What is your favorite rifle?

.45Coltguy said:
And nary a perch belly to be seen! Nice.
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LOL , if that is a scope it use to have the most hideous looking optic setup that you could have on one most of it’s life , a see through scope mount and a 4x scope . I just pulled that abomination off a couple of weeks ago . I am thinking about putting an aperture sight on it , but I am going to try one out on my muzzleloader first before buying one for this rifle . I am debating between Skinner and Ranger Point and learning more to Ranger Point .
 
red rick said:
LOL , if that is a scope it use to have the most hideous looking optic setup that you could have on one most of it’s life , a see through scope mount and a 4x scope . I just pulled that abomination off a couple of weeks ago . I am thinking about putting an aperture sight on it , but I am going to try one out on my muzzleloader first before buying one for this rifle . I am debating between Skinner and Ranger Point and learning more to Ranger Point .
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"Perch Belly" on Marlins refered to the bulbus looking forearm some Marlins are known to have. Yours is sleek. Very nice.
 
My Winchester model 54 in 30-06 with a very figured sporting stock. I bought it at the local Wester Auto stop in my small town in 1966 and it was my only rifle for the 20 or so years I actually hunted. 2 3/4 Redfield. I have 2 "better" rifles now but still like the 54 the best.
 
I'm compelled to say it's the Springfield model of 1873, a solid performer in the era of breech-loaders and one of the few chambered in a still-affordable cartridge for all of us who lack the resources to neck our own Martini Henry brass.
 
My dads 1955 Marlin 336 .32 Spl. My grandfather gave it to him for his 14th birthday. He shot his first deer with it; I shot my first deer with it as did my younger cousin. The bluing is worn, the stock is a mess. As far as I know, its never been taken down and really cleaned - not dads thing. But it always goes bang, and when my eyes were better would regularly shoot and inch and a half at 100. Or maybe the '53 39A dad gave my wife for our wedding...
 
My favorite rifle is a beat up old Remington 760 gamemaster in 30-06. It belonged to my great grandpa who passed in 2013 at 99 years old.

He was a rowdy man. A truck driver who was a huge hunter and fisher and gardener. He sold off all his guns when he got too old to hunt, which was before I was into guns. Thankfully his granddaughter's husband (on the other side of the family) had been gifted this Remington 760, and he gifted it to me after I inquired about it.

I'm very thankfully to have it, and when I finally go deer hunting, it'll be what I take!
 

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Most likely an AR.

I'm not a hunter. Used an AR in social situations. Used them from 1968. Everything is second nature for me.

A 223/5.56 can take care of you unless you're after polar bears.

JMO
 
GRIZ22 said:
Most likely an AR.

I'm not a hunter. Used an AR in social situations. Used them from 1968. Everything is second nature for me.

A 223/5.56 can take care of you unless you're after polar bears.

JMO
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As a relative youngun who's never lived in a world where ARs weren't king, were they seen as any different from how they are now when they were a bit more novel? Everyone's heard tales of the military's internal debates on their merits but how did the civvie landscape take to them in your memory?
 
dobedo said:
What is your favorite rifle?
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For what purpose?
Plinking? Hunting? Just because?

I only ask because my favorites are favorite for a reason.

My favorite general purpose, go everywhere semi-automatic would be my SiG 556 SBR.

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I have other favorites that more specific purposes, like a 223 AR for shooting targets 100-300 yards, a AR in 6.5 Creedmoor for shooting 400+ yards … for plinking 50-100 yards a Ruger precision 22 or plinking along the river a suppressed Ruger Charger with a binary trigger and others for other more specific uses.

So without any specific’s my favorite, all around do everything is pictured above.
 
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JohnnyJ7766 said:
As a relative youngun who's never lived in a world where ARs weren't king, were they seen as any different from how they are now when they were a bit more novel? Everyone's heard tales of the military's internal debates on their merits but how did the civvie landscape take to them in your memory?
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I'd like to answer that question if I may . I wasn't aware AR's are King but far more popular NOW than days gone by . My reasoning is AR10 platform would account for their increased popularity ,as it overshadows it's smaller sibling in several different aspects .

As a former Southeast Asian Vet. , I can assure you or anyone else M16A1's were NOT highly thought of ,as multitudes of problems arose with their usage .
I WON'T go into what malfunctions were most prevalent on this thread . Survivors wouldn't own one and a different mindset for a different time frame ,turned many away from AR's . PTSD in MANY cases was never diagnosed back then ,resulting in less ex Military purchasing AR's . Most wanted to leave it behind and unfortunately MANY MANY weren't able to do so .

After revision and release of M16A2 variant then the 3 and 4 series ,along with proper CLEANING products and refined idiosyncrasy's being ironed out .

Popularity based upon weight reliability function and accuracy ,KICKED STARTED the AR phenomenon . Again IMO .

I personally like the Larger .308 ,6.5CM AR 10 platform or it's equivalent DPMS style but do own a few 5.56 as well and some are #1 hole multiple round shooters . SO ACCURATE THEY ARE . I also prefer full stock furniture ,as I'm NOT fond of a putter or a waffle with a hole in it for a stock .:)


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BushMaster-15 said:
I'd like to answer that question if I may . I wasn't aware AR's are King but far more popular NOW than days gone by . My reasoning is AR10 platform would account for their increased popularity ,as it overshadows it's smaller sibling in several different aspects .

As a former Southeast Asian Vet. , I can assure you or anyone else M16A1's were NOT highly thought of ,as multitudes of problems arose with their usage .
I WON'T go into what malfunctions were most prevalent on this thread . Survivors wouldn't own one and a different mindset for a different time frame ,turned many away from AR's . PTSD in MANY cases was never diagnosed back then ,resulting in less ex Military purchasing AR's . Most wanted to leave it behind and unfortunately MANY MANY weren't able to do so .

After revision and release of M16A2 variant then the 3 and 4 series ,along with proper CLEANING products and refined idiosyncrasy's being ironed out .

Popularity based upon weight reliability function and accuracy ,KICKED STARTED the AR phenomenon . Again IMO .

I personally like the Larger .308 ,6.5CM AR 10 platform or it's equivalent DPMS style but do own a few 5.56 as well and some are #1 hole multiple round shooters . SO ACCURATE THEY ARE . I also prefer full stock furniture ,as I'm NOT fond of a putter or a waffle with a hole in it for a stock .:)


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What barrel you have there? I also like the AR-10 platform.
 
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