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Browning A-Bolt stainless stalker chambered in 300 or 338 win. mag. I never have owned one, but when I was younger that's what I wanted.

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A Hershel House flintlock, Winchester 92 and 73, and Remington model 121 .22 are the main ones I remember.

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When I was a kid I used to read a Browning catalog and had it memorized. I could tell you about finely checkered French Walnut etc.
There was a gunshop that had a Belgian FN actioned Browning Safari Grade 30-06 hanging on the wall.
It was beautiful but cost $232.50 which was as much as a used car.
Many years later I found one at a gun show all rusty. I had it reblued at Ahlmans in Morristown and the metal looks like new. I left the stock alone.
I still think it is almost to nice to hunt with.
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Originally Posted by MojoHand
When I got old enough to hunt in N. Wisconsin (late 80's early 90's) I started off with a Rem 600 in .35 Rem (still have it--serial # low 2000's). Probably just about perfect for the environment but of course it seemed too outdated and old and my older buddy (now my BIL) shot a .30-06 and was always telling me how anemic the .35 was!

I still remember the rifle I absolutely lusted after in my early teens was a Rem 7 in 7-08. I loved the trim size, schnabel foreend and the 7-08 seemed to be everything awesome to a young boy's mind. Read every article I could on the rifle and cartridge and mostly remember Layne Simpson singing its praises. (As a side note, I actually wrote two letters about the Rem 600 and the .35 Rem to Simpson's Q&A column in Shooting Times and had both answered in the magazine--quite a thrill for a young kid!).

Never got a Model 7 but I did eventually get a 7-08 (in a beautiful Kimber, no less) but eventually sold it and have even 'regressed' acquiring a 7x57! grin

So what was high on your wish list as a young hunter and did the dream ever come to fruition or did you move on?


Dad's rifle, his only gun, was a Winchester. And I thought that machine, a Model 62 pump 22 was the neatest firearm. Consequently, it wasn't much of a leap to accept the 'wisdom' of Jack O'Connor and his praises of the Model 70 and the 270 cartridge. That was my dream, a M70 chambered in 270.

My first CF rifle when I could afford one, was a M70A in 222. There was nothing about that rifle that was very endearing. my second and third were a M670 in 30-06 and a M788 in 223 (with a few inches of cobblestone near the muzzle). Both were better rifles than the 222. The only 270 I've owned has been a Ruger #1-A I bought 'cheap' on Gunbroker. It was a new, rifle with a broken rear sight that a gunshop apparently didn't want to mess with. My 10-year old learned to shoot CF with that rifle and killed his first moose with it.


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Winchester Model 70 pre 64 in 270 Win. Have had several and sold them all for the newer version in Featherweight and 7-08...love it.


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A Winchester 64. I shot my first deer with my dad's 94, but I handled a 64 at a gun show and it felt very nice and had a certain elegance. Would probably cost me my left ring finger if I bought one today wink


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Originally Posted by Idared
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So what was high on your wish list as a young hunter and did the dream ever come to fruition or did you move on?


When I was a young hunter in Wisconsin I coveted the local fur buyers Winchester 86 in 40-82 caliber. The tales he told about it made it sound like some sort of magic and made me think of my 30-30 as so inadequate. I never did get a 40-82 but did manage to acquire a Winchester 71 in 348. Eventually I came to realize just how much hype "ole Charlie" had poured into my young mind about the virtues of the 40-82, but I still wish I had one today. laugh


Imagine my surprise, a few years ago, to be strolling the tide washed beach in a lonely spot along the Bering Sea, and to find this in the mud:

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Alongside a 45-70 case (on the left)

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Very cool Klick!



Anyway this is not a rifle, but Jim Carmichael had me dreaming of the .280 Remington cartridge as a kid. Never got one though.

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As a kid I wanted a Marlin 39A. By the time I hit my mid-teens I wanted a JOC 270.


Anybody who seriously concerns themselves with the adequacy of a Big 7mm for anything we hunt here short of brown bear, is a dufus. They are mostly making shidt up. Crunch! Nite-nite!

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Started shooting in the 1960s...for a centerfire hunting rifle nothing to me compared to the Remington 600 .350 Remington Magnum...but I got scared off that by the gun writers of the time who said it kicked too much, too much muzzle blast, too light, too short, too short a barrel, too short an action, blaa blaa blaa blaa blaa....finally got one after 30 years of shooting to find out they were all full of it.

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Teddy Roosevelt's 1895 Winchester .405, or his Centennial Model Winchester.

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