles over the years. But for down and dirty getting the job done and ease of carry, my fav has to be my Marlin Guide Gun in .45-70. I have rifles costing a lot more in my safe but this little guy with the big bore gets more and more use every year.
#25
Spike
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 26
It's so hard to pick just one rifle as a favorite when one has so many nice rifles all of which are tack drivers. Use to be a time a couple years ago (55) LOL when I had 3 pieces 1 rifle, 1 shotgun, and 1 22. So it was so simple then just grab one and go hunting. But now at 73 I have acquired so many really nice rifles and shotguns, and 22's that it's hard to decide which to hunt with. Life was so simple then not like to today with this 1/2 arse goverment we have. So many Lawyers that they have to advertise to get work. A president that has his head up his arse. Oh life was so simple then. Lou
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#26
If I had to choose, I'd narrow it down to three. A Stainless Ruger M77 MK2 in .350 Rem Mag topped with a Nikon Buckmaster, a Marlin Guide Gun in .45/70 with a Williams FireSight on the front and a peep in the rear, and the newest favorite, a Ruger #1 Boddington series in .375 Ruger. No glass on the #1. Out of those, the .350 Rem Mag spends the most time in the woods.
Forgot one. A beautifully stocked T/C Renegade with a .58 caliber Green Mountain barrel that'll shoot into one hole all day long. It moves into the number one spot when muzzleloading season rolls around!
Forgot one. A beautifully stocked T/C Renegade with a .58 caliber Green Mountain barrel that'll shoot into one hole all day long. It moves into the number one spot when muzzleloading season rolls around!
Last edited by daddywpb; 08-22-2010 at 05:28 AM.
#29
Spike
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: reno nv.
Posts: 62
my favorite rifle is also my "goto" gun. its a bigring mauser with a glass bedded ackley barrel,timney trigger, and topped with a leupold 3.5x10 scope. it has taken alot of heads for the wall and a pile of meat for the freezer. it is just over 7 lbs scoped and shoots sub moa 3 shot groups with either 150 balistic tips,165 gn.partions, or 180 accubond handloads all day long.
#30
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Michigan
Posts: 3,476
Every time one of these "favorite gun" threads gets started I seem to pick a different one. It's so hard to choose between my favorites to settle on one. I have a favorite one for the rain, a favorite one for the swamps, a favorite one for the hardwoods stands ....but I guess I'll have to say that right now my favorite is my Model 94 Swede that I bought already in a chopped up form. Since it was already chopped I went a head and finished the "butchering" with a turned bolt and drilled and tapped receiver. It didn't have any matching numbers and had already had it's front and rear sights a bit buggered, and well as a Bishop stock installed and all other hardware removed.
Now it is a little beauty carbine with acceptable accuracy to 200 yards (as far as I can reasonably see to shoot) and a handy, balanced, sweet little swamp gun. I load it to modest speeds with 140 grain balls and it is a real pleasure to shoot. It wears a vintage Weaver early variable, which wasn't really a variable but a scope that could switch from 3x-5x by removing a cap and making the switch. I leave it on 3X in the swamps and 5X in the hardwoods. It was made from around 1956 to ???
Next time my son is home I'll post a pic. He's got the camera!
Now it is a little beauty carbine with acceptable accuracy to 200 yards (as far as I can reasonably see to shoot) and a handy, balanced, sweet little swamp gun. I load it to modest speeds with 140 grain balls and it is a real pleasure to shoot. It wears a vintage Weaver early variable, which wasn't really a variable but a scope that could switch from 3x-5x by removing a cap and making the switch. I leave it on 3X in the swamps and 5X in the hardwoods. It was made from around 1956 to ???
Next time my son is home I'll post a pic. He's got the camera!
Last edited by 8mm/06; 08-23-2010 at 06:48 PM.