Thread: rifles whats your preference?

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my farvoite gun is my ruger heavy barrel 300 win mag really reaches out and puts holes in things, bugger to carry while hunting .
Also have a 303 brit tank gun and a 6.5x55 swed semi auto neat gun would be good for coyotes by no place for a scope cause the whole top is the action and hammers back and forth when it shoots

that is neat i would like a blunderbuss or one of them derringer pepper box?

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

that is neat i would like a blunderbuss or one of them derringer pepper box?

Take the Derringer over the Blunderbuss, I've shot both and know

Ruger 77 in 308, Remington 700 in 22-250, but I shoot my Savage 17hmr more and more it's incredibly accurate if there's no wind. Not a rifle but Glock 27 everywhere I go.

I can't believe that more of you haven't mentioned ammo prices, it's not bad for the casual shooter but I shoot at least 200rds of 40 and 45acp every week or two it really cuts into my lunch money.

Ron

Just looked at what I still have---a remington 22 pump, ruger 10/22 auto, 8mm polish Mauser, Argentine 7.65 mauser(pre 1900 parade piece),a 308 Winchester I built with an FN supreme action and Douglas barrel, a winchester 300 mag

In Shotguns---JC Higgins 16 ga pump from mid 1950s, Stevens bolt 16, Belgian Browning 3 inch 20 ga magnum and matching 12 ga magnum
sold off all my Belgium Browning superposed over unders had 3 of them and then they started making them in Japan---a guy just had to have them

So far, I've just got a Rock River Arms AR-15, entry-tactical model, chambered in .223. The gun show is coming back here in 2 weeks, maybe I'll find something good. Saw one of the .50 cal Barret sniper rifle at the gun store a few months ago, don't know what I'd do with it, but I'd love to have it.

Originally Posted by Ron B.

Ruger 77 in 308, Remington 700 in 22-250, but I shoot my Savage 17hmr more and more it's incredibly accurate if there's no wind. Not a rifle but Glock 27 everywhere I go.

I can't believe that more of you haven't mentioned ammo prices, it's not bad for the casual shooter but I shoot at least 200rds of 40 and 45acp every week or two it really cuts into my lunch money.

Ron

Pick up the brass and reload . It's not to hard to do . My Dad has done it near all his life . He love's that stuff like I love them SB Chevy's

remington 270 w/scope in black (took out a deer at 300yrds), winchester 12Ga pump black, and my grandpa's world war 2 38 colt semi auto black(grandpa was in a navy sub no rifles just pistols), are my favorites i only like black and once in a while silver don't care much for wood stocks unless its old and worthe $.

I hunt deer with a .54 Hawken repro, and an 1861 Enfield carbine, .58 cal., in black powder season. Fun, but dirty.

No guns for me!!!!!! I'm still a convicted felon from a drug conviction in 1978 and not to be trusted with weapons!!!!! Being the law abiding citizen that I am, of course I have none!!!!!!

Originally Posted by mrmustang

My personal tastes are a bit older when it comes to firearms and such.

Such as my personal favorite (and currently for sale), a 1750's Rev War Dutch(German) Fusil Musket.

Nice antique! I love old weapons. There is an art and mastery to them. The designs and metal craftmanship are so detailed. Probably why hot rodders like guns too.
I liked this black powder pistol but still have never fired it.

Here's pics of the 45 and 7.62x54

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

No guns for me!!!!!! I'm still a convicted felon from a drug conviction in 1978 and not to be trusted with weapons!!!!! Being the law abiding citizen that I am, of course I have none!!!!!!

So what does your wife shoot.

stovens,
I have shot a few different black powder colt 45 like yours and Sharps Brass & paper cart, copies and orignal. Make sure you bring your cleaning kit, you will have to clean it evey time you shoot all 5 or 6 rounds (I carry it with 1 cap off if it's loaded.
Oh, Don't think something is wrong if you can't hit the target with your pistol, thats why they came out with barrell rifling My friend goes deer hunting every year with a Sharps with paper cartriges.


We always take 500-1000 rounds per gun and 3-5 guns each, when we go shooting. We reload all the time, we have 3-300 win mags. We load different bullit types and different grain, and they all shoot a different one, the most accurate. This true for most all guns, one will shoot the same load differently.
we don't reload all the types we have we buy the cheaper ones.

Pat

My younger brother and I used to play "Cowboys and Indians" for some ten years in my early teens and before he was ten with an old percussion-cap Sharps .50 and my mom let us play with it because there was no way we would be able to get ammo for it. (We had a saddle on an aluminum beer keg mounted on a wagon for a horse!) My dad sold off all his guns after I moved to another state so I don't know how much he got for it but I was amazed to recently see the same model for sale at $1600! I have an old H&R .410 shotgun which was a present when I was 1 week old in the hope that I would later hunt with my dad. I only hunted with it a few times but have long since used up the high brass shotgun shells that came with it. I believe before WWII many shotgun shells had high brass and collectors seek them but at least the modern shells are cheap. It looks like it is designed for 2 1/2" shells and the barrel is so thin that I would not try 3" shells. There is an "etch ring/ridge" at 2 1/2" inside the barrel chamber but it does not look to be machined so I take that as a strong hint that it was designed for the 2 1/2" shell? On another note my high school had a rifle club back in the '50s using the space under the concrete floor of the auditorium for a range about 200' long, in dry and dusty red clay. On the days of a match all you had to do was get on the school bus with your .22 and show the driver the bolt was out of the action. As long as the rifle was in two pieces you could bring your rifle to school with no problem! (never mind a box of shells in your pocket!) I bought a new Marlin .22 and foolishly took the peep sight apart and spent the next two years resetting the sights. The best procedure was to put the rifle in a vise at one end of a long cellar and sight through the barrel at a thumb tack on the far wall and adjust the sight accordingly, but the sight itself was a piece of pressed sheet metal of low quality. My brother ended up with that .22 and has used it to kill rattlers in his backyard in Florida.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

I don't know, since I got into this hotrod thing mid summer last year I have hardly touched my guns, I finally went during the Christmas holiday and did some trap and five stand. anyways, favorite.....my 35 whelen ackley improved, built on a 1917 remington. It was a gift from my stepfather, and is a great rifle. the runner up would by my mod 70 375, I've spent some time working on it to make it work for me and therefore like it more. most of my rifles have been at my gunsmiths in MOntana for a couple of years now, I really need to get them back, the only thing is I don't have enough storage space for them so it kinda works for me

Red
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Funny this topic on rifles is on here, I have been thinking the last few days about getting into cowboy action shooting. like I need another hobby, especially a pricey one.