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Many of us have more than a few rifles. We can discuss what we "need" and don't need but let's be real, I think it's very safe to say we all can never have enough FIREARMS! But, let's say that you made a decision to part with one of your dear beloved faithful long rifles....for whatever reason....you HAD to, you had a weak moment, whatever. Go look in your safe, think about it, shoulder each one, scan it like you are tracing that trophy mulie as he stots down in the gulley....which one would have to go?  Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns | ||
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Thats easy. T/C Encore is my least favorite rifle in my case. Too heavy, single shot, and it never quite fit me well. I absolutely had to have one back in the early 2000's and still have it. Its only been deer hunting once for those reasons. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit"--Aristotle (384BC-322BC) | |||
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Any one of them. I believe we humans only exist to give rifles a loving and warm home. We only live four score years, but our rifles can go on much longer than that.  | |||
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I like that. Good point. Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns | |||
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I am only married to my wife and it is illegal to sell children. | |||
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I have two 30-06.....one of them can go! /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill | |||
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Heym SR10 in 270, Conetrols with Leupy varix III, Kimber 8400 in 7-08, Steyr mannlicher Model M carbine with S&K mounts, McGowan custom built on Sako action, Douglas premium with fiddleback Mannlicher stock, express sights and sako rings with Leupy 6x. In other words, all of my safe queens. They are way to pretty to take into the puckerbrush. I hunt with synthetic stocked lightweights in 270 Win, 300SAUM, and 35 Whelen. | |||
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Any of the Remingtons "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" Hamlet III/ii | |||
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Except the 721 .270!!!! "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" Hamlet III/ii | |||
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I really enjoy the whole building process and I like the idea of passing nice firearms along to some younger folks I'm especially fond of. Beyond that, I only have two or three rifles for which I have a strong emotional attachment. Hopefully, I'll live long enough to be able to build and use some more rifles and find that they grow on me. ______________________________ "Truth is the daughter of time." Francis Bacon | |||
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9.3x62 ,, It,s the smallest I have and I don,t hunt with it much ,, Too little... .If it can,t be grown , its gotta be mined .... | |||
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Model 70 .270. First gun I ever bought, never could get it to group worth a hoot. 1976 vintage. | |||
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Rem. 700 30-06 can go and not be missed. | |||
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Well Doc, I've got one that could go and I don't think I'd miss it for sure, it's a browning BAR short trac in 308. It actually has gorgeous wood, and I bought it in a moment of cabin fever a year or so ago. I treated it right, put a Swaro PH on it in Talley rings, and have tried about 6 iterations of different loads, and a couple of factory loads, and about 2" is all she's good for, maybe an occassional 1.5". I guess I'm too picky, but I want better than that. I've got one in .270 and it has shot moa or better since the day I got her, fortunaltely with factory stuff of a couple of different types actually.... I've got a pellet rifle I might let go too  | |||
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7.62 NATO built on a Mauser 93 and stamped 308 Win. I wanted it for the hinged floorplate. Actually Ive considered moving a few less desirable ones out latley to finance a really nice project rifle. Maybe we should look at the flip side of this coin and talk about the ones we would really hate to part with.. | |||
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Winchester pre-64 M70 in 264 win mag about 96% condition. Would like to hunt with it sometimes, but one bad ding could seriously lower the value. Would like to get a synthetic stock but altering the gun could seriously lower the value. Would like to build something on that action but that would seriously lower the value. Would like to shoot it a lot more but that would wear the throat out and seriously lower the value. Bummer, anybody want to buy it? ____________________________________ There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice. - Mark Twain | Chinese Proverb: When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others. ___________________________________ | |||
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Savage model 99 in 243 winchester. I hang on to it because it is the first rifle I bought on my own, at age 18. I need to get rid of it because the stock is brocken and I can't seem to find the time to fix it. | |||
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Got an ADL I feel the same way about! (I won't get rid of it though) ______________________ Smedley  ______________________ From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.' B.H.Obullshitter ------------------------------------ "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery" Winston Churchill ------------------------------------ "..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." Samuel Adams ------------------------------------ Facts are immaterial to liberals. Twisted perceptions however are invaluable. ------------------------------------ We Americans were tired of being thought of as dumb, by the rest of the world. So we went to the polls in November 2008 and removed all doubt.....let's not do it again in 2012 please. | |||
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Doc, this is an evil question. You are trying to sow seeds of doubt. Do your worst, but you will never break my faith that not only are all of my rifles essential to me, but so will be the next one and the one after that.  Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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A 700 Rem ADL 30/06 and a Browning BLR in .358. I never use them. | |||
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Uh I can't answer this question. My problem is I need a new safe, but will have a difficult time explaining 1. where did the new safe come from and more importantly 2. why do you need a second safe There are two types of people in the world: those that get things done and those who make excuses. There are no others. | |||
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Fish!!! Say it ain't so!! You have a 270 that outshoots a 308?!! I hope the anti-270 folks don't read that! They'll say you're full of beans! Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns | |||
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This is interesting. 2 years ago a HK SLB 2000 Ccame home with me. Hunted a few daysmaybe 20 shells through it. Then there is a 1940s Husky in 9.3x62. Niether of these are outdone by the 740 with which I've share an unfortunate relationship over the years. | |||
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Easy one - My "ugh..lier" than a wagon load of dog-poop-chutes loaner that I let real obnoxious pests use during deer season: A scoped MAS 36 in 7.5x53.5 French. It is actually plenty accurate enough for hunting man or beast within a couple hundred yards, and utterly reliable, but the stock is so short, the bolt handle so awkward, and the rifle is sooooo ugly, I'm often tempted to throw it away just for the sheer joy of doing so. I would have already, but the garbage man is a friend of mine, and I wouldn't want to put him in a position where he might be seen with it. My country gal's just a moonshiner's daughter, but I love her still. | |||
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I have a .22LR I could part with... | |||
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A Remington 700 ADL in .300 WIN MAG. I keep just in case anyone ever asks me if they could borrow a rifle. That's the one they would get. My "Brother in Law" gun. | |||
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All of them if the price is right. the last to go would be my NO.1, Sav.99 and then my 416 taylor the rest I just have. | |||
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Yeah Doc, I guess the 12 .270's I have are all obsolete! I'll keep suffering by with them. | |||
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I think all of Forrest's rifles should go... straight to me!!! I suspect my Weatherby 257 Mag would be the first to go. I sure have some handguns and shotguns that I had rather go before it, though. | |||
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M700 25-06 Doesn't have the history as the others.... Give it a few more years and I may change my mind. Reloader | |||
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I have a .338 Win Mag in Win M70 Super Grade with a BOSS on it, except for the BOSS it is a beautiful rifle with fantastic wood in 99% condition it also has a Leupold 3-9 VXII on it and has shot groups as small as .264" (3 shots 100 yards). I've hunted with it a few times but I am always scared of getting it marred up and I'm uncomfortable hunting it for that reason, all my hunts are usually rough on equipment because of the rough stuff I like to hunt. I have only shot a Coyote with it and nothing else. Sometimes I think I should sell it then in a moment of clarity I tell myself that "I have a .338 that shoots sub MOA groups with "Factory" ammo what are you thinking!". But every time I reach in that safe the thought of selling it crosses my mind. Recently I've thought of getting a synthetic for it and hunting the hell out of it but haven't quite done it. | |||
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Win 88 284 for the right money,LH Rem 700 CDL 06,Rem 700 LH 243 New, one of my 375,s probably the LH custom Rem. Would like to sell stuff I rarely use. kk alaska | |||
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A Rem 700 lefty in 7STW I built up when it was still a wildcat. Haven't taken it out in years. Also have a Savage 110 .30-06 lefty that is so old (pre '60 I think), none of the barrels, this years or earlier, will fit! .395 Family Member DRSS, po' boy member Political correctness is nothing but liberal enforced censorship | |||
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Savage .270 synthetic stock....would sell it but will probably just give it to one of my sons. Wnat to sell my WinM70 in .223 WSSM, not because I don't like it, but because i like my 6mm and .223 Rem better, and I am going to have a 30-06 re-barreled to 25-06, no need for the WSSM. You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose.....but you can't pick your friends nose! | |||
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Loaded question, holy bat cave. I have what I consider two dear beloved faithful long rifles. 1. 1992 Remington 700 ADL "mountain rifle" stainless action and tupperware stock in 270 Win. Ultra low rings and Leu 2.5-8. This gun has gone a lot of places and shot a bunch of critters. There is absolutely nothing fancy about it, it just plain works. 2. 338-06 on a 700 action with a 22" fluted pac-nor, Mcmillan mountain rifle stock. Has been treated by WE Birdsong. Ultra low rings with Leu 2.5-8. I have use this rifle to shoot my last few elk and some deer. I could easily get rid of the other rifles in my safe as I don't have history with them yet. but you asked about beloved rifles. If I had to sell one of the above. I can't do it. I have plenty to sell in front of them. Sorry I didn't play along too well. | |||
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no brainer 7.7jap been sitting the closet since the big war.i think | |||
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I have actually parted with several of my K31's in the last couple months. Cut the collection almost in half. I miss them but I had to thin things out. I have an old single shot .22 I could part with and never miss. Don Nelson Sw. PA. | |||
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My Rem Sendero 300RUM. It's about to go. Going to replace it with a Ruger Hawkeye in 375 Ruger. " If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand which feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countryman " Samuel Adams, 1772 | |||
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I'd only want to sell one of my rifles, a Ruger 96/22. I bought it a while ago and have never really done anything with it. Now that CZ has released the 452 in left hand, I'd like to trade up. _____________________________________________________ No safe queens! | |||
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Woods how much and more details on the .264 please Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum | |||
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