bolt action rifles

[billy]

What bolt gun are you using and why? I have a howa 1500 and rem. ADL both are good shooters and strong actions.

[flintlock]

Ruger M-77, tang safety...I prefer a tang safety, to me its in the right location and it makes it easier to get to for either left hand shooting or right hand shooting, so you can shoot from either shoulder, also with a Ruger the rings come with it and you can check each screw, no need to remove the rings to check bases, they are made together.....

[Rangr44]

I have a very accurate Winchester Model 70 Featherweight Classic in 6.5X55, which I use exclusively for expected longer shots when watching open areas for deer, etc - like fields, power line right-of-ways, etc.

I use other type rifles for still hunting, and still others for sitting posts in buck bedrooms/jungles.

[Graybeard]

Remingtons of course models 7 and 700. You mean someone else makes bolt guns? When did they start doing that. Why would they bother? 

[Coyote Hunter]

.22-250, Ruger M77 MKII VT
.257 Roberts, Ruger M77
7mm Rem Mag, Ruger M77
.308 Win, Remington M700 BDL
.30-06, Ruger M77
.300 Win Mag, Ruger M77 MKII

They are all good rifles, even the Remington.

[poncaguy]

Remington 788 6mm
Winchester Super Shadow 270WSM
Winchester Super Shadow 300WSM
Ruger 77 260 Rem
Ruger 77 Tang safety 22-250
Stevens 200 7-08
Stevens 200 25-06
Mossberg ATR 270
Savage 93 17HMR

[jvs]

Remington ADL - .243
Remington ADL - .30-06 (Peeps)
Marlin MR-7  - .30-06  (By far, the best shooter I own)
Winchester Model 70 Featherweight - .308
Remington 673 - 6.5 Rem Mag
Remington 673 - .308
Springfield 03-A3 - Sporter/Military Match (circa 1967/68)
Remington 700 LSFP BLK - 1:100 Commemorative .30-06 (NIB)
Remington 700 CDL - Commemorative SS/Fluted (NIB)
Savage 340 E - .22 Hornet
(2) Marlin Model 25 - .22

This list would not include the Marlin Lever Guns, Thompson Contenders, Pump/Single Shot or Double Barrel Shotguns, Slug Guns, Turkey Guns, In-lines or Flintlocks.  

The Liberals would say I have an Arsenal, but I think I have a Lifetime Collection.  The bad part is - None of my kids shoot or hunt and the day is soon coming when I will liquidate. 

 

[kudzu]

jvs, I'll help ya and be the heir to your collection and keep your legacy alive !!!!

Ruger 77-17
Ruger M77 - 6mm,308 (MKII)    Ruger 270wsm Lam./SS
Ruger 77 - Tang 270
Rem Sendero 7mmrum & 300rum
Rem 673 300rem saum
Rem CDL SS Fluted 7mag

Misc other 22's and such.

Most every one is a great shooter. All great guns in their own right.

[poncaguy]

I didn't list my 15 Handi rifles and and Encores and Contenders and a bunch of barrels.......cus thay ain't bolt actions......

[Dixie Dude]

I have:
Stainless Ruger 77 in .308
Custom Mauser in 30/06 with iron sights
8 MM Yugo Mauser
Remington 700 in .300 WM

I like the Mauser actions, and I like the stainless Ruger the best, but it doesn't have iron sights.  I like iron sights.  
I like the ease of take down of the Mauser actions for thorough cleaning.  Ruger has a little hole on the back of I think is the sear, just put a small punch, nail or something in it and you can unscrew the rear of the bolt from the bolt to remove the firing pin and spring.  I've never taken apart the Remington.  The two mauser actions I have .  

[jvs]

jvs, I'll help ya and be the heir to your collection and keep your legacy alive !!!!

Ya know, my kids think the same way...

They don't want to buy them either...

They think I should give them away, just because I died...

 

[kudzu]

 

If you would like you could go ahead and ship a few down, that way I could enjoy them NOW. I would feel bad if ya waited until you wasn't here so I couldn't tell just how much I was enjoying them.

[Dixie Dude]

I forgot my Mosin-Nagant carbine. 

[Graybeard]

Some how I guesss I "assumed" the OP was talking about centerfire I guess cuz that's what he listed. But I see some are listing rimfires as well. With that in mind I'd have to toss in Remington (naturally) but also Marlin and CZ. But there are no centerfire bolt guns at my house that aren't Remingtons. Lotsa those tho.

[Redhat]

1. CZ 550 Premium in .270 Win
2. No4 Mk1 Enfield

[3DTESTIFY]

Remington 700BDL in .270 Win.
Remington 700ADL in .243 Win.
Marlin MR-7 in .280 Rem. (my most accurate rifle)
Ruger M77RL Ultralite in .257 Roberts
Ruger M77RSI International in .250-3000 Savage
Springfield 03-A3 sporter in .30-06(of course)

[Dave in WV]

Ruger 77 MKII stainless .243 - because I wanted a stainless .243 when I bought it.

Win M70 stainless classic 30-06 - because I wanted a M70 and a 30-06.

I now hunt more with my Rem 7600 7mm-08 - because I like a pump better than my bolt rifles.

[jvs]

If this keeps up, there's going to be a big run on Marlin MR-7's.

I know they went up $100 over the old MSRP.  Or so it appears on the Auction sites.

[tuck2]

So far I have tied out Cooper, Kimber, Browning, Remington,Winchester,Howa, Parker Hale, Sako, Ruger,and Annie bolt action rifles.  The one I will not sell is my first big game rifle a Winchester Mdl 70 270 Win. that I purchased in 1952.

[ruger438]

sears 53a (Winchester 770) 30-06  my first centerfire
Ruger 77rl ultralight           257 Roberts
Marlin 25mn     
Marlin 917v
Savage 93r17 BTVS

The Sears 53a will put most any 150 or 165 load, factory or handloaded, to the same poi and has shot to many deer to count, and a lot of groundhogs with 125 grn tnt's, so I can never give it up
  The 257 is my "dont like recoil in my old age gun" I like it but hasn't been around long enough to have the memories of the sears.

The marlin 917v is the most accurate rifle I have ever owned
The marlin 25mn has shot more groundhogs than any other rifle centerfire or rimfire so has a permanent home here too
the savage is ok. I'm tall (6'6" ) and the thumbhole stock doesn't seem to fit as well for me in the field, although off the bench it does ok

Looking over this I just realized my most treasured guns are my 2 cheapest the marlin 25mn and the Sears 53a. Go figure, but they have done what was required.

[Slamfire]

Savage 110L of the original design, was a .243, is now a .260.
Obendorf Mauser 96, 6.5x55
Arisaka Type 38 carbines, one rechambered to .260 and one in the original 6.5x50SR.
 

[Brithunter]

Remingtons of course models 7 and 700. You mean someone else makes bolt guns? When did they start doing that. Why would they bother? 

    Well it seems that Remington got into the bolt action thing later than most. Their designs were others as if memory serves, it was the Springfield 03 then the British Enfield that they made although I am not sure that Remington actually made the 03 before WW1. Thier past WW1 designs were blatenly based upon the British P14 Enfield and even the tooling originally came from Britain to make the contract P-14's.

    That Remington make bolt actions in not is question but as to "IF" they make the best is very dubious and open to debate.

    Oh I almost forgot the "other" US bolt action, the Krag, not sure if Remington made any of those but again is was a foreign design and prooved inferior when put to the test against the Mauser 93 used by Spain. This of course resulted in the 03 Springfield and royalties beign paid to Mauser for usign their design concepts.

[Graybeard]

Hmm, Okie but I'm not sure what that history lesson has to do with modern Remington bolt actions like the Models 700 and 7 which I choose over ALL other bolt actions currently or formerly made anywhere. I was merely expressing my personal choice of them over all the rest which is pretty well known already to anyone who reads here very often.

Of the perhaps 100 or more bolt action centerfire rifles I've owned all but a handfull have been Remingtons. I seem to recall two Rugers, one Winchester and really at the moment can think of no other bolt action centerfires that have been owned by me not Remington made. I just don't even consider others when buying.

[Dixie Dude]

If I am not mistaken, Remington made their first push feed bolt action in the 60's in the model 700.  It was easier to manufacture than the Mauser actions of the day.  They are slick actions, I have owned a few and currently own one.  Remington also in my opinion put the best iron sights on their rifles.  Wish they would make them stainless with iron sights.  I like the new 798's also. 

[Slamfire]

If I am not mistaken, Remington made their first push feed bolt action in the 60's in the model 700.  It was easier to manufacture than the Mauser actions of the day.  They are slick actions, I have owned a few and currently own one.  Remington also in my opinion put the best iron sights on their rifles.  Wish they would make them stainless with iron sights.  I like the new 798's also. 

Actually the first push feeds were the 721 (standard length) and 722 (short action), but I think it did take them till 1950 to get them designed and into production.  They were about as pretty as the Savage 40. 

[R.W.Dale]

 I own exactly TWO centerfire bolt guns. A CZ in 7.62x39 and a Savage 340 in 30-30

 I've sold off the majority of by bolt actions and have moved over the T/C Encores

[Brithunter]

Hmmm it might be easier to list those I have which are not bolt action!

Centerfire:-

BSA  1st pat Monarch .270x2
BSA Majestic Featherweight .270
BSA CF2 Stutzen .270
BSA Model E .303
BSA Model D .303
BSA CF2 7x57
BSA No2 pattern .303
BSA Majestic FeatherWeight .243
Parker-Hale 1200V 6mm Rem
Parker-Hale 1200 super 7.92mm (8x57)
Parker-Hale 1100 Deluxe 30-06
Parker-Hale 1100M .458 win
Rigby Mannlicher Mdl 1892 6.5x53R
Steyr Mannlicher Schoenauer Mdl 1903 6.5x54MS
Mauser (Obendorf) Model 96 Slide Bolt 6.5x55
CZ-Brno ZKK 601 .308
DWM M93 (Plezier) 7x57
Husqvarna Mod 46  9.3x57
Medwell & Perritt 30-30
Sportco Model 44 7.62 Nato
Century Arms sporter conversion P-14 .303 IMP
Le No4 Sporting conversion .303
Carl Gustav converted Swedish Mauser 6.5x55


.22 Rimfire:-

BSA No2A pattern
BSA Sportsman Five
BSA Supersport Five (round top reciever)
BSA Supersport Five (flat top dovetailed reciever)
Brno model No2

    So the oldest was made in 1893 and the newest in 1999.

[zasxcd]

For what it is worth:

 From smallest to largest:

   CZ527 .221 Rem
   Rem Model 7 .223 Stainless
   Rem 788 .223
   Rem 788 .25-35 (custom)
   Rem 700 Stainless .257 Roberts
   Turk Mauser with Swede barrel 6.5x55 (custom)
   Rem 700 Classic 6.5x55
   Zastava Mauser 6.5x55 (custom)
   Rem 700 Stainless 7x57 (custom)
   Yugo Mauser 7x57 (sporterized)
   Mark X Zastava 7x57
   Ruger 77 7.62x39
   Rem 700 .308
   Rem 788 .308
   Zastava Mauser .308 (heavy barrel)
   Yugo Mauser .308 (Wilson barrel, sporterized)
   Rem 721 .30-06
   Rem 700 Stainless .30-06
   Springfield 1903 .30-06 (sporterized)
   1917 Enfield .30-06 (sporterized)
   Rem 700 Stainless 8x57mm (custom)
   Yugo Mauser 8x57 (sporterized)
   Yugo Mauser M48BO
   Rem 721 .375 H&H (Rem 700 Stainless barrel)

 This does not include assorted rimfires, semi-autos, lever guns, and single shots, or actions sitting around with no barrels in them.

Why? Simple. If a Remington isn't accurate, it is rarely hard to get it that way. And I'm talking MOA or less every time. I like the extractor of the Mauser, I think it is more long-term reliable (I have had Remington extractors break or stop working). I have had several Ruger bolt center-fires, and never could get any of them to shoot reliably MOA. No experience with other makes, but the CZ550 looks interesting.

[tutti confuso]

at present one of my main bolt rifles i'm using is a Remington 700 vls+an extra stock in .243 win. caliber.. i use it for both varmit an deer,.. a do change to a thumbhole stock for target use on occasions for purposes of testing reloads.. i also have tested scopes with the use of leupold strd. bases an rings   
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What bolt gun are you using and why? I have a howa 1500 and rem. ADL both are good shooters and strong actions.

[Sweet 6.5]

96 6.5 x55
96 6.5 x55
96 6.5 x55


Just wanted to feel how it feels to mention more than one!