Favorite rifles in safe and why

[belshawelk]

I guess we all have our this is better than that with our personal preferences. I thought I would list a few of my favorites rifles from top to bottom. Not my whole safe but a few of the favorite. I am not trying to start a cartridge or gun debate debate, just my opinions. Which aren't worth much

1) Nosler M48 Custom in .30 Nosler. Shoots damn near 1/4" groups, best action ( smoothest) of any gun I have ever shot and IMO ( only my opinion) it is a one the best elk cartridge around. Kills elk extra dead.

2) Weatherby MK V Backcountry Ti 2.0 in 6.5-300. super lightweight, great action and 3/4 groups, and handles really well. Sexy

3) Browning X- Bolt Pro in .28 Nosler- Extra super sexy, 3/4-1" groups. Great action, lightweight and the.28 Nosler again IMO could be one of the best all around cartridges.

4) Marlin MXLR in .338ME. Short and quick handling and beautiful.

5) Remington 700 SPS in 300WM. First big cartridge gun I bought 25 plus years ago. Killed my first several elk and deer.

I have a few others I really like, Tikka in .243 and then the hand me down sentimental guns like my dads Win 30-30 and the first gun he ever bought me. Marlin model 60 .22LR.

 

[Cheesehead]

Not a rifle, but every time I thumb back the hammer on my old school Ruger Single Six I smile

Rifle category: butter smooth Belgian FN Mauser 308 Norma Magnum hand checkered by my lifelong best friend’s dad who died last year. That one will get passed down.

Good post @belshawelk

 

[choc dogs]

Geez. Favorite. I’m so damn dependent on what I’m doing. Deer when I’m walking the ridges, I’d grab my Kimber hunter in 257 Roberts, lightweight, quick to handle, shoots as well as I can. If I’m feeling nostalgic, I’d probably grab an heirloom firearm, one of the m70s, probably either dads 270, or the 308 all us kids cut our teeth on. If I just wanna go for a walk, I’d probably grab a different m70, the creedbro. Don’t feel like I’m taking all the ghosts along. It doesn’t get grabbed all that often. I guess mostly it’s a decision based on mood and weather.

 

[LuketheDog]

The one that consistently puts the biggest smile on my face is my Henry .22 Small Game

 

[rtraverdavis]

I don’t have many rifles, but if I had to choose one it would be my completely stock, kind-of-a-beater, Savage 116 Weather Warrior in 7mm Rem Mag. It’s my only rifle I haven’t added a bunch of upgrades and changes to. The thing just shoots. It was the first rifle I ever bought and I’ve killed most of the big game animals that I’ve taken in my relatively short hunting career with it. That sort of confidence goes a long way.

 

[klampson]

Rem 700 in 7mm Rem Mag with a custom Hart barrel, have taken more game with it than any other rifle I own.

 

[FairWeather]

Can’t say why, but my 10/22 just makes me happy as a clam when I pick it up.

 

[turbobrick]

Probably my TacSol Owyhee with a suppressor and open sights for just the pure fun of it. The Mini Fix SBR in 300blk for similar reasons but with a LPVO. My Defiance from Plains Precision Firearms in 300wsm has to be the top of the heap though, because it exactly what I wanted, was built to my spec, and shoots beyond expectations, a true do all hunting rifle.

 

[OntarioHunter]

In order of preference
WWII Springfield 30-06

Browning A-5 Magnum Twelve

1972 Browning Light Twelve

1952 Remington 760 in 30-06 (gift to Dad from Grandpa the week after I was born)

1968 magnum Wingmaster (go to bird gun for forty years)

Browning Citori 12 gauge

Model 1881 Marlin in 40-60 Marlin
Only one other gun in my safe, 16 gauge Model 12. My first gun. Birthday present when I turned twelve. Don't have a photo. ... no, I have one photo. My brother and I with our first birds, 1965. My first Lab is between us.

 

[belshawelk]

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WWII Springfield 30-06
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Browning A-5 Magnum Twelve
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1972 Browning Light Twelve
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1952 Remington 760 in 30-06 (gift to Dad from Grandpa the week after I was born)
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1968 magnum Wingmaster (go to bird gun for forty years)
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Browning Citori 12 gauge
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Model 1881 Marlin in 40-60 Marlin

they may be mine too if I had them. Beautiful.

 

[Keep on]

With rifles my affection has come and gone over the years. Current object of affection is a Vanguard first lite in 6.5-300.

Sentimental favorites that will be handed down are my Savage 99 in 300 Savage and a Marlin 444S, both handed down from my father.
With shotguns I have my definite favorites that haven't wavered over the years.
Love my Browning Auto 5 magnum and my Beretta Xtrema 2. Those do 99% of my waterfowl hunting.

 

[SD_Prairie_Goat]

Well you said rifle, not scatter gun, so by default my only rifle wins!

Weatherby Vanguard II, 308 with a Leupold VXII 3x9 atop it.

She ain't fancy, but it does the job and I have zero complaints.

 

[belshawelk]

Well you said rifle, not scatter gun, so by default my only rifle wins!

Weatherby Vanguard II, 308 with a Leupold VXII 3x9 atop it.

She ain't fancy, but it does the job and I have zero complaints.

You should start a Shotgun one. I bet there are some gorgeous ones out there. I have a few but nothing pretty and I am not a shotgun guy compared to rifles.

 

[OntarioHunter]

With rifles my affection has come and gone over the years. Current object of affection is a Vanguard first lite in 6.5-300.
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Sentimental favorites that will be handed down are my Savage 99 in 300 Savage and a Marlin 444S, both handed down from my father.
With shotguns I have my definite favorites that haven't wavered over the years.
Love my Browning Auto 5 magnum and my Beretta Xtrema 2. Those do 99% of my waterfowl hunting.
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Did you have the same problems getting Champion/Ramline fore end to fit your A-5? I had to whittle on mine for hours before it would work. It was worth the effort though. No more worries about wooden stock splitting at the tang screw or barrel ring hammering the wooden fore end to pieces.

 

[Hammsolo]

Purely based on the moment my new Bergara BMR 17. I wish I was laying in the edge of the forest on my buddies land up by Jump Off Joe Lake, but I’m stuck with on the couch with this knee. It’s topped with Leupold rings and a Vortex DiamondbackHD. It is a ground squirrel killing machine, point and shoot to nearly 200 with the CCI VNT’s. It’s even more fun when the wind kicks up. Those little peas drift, and risk/reward is low. I like working on my skills.

When I decided to get a 17. I held a bunch of them at Scheel’s in Missoula. When I picked this one up… I was like DAMN!!!! That’s the hot sauce on my crispy chicken wing!!

 

[TimeOnTarget]

I guess mine would be my custom 6.5x284. 700 Action, 26" sendero contour. B&C stock. Its a heavy pig but I tote it around no matter what I'm hunting simply because whatever I point it at, tips over.

 

[MtnElk]

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WWII Springfield 30-06
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Browning A-5 Magnum Twelve
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1972 Browning Light Twelve
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1952 Remington 760 in 30-06 (gift to Dad from Grandpa the week after I was born)
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1968 magnum Wingmaster (go to bird gun for forty years)
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Browning Citori 12 gauge
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Model 1881 Marlin in 40-60 Marlin

The Springfield 30-06 is a beauty. Something tells me that’s dropped a lot of game

 

[Ben Lamb]

My grandmother's 1894 32-40. She was cooler than you:



The first "nice" shotgun I ever bought, a 1936 Greifelt. It's special because spending that kind of money on a gun was foriegn to me and our success as a business meant I could do it:


Dad's pre-war Mauser Model B guild gun that was a WWII bring back in 35 Whelen. I had it rebarrelled due to the throat being so shot out it had 2" of free bore past the chamber.


There's 50 other guns in the safe with history and most of them have a spot in my heart, from the H&R 410 Topper that my grandfather gave me to the nice doubles, to the bolts and Ruger #1 I grab when chasing big game.

So hard to choose, but those three probably hold the most fondness.

 

[rwc101]

Model 70. First "big boy" rifle and still the one that's taken every head of big game I've killed.

 

[Hammsolo]

My grandmother's 1894 32-40. She was cooler than you:

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The first "nice" shotgun I ever bought, a 1936 Greifelt. It's special because spending that kind of money on a gun was foriegn to me and our success as a business meant I could do it:
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Dad's pre-war Mauser Model B guild gun that was a WWII bring back in 35 Whelen. I had it rebarrelled due to the throat being so shot out it had 2" of free bore past the chamber.
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There's 50 other guns in the safe with history and most of them have a spot in my heart, from the H&R 410 Topper that my grandfather gave me to the nice doubles, to the bolts and Ruger #1 I grab when chasing big game.

So hard to choose, but those three probably hold the most fondness.

Um, Grandma is my hero!