What is your favorite rifle action, and the reason?

[bukijin]

Bolt action - traditional for rifles in this country. Makes you aim carefully on every shot. Sometimes I think that the ban on semi-autos in this country is just a conspiracy to make us better marksmen !

 

[G.I.Jew]

Lever guns...just because they are so much fun!

 

[Knives]

Bolt action, just because I think they're fun.

 

[DMK]

I agree with tiberius

I voted SA...why?
M1 Garand
M1A
SKS - Russian
Ruger 10/22
AR-15

I can't argue with that except to add:
FAL
SAR1
Marlin Model 60
M1 Carbine
Marlin Camp Carbine
Beretta Storm


All the fun rifles are semi-auto!

Lever actions would be the 2nd place runner up.

 

[cracked butt]

Bolt- for reliability and strength
Semiauto a close second for fun and for speed.

 

[schromf]

I vote the Bolt as first, most accurate and useful. Followed by the auto's, levers, and doubles, I like them all. But bolt first then the rest.

 

[4v50 Gary]

If modern, bolt guns. Why? Most accurate of them all.

If old, flintlocks.

 

[1911Ron]

M-1 Garand why "bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam*ping*"
M-1 carbine,M1903A3 these are fun and one is bolt action

 

[tc300mag1]

Voted Semi auto for no other reason as its what i learned on and there cheeper than left hand bolt guns

 

[twoblink]

bolt for reliabiliy,
semi for speed
pump for fun.

Good thing in the real world, I can (and have) one of each

 

[sm]

Bolt - accurate, reliable and classic.
Lever - accurate , reliable, classic, and just too darn handy.

 

[Mannlicher]

Hard to say, since what type of action I prefer depends on what I am using a rifle for.

Hunting, in heavy cover, a lever gun
Hunting in more open terrain, then its always going to to be a bolt gun
Homeland defense? Easy, Semi Auto, either one of my AR15 types, my AR180B, or most likely, my M1A.

Compromising on any of the above, will achieve less than optimum results

 

[Poohgyrr]

Lever Guns Rule

I like them because I can and do.

 

[Poohgyrr]

1911Ron:

I bought a sweet Garand when they were much cheaper and it is great!!! It would be hard to give that one up.

 

[thumbtack]

Semi


I dont believe the fallacy that bolts are more accurate.

 

[H&Hhunter]

Double rifle.
Two reasons.

1. Nobody else has marked it

2. Cool factor is so high rifle is hot to the touch......


But in all reality a Mauser style bolt is A #1 for me.

 

[ChristopherG]

Lever, for so many reasons; it's slim and sexy, plenty accurate for the limited range of its cartridges, and fun as a sack of kittens.

And, because at yesterday's 3-gun match, my Marlin 1894c was the only non-semiautomatic rifle there (ARs and M1As being the overwhelming standards), and I still placed right in the middle of the pack of 30 overall, and third of the nine using rifles with iron sights. And you just know I had more fun than all those auto-shucken-shooters!