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All of mine are my favorite!
Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Pre-64 70 338 WM out of the old Winchester Custom Shop. My wife gave it to me for Christmas about twenty years ago.
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Campfire Tracker
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Cooper model 21 in 223 with 1-10 twist. It is the one that usually goes out the door with me. It shoots honest 5 shot 1/2" groups with a top load of VV-133 and 40 gr Nosler BT's - and of all things a Leupold scope.
223 Rem, my favorite cartridge - you can't argue with truckloads of dead PD's and gophers.
24hourcampfire.com - The site where there is a problem for every solution.
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All of mine are my favorite! All of my favorites aren't mine.
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Ouch tough call. Might be an A-5 "Magnum Twenty" Made in Belgium or could be a M70 standard in .243 made in 1959...could be a .270 FW Pre-64....this is so hard...Sweet Sixteen with a VR Modified????
"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin.'"
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Campfire Ranger
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Now with even more aplomb
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Ruger Alaskan Hunter in 454 Casull.
Followed closely by my 1973 S&W 629 9 inch barrel in 44mag, can you say Dirty Harry.
Last edited by granitestate1; 03/10/23.
RUMs are like woman in Stiletto heals, you know they are going to put you in the poor house, but that has never stopped anyone from pursuing them.
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Campfire Ranger
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Tough choice. Put a gun to my head and it'll come down to one of these two. One's my favorite for hunting, the other for a day of screwing around at the range: 1929-vintage Springfield M1903 NRA Sporter, as built by Springfield Armory for civilian sales, .30-06. Winchester M1885 High Wall, .32-40, barreled by Harry M. Pope in 1896, restored in 2017 by Steve Durren.
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
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I guess I'd go with my Remington 760 in .270. Carbine. My first one was my saddle gun when I owned an outfitting business in Northern Idaho. That weapon put a ton of game out of their misery. Funny thing is I don't think I really hunted much with it. When you hunt with clientele for several months you're pretty much burned out by the end of the season. The sad part is at the end of the season, on our last hunt, we had a major snow storm. We rushed the clients and their game to the airport and I stayed to break camp. The plan was for me to take a pack team over the mountain to Wallace Idaho about 18 miles. I left and the snow was almost chest high on the horses. I left the put wood in the stove and left. For some dumb reason I put my rifle under my bed roll in camp. When I got to Wallace, about 5 hrs later, one of the guides called me and told me the tent burned down to snow level. My gun was destroyed. I bought another one which I have today. Not a Carbine but it works. Every time I look at it it I think of the outfitting days.
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The fenceline hunters jammomatic Rem 7400 next property over. Guaranteed 1 and done then deer move to my side. I just smile and wave every time I see him toting that POS.
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Marlin century limited 22
Wake up to this!
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I have two new Sig P210 pistols, a P210 Target and a P210 Standard, both 9mm Luger. <> https://www.sigsauer.com/p210-target.html <> I bought both P210 pistols at Scheels. I traded in some firearms I originally bought from them, even decades ago. They gave me more money on trade-in than I would have been able to sell outright.
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Not necessarily what I have / had but I think these are attractive:
FN Browning Mauser, Mark X Whitworth Mauser, Zastava Mauser esp. left hand Dakota Mod 76 esp left hand Charles Newton rifles Savage Mod 99 Husqvarna mod 1640 rifles.
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Maybe, my Winchester Model 65 .218 Bee.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Kaboku68: Tough one - but I guess my favorite is an all original, low 4 digit, mint condition, pre-64 Winchester Model 70, Bull Gun, in "300 Magnum" (300 H&H Magnum) - with the stunningly beautiful bone charcoal bluing! Long live the Riflemans Rifle. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy No comments for “scumload” on this thread? Why not? You tag me on all the others. Punkass flatfoot bitch
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My Browning BL-22. Love that little rifle.
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.......1973 S&W 629 9 inch barrel in 44mag........ The 629 didn't come out until 1978. Tony
Run it up, until you blow it up, then back it down a bit.
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A tough call on this. Didn't want to admit a newer Glock I have might be in the running, or a 69 year old 22 rifle.
But with some thought, it might be a 5.5" SS super blackhawk. It was a Bisley for a few years until Ruger offered one from the factory. So I put an aluminum grip frame & ejector housing on it. Reduced the all stainless configuration weight to that of a Smith Mt. Gun Or an all SS Single Six. 37-38 ounces, same as a blue 45 Colt in same length. A wonderful size & weight for the power & controllability available. I know I need picks on this. But its just a BH. A good one. Last deer was with it.
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Thompson Contender for me. I have 2 frames with several different barrels with a 10 inch 45 Colt being the most used right now. I try to fire it most days.
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I think the last one I'd let go of would be my Husky in 270.
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in silvam ne ligna feras (don't carry logs into the forest)
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