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Best looking? Anything that is my most accurate.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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A Pre64 M70 fwt in a great classic walnut stock.
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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A Pre64 M70 fwt in a great classic walnut stock. Works for me, too.
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steelie, you have the winner ...
abiding in Him,
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My head gets turned by a number of rifles, for different reasons:
Winchester 1885
Stevens 44 1/2
Shiloh 1874 sporting rifle #1
Marlin 39A with receiver sight.
Savage 99EG
several others.
Depends on my mood. Keep them simple with classic lines, and understated. I don't lust for fancy walnut or engraving, just nicely proportioned straight grained stuff. I'll take the fiddle back maple on my flinters.
"Behavior accepted is behavior repeated."
"Strive to be underestimated."
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1950 M70 Supergrade. New in box. Can't bear to shoot it. It's flawless in my mind. It can only go down from there.
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Sako 85 Deluxe or weatherby MK V Deluxe in a standard caliber...............547.
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This old gal is easy on the eyes ; Savage 99F in 358 Win ![[Linked Image]](http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s5/6mm250/DSCF0623.jpg) Mike
Always talk to the old guys , they know stuff.
Jerry Miculek
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Campfire 'Bwana
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A Pre64 M70 fwt in a great classic walnut stock. Not much doubt there....I'd add about any pre 64 M70 or reworked M98 Mauser with a good metal job,and stocked in French by a top end maker like Fisher,Goens, etc in the Classic style.The Mausers particularly are really good looking done right. Even some synthetic-stocked rifles are good looking,and among contemporary stuff no one makes a sharper looking Rem 700 than Carl Kampfeld IMO.And some of the paint jobs from McMillan and others are nice looking in a contemporary sort of way.....
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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Campfire Greenhorn
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Benelli R1 
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf...George Orwell.
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Benelli R1 Aaarghhhh! Gargoyle gun! Gargoyle gun! The most hideous of the hideous! I KNOW your comment was tongue in cheek, mine wasn't!
You can roll a turd in peanuts, dip it in chocolate, and it still ain't no damn Baby Ruth.
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Campfire Oracle
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In a factory rifle...I'd say Ruger #1-S Medium Sporter.. Other than factory....something that says "Rigby" on it and has a bolt sticking out the side... Ingwe
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Benelli R1 Aaarghhhh! Gargoyle gun! Gargoyle gun! The most hideous of the hideous! I KNOW your comment was tongue in cheek, mine wasn't! The Benelli is ugly, but do really think it's uglier than the Blaser? Now that's one ugly chunk of metal and wood!!
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Retired and Loving It!!
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1950 M70 Supergrade. New in box. Can't bear to shoot it. It's flawless in my mind. It can only go down from there. Horseman, you are a man of great wisdom.
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Ruger #1's and Weatherby for me.
Ugliest?
Blaser
H&R/NEF
TC's---not the icon
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Retired and Loving It!!
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These, plus the ones that Forrest B, and TC1 (Terry) have made. ![[Linked Image]](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb37/Donald4802/StephenHeilmann250Sav.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb37/Donald4802/Ottmar7x57.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb37/Donald4802/BobOwenSpringfieldSptr.jpg) The center rifle was made by Maurice Ottmar, and the bottom rifle is a Bob Owen.
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Don Buckbee
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I almost said a double rifle but the Ruger #1-A or maybe the RSI are light weight things of beauty...
Bob
If you can not deal with reality, reality will deal with you....
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Custom Ruger #1's are particularly easy on the eyes, IMO
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