Re: Favorite Rifle?
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2010 6:40 pm
First let me say WaidmannsHeil (a hunter's ) to all you good folks! Over the years I've had many that I loved and here's a partial list:
44 Mag, 788 Remington a sweet shooter-superbly accurate due to trigger/lock time!
670 Win in 300 Win mag - deadly accurate to 400 yds plus
30-30 model 94 carbine light and handy
32 Win special Rifle Marlin lever octo barrel - a super great offhand shooter
Several 300 Wea mags, in Weatherby Deluxe, mark 5 all superb 500 yd shooters, but like the 670 above it abounds in recoil!
Ruger 77s in 270, and 280 all great in the earlier days with iron sights but now don't buy as iron sights are a necessity!
Rem 700 BDLs --all lefties and great with the shorter barrel, iron sights and in 270, & 06.
Model 39A marlins--one of the great 22s and a weight, balance match for my BLRs.
Browning BLRs - 243, 257, 308 and now have my eye on a 7mm08!! Super rifle, light handy, accurate, no complaints except for trigger pull.
Now I just own a few, the last Marlin 39A I bought is still my go to squirrel and rabbit rifle.
I also own a Browning Stainless Stalker, 22 in barrel in 270 w/a yucky syn stock for bad weather.
And my favorite a lefty Steyr-Mannlicher model M in 30-06. My dream rifle is a carbine, a Mannlicher, full stocked, in 6.5x55 or 7x57, left handed and preferrably a Schoenauer as the Steyrs went el-cheapo and use a plastic floor plate and trigger guard along with a plastic magazine. Too bad they won't believe me when I tell them go back to the metal parts, add a few ounces weight and sell dozens for every one they sell now!!! Reminds me of when Winchester, in the early 70s pulled the boner of all time and went to a pot metal feed lever in their model 94s, saving a few cents and effectively killing it's sales from where it was selling more of them than all other high powered rifles combined to way down the list on total sales. (In short it sounded funny when you jacked a shell in and folks knew pot metal is prone to breakage)
In short my favorite would be a full stocked Mannlicher carbine, a lefty, all metal, with some engraving, hand checkered hard wood stock, with iron sights and a medium powered scope such as a Redfield 3x9 and in 257 Roberts, 6.5x55mm, 7x57mm, ..308, or 7mm-08!
44 Mag, 788 Remington a sweet shooter-superbly accurate due to trigger/lock time!
670 Win in 300 Win mag - deadly accurate to 400 yds plus
30-30 model 94 carbine light and handy
32 Win special Rifle Marlin lever octo barrel - a super great offhand shooter
Several 300 Wea mags, in Weatherby Deluxe, mark 5 all superb 500 yd shooters, but like the 670 above it abounds in recoil!
Ruger 77s in 270, and 280 all great in the earlier days with iron sights but now don't buy as iron sights are a necessity!
Rem 700 BDLs --all lefties and great with the shorter barrel, iron sights and in 270, & 06.
Model 39A marlins--one of the great 22s and a weight, balance match for my BLRs.
Browning BLRs - 243, 257, 308 and now have my eye on a 7mm08!! Super rifle, light handy, accurate, no complaints except for trigger pull.
Now I just own a few, the last Marlin 39A I bought is still my go to squirrel and rabbit rifle.
I also own a Browning Stainless Stalker, 22 in barrel in 270 w/a yucky syn stock for bad weather.
And my favorite a lefty Steyr-Mannlicher model M in 30-06. My dream rifle is a carbine, a Mannlicher, full stocked, in 6.5x55 or 7x57, left handed and preferrably a Schoenauer as the Steyrs went el-cheapo and use a plastic floor plate and trigger guard along with a plastic magazine. Too bad they won't believe me when I tell them go back to the metal parts, add a few ounces weight and sell dozens for every one they sell now!!! Reminds me of when Winchester, in the early 70s pulled the boner of all time and went to a pot metal feed lever in their model 94s, saving a few cents and effectively killing it's sales from where it was selling more of them than all other high powered rifles combined to way down the list on total sales. (In short it sounded funny when you jacked a shell in and folks knew pot metal is prone to breakage)
In short my favorite would be a full stocked Mannlicher carbine, a lefty, all metal, with some engraving, hand checkered hard wood stock, with iron sights and a medium powered scope such as a Redfield 3x9 and in 257 Roberts, 6.5x55mm, 7x57mm, ..308, or 7mm-08!