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Something like one of Hunter's doubles, to take on a buffalo hunt would be kinda cool.
Something from Corbett would be really awesome!
That said, I'm perfectly happy with my dad's Win M88.
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I would like to own the rifle Timothy Murphy used at the battle of Saratoga during the Revolutionary war.
That way, the world would KNOW what rifle he actually used.
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George Washington ordered a best quality Pennsylvania Rifle from all of his wages as General during the Revolutionary War.
I think that would do...
Crowkiller's percussion rifle that's at Cody would be no. 2.
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Phil Shoemaker'd "old ugly" 458 Win Mag
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The muzzleloading rifle that David Crockett carried to the Alamo.
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Bell recorded all of his kills and shots fired. It was a business to him, not pleasure, and he needed to record expenditures�
� He shot exactly 1,011 elephants with a series of 6 Rigby-made 7x57mm (.275 Rigby) rifles with 173 grain military ammo. � He shot 300 elephants with a Mannlicher-Schoenauer 6.5x54mm carbine using the long 159 grain FMJ bullets. � He shot 200 pachyderms with the .303 and the 215 grain army bullet. � He went to a .318 Westley Richards for a while, which is a cartridge firing a 250 grain bullet at about 2400 fps, but found the ammunition unreliable and returned to the 7mm. � He also recorded that one of the reasons why he favored the 7x57 was that the ammunition was more reliable and he could not recall ever having a fault with it. Whereas British sporting ammunition, apart from the .303 military ammo, gave him endless trouble with splitting cases.( He used the .303 in the hope of running into a Herd of Bulls so he could make use of the 10shots ! He was famed for using a Martini in .303 & holding the spare rounds between his fingers & could fire the rifle as fast as a bolt action !) � The balance of his elephants were shot with this .318 and his .450/400 Jeffrey double rifle. � He wrote about being able to drop an elephant with a light caliber rifle if he shot it in the same place that he would have shot it with a heavy rifle. � It was unmentioned, but understood, that 7x57 ammunition cost a tenth the price of large caliber .450/400 Jeffrey cartridges and money is always a factor in business. Just out of interest, it is must to be mention that to judge ammunition expenditure and his own shooting, he calculated an average. He discovered that with the .275 (7x57mm) he fired an average of 1.5 shots per kill. This means that half the time he only needed one shot. That is a fair performance for such a large number of elephants killed and considering that it is common today to fire an insurance shot, anyway. Seemingly a business man of a Hunter with a profit & loss acumen.
As for an infamous gun, I'd take the 6.5 Carcano Oswald used to kill Kennedy.
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Ross Seyfried's .340 Champlain
JB's .338 Mr. Miserable (just layin' around wastin' away!)
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TR's Springfield 1903 he took on the great 1909 Safarl
Bell's .275 Rigby
Paul Mauser's Model 1888 sporting rifle
Steve Timm's .280 Ackley
I have a .340 Wby that belonged to John Barsness
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A G&H 03 Springfield 35 Whelen and a G&H Mauser 9.3x62.
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Audie Murphy's M1. Failing that, Harvey Donaldson's first .219 Wasp. Third choice would be Nash Buckingham's Bo Whoop.
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Hathcock's Model 70 30-06
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�Somebody� fired at shot at Lexington in 1775 that started a revolution� I want that rifle.
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I don't think that the rifles themselves were famous but since I used to really enjoy their writing there are two that would make my list. Erwin Bauer's 243 and his use of it on deer, back when it was considered too small, would be one. His writing inspired me to purchase and find out for myself that you can really get it done with that small cartridge. Jim Carmichel was IMHO another great gunwriter and he loved the 280, even though the public seemed to have no love for it, so one of his 280's would be something special to me. Because of my love of hunting and guns ALL of my fathers, grandfathers, wife's father, and wife's grandfathers guns are now in my possession. They are all special to me and are earning a place in my grandsons heart.
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Phil Shoemaker'd "old ugly" 458 Win Mag +1.
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T.R.`s Win.95 405 WCF Crowkiller Johnson`s Hawken and Bowie My late Fathers Garand from IWO JIMA.
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macabre, but Vasily Zaytsev's Mosin
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Ross Seyfrieds 585 Nyati, I have held it and its spectacular! Second choice would be Elmer Keiths .333 O.K.H.
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MO2AZ,
Finn Aagaard did not have his .375 Model 70 buried with him. His wife Berit has used it considerably on buffalo hunts in the past couple of years.
I got to shoot it a number of times down in Texas about 3-4 years ago, thanks to Berit. We shot it at a "charging buffalo" moving target, and it acted like a trained rifle! Very slick action and with the 2.5x Weaver it was easy to hit the right spot.
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