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I've got just the one. Kilt my first deer with it. Haven't used it in years but it's the last I'd part with, still love it. It's a .300wm. Carried it since I was 13 years old. Still fits like a glove.
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I inherited one in .338 Win mag - fully tuned - trigger, Magnaport, glass bedded, and very accurate. Six one shot kills in Africa, trophy elk, miscellaneous others. I have already passed it on to my son to keep him from buying another similar rifle - he loves it! So it stays in the family for my grandson to inherit one day.

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Good evening to you, I hope the first week of the year was decent to you and this finds you and all who matter to you well.

Thanks for the thread, it's interesting to read the responses.

While I can only think of two that I've owned personally, I've fooled with a few more and have had a couple shooting and hunting partners run a heavy barrel .220 Swift and a 7mm Rem Mag that both shot very well.

The two that I can think of was a .308 that I sold without shooting as I bought it to move and a Liberty Model that started life in .338 Win Mag.

Somehow it became a bit of a "lucky" rifle for me and even though I built it for shooting mulies across canyons, it's taken more whitetail for me I think, as well as a bull moose.

It's now a .308 Norma and is on it's 3rd stock, the second being a Ramline with the wood grain they offered for awhile and the present one I did up from a Richards semi-inletted blank.



Thanks again to all who've responded, thank you again for the thread and all the best to all.

Dwayne

My first center-fire purchase, in 1978, and still my sentimental favorite. Current one is a short action in 257 Roberts with a McMillan Ultralight stock and Douglas #1 contour barrel.

While I'm very fond of my tanger, the absolute last rifle I'd sell would be my "go-to" .308 boat paddle.

I've got 2 of them. A 220 swift and a 250 Sav. The 250 is a tack driver with 87gr Hornady.

I own 2 a 30-06 that my dad shot only recently tried a load that shot well. My favorite is a “Made in the 200th year of American Liberty” 7mm RM I bought new as a teenager & have killed many truck loads of deer & elk with over the years. It was glass bedded, free floated. Trigger job & a custom muzzle brake added years ago. Sighting in 4 times it’s shot groups you could cover with a dime - it’s the most accurate hunting rifle I’ve ever seen. Zeiss conquests now a Leupold 4.5-14x50 on it now.

Good point. The Mark II has the beloved Boat Paddle. I saw a Boat Paddle .280 at the LGS about ten years ago for $450 with Leupold 3-9. I went home to think about it and went back the next morning for it and it was gone. That still pisses me off

My 257 Roberts is an excellent rifle.

My 7x57 was Purchased new in 84-85 for $275. It will put 139 grain Hornady Interlocks pushed by IMR 4350 into a half inch at 100yds. It puts 140 grain Ballistic Tips pushed by RL-19 into an inch.

Ron

Is that a Pall Mall? That's what I smoked at 13

Still own the one I bought new in 84 or 85 a light weight 308win RSI small in every way except stopping power. The stock look like it has been through more woods than any rifle I own. Probably because it has. Harvested my biggest whitetail and bear to date back in 06 and 09 with it. It doesn't get used near as much as it used to before I had a safe full of more expensive rifles. Of all the game I have harvested I can think of 3 that were out of its range. So I probably could have gotten by with just it all this time I guess that makes me loony. It still shoots great only modification is the trigger spring.

Good luck and shoot straight y'all

My wife won hers with a five dollar raffle ticket. 243 win.bedded, and trigger. Put together by the OIT gun club and gunsmith class. I only used it once and killed an Antelope, in the Juniper unit! Nice rifle that I have to borrow😏, she keeps a close eye on it!

I bought my first one in 1972 after I returned from RVN the second time,. It was a Christmas present to myself. It was/is an M77RS Flatbolt in .350RemMag. I bought it from Sears in Fayetteville, NC for $165. It's taken bunch of game. Since then I've probably owned close to a hundred. I had a big Flatbolt collection of all the calibers and configurations, plus a bunch more. In 2012 I started selling them off, keeping the ones dear to me. I only have a few left. All shot well except an M77RL in .257R that on its best day was a 3MOA rifle. Rough inside the barrel from the factory, and an M77RSI in 7mm-08 that was almost as bad. I still buy one now and then. I usually deer hunt with an M77R flatbolt in .270Win and elk hunt with a re-barreled 7Mag flatbolt that is now a .300WinMag (Ruger stainless barrel). Both are easy MOA with handloads and 1.5 with factory fodder. But, this year I broke out the KM77RS Zytel in .30-06 to take a spike elk.

My first rifle was a M77 Ruger 270 Win with a tanger safety. When I went to buy my second rifle Ruger moved on to the M77 MK II. I really liked that gun.

Yep mine was a 6mm, still got it.

Dad bought me a .243 when I was 12. He traded it in for a 7x57 when I took up with his .30-06. I have shot deer with a 7mm rem mag , antelope with a .338 win mag. All are gone save the 7x57. My dad made numerous good shots on driven deer with it and I have shot two shells at game with that have resulted in two dead elk..........It will probably be last of the guns to leave my hands....and as a side note ,it shoots ok but never great.

2 Tangers - a 77R with a Douglas 338-06 & a RL 308 that has been my go-to tracking rifle for a few years now. Both are great. Have several more MkII - I like the true crf if the mkIi but miss the nostalgia of the tanger. All are solid workhorses.

Oh and this lil 270 I just bought..

Yeah if I saw that in the LGS I would snap it up