My Ruger 77s in 223, 6mm, (both w bull barrels) 300WM and 338WM
my Remington Mohawks in 6mm and 308
my CZ 22lr
If they don't shoot they don't stay
my Remington Mohawks in 6mm and 308
my CZ 22lr
If they don't shoot they don't stay
Do you have one long gun that fills you with confidence?
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Well, I'll be the contra-guy here. Mine is an open-sighted BA Remington .22 (514?) my grandfather gave me nearly 50 years ago...and it was old then. The original poster said "which gun fills you with confidence". This is it. From the day I got it at age 12, I have been able to hit almost everything I ever aimed at. I could shoot it better than my other scoped .22. It still feels perfect when I bring it up to my shoulder with the sights lined up perfectly. It has never misfired, FTF or FTE in the thousands of rounds I have shot through it.
(In an end-of-the-world scenario, I'd take my Garand)
(In an end-of-the-world scenario, I'd take my Garand)
Richard Simmons
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For range time I'd have to say my Swiss K31 is pretty confidence inspiring. It's a tack driver. On the other hand if your talking about confidence that it'll get'er done no matter the task there's really only one "rifle" that I own that fits that bill.
"Large Marge"
Like that old Billy Joel song, she's just got a way about her.
"Large Marge"
Like that old Billy Joel song, she's just got a way about her.
Spokes
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I have several but one always comes to the top. That would be my pre64 Winchester Westerner in 264 Win. Mag..
jengelguns
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Probably a Ruger American Predator in .308 with a SWR Specwar 762 suppressor topped with a Burris Black Diamond 3-12 scope. Standard loads hit all the hash marks in the scope out to 500yds every time.
My first shotgun (also my first long gun)., Browning Auto 5, Light 12---1972.
I went to Goodman's---"Goodman's For Guns", a St.Louis institution catering to the carriage trade---Al and Harold (the brothers) wore suits and ties. Their inventory was prodigious. Having told them what I wanted, I was asked, "Do you want light wood or dark wood?" I knew I had come to the right place.
When I put the gun up, I could see about half of the barrel rib---and that didn't seem right to me. I didn't know what was right, but figured that wasn't it. Off I go to my gunsmith----C. Hunt Turner---worked at Browning by day (their "wood man"), in his own COMPLETE shop by night----and was a WIZARD---could do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING.
I told him my problem. "Shoot me in the eye.", says he. I did. "Well, you're holding it all wrong.", says he----"You're holding it like a rifle." When asked how I should be holding it, he laughed----and told me to hold it anyway I liked---and he'd make it fit me. With that, he takes my brand new, rather expensive shotgun over to a belt sander; flips it on, and proceeds to grind away on my brand new, rather expensive, dark wood. I was horrified!! After a few more "Shoot me in the eyes." and MORE grinding, he asked if I wanted a recoil pad, and told me he'd call me when it was ready.
It was ready. It looked exactly the same as new, but I didn't see any rib when I put the gun up. And I still have it---and I seldom if ever miss. Folks think I'm a WIZARD. Little do they know it's the gun----as massaged by an EXPERT.
Ralph Tremaine
I went to Goodman's---"Goodman's For Guns", a St.Louis institution catering to the carriage trade---Al and Harold (the brothers) wore suits and ties. Their inventory was prodigious. Having told them what I wanted, I was asked, "Do you want light wood or dark wood?" I knew I had come to the right place.
When I put the gun up, I could see about half of the barrel rib---and that didn't seem right to me. I didn't know what was right, but figured that wasn't it. Off I go to my gunsmith----C. Hunt Turner---worked at Browning by day (their "wood man"), in his own COMPLETE shop by night----and was a WIZARD---could do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING.
I told him my problem. "Shoot me in the eye.", says he. I did. "Well, you're holding it all wrong.", says he----"You're holding it like a rifle." When asked how I should be holding it, he laughed----and told me to hold it anyway I liked---and he'd make it fit me. With that, he takes my brand new, rather expensive shotgun over to a belt sander; flips it on, and proceeds to grind away on my brand new, rather expensive, dark wood. I was horrified!! After a few more "Shoot me in the eyes." and MORE grinding, he asked if I wanted a recoil pad, and told me he'd call me when it was ready.
It was ready. It looked exactly the same as new, but I didn't see any rib when I put the gun up. And I still have it---and I seldom if ever miss. Folks think I'm a WIZARD. Little do they know it's the gun----as massaged by an EXPERT.
Ralph Tremaine
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On a good day (with light wind) I can bust clay pigeons at 1000 yards with this one. I shoot 600 and 1000 yard matches with it.
Remington 700 custom .308, built by Jeff Walker Custom Rifles with PDC Chassis Stock, 26-inch Schneider barrel, Nightforce scope.
Remington 700 custom .308, built by Jeff Walker Custom Rifles with PDC Chassis Stock, 26-inch Schneider barrel, Nightforce scope.
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digiroc
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Going Heavy ..
A full 7.62 or 30.06 is confidence building if you don't plan on walking around with it much.
My Ruger SR762 is heavy enough I wouldn't want to lug it around much. But from a fixed position, like at the range, it really can come into play out much farther than a 5.56
digiroc
A full 7.62 or 30.06 is confidence building if you don't plan on walking around with it much.
My Ruger SR762 is heavy enough I wouldn't want to lug it around much. But from a fixed position, like at the range, it really can come into play out much farther than a 5.56
digiroc
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Elksticker
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I have an older (not pre-64) Winchester Model 70 .338 mag. that definitely fits the description. It spent years in Alaska with me and the last 20 in Montana. When you shoot things they fall down. Big things, little things, they just tip over right there. When my son was young and his first year of hunting I gave him a 7mm-08, thinking about recoil and all. His first shot on a deer was a good hit in a good spot. A day later we hadn't found that little doe. The next day we were hiking along and he hissed, "dad, theres an elk, give me your gun." I did, he shot, the bull disappeared, and I thought here we go again. We paced a hundred yards off and there was a nice 5x5 bull elk laying right where he had been standing. Between him and my youngest daughter I have to keep a close watch on that rifle in camp.
I've got two that do it for me. One is an SA M1903 receiver built up w/GI parts from just about everybody else. Lyman receiver sight, Win. M70 mag follower and unaltered 2-stage military trigger. Wood is cut to Krag carbine configuration w/checkered wrist and shortened 03A3 handguard to cover where the 1903 sight sleeve ain't.
The other is a Golden State Arms Model 1944: a heavily modified Enfield No.4 MkI* with an aftermarket Monte Carlo buttstock wearing a Safariland pad. It was Canadian-made and has the odd, 2 narrow groove, wide land barrel that shoots equally well with late Mk VII ball, W-W 180 gr Powerpoint, or my 180 gr. Sierra spitzer over IMR 4350 handloads.
Either rifle will shoot into one minute-of-elk's-chest at 100 yards. Deeply sorry no pix.
Larry
The other is a Golden State Arms Model 1944: a heavily modified Enfield No.4 MkI* with an aftermarket Monte Carlo buttstock wearing a Safariland pad. It was Canadian-made and has the odd, 2 narrow groove, wide land barrel that shoots equally well with late Mk VII ball, W-W 180 gr Powerpoint, or my 180 gr. Sierra spitzer over IMR 4350 handloads.
Either rifle will shoot into one minute-of-elk's-chest at 100 yards. Deeply sorry no pix.
Larry
steelslaver; my Remington Mohawks in 6mm and 308 If they don't shoot they don't stay[/QUOTE said:
Like Goldstar225 I carried my (1971) Remington 870 Police on patrol with department approval for over 20 years. All stock except for an extended magazine tube. I have the utmost confidence that it will take care of business and one very bad night long ago it did just that. I will never part with it.
Are you sure that isn't a MARLIN Guide Gun?
My favorite rifle is an early Springfield Armory SOCOM-16" barrel without all of the rails of the current SOCOM.
jag312
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My Browning Model 1886 rifle in .45-70 that I got in 1987.
S&WsRsweet
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I own a few rifles but the only one I truly love is my Winchester 94 30/30 as I have rambled the woods many days with that rifle as my companion and it still goes where I go .
I don't have many long guns. Just never had much use for them, so a couple fill my needs.
First a Sears-Roebuck 12 gauge pump. Made by Mossberg, it came with two barrels, a 28" Modified, and a 24" rifle sight slug barrel. I have never used the slug barrel. I paid $99.00 plus whatever the tax was back then. I never used it for anything but deer hunting, but where I hunted was buckshot country, and the 28" barrel shot Number One buck just fine. I painted it camo at some point along the line. Every deer I ever looked at over it's bead, hit the ground and didn't get up. I have no doubt it would still do it if I hunted anymore.
The other one is a Ruger 10/22, "Wally-World Special" that I got in 2006. Stock out of the box, except for a bolt buffer someone gave me, and a trigger job. The scope is a 4x32 Bushnell, blister pack model, and the sling is a $4.95 Wally World item. It is a squirrel killing machine.
First a Sears-Roebuck 12 gauge pump. Made by Mossberg, it came with two barrels, a 28" Modified, and a 24" rifle sight slug barrel. I have never used the slug barrel. I paid $99.00 plus whatever the tax was back then. I never used it for anything but deer hunting, but where I hunted was buckshot country, and the 28" barrel shot Number One buck just fine. I painted it camo at some point along the line. Every deer I ever looked at over it's bead, hit the ground and didn't get up. I have no doubt it would still do it if I hunted anymore.
The other one is a Ruger 10/22, "Wally-World Special" that I got in 2006. Stock out of the box, except for a bolt buffer someone gave me, and a trigger job. The scope is a 4x32 Bushnell, blister pack model, and the sling is a $4.95 Wally World item. It is a squirrel killing machine.
Erich
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My Bubba'd 1894 Swede carbine does it for me. No sweat hitting things with it, and it has the sectional density to leave a mark.
Freischütz
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My M95 Win in 35 WCF never let me down. It's a takedown, so barrel in one pants leg, stock and action in the other leg, put it in a duffle bag, and I'm set to go.
Hair Trigger
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My two favorite rifles are my M1A and my AR. I'll never get rid of either, but I've come to like the AR better. More versatile, lighter and shoots further and flatter. It's not a .223, BTW, but a 6.5 Grendel. I have a 2nd upper for the AR, makes a fine mid-range and CQB rifle, it's 300 BLK.
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