Why Is Your Favorite Rifle...Your Favorite?

[SharpsDressedMan]

Ordered it back '91, got it in '94......34 month wait. Worth it.

[/IMG] Custom features are polished barrel and screws, French gray finish on receiver and buttplate, standard hooded front sight, semi-buckhorn rear, Riflesmith vernier long range tang sight, extra fancy wood, and "AA" fihish on the wood (extra rubbed oil). Current wait is about 48-60 months.

 

[Maverick223]

Beautiful Sharps '74, heck of a wait on it, but if it shoots like it looks, definitely worth it. 32" tube? .40/.45/.50-?? chambering?

 

[Isher]

This old Winchester 67a.

It was my Grandfathers, then my Dad's, then mine,

Starting at about age 5 - and I'm pushing 60.

Sure I have more than a few other guns.

But I cannot pick this one up without remembering

My Dad and Grandad, and learning how to handle a firearm,

And learning how to hunt, and the amazing grace

Of being allowed to cruise the hills, all by myself at age 8

With my very own rifle.


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[Farnham]

Right now it's this one, cause I just spent a lot of time building it...



Sometimes it's this one, cause iron sights and a nice tight group make me smile...



During deer season it's occasionally this one...



For sentimental reasons, it may be the one on top here...



But all of them always go bang, and all of them can hit what I aim at. I suck at "what is your favorite?" don't I?

 

[atlanticfire]

I collect Paul Jaeger rifles. Mostly since my grandfather was the head gunsmith under Paul himself for most of the 50's and 60's until Paul's nephew Derrick ruined the business. Then my grandfather went out on his own the Sharp and Dupree gunsmithing. Prior to working for Paul he did custom work for R.F.Sedgley. Unfortunately most of Paul's clients where high end clientele and although this was decades ago his fine rifles still generally go for over 2K all the way up to 10k. Pop has stories of Royles and other cars driving up to the shop for their custom double rifle to go to Africa with.I did mange to get two completed and one that was in the shop when it closed and is only half finished. Maybe some day I’ll find a qualified enough smith to complete it. My Grandfather has tried to teach me as much as he can but his motor skills are not what they used to be. So I'm still trying to learn a little at a time, although Ill never be a Walter Sharp or Paul Jaeger.

 

[Maverick223]

Good story, Isher. Similar to how I think of my Stevens 87D.

 

[Shadow Man]

Farnham, that top AR, is that a PRI forend? I've been looking into one of those, in 7.62x51 carbine flavor, and wondered how you like it. In fact, I should probably just start a thread on the gun I'm building...

 

[Farnham]

Shadow Man, yes, that is a PRI free float tube, and a PRI gas block. With all the ARMS iron on there, I can appreciate the lighter tube since I'm not hanging lights and laser designators and whatnot on it. As she sits, she's still at least as heavy as my M1A. I'm planning on getting the Ops Inc 12th model suppressor to go on that brake as well, so that's another few ounces. When I'm done I'll have a .223 that weighs as much as a Garand!

 

[Shadow Man]

Sounds like she'll perform admirable duty though!

 

[gunsandreligion]

I'd chosse my 10/22 becouse it can hit someting and works every single time. (Or at least while I'v had it.)

 

[Kymasabe]

AK

I'm gonna be the first to stick my neck out and say my favorite is my Saiga AK. I do the conversions myself, know the gun inside and out, it may not be the prettiest but it fits me, I can shoot it (fairly) accurately, and it's 100% reliable. I'm comfortable hog hunting with it with iron sights out to around 100 yards, and is my go-to gun in the event the world starts to fall apart someday. No fancy goodies, no tactical crap, no $1000 optics or quad rails or lasers and lights and all that. Just stripped to the bone, light and fast.

Simple, durable, reliable. What more could you ask for.

 

[Maverick223]

What more could you ask for.

Well figured walnut..well you did ask.

 

[Frankl03]

My current favorite is a FNH PBR xp. I had the trigger worked on and handloaded some 168 gr Sierra Match kings. I got my first sub moa group with it. Two groups one four shot and one five shot both sub moa.

The rifle is also very manageable for hunting with a 20 inch barrel.

 

[lopezni]

that's like a model 70 on steroids, I guess the barrel experience some shrinkage.

 

[benzy2]

My favorite is a favorite for most all of the reasons listed, but so are most of the rifles I own. What makes it stand out above the rest is the fun in owning it, admiring it, cleaning it, and most of all firing it. Again not that at least some of the others fit this as well, just none to the point of my favorite. It just makes me grin more than anything else I own and for that it is my favorite to own. None of my firearms hold any real sentimental value. If they were all to leave my ownership today another of the same model would be available and just as much fun. I can appreciate the first rifle talk, I just don't have that relationship. So if I could vote on multiple boxes I would have selected them all but fun is the biggest key.

 

[Maverick223]

Well...what the heck is it? You are subject to excommunication if you don't at least tell what it is...pics and all is forgiven.

 

[benzy2]

If I must...I must:

At least a 2 MOA shooter with CMP HXP I bought, less with decent reloads though my ability with irons becomes the big issue around the 2 MOA mark. So far it has been dead reliable. Never failed to fire, feed, or eject. It has the sentiment of what it has seen before it's current owner. Mine is too late to be a WWII rifle but still having the heritage is a fun thing to day dream about. I think the rifle is a thing of absolute beauty. Not the best wood I have ever seen on an M1 and certainly not battle proven wood, but still a looker in my eye. Being a CMP mix master it isn't too totally original, short of an adjustable gas plug it is CMP stock, and they aren't rare. To me there is something else about this rifle that none of the others I have quite have. Very few of my centerfires have any true use. I'm mostly a paper puncher than anything when it comes to centerfire. There are many rifles that do many things better than this rifle. Even so none make me grin to near the degree as this rifle and for that it is my favorite.

 

[nwilliams]

I love all my guns for different reasons, some of them sentimental, others because they are fun, some because they are accurate and still others purely because of what they are.

However I suppose if I had to pick one out of all of them it would be my "all correct" and accurized IHC M1 Garand. It's beautiful, accurate, nostalgic and fun as heck to shoot. It took me a whole decade of saying "this will be the year I buy a Garand" before I finally bought this IHC a couple months ago.

My second favorite rifle is my "almost all correct" Inland M1 Carbine. Like the M1 Garand I waited years and years before buying one a few months ago.I was lucky enough to stumble upon both these rifles at the same shop within months of each other and I scored amazing deals on both!

Here they are together....

 

[Smith357]

It's cheap to shoot.
It's very accurate.
It's light.
I has the best factory trigger ever.
It looks pretty good.
I fits like a glove.

 

[jn1965]

I thought my Sporterized Berthier was my favorite until I got brave enough to shoot my original 1894 dated Mle.1892 carbine. I think about what it has seen in its long service life and who carried it.

But then again I love my 10/22 because it is so much fun to shoot and I can shoot it all day for $20 which would be 15 shots from the French guns.

I am going to Clark Bros this week so I will see if I end up with a new favorite by Friday

 

[dagger dog]

Savage Model 40 Varmint Hunter .22 Hornet, it's accurate, light weight,low recoil,easy on powder,and it ain't so shabby to look at either. Just the kind of rifle you can spend the whole day with, if you like to do the woods walk thing.

 

[snakeman]

I would have to say my laminate, stainless, marlin 22 mag. Its accuracy rivals my centerfires at 100 yards and it looks wicked. I am not saying my cfs are inaccurate I have shot many moa groups with that gun at 100 yards past that it varies a bit more.

 

[Maverick223]

Keep 'em coming, those are some fine rifles.

 

[MetalHead]

Mine is a useful, customized by me, older Marlin 22mag tube fed bolt action.
Stock modded to fit me, barrel bobbed to 18.1". Next is to shorten the mag tube again so that it will be flush with the front of the forend and fix the safety as now it works backwards of my Marlin 882, Rem 581 & 513 or Win 69A. It's lost over a pound of weight and balances nicely under the action for one handed carry and with no metal underneath the action winter hunting is just a little warmer. For my area a perfect farm/truck rifle.

 

[Jonah71]

For squirrel hunting only. Stevens bolt action single shot .22 lr or sh. made in the early 60's. But nobody goes squirrel hunting anymore.