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A SMLE MK(pick one), can't get any plainer that. Sportered or not. Damn near every fella in this country has had, haves, or should have one. Fixed 4X, or peeps, and your GTG.
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Rem 700 BDL. Monte Carlo stock, fake black forend spacer with white plastic line. Plastic buttstock and grip cap. And yes enough high gloss finish on the stock to signal overhead planes. Still got it too  That,s what Im talking about  I think they made that finish when Dupont owned them shiny as Jeff Gordon's car
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Pre-64 M70 Fwt, it was never a fancy rifle.
For a shotgun, a Winchester Super X Model 1 w/ 28" mod choke field grade. Not fancy but it fits me like no other.
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!
Stolen from an erudite CF member.
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Never had issues with the old M788s I burned so much ammo through. And my old 870 still steps up as required. Figure I'll keep the M670 for one of my boys; it has been too useful for bringing home the needed protein when called upon. And then there's the M94s...
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
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yep I'm in the 870 fan club as well, but lordy she don't get exercised much anymore.
and the M94 works
"This ain't dress rehearsal....it's the life you get to live, make it a good one."
TEAMWORK = a bunch of people doing what I say
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Pre 64 mod 70, of course
J C Higgins 50, 30-06-- a real favorite
Rem 870
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My trusty circa '72 model 70 PF in .264WM...
Ex- USN (SS) '66-'69
Pro-Constitution.
LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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Pre-64 Model 70 bought new in 1961, Winchester Model 50 that belonged to my grandfather and my uncle.
Ben
Some days it takes most of the day for me to do practically nothing...
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ADK4Rick: I would not describe my choice as "plain Jane" - I would describe it as the most beautiful, safe, strong, accurate and reliable factroy Rifle ever made - the one and only "Rifleman's Rifle" - THE Winchester pre-64 Model 70!
I own quite a bunch of them and have Big Game Hunted and Varmint Hunted with them for many decades now!
Never once in all that time and with all those Rifles incurring a malfunction or a problem of any kind!
Yep "off the rack" I wish this Rifle WERE still today!!!
Long live the "Rifleman's Rifle"!
I don't like shotguns much and only own one as of today but I prefer to shoot the Remington 870 of mine which I bought long before 1985.
I do, though, very much admire and wish I had back the Winchester pre-64 Model 12 "Duck Gun" (3" Magnum!) I owned and Hunted with when I was a very young man!
Interesting inquiry - I am now going to read the other replies on this thread.
Hold into the wind
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KCBighorn & Jcdixon: That "finish" on those older Remingtons was in fact the same finish that was applied to bowling pins of that era!
I believe they (the Remington folks) called it by this set of letters "RKW".
The RKW finish indeed was not dull but it was impervious to water and lots of rough treatment!
Hold into the wind
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My favorites:
Colt Sauer
Weatherby Mark V Deluxe
Remington 700 BDL
Model 70 XTR
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Me, I like my 721 in 270. I loce that gun and wouldnt trade it for the world!
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Favorite? Remington M760ADL in 30-06 circa 1976. The '17 Enfield next to it is circa July, 1918. ![[Linked Image]](http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq62/chadwed/M99023.jpg)
Karma and Trouble have busses, and there's always an empty seat.
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I can easily live with the Ruger M77 or Winchester PF Featherweight or even the (blush) old XTR.
NRA LIFE MEMBER
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS
ESPECIALLY THE SNIPERS!
"Suppose you were an idiot And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself."
-Mark Twain
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They don't get no plainer than a 1948 Rem 722 in 300 Savage. That's my favorite. This is plain, no checkering, nothing but low brow Walnut for a stock... ![[Linked Image]](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb37/Donald4802/DSCF0200-1.jpg)
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They don't get no plainer than a 1948 Rem 722 in 300 Savage. That's my favorite. This is plain, no checkering, nothing but low brow Walnut for a stock... that is what I'm talking about!gorgeous rifle,did they make that in .243? if so I'm gonna hunt one down for the boy.
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savage 99's
win mod 70 pre 64
ithaca mod 37
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I LOVE MY COUNTRY IT'S THE GOV'T I FEAR
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My Marlin Model 444.Bought it new in 1970(I was 14),my first rifle.
Set me back a bit.Saved my paper route money,a wopping $115.00 NIB.
Now THOUGHS were the days.
Sorry,I drank the Sako-Aid.My opinion may be biased.
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I love my 722 257 Roberts even though it has custom shop wood and checkering.
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Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. - Henry David Thoreau
The best part of hunting and fishing was the thinking about going and the talking about it after you got back. - Robert Ruark
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You guys are all wrong . . . . .
Its the Savage Model 24 in 20 gauge - 30/30.
Nothing else is a Rifle/Shotgun.
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