What is your favorite rifle?

Chuck R. said:
Mines a Ballard R&C 1885 Low-Wall in .22LR:

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Holy smokes!
 
Anchorite said:
Only accurate rifles are interesting. For me, it’s a bolt gun. Nothing against the levers (have one), or the semi-autos (don’t have one), but let’s be honest with ourselves. We all like accurate rifles.
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Could not agree more but accuracy in itself is self-defined. I have been able to get 3-inch groups at 100 yards with my .500 peep iron sites only with 350 and 450 grain 1/2" hole punchers. For me that is accurate.
 
I don't really have ONE standout favorite rifle... All of mine are good rifles and serve similar but different purposes. I guess if I were to pick one to be my grail gun it'd be my Nov 1944 Springfield M1 Garand.
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I'm a sucker for blasting 8rds of 30-06 and shouting "Take this, Nazi Scum!" while doing so. Anything else would be communist.... This pic was taken in July 2021 right when we got it delivered from CMP. Service grade for 750 bucks.
 
Out of state son-in-law used my Rem factory Stainless 700 in .270 Win, after-market Timney trigger, adjusted for cold weather hunting, a little less than 3 lbs. It's action and a few inches of barrel are epoxy-bedded. About 10 years old, she shoots sub-MOA and has killed several Maine deer in the Central Maine area, where I live. Most have been on family property. I learned that scopes are at least as important as the rifle, so use mostly Leupolds. This is a 3-9X. The factory stock is well-figured, but not showy. My son-in-law shot a nice deer with it last year at about 100 yards down a woods road. He said that the rifle fired and he saw the bullet hit exactly where the crosshair was at 100 yards. I said, "Of course, where else would you expect it to hit? (You and I both know that our rifles are adjusted to hit about 1 1/2" high at 100 yards, but you can't tell "exactly" where the bullet hits when recovering from offhand-recoil. Still, it was surely, close to where it was sighted-in.) You may not remember my telling about shooting a running buck at 100+/_ yards, left-handed with this rifle...from my tree-stand a few years ago. It continues to please all who shoot it.

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Picher said:
Out of state son-in-law used my Rem factory Stainless 700 in .270 Win, after-market Timney trigger, adjusted for cold weather hunting, a little less than 3 lbs. It's action and a few inches of barrel are epoxy-bedded. About 10 years old, she shoots sub-MOA and has killed several Maine deer in the Central Maine area, where I live. Most have been on family property. I learned that scopes are at least as important as the rifle, so use mostly Leupolds. This is a 3-9X. The factory stock is well-figured, but not showy. My son-in-law shot a nice deer with it last year at about 100 yards down a woods road. He said that the rifle fired and he saw the bullet hit exactly where the crosshair was at 100 yards. I said, "Of course, where else would you expect it to hit? (You and I both know that our rifles are adjusted to hit about 1 1/2" high at 100 yards, but you can't tell "exactly" where the bullet hits when recovering from offhand-recoil. Still, it was surely, close to where it was sighted-in.) You may not remember my telling about shooting a running buck at 100+/_ yards, left-handed with this rifle...from my tree-stand a few years ago. It continues to please all who shoot it.

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Every time you show off your 270 I love the stainless and walnut contrast.
My Remington 700 is the opposite of yours. It's blued metal and walnut and in 25-06 with a 1:7.5 twist light Palma profile. The bottom metal is bare aluminum though.

It's the most beautiful rifle I've got. Also threaded for suppressed use.
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Anchorite said:
Only accurate rifles are interesting. For me, it’s a bolt gun. Nothing against the levers (have one), or the semi-autos (don’t have one), but let’s be honest with ourselves. We all like accurate rifles.
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I had an AR-10 that was every bit as accurate as the Savage bolt gun that I traded for it. It shot .5 moa if I could do my job, both guns did.
 
The only gun I would be really sad about losing would be my 1980 Winchester 30-30 I received as a gift from my dad. My favorite rifle, practically speaking, would be my Tikka T3X in 30-06 with synthetic stock topped with a Leupold CDS scope. It's just about as plain and uninteresting as it gets but it's smooth, light, accurate and special to me now since I shot my first elk with it.
 
My first centerfire was an inexpensive SKS back in the late 80s so I guess not much has changed. For whatever reason I never warmed up to ARs. Probably because of military experience. I still remember figuring out how to take that SKS apart and trying to get all the cosmoline out of every nook and cranny though. Wish I knew about simple green back then LOL. Mom was not happy I used all those roles of paper towels LOL.

Favorite 22lr is the Mossberg Plinkster because out of the box that $89.99 rifle outperforms all my other stock 22s and can digest any bulk ammo I run through it. Just a silly rifle for the money.
 
CoalCrackerAl said:
I like all my rifles. Hard to pick a favorite. My least favorite. Are my Hi-point carbines. Only reason i keep them. There is no resale value. And they might be handy for a SHTF. Situation. A lot of really nice looking guns above.
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Nah, those are fun little range plinkers. I liked the old stocks a lot more as they felt and handled like a stocked pistol. I wouldnt sell those.
 
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