Always a struggle in choosing between my two favorites: the M70 .270 WIN & the M88 .308 WIN, but I bet the M88 will be with me on opening day.
I have to hunt with this M94 .32WS, a gift from a dear friend right before he passed a year and a half ago - I told him I would get a buck for him with it but never got a shot last season.
If I manage to blood all three of the guns above then I plan to host an old time, down east deer hunt, the way my Dad and Great Uncles used to hunt - get some deer hounds turned out in the swamp and ring the surrounding fields with stump sitters shooting buck shot - going to use my M12 16 gauge for that hunt.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. Archibald Rutledge