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Smith and Wesson.

I wouldn't be happy but a good arsenal would be: Model 41, MP15-22, MP15, M1500 in 30-06, 629, Governor, M&P Compact 9mm, and a Schofield reissue. Smith pump 12 or 20 gauge. Throw in some collector's guns for good measure. Maybe a 686 too. I could get by with a 63 or 17 instead of the 41 if cost was a problem.

Easy, Browning.

I read some more posts and my memory was jogged. I would throw HK in there also.

I wouldn't be without my 870, my 700. Shoots lights out and I've heard 1911's are not terrible . So I guess I'm the unpopular kid.

I guess that's about as close as you could get. I had ruger on my mind but I wounderstand not own a red label for free if I had to keep and shoot it. Every one I have handled has the most sloppy action ever.

I don't know much about beretta pistols but I own a 391 sporting and it's an excellent shotgun.

I prefer Beretta shotguns but despise most of their handguns and they make no sporting rifles except their high end double rifles.

I would choose FN since they own both Browning and Winchester. I would use a Hi Power pistol for defense, A Browning 1911 .22 for plinking, a BuckMark .22 for hunting, a .22 auto rifle for the same, a couple of Citoris 12 and 20 gauge for birds/clays and a Winchester M 70 .270 or .30-06.

I could certainly get along just fine if all my firearms came from Ruger.

Ruger.




Travis

Me too. Of course, none of them would have been made in the last 50 years.

I'm surprised that they haven't with the growth of cowboy action shooting /mounted shooting, etc. Their revolvers are pretty big there but they don't offer anything in the lever action category.

I see a lot of Red Label bashing, but for what it's worth, I have one from the mid-'80's that has seen thousands of rounds through it, everything from target loads to 3" duck and turkey loads and everything in between and it's still rock solid and unfailing. For several years it was the only shotgun I used when I shot trap every Monday and Wednesday night and sporting clays on the weekends in the summer, then birds, ducks and occasionally turkeys during hunting seasons. Newer ones, with the "easy open" feature I'm not so impressed with, true, but no flies on my old one.

Well I'll be damned......CZ it is....

Ruger would probably work too....despite what the "experts" here say...I had a 20ga Red Label that fit me great and never let me down in 20+ years of hard use....

Im already "kind of" doing the beretta thing, if you consider the tikka in that line. I have the a390 shotgun, and my experience with that led me to look into the tikka years ago when looking for a rifle.

That's a twisted idea. I suspect it originated in the chambers of Holland & Holland.

To the OP -



Whadda you - some kind of commie subversive?

Tikka

I chose Ruger, but could easily rethink this. I owned a couple of Dan Wesson revolvers years ago and they are skookum. I'd still miss my SA Rugers, could easily live with all CZ rifles, and CZ hands down on shotguns...

I don't ever recall making a conscious decision to buy so much Ruger, but they sure arrived naturally in the pursuit of stuff that works hard, and they cover more bases quite decently than just about anyone else.

Lots of Ruger answers. That would be way down the list for me. I have had numerous issues with their long guns and would never own another.

I'd go. With Betetta.

Yeah that was an efffed up thing to do right?