what is your favorite gun. make and model, caliber

[doghouse95]

The rifle I grab most often is a Remington Mountain Rifle that started life as a 280, but now is 280AI.  
It has a Vais brake on the front end.
Bedded action and pillar bedded.
Trigger is like glass and set at 2.3#.
It wears a Shepherd P1, and it shoots 170 CT's in the little circles out to 800 yards.
I have a safe full of rifles, but this is the one that's like pointing my finger, and when I think about it, it just goes off.
Ready to hunt it is about seven and a half pounds.

[Squeeze]

If limited to bolt guns, Tikka Whitetail Hunter Deluxe, SS Laminate, in .25-06 Rem.
It prints such pretty pictures on paper!

Squeeze

[huntsman]

I know this is going to sound insane next to all those smashingly handsome, intensely engineered, and rather expensive rifles mentioned above, but it is the truth. For the sheer joy of shooting and carrying it, I can't beat the little 6.5x55 Swedish mauser M96 sporterized by Kimber of America with a stainless barrel and ramline synthetic stock. It's not fancy, but it feels so good in the hands and on the shoulder, is very quick and lightweight, and it is very accurate. I can carry it all day and shoot it all day, too. And last but not least, it WILL bring home the bacon! If I had to reduce my arsenal to one gun, this would be it.

[Mikey]

I dunno, maybe one of my 8mm Mausers, or one of my 303s, or maybe my 6.5 Swede, maybe my M70-06, er maybe my Destroyer Carbine.  This is the Bolt Action Forum, so that leaves out a bunch.  This is tough!  Why do you guys always ask trick questions?  Why does it always have to be just one (HA! Just one in each hand?  Just one in each case?  Just one in each caliber - got it.)  OK, got it.  Yep!  Right!  One in each caliber.  OK now - small bore, medium bore or big bore???    :-D    :lol:   .  Mikey.

[Camp Cook]

There is absolutely no way that I could just pick one! How you guys can bewilders me...... Every one of my guns is my favorite!!!!! Couldn't live without any of them!!!! "OH NO"!!!!!!!!! Have to go home now!!!!!!! Miss guns!!!!!!!! Going through withdrawl!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cam

[Fla Brian]

Guys,

I've gotta ride this trail with Camp Cook. There's no way I can look at my lovely rifles and pick just one. Think of the hurt feelings of the ones rejected! I don't want to give them inferiority complexes after all. Then they'd probably stop shooting straight for me.

I'll tell ya, the last time I had a single favorite was when I had just one, and it is a Remington 700BDL in .30-06. I took my first deer with it.

Now I have a bunch more that are all my favorites, each and every one.

[Mainspring]

Currently, I'm pretty fond of my Mauser (19)96 straight pull .30/06.  Don't see many of those around deer camp.  I'd like to try one of those Browning straight pulls, but I like the Mauser.  The Sig Blaser has also caught my eye, but the price tag will keep me at bay for a long time to come.

[Dwarfmiester]

Talk about a tough one, most of the time I'm hunting Squirrels or Woodchucks.  About 5 years ago I bought a Ruger M77/22 Hornet, since that day I haven't used the .243 Win, the .223 Rem, the .270 Win, and I sold the .22 Mag and the .222 Rem.  So if you mean the one I carry all over the place it must be the Hornet.  For the bushy-tails a 40 gr. Sierra over 3.5 gr. of Unigue flattens them, a lot more power than even a .22 Mag with more range also.  There are a lot of places I feel more comfortable with a .22 Lr because of the range factorbut that's it's only drawback.  By the way the trigger job was worth every penny it cost me.

[THE#1hunter]

My Winchester Model 70 featherweight in .270