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Originally posted by RaySendero:
None of the above:

Ray isn't that a 9.3? I seem to remember seeing that rifle somewhere before on AR.

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Originally posted by Alberta Canuck:
Many of us have rifles that have become treasured members of our families...sometimes for no immediately obvious reason or reasons.

Those favourites frequently include rifles which are beaters in some folks eyes, while sometimes other favourites can be mistaken for safe queens.

Hence the following options...
Choices:
A beater, worn by long honourable use
A parts gun, salvaged from a nefarious past
A pure, pristine, custom in minty condition
A straight factory rifle,bought new and put to work
A factory rifle, modified to fit and suit me alone

None of the above.

A Classic.

A Von Hofe Mannlicher- Schoenauer whose condition though marked with character belies her age.

My rifle I bought new found that I had a bad barrel.
So I had a new barrel put on it. Fired it many many times. Would shoot one hole shots. After shooting out this barrel out. I put another barrel on it. It was a little bit more expenive
But it is my favorite. She still puts three shots into the same hole.

Mine is a used gun, that someone had spent time and money making into a jewel, and it came to live with someone that does not always take as good a care of it as he should.

It had been restocked with a very well figured piece of walnut, an excellent, in my opinion bedding and checkering job done, and for some strange reason the person that had spent so much time and money found some reason to let go of it.

I do not know how long it had set on the rack in the gun store I bought it from, or how many other people had picked it up, looked at it, fondled it, only to set it back in the rack.

The day I went in and saw it, I knew that it was what I was missing in my gun supply, and I knew that it would be with me for the rest of my life.

The beautiful figured and finished stock has dings and gouges from being carried in pick up trucks over bumpy pasture roads too many times.

The bluing on the action and barrel too often have rusty spots that I try to keep ahead of.

The rifle does not carry the high dollar/high quality piece of glass that it should, instead it carries a lowly Cabela's Pine ridge Fixed 6 power scope that cost $60.00, but has not changed zero after having 300 rounds or so run thru it.

It has accepted my handloads/reloads without a gripe.

It has killed a Musk Ox above the Arctic Circle for me, and elk in Colorado, and deer and pigs in Texas.

It is an Interarms Mark X in 375 H&H that someone re-worked and then decided they needed something better.

If the PTB's had theur way, and I was allowed to have only one gun to hunt with for the rest of my life, this is the one.

Mine is a factory rifle with the trigger worked. A Winchester 70 S/S Classic in 30-06. I have got used to it, and have made some reasonably good shots with it (drilled a big antlerless buck right under the chin, off-hand at well over 100 yards). It wears a 4x Leupold that is so old even Leupold doesn't know when it was made. When I am steady, and the bore is properly fouled, it will do right around 1.75"....at 200 yds. That would have to be my favorite. That one and my 6.5 will never get sold.

Good hunting,
Graham

my favourite rifle is husqvarna 1640 in 6,5x55 .very nice and accurate and relaiable and second favourite is ruger 77 all weather in 3006 i have added reckbagel front sight to it . the 3d is my Brno 602 in 375 HH,
cheers
yes

I'd have to say one of the many I built myself, my 35 Whelen Imp. Why because I wouldn't be under gunned for anything around here, it has a bead blast blue and a simple stock and I wouldn't be afraid to take it and get a scratch on it, and it shoots sub MOA.

Nice thread! roger

The way a rifle has always become a favorite to me is finding a nice one and tweeking it to fit me.
Found a Husky 98 mauser in 9.3x62 a few years ago.
I built a walnut stock to fit it (and me)and I have a go-to rifle the fits me perfect.

Mine kinda fits a few categories. It was a bog standard BRNO 600 in .270 win when I bought it new. Over the next twelve years I shot everything with it from rabbits to deer and it really had the well used look. Finally when the barrel wore out, I had it rebarrellled in .280AI. Now it looks like a flash barrel in an old beat up stock, but I know and trust that rifle above any other, and any miss is my mistake.

Browning A-bolt in .270 with 1X4 Leupold compact variable scope.

None of the choices listed, but sort of 'some of them'....

Favourite is a M77 MkII stainless with a well used laminate stock that has a Timney trigger, was in 270, but wore that barrel out in five years of hunting, and now has a PAC-NOR 6.5 Swede barrel... and it's even better... I love it.

Not quite sure where that fits in the poll...