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Remington Model 700 1991 Stainless synthetic in 270 WCF.

Shot the barrel out and had a new Shilen screwed on. It is now shooting 140gr Nosler AB silvertips into very small groups.

Shot over 4000 rounds through it. Easily another 1000 on the new barrel.

Back in 1977 I bought my wife a model 700 bdl in 243. Once the first grandkids got old enough to deer hunt I bought a youth plastic bdl stock for it. They are still killing whitetails with that rifle.

My first purchase was an SKS when I was 14. I saved for a long time and when I got $79 scratched together my old man took me to the local LGS/Pay Lake. They had raised the prices to $99. Back to work to make $20 then they went up to $119 before he took me back down there. I didn’t think I was ever gonna get ahead of inflation on those! They did throw in a free tent stake though if you remember those times. Still got the rifle and bayonet.

1967 Winchester model 70 in .308 with a Weaver K-4. Just used it hunting for a few years but took it to a few local bullseye turkey shoots and it shot very well. A few more years and the NRA came up with the Sporting Rifle Hi Power matches, again the rifle was a winner...or at least until gamesmanship ruined the sport...guys started having custom rifles built to compete, .221 Fireballs, and .222 Rem's and 6 PPC's. So, real deer rifles became obsolete in just 3 yrs. Still have it, but it is pretty much a 'go to rifle for scope testing' now. It will be passed to the grandsons when the reaper starts doing drive by's.

A new Remington Model 581 Bolt action 22 in 1974. Still as accurate today as it was the day I bought it. It’s taken scads of squirrels, groundhogs, and other vermin over the years. PPaid $95.00 for it.

Rem. 760 30-06 made in 76 and purchased in 77.

Ruger 77/22, bought new in '94.

Bought a NOS, NIB Ruger M77 Tanger in 338 in 2002. Had been on the shelf for who knows how long, SN says it was made in 1988.
I didn't turn 18 till 1994 and the first gun I bought was a '94 from walmart that has since been stolen.

Remington ADL 30.06 i bought in 1978.

If you knew then what you know now, & could start all over again. WOW!!! I see a lot of great memories listed above. We live in different areas of the country & the world , but share a delight in shooting .... Thanks all...

As far as a centerfire rifle, that'd be a Sako Deluxe 375 H&H, left hand in 1996 or 1997.

I bought a brand new, unissued, Finnish M39 in 2014. The rifle was put together in 1970, but it has a Remington receiver which dates it to 1915 - 1917.

A Herter's Model U-9 .30-06 barreled action and semi-inleted stock that I bought and put together in 1967.

It put 29 elk, 2 moose, a mountain goat and an Alaskan caribou in my freezer and some on my walls.

A Ruger 77V tanger in 243 from LGS in '77 is the oldest bought new. I had already bought and sold a number of guns by then

Remington 700 ADL .25-06 at age 17 in 1987. Still have it and still love it.

Winchester Classic in .338 Win Mag. Early 90s.

M700. Dad bought for me in 1962. It’s gotten a new stock and 2 barrels since then. Got my personal best buck with it in December ‘21.

A Winchester mdel 55 self cocking .22 LR - 1957. I was 9. I got to keep it in my bedroom with some cartridges. Previous to that I could keep my .32-20 in my room but the ammo was kept in my parents bedroom.

The Winchester Model 55 (not to be confused with their lever-action rifle) was an open bolt design. It fired 22 short, long, and long rifle. It was a single-shot rifle, with no magazine tube or box magazine in sight. A shell would be loaded by hand, shot, and automatically ejected. There are other notable open bolt 22 rifles out there such as the Marlin Model 50 but that was semi-automatic and fed by a magazine. It was also later regulated due to its potential to be modified to be a machine gun. The Winchester Model 55 got away with its design by making it an open bolt single shot that automatically ejected its empty shell.

About 45,000 rifles were manufactured between 1957 and 1961.

Thiis may not make the cutas my oldest daughteer has it in her gun safe.

The oldest Rifle that I personally bought new was a Remington 700 mountain rifle BDL in 30-06 bought in 1987 or 88

1965 Sako Finnwolf in 308. Bought it new in 2005 I think.