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Whats your favorite rifle that isn't a Winchester? Do you have one or are you fiercely loyal to the big red W? This is actually a tough one for me because my favorite rifle is always the next one. Right now it would be a custom Ruger #1 7MM/08 but there is always another one in the works.

Can't think of anything.

That is a tough call, I do like all of these from a McAusland Sharps to Whitney Kennedy SRC to Colt lightning SRC to Sakos and even this George Daw SXS...

GSPfan: Nope the pre-64 Winchester Model 70 is my favorite Rifle!
They are safe, well made, accurate, strong, reliable, well balanced and handsome Rifles.
They are just cool Rifles.
And they hold a lot of bullets!
They are the 1957 Chevrolet fuel-injected Bel-Airs of the Rifle world.
I own about 5 dozen of them right now and I just might be buried with one?
I own MANY other brands and models of Rifles and NONE of them even come close to my Model 70's in the "favoritism" scale!
I do have two "kind of favorites" Rifles that I shoot regularly (a time or two a year) - I favor them for their amazing accuracy and reliability, and they look pretty cool: one is a Remington XR-100 in 204 Ruger and the other is a Remington 40XB-BRKS in 22 Remington Bench Rest.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Some fine looking stuff here!!!

savage 99 barrelband in 250/3000

or a 35 remington in a 141 pump

awesome pics fireball and shrapnel

That's quite a collection of Savage rifles there Fireball.

Good thread buddy. I think we've done this before, but I'll play along since I love most guns. I'm not just a Winchester snob.... This can also get tough because I don't really have any favorites. They are like kids to me and I can't bring myself to say I have 1 favorite kid. When I think "favorite", it always begs the question: Will I ever get rid of this rifle. Since we are not talking pre 64 model 70's, this is my favorite:

Shotgun. I've won $1,000.00's with this thing. All those years standing in Annie lines next to guys toting $10-$15,000.00 Perazzi's asking me why I brought my "duck" gun to a money shoot. Yeah, I love taking those old fu cks money:


My bowling pin guns. Because they always work with no failures (just like my pre 64's). I'll never get rid of my 4506 and the 4006 is a close second:



As for "favorite rifles"......There isn't much better out there than the pre 64 model 70. I could give the rest away before I let the pre 64's go...

Jeez I didn't even think of shotguns, now that's a whole another kettle of fish:)

Ruger #1 in .264 WM

Sorry, I was having a damn hard time finding a rifle that was my favorite non pre 64 model 70. I let this one go:

CZ 550 American 9.3x62mm. It shot ok for a big gun:




I hunted it, but hated the safety lever, so I sold it. Nuff said.

For my screen names sake: BSA model D 30-06 factory sporterized m1917. I shot my best offhand group of my life with this rifle (1.005" 5 shot group) and it handled like a dream for those offhand running shots on deer. This one was someone else's "favorite" rifle. I found that out when I sold it on gunbroker and an old boy from Oregon bought it from me. I asked him if he wanted to see targets of how the rifle shot and he said, "I know it's a tack driver, it's my old rifle".....Glad to see that one go back to one of its original owners :


I shot one of these bucks in a blinding snow storm in '09. He was running with 2 does at 90 yards and the ol BSA did the job with great precision:


Been working with a good shooting Ruger M77 MKII .223 Rem:



It shoots good, but I hate the 2 stage trigger. Even though I have it adjusted to the nats azz. It's just not a finely tuned pre 64 model 70 trigger.. Never will be either..

That 9.3X62 is a shooter BUT I give the guy behind the trigger a lot of credit also. A rifle is only as good as the guy behind it.

Always had a thing for Remington Model 14 carbines....

I love my Tikka T3 Superlite 270 Win. Killed several Caribou with it, a couple Sitka Blacktails, and a Cross Fox. It's been sitting in my safe unused since the AF moved me to Maryland.



My Ruger M77 30-06 will always have a spot as well, I shot my first caribou with it, and my first bear. It's not a big one, but I worked really hard to get him, and he made some good eating.

I like Remington M/30 and M/722's, Springfield 1903 customs and Springfield 1922M2 to name just a few. BRNO .22 cal., Steyr Zephyr .22 and Anschutz 54 Sporter are a few more fine rifles.

My favorite rifle is the pre-war Model 70s. I do have rifles that are favorites due to sentimental reasons, but hands down, the pre-wars are my #1 favorite hunting rifle.

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I'd have to pick the GI issue Smith-Corona M1903A3.

I have 2 non Winchester rifles that I like, a tricked out tang 77V, ROBAR blueprinted and screwed a Schneider USMC over run barrel on in 308, I hate to say its my most accurate but it is in top 5, BUT I have 1500 early 90's dollars in it!

Second is a C ring, Step barrel Mauser that a Col in the military had ziess clawmounts and some Austrian carve a stock for in the late 50's best I can tell, its in .270 Win and I like it... very best WinPoor