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What with 700's being the first three posted at least I am not going to participate in this thread. LOL.

.44 Mag Marlin 1894S. My wife bought it new at Wally World back in 1995. My birthday present that year.
It just keeps thumping deer and hogs dead.

All mine are very good...

My best is a 15yr old MGA 338WM

It is just what I want in a rifle.


Snake

Win M70 FWT, 270 wcf.
A christmas present from my brother in 1995.Shoots sub MOA with 130gr Partitions and with it killed my biggest mule deer.
Nice, dependable rifle.

Springfield 30/06 M1 re- barreled in '56
If I do my part, it'll hold X's at 600 yards
If I get the wind right off Lake Erie!

my old 336 30-30

Kind of a thought provoking question, normally it's "best", or "favorite" rifle.

Let's see, trustworthy - I'd say either a k98 Mauser, or Ruger #1.

Bought new in 1972, M700 BDL 270. Now in a B&C Alaskan stock( TI takeoff with BDL cutout) and a Pac-Nor tube. After using it this many years it'd better be trustworthy!
Ruger 257 Roberts is catching up for local use but the ol 270 still holds top spot for all around use.

This old FrankenFAL I screwed together a decade or so ago,...goblins, griz, or the 300 yard gong. It'll do it all.

1970s remmy 788 in .308

nothin fancy, always dependable- even after being my test bunny for 20 years worth of reloading. Still my goto deer stick.

what a piece o crap.

This 1952 Savage 99EG in 300 Savage. It kills...
Bought used here on the fire. Easy to carry and kill with.

I go through a lot of rifles. Couldn't think of one that particularly stands out. Then I realized there's one I totally overlooked.

The rifle is a Winchester model 1906 pump .22 "gallery rifle." It was given to me about 40 years ago, somewhere around my 8th birthday, by my father and my grandfather (mom's dad). I did most of my early shooting under my great-grandfather's (dad's mom's dad) watchful eye.

Trustworthy .. because we've been over more hills and through more woods (and to grandmother's house more times) than I can begin to count. I have no idea how much use it'd had before I got it, but it was well worn then and I've put over 100,000 rounds through it since. It still shoots CCI mini mag hollowpoints into about 1/3 of an inch at 25 yards with the coarse iron sights. It just ... works.

Tom

My Ruger No. 1 RSI 30-'06 with my VX II 3X9. I would post pics but it's a PITA with a Mac on this site.

Mine is a Mex Mauser in 7x57 I made about 30 years ago.It has never failed yet.Wait a minute I just jinxed myself.

Kimber Classic 300 Win Mag..or, any of the other safe dwellers.

I won't keep a rifle that is not trustworthy. I'll repair them, or sell them. I use different rifles for different things - much like golf clubs (my wife wishes I'd limit myself to 14 guns, er, clubs)!

Mark

All of 'em. Broke gets fixed, case closed. Some get more use than others but that is driven by application, not function or capability.

A Rem 700 CDL 243 when I was 13 to 16 when what you ate came out of the garden or what was eating your garden. A dozen deer a year+ he!! We were so poor we even ate the whistle pigs I killed for a local farmer. Don't ever remember missing. One day I even hit a milk jug that was a 2 min drive away on the tractor. Pure luck. Best I can remember I was throwing about out there about 8 feet of hold over. Pure luck. Pre Internet, pre ballistic calculators just got lucky