Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles What was your 'dream' rifle as a kid?

A deluxe Mark V, but the deluxe sako finnbear and colt sauer were close 2nds, that was quite some time ago and I would still take any of them.

Any thing in 300 H&H, A high gloss Weatherby . And a double Holland and Holland in 375. Still want the Double. First rifle I bought myself was a Ruger 77 tang safety in 25-06.

Model 70 in 270, circa JOC.

That itch has definitely been scratched, and is now simply a comfort rifle.

Sporters, FWT,s, pre's, classics, supergrade,FN's.
All is good.

Weatherby Lasermark 338-378 for rifle, Colt Delta Elite for handgun.

I still want the latter, wouldn't touch the former with YOUR shoulder...

Me too, in 7mm Wby. My first, in 1977, was stolen from the local gun shop in a burglary while in lay-away. I still have its replacement.

Sako .243 i bought in 1968 with lawn mowing money.

Never got a fancy Weatherby but the wife had me a Weatherby Mark V stainless in 270 Wby mag redone at the Weatherby Custom Shop into their Outfitter Package,hand honed blue printed action,select fluted stainless re barrel,restocked ,bead blasted matte finish everything to match,The Works!
Then sent the bolt to Karl here for some lightening up finished with
Hired Gun here on the Cerakote and Micro Slick
Tried a few scopes on it Zeiss,several Leupolds until I settled on
a Trijicon 3-9x40 DUPLEX GREEN DOT for it.
The wife also bought me Wes 7x57 here WBY MK V ULW 30-06 had it off to Hired Gun here also for the Cerakote and Micro Slick also
AMRA

one that didn't exist a lh pre 64 mod 70 in 308 win

1988...Remington 700 BDL in .30-06. Nothing like looking at that Remington catalog with the high-gloss, dark blue finish.

Later, it became a Sako 75 Deluxe.

Weatherby Mark V in 270WM. Figured it would be the shizzle. I own a bunch of rifles, but still never owned one of those. No desire for one now. Older and wiser?

I am older, but not any wiser!

Sako Forester 243.

Grew into shooting late 80's early 90's. I had 3 favorites and eventually owned all 3. Mark V Deluxe 300WM. Browning BAR 300 Win and BDL 7mmRM. The first two were deemed heavier than necessary and while I still have them I prefer the BDL. Later on I've been getting into Sakos. I also used to memorize the Remington and Browning catalogs. Miss that.

Sako Finnwolf

Colt-Sauer rifle in 7 mag, Kimber or Kleingunther 22lr, Colt Python 357.

Back about 1955 I had the coolest Uncle in the world, my Uncle Frank.
Didn't give a sHiz 'bout nothing except hunting and fast cars.
He deer hunted the Adirondacks with an original Henry 44 cal. 17 shot rifle. My Dad use to tell me when a deer passed by his brother Frank, everyone in the Adirondacks heard him shoot that gun 'till it was empty, or the deer fell.

I was staying at my Grandfathers for a while, and one day Uncle Frank came out to shoot some kind of a gun.
He set out some targets at 100 yds, & set up a shooting bench.
I was about 8 years old, so I just climbed up a Cherry tree about 5 yards to his left, and just a slight bit behind the gun. I never heard a high power rifle go off until that day.

He touched the trigger on that old Winchester Mod. 70, and holy jeabus I 'bout crapped my pants right there.
My head was ringing, and I couldn't even cover my ears 'cause I had a death grip on that Cherry tree.
BOOM.. Off it went again, Then BOOM... God, I was in Heaven !!!

After he shot the 3 shots, I slid down the tree, and Looked at that gun in total amazement. I asked Uncle Frank "What kind of gun is that?"

"270 Winchester" He said, and I never forgot those words. I can still remember that like it was yesterday, and it was 60 years ago.
I never could afford one until I was in the Air Force, but my first Sargent sold me a brand new Remington 700 in .270 for $100.00 in 1967.

My Uncle Frank died young from Cancer, but left me a Winchester Mod.70
in 30 Govt' 06 with a barrel dated 1936 !! Ser # 2***. The .270 was a twin to it. They were both stocked by Al Biesen.

Nobody knows what ever happen to that .270 (or the Henry .44). He moved out to Utah for hunting, and it seemed to vanish..

The 30 Govt' 06



And it shoots well (on the left)



I still have the Remington .270 too.

My dad has a .280 rem 700 mountain rifle and growing up as a kid I always admired it. I always wanted a short action though. My first centerfire rifle purchase was my rem 700 bdl stainless 300saum and I have a love affair with that rifle, I won't ever get rid of it.

I really wanted one of my Grandpa's guns, or similar. He ended up giving me his Marlin 336 in .30-30. Awesome!!! I shoot it frequently and hunt with it every year.

I was born in the early 50's and came of age in the 60's reading the gun rags of the day. Even though the Monte Carlo/white line spacers/exotic wood fore end tips were touted in seemingly every article I read, I didn't buy into that style at all. It all seemed kind of kitschy to me even as an impressionable newbie. On top of that, every oater on the big screen had the heros and villains toting Winchester lever guns and Peacemaker Colts. How boring, even though I loved (and still do) western movies. What I lusted after was a Thompson SMG like Vic Morrow carried in "Combat", or failing that, a Garand like the other guys carried. When I learned that my uncle John Lenig was a real life WWII combat hero (Big Red 1, beginning to end) and that he carried an '03 Springfield (infantry scouts got to choose their weapons back then), my dream changed. I haven't been without an '03 in some form or another for over 45 years now.

Which gun? Just about every one I saw. Why do you think I'm on this board? But I'll name a few that I still stick a little harder.
Die hard made me want an AUG and MP5. Didn't know what they were called but I thought they were so cool.
My buddy had a Remington 541S that he out shot me with every time we competed. He wanted to go on some trip and sold it to me for cheap. That's one he's not getting back.
His grandfather's basement was lined with guns that would rival Cabela's trophy room. Literally hundreds of guns. Customs DGR rifles with marble cake stocks, Krieger and Parker shotguns, and just about any store model gun there was.
The one that caught my eye was the Pre-Garcia Sako 308 in a mannlicher stock. It was a beautiful stock, don't know if it was a deluxe model but it had better grain than most deluxe stocks.
When I was in college he sold all of his guns to a collector. I wish I knew because I would have bought that gun. I'm still lusting after one and have a piece of walnut mannlicher length waiting for a build because of that gun.