My Dad was, and still is a bolt guy above all else. His main deer rifle was a Ruger 77 in 25-06 when I was a kid. He also had a couple of sporterized Japs he built into a 260 (6.5-308 back then) and .308 that he used once in a while. For small game, he had an old Anschutz bolt and a Win 9422.
Most of my uncles were lever guys. The two that hunted with us most both carried Marlins, one was a 30-30, the other was a 35 Rem. They both used Marlin 39s for small game.
Neither of my grandads hunted much, but they both had a couple cheap shotguns and 22 rifles.
