You know, I honestly can't remember lusting over a single rifle. When I grew up, I hunted with a shotgun (started with a single shot .410 with slugs and moved up to a Mossberg 500 pump 12gauge with good ol' double ought buckshot). I more lusted over semi-automatic shotguns, mainly Rem 1100's. We hunted rabbits, squirrels, dove, ducks, etc., so having a shotgun was higher priority than a rifle.

Now, I would have loved to have one of several different rifles, but I dreamed about semi-auto 12gauges!