Favorite type of rifle to just shoot at the range...

[Savage99]

My centerfire bolt action hunting rifles.

When I go to the range I recreate what I do when hunting. My goal is to get the game with the first shot from the rifles cold barrel.

I record where that first shot hits at the range it's sighted at and keep those records.

My favorite rifle has been a custom 30-06 with it's octagon barrel and fine stock that has made many memorable shots. The back up wet weather rifle has a Kimber Montana 7mm WSM in the lead.

 

[sfed]

I really like shooting my Ruger Model 77 Mark 2 in 223 Remington, it is a satin stainless version 1-9 twist and shooting 52 grain Sierra HP I get groups of a half inch at 100 yards with my handloads. This rifle is the 26 inch barreled Target rifle and has the recoil barely more than a 22lr. At 250 yards depending on the wind, I get groups of inch and a half and less regularly. To me it gets no better than that, cheap to reload for and fun to shoot, wonderful trigger. What else could you want?

 

[MCgunner]

Other: Lever action pistol caliber carbines. Since 22lr has become impossible to find around here, 38 special in a lever gun is my new plinking ammo. No recoil, makes big holes in paper, and is cheap to reload (especially if you cast your own bullets)

.22 seems to be hitting the shelves of gun stores and even Walmart. Still limited, but I've bought 1250 rounds just this last week, 650 from a gun shop near Guiddings, Texas and 300 each from two Walmarts.

I do like to plink with my Rossi 92 in .357. I load a 105 grain Lee cast bullet over 2.3 grains of bullseye in .38 brass for 900 fps and 1.5" at 50 yards accuracy. It makes for a passable .22 that's reloadable.

 

[loose noose]

Personally I don't own any "assault rifles", however I've got quite a few sporting rifles, such as AR-15s, (3), various carbines of military design, (3) all semi-auto, and quite an assortment of other rifles, and carbines that I enjoy shooting. Therefore I chose "other" category.

 

[fotheringill]

For me, a highly accurate .22lr for target fun.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

I voted other.
I like shooting scoped rifles from the bench, but don't care much if they're loud with a lot of recoil.

I just like chasing small groups.

 

[MCgunner]

(3), various carbines of military design, (3) all semi-auto, and quite an assortment of other rifles, and carbines that I enjoy shooting. Therefore I chose "other" category.

The SKSs I own are fun with surplus ammo. They're not real accurate, but plinking takes on a new flavor with the extra punch. I own a BIG SA, too, a Hakim battle rifle I picked up over 20 years ago for 80 bucks, that's is a HOOT with the ever dwindling surplus 8x57 Mauser stuff. I have a few rounds of surplus ammo left for it and break it out to impress the tacticool shooters now and then that know nothing of the Hakim. It's like a friggin' BAR, heavy, and light in recoil, but bad to the bone when it goes off. LOL!

I've been infatuated with my new M1 Carbine clone in .22LR lately, though. I just love rimfires.

 

[Pete D.]

Voting

I voted rimfire...however, there are three rifles that go to the range with me more than any others that I own. Most often, I shoot prone and slinged up - the two that I do that with are a .22RF Anschutz Biathlon rifle and a Colt AR-15.
The third rifle is a Lyman GPR flintlock in .50...fired more often than not in standing
position. Those three account for about 75% of my range time.
Pete

 

[RugerOldArmy]

'Other'. My favorite is a Savage project rifle in 6MM BR Norma.

The guy next to you is talking loudly, proud to keep all his shots on a paper plate, and you have a series of 10 shot groups, that all fit on a postage stamp. It gets quiet, quickly.

The next best range activity, is cheap Orange soda cans at unknown ranges, with a .22-250 or an accurate AR with an ACOG. Orange Mist.

 

[Carolina Kalash]

By high powered rifles, I assume you mean centerfire bolt and lever actions. So that's how I voted. I have Remington, Winchester, Weatherby and Browning bolt actions and I enjoy all of them.

yeah that's pretty much what I was talking about

Personally I don't own any "assault rifles", however I've got quite a few sporting rifles, such as AR-15s

Yeah I know they're not actual "Assault" rifles, but don't really know what else to call them, sporting rifle is a broad term IMO and when I hear "sporting rifle" i don't think of AR-15s an AKs, I think of bolt and lever action hunting rifles...

 

[jyeatts]

22lr for me. Cheap, quiet, no recoil. I put clay pigeons on earth bank and break them to pieces from 25-100 yards both free hand and from bench, open sights and scoped. High power comes second.

 

[Carolina Kalash]

22lr for me. Cheap, quiet, no recoil.

Those are the reason's I don't get that much satisfaction out of .22lr, at least out of rifles, I wouldn't mind having one of those Ruger MkIII pistols one of these days though.

 

[patriot53]

Well I love shooting my "Stoner Rifle" KAC SR15...my LWRC M6 6.8SPC,
my Ambush .300AAC BO...my Merkel SR1 9.3x62 and Sako Kodiak .375H&H...
...best.

 

[justice06rr]

If 22lr was cheap and plentiful like it used to be, then that would've been my vote. More recently I just shoot AR/AK rifles because ammo is much more common.

 

[kimberkid]

22LR still isn't at our local Walmarts, but it's been showing up at our local gunshows, and on line. Average price about 10cents a round instead of the 2-3 cents a round it used to be ... I hate to say it it but I doubt those days will ever be back ... Of course we used to buy surplus 223 & 7.62x39 for 6-7 cents a round too and those we can all be certain will never be back either ... heck, I don't even remember the last time I saw any surplus .223 or 7.62x39 ... or 308 either for that matter.

 

[Carolina Kalash]

JGsales has some Yugo surplus 7.62x39 on SKS stripper clips, but I think it cost slightly more that TulAmmo.

 

[Hardtarget]

I'm in the mil-surp group. If you looked in my safe you'd see why. My dads 1903 Springfield deer rifle, a .30 carbine, M1 Garand, a .303 Enfield, K-31 Swiss, k98K Mauser...and all get a range trip or two every year. Don't shoot them a lot...just some.

However..!.. I do like shooting the AR 15.

I like shooting. I really don't care what it is.

Mark