Favorite rifle and favorite cartridge

Savage Model 12FV, 22-250

Hard to beat a commercial mauser or nice sporter in 7x57

Here's my 09 Argentine mauser in 7x57Ai done but John van Patten, Milford PA.


Edit. Thinks more my ruger gets out every deer season, it's in 7x57 you can see the trend.

I've said it before and here I'll say it again.... and show it. Gets more use than any other rifle I own or have ever owned. Ruger All Weather 77/22 .22 WMR. Just a terrific using piece that is not fancy or rare, just good.

I've been having great fun with this little Ruger American ranch 7.62x39. I blast away with cheap ammo, and dont worry about reloading. Its accurate and light. I'm taking it hog hunting next month!

My favorite rifle would have to be my Henry Big Boy in 357 mag. Its handy, attractive and I shoot it better than any other gun I own. Just last weekend I was ringing steel at somewhere between 250 and 300 yards with this thing; it is a finely tuned machine. I have a lot of fun with it and it's taken its share of woodland creatures and steel plates.



My favorite cartridge would have to be 270 Winchester. It shoots flat and hits hard. More than enough gun for anything I've hunted and pretty versatile for the reloader. Even though performance is about the same as it's father's, I think 270 is way cooler

My favorite Rifle, all around , a Highly Modified Remington 600 by Harry Lawson circa 1986 .In .308 , sub MOA (barely with 3 shots) with the right ammo . This is an older picture , it now has a smaller but better Swarovski Z3 3-9x36

The one that fits the terrain environment, range and target.

Cartridge in a rifle is easy, 30-06, followed very close by 7.62x39. My favorite rifle is a lot harder. I love the 1917 Enfield action, weather it is a Winchester, Remington, Eddystone, or one of the Remington commercial actions ( model 30? ). I also love my do-all rifle, a tikka t3 lite in stainless and chambered for 30-06. Bought this as my do-all hunting rifle. Light enough for the mountains, durable enough for coastal rainforest. I love it.
I am also pretty enamored with my cz 527 in 7.62x39, it is the close range do-all. Varmints to deer and lots of cheap plinking between...

I'd say second is the cz in 7.62x39

troy fairweather said:

I'd say second is the cz in 7.62x39

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Your cat seems to be less certain about that one...

Either that or he's plotting your untimely demise.

Olon said:

Your cat seems to be less certain about that one...

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Every time I am taking pictures she has to help or just wants her photo taken.

I thought about this awhile and honestly couldn't pick a single favorite from any of my safes. I've got my arsenal whittled down to circa forty rifles that I enjoy about equally well on different occasions and in different situations.

One way I can zero in on a single rifle is to pick the one I would never sell. It is perhaps the cheapest of the lot: the Marlin-Glenfield M25 dad gave me for my 16th birthday, now quite substantially modified from factory original.

This, and the ahead of its time 7,5x55 cartridge.

troy fairweather said:

Every time I am taking pictures she has to help or just wants her photo taken.

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Got several of those around my house too.

Ruger #1S in 45-70.

Dave DeLaurant said:

Got several of those around my house too.
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Most of us do. New thread idea? lol

Olon said:

Most of us do. New thread idea? lol

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I think it would be a thread a lot would like lol. It is gun related.

I can't find a picture, but .22 lr is my favorite cartridge, and my Remington 510 Targetmaster is my favorite to shoot.

If I could only keep one (so it must be my favorite) I think it'd be the Accuracy International AW shown below with the .308 Win barrel (It currently has a 6.5CM barrel on it). It's heavy but I've used it successfully on a hunt and it will shoot just about any decent factory load into 3/4" or better 10-shot groups at 100 yards as fast as you can run the bolt. It will shoot bug hole groups with handloads and some factory loads. It's one of the smoothest and most reliable bolt actions available, they also have a locking bolt handle (a must for me), the receiver is permanently bonded to the chassis, and they're incredibly easy to shoot well. I find the .308 Win to be the most versatile cartridge in that it checks off most boxes for what I need/want in a rifle cartridge.

Here it is shown with the NF optic.



Now it has a Vortex RAZOR HD Gen 2 (middle rifle). AI AWM .338 LM not shown.

1942 Enfield no4 mk1 sporter in 303 British. It’s an original “T” marked sniper that someone modified many years ago.

That's like asking "Who is your favorite child?" I'll give the question some thought, but I don't know that I have one "favorite."

Belgian Mauser 270 win built by Charles Flaig



It’s actually a tie between the Flaig and my grandfathers early Sako with Mauser action in of course 270 win. That caliber runs deep in my family.

For me, cartridge is the easy one: .30/06 Springfield. I like its capabilities, its overall aesthetics, and it is the most enjoyable for me to reload.

Rifle, it would be a tie among my Remington 700 in .30/06 (deer rifle), SA Garand (lots of fun at the range), and my Marlin 336 .30WCF (first gun).

For gettin' meat at the meat-gettin' places. No question but my High Power in .30-06.

Love 'em both.

Of course, it fights for outright *FAVORITE* position with my Marlin 39, Garand and my favorite AR-15 variants.

Todd.