"workhorse rifle"

[stevereno1]

I have many deer rifles, many of them pretty, and some sentimental, but my weatherby vanguard, with the chipped plastic stock, pitted finish, and banged up scope is my workhorse rifle. I have taken 50+ whitetail with this rife, and have missed a "few" also, due to human error. Anyway, Lets hear it for the rifle that we take every time, even it we have the chance to take a "new rifle" or a "better" rifle. Your workhorses please!

 

[Eric F]

I would say my winchester 30-30

 

[Gord]

Haven't hunted with it (popped plenty of chipmunks and ground squirrels though), but my Savage 64F .22 has gone with me on every camping, hiking and range trip (and anywhere else I could bring it along for some fun) for the last couple of years. Beat-up plastic stock, super lightweight, with a 4x fixed Tasco Pronghorn that hasn't ever once gone off zero, on top of a set of $5 see-through rings.

 

[Clipper]

My wife's Remington 141 in .35rem with a set of Williams micrometer peep rear and front firesight. A single-hole at 30 yards on the way up is back on target at 100 with 200gr core lokt ammo. I can't talk her out of it, though...

 

[tnieto2004]

I take my SKS pretty much everywhere

 

[Cosmoline]

My old CZ 452 ZKM, for sure. It's killed more small game than I can remember. Six squirrel in one morning, before I even got out of bed!

 

[Funderb]

My stevens/savage model 87a semiauto 22lr.
at least fifty years old, beauiful bore and mediocre outside.
it's been knocked around, beat up, sunk with the ship,
(literally) and recovered. It's never stopped. Just keeps plugging
along, and will be after I'm gone for sure. Beautiful peice of history, my custom mount with a tasco scope with my own custom 3point, russian-style reticle.
Ahh. I need to stop.

 

[gbran]

I don't own guns that I'm afraid to scratch, nick or dent. That doesn't mean I abuse them, I just don't own show peices or gun case queens.

 

[Deer Hunter]

I'm with gbran. If I put money into something, I expect to get some use out of it. That being said, I'd say either my M44, Saiga, CZ97, S&W 686, FAL, Ishapore Enfield, Stoeger coach gun, Remington 1740, S&W 625, or CZ 75 would be the workhorses.

 

[MCgunner]

Rimfire, I have a stainless Ruger 10-22 with a Hogue overmolded stock that's pretty all weather, all condition and is my choice for a knock round .22. My stainless M7 Remington with polymer stock is one tough hunting rifle. The Weaver 2x10x40 is rugged and it has Butler and Creek flip open scope covers for those rainy days. I also have a Norinco SKS, actually two of 'em, one's scoped, one's not. They both have polymer, but frankly, the wood wasn't anything I'd have worried about, LOL. Those are tough, have to be in the jungles for warfare. But, my M7 gets hunted with for 99 percent of my big game hunting. You can't beat stainless for tough all weather use.

I don't own anything really fancy, either, but I like to protect my blued, wood stock guns from anything really nasty. I have a camo/plastic Mossberg 12 gauge pump for salt marsh duck hunting duty, for instance. It's still in decent shape after 20 years of tough use. Doves, I'll use either my side by sides or usually my Wood and blued Winchester automatic. Dove hunting isn't tough on a shotgun like ducks in the salt marsh or bay is.

 

[ArfinGreebly]

Cosmo

Them are some odd-lookin' turkeys.

Kinda small.

Unless they's not turkeys?

 

[Shawnee]

Can my Super Blackhawk count ??

Here in Ohio we can't hunt deer with centerfire rifles (except on summer crop damage permits - then it's a Rem. 700 VSL in .243)

 

[1911 guy]

Savage .308. Original wood stock. She ugly, but she's mine.

 

[Markbo]

Hmmmmmm... this one has really made me think. I don't have ONE rifle I always take since it depends what and where I am hunting. For whitetails where shots could get a little rangey, I guess it is my Nikko Golden Eagle in .25-06. Easily 80 - 100 deer I reckon.

Of course I have used others, but that one accounts for the most deer by far.

 

[db_tanker]

Winchester 94 30 WCF as well...

 

[xringer3]

My Remington M700LTR in 308 with 20 inch bull barrel. It shoots MOA, and it doesn't matter what ammo or bullet weight I put in it, it shoots to the exact same point of aim at 100 yards. It's rare to find a rifle that will do that! It's rugged and durrable with the short bull barrel and is the most dependable rifle I've ever owned.

 

[Cosmoline]

Them are some odd-lookin' turkeys.

If I saw wild turkey running around in the middle of an Alaskan winter, I'd be on the phone to F&G. They're grouse, ruffed I believe. Up in the valley they're not shot for sport but for food. I see one and I start to salivate. They're like flying hamburgers. You just open them up and pop out dinner. Easy as kiss my hand. Though the lead .22LR was on the weak side to bring one down, and HP's rip up too much meat. If I can find a skookum .32-20 I'll probably give it a try and see if it has a bit more stopping power.

 

[General Geoff]

Though I've honestly never needed a rifle for any task other than plinking or punching paper, if I were pressed for a "go anywhere" rifle, damn the consequences of rough treatment, I'd take my Mosin M44 carbine.

 

[TexasRifleman]

I have a Mini 14 that I got back in like 1983. This thing has seen untold thousands of rounds plinking in high school (ahh the days of $80 per thousand M193 surplus, might make me cry) and I carried it for years behind the seat of my pickup when I was in the oil business.

Rarely cleaned, never cased, always loaded and never failed to work.

Not gonna win any beauty or accuracy contests, but it was always there.

Poor things sits in a closet now, abandoned now that I can afford "nicer" things, but I'll keep it forever.

 

[TimboKhan]

Rimfire, my 10/22 that I have had for 25 years or so.

Centerfire... Y'all are gonna laugh at me, but I have to say my Mosin Nagant. I have other rifles that I use for hunting and whatnot, but the good old MN is my real workhorse.

 

[El Tejon]

What kind of work are we going to do?

 

[ron8903]

Remington 742 .308

 

[MCgunner]

If I can find a skookum .32-20 I'll probably give it a try and see if it has a bit more stopping power.

.22 mag solids? .22 Hornet? Perhaps this is one thing an M1 Carbine might be good for?

 

[.45Guy]

The Glenfield 25, middle in picture, has been with me as long as I can remember. It's one rifle I'll never part with, and has taken any game possible in North East Ohio... Or so I've heard...

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Of course this VZ 24 is actually doing something useful..... Holding up the stairs...

 

[mpmarty]

OK, I've got Saigas and really like them but must admit when heading out on my forty acres and beyond onto government land I usually grab my Marlin 1895 in 45/70. It was made in about 1972 and has a straight stock and kicks like a mule but is very accurate out to a couple hundred yards and in the Oregon timber I live in that might as well be a mile.