Favorite Guns

[kynardsj]

I guess we all have them. Sometime back I bought a Savage Model 16 in 308. It has the accustock and accutrigger. Put a 4x16x50 scope on it and with my handloads it'll shoot sub moa at 100 yards. Shot my first deer with it this last season. Then I received my 20 inch 45 LC barrel for my Encore and saw that it too shoots great with my hot 45 reloads. Here I am with a rifle that'll do a fantastic job at 3 and 4 times the distance and I always find myself taking the 45 hunting. This is also at times I know I'll be covering an area that the 308 would be better. I just like carrying the 45. One of my friends is the same way. He has a Remington 700 in 7mm-08 that'll drive tacks and still 99% of the time will carry his Marlin 30-30.

[Old Fart]

Man I have several. 
 
I think my H&R Buffalo Classic is my favorite big bore, a little rough on the shoulder at times.
Have a Sako 7 mag that is a tack driver, but like the BC doesn't take all day to get all you want.
I picked up a 17 hmr Savage a while back that's a hoot to shoot.
A little Henry lever in 22lr that gets lots of use when I can.
Past that I really enjoy all of them.
 

[Conan The Librarian]

My criterion is that I would want to be buried with it. Beretta 20 gauge Silver Pigeon O/U. My best gun ever.

[Sourdough]

Guess you could say I'm a gun collector.  I've got over 80 long guns.  Semi Autos, Pumps, Lever guns, Bolt Actions, and single shots.  All do what they were built for well.  At different times I was partial to each.  But in the later years I started leaning to the single shots.  Got a TCR with 7 barrels, 22-250 thru .338 win mag, love the TCR.  Would take it to Moose camp with the 12ga barrel to shoot grouse and ducks.  Then when someone broke their gun, forgot or lost their shells. I would change the barrel and let them use the TCR.  Then One year someone got a little rough with the TCR and I decided to get something else as a spare gun.

I bought an H&R Handi in 30-06, sent it back and had a 20ga barrel fitted.  Fell in love with the Handi, and have bought 8 more.  Handi's are my go to gun when I go out.  90% of the time a Handi is in my hands.  If it is not my main gun, there is always one there as back up.  When I am hunting Moose and Bears during the fall I carry a Ruger .338 win mag, or a Weatherby .338/378.  But the Handi 30-06 is always in the trailer or on the Wheeler.   

[kennyd]

Hard to really figure which one.  I do know that every year the Savage 24; 3030/20 will be in as a grouse/elk gun.  The other that will always make the trip of the handi in 45-70.  After that I have a choice of a Win 94, Savage 99, Handi on .243 or 25-06 a Remington 30 in -06, or a Ruger 1 in 7mag. 
For a short gun I favor a ruger Security 6, it takes little room so the wife doesn't know it is along, and it will take care of any need I could imagine.

[Wyo. Coyote Hunter]

  These are always fun things to think about...favorites can be because of a previous owner, or the things you have done and places you have gone with a weapon that makes it a favorite..
My list is pretty long, and as someone put it my favorite is the one in my hand at the moment..but long time favorites are:
1. a 5 screw K-22 that shoots super, and at one time belonged to my old trap shooting buddy..who is no longer with us...
2. a 22/32  that belonged to my dad..
3. a S & W Highway Patrolman in both 4 " and 6 " beause they shoot sooooo well...
4. a Marlin 39a 22. have own one since I was 18...
5. a 700 .222, my favorite p. dog rifle
6. a 700 in .22-250 on its third barrel, it has killed thousands of varmits and quite a bit of big game...
7. a 700 in .25-06 a great coyote rifle and large varmit rifle..use it some for deer/antelope, but like it best on varmits...
8. a 54 30-06..my first serious game rifle, my grandfathers, and my first custom stock by a good friend who died too soon
9. 700 in .300 Win.. we have been from Alaska to Texas, East coast to West coast, Canada, and Africa together..always deadly
10. 870 12 ga. field..owned since the middle 70's it has travel with me almost as much as the .300...I guess it has coverd the same amount of ground... it has shot thousands of rounds of shells at trap, skeet, varmits, and everything from quail to geese and wild turkey

[Spirithawk]

 I have several but here's my favorites;
 T/C Encore 209 x 50 & .270
Mossberg 835 3 1/2" mag 12 ga
Colt 1960 Old Army .44
Colt 1847 Walker .44
Kel Tec P.32
Kel Tec PF-9

[kynardsj]

Wyo. Coyote Hunter made me think of something. I don't hunt with it anymore but one gun I would never sell is a double barrel Stevens 20 guage that my grandfather gave me when I was 8 years old. I lost him 5 years later. It's as solid as it was then but I just don't use it. That's been 51 years ago and it's still hard to think of him without the tears. I'll pass it on down to my grandson when I think he's ready.

[S.S.]

1944 GM M1 carbine
plain jane 1911 A1
FN model 1949 7mm Mauser
HK 91 7.62x51
Beretta model 1951 9mm
.58 caliber Zouave
.31 caliber Baby Dragoon Model 1849
And most others that have ever been manufactured

[Wyo. Coyote Hunter]

  kynardjsy, exactly..have my grandfathers Fox  12 ga.. used it some when I was a kid, but really am a pump gun man...it will probably go to my namesake, or one of my  former students who really loves shotguns...things like this make favorites..also have a Sako .222, only use it for turkey hunting..it was customed stocked for my partner that I went to Africa with, by the same guy who made my stock for my old 06..he was working on the .222 stock when he was killed...it was finished by another good friend who is now pretty sick..two of the three guys involved with the gun are gone..all special friends..don't use it much, but it sure is a great keep sake and special rifle..

[williamlayton]

It is a good question andSourdough just about nailed the thought.
I really don't have a favorite--like a pack of dogs each one has a personality I like. I bought each one for a purpose and like each one equally.
Blessings

[KIMBER45]

I have 2 pre 64 model 70's . Add to that my .300 Wby mag amd my 45/70. I inherited a Browning Broadway trap. Those and my Kimber Eclipse are my favorites.