Let's Show Some Love for the Less-Hyped Rifles (Shotguns too!

[Acmemfg]

Sure a lot being said about the current state of affairs pertaining to semi-automatic rifles, especially the AR 15 platform ones. However, lest we forget there is a HUGE population of other fine arms out there that may be feeling ignored lately; can't have that.

So why not show your favorite sporting arms you love them by showing them to your friends and associates?

Let's begin with a couple of Brownings-BAR in .300 Win Mag and A-Bolt in .30-06 Sprg:

 

[Mick]

I've already posted one of my favorite hunting guns (16/8mm cape gun) as the first post when this new forum was opened

http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php/324911-Thank-you-for-this-forum-first-post

Here is my favorite bolt action rifle.

1903 Mannlicher-Schönauer. SN puts somewhere around 1904/5. 6.5x54 MS caliber. Full stocked with detachable scope.

This was the second rifle I purchased (back in the way back years) and it is still my favorite bolt action.

Bell used this diminutive rifle/caliber in Africa on elephant. It takes a very good shot to drop an elephant with a 6mm round

Its diminutive size is a result of the small caliber and the Schoenaue rotary magazine which is a little over an inch deep yet holds 6 rounds in a rotary carousel.

 

[dreadpirate]

I never thought or a BAR or A Bolt as a low key rifle. Aren't they sort of pricey? I hear they are nice weapons.

 

[gaseousclay]

Let's begin with a couple of Brownings-BAR in .300 Win Mag and A-Bolt in .30-06 Sprg:


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I also have the Browning A-Bolt (with Montana Sling) chambered in .270 win. I still have a Leupold VX3 scope I need to mount on it though.

then of course, there's my beloved Winchester 9422 XTR

 

[Acmemfg]

Indeed..everyone should have a lever action and the Winchester is one fine weapon. I have a Marlin 336 in .30-30 which was the first high-power rifle I have ever owned. If one day I can find a Marlin XLR for a reasonable price, it just may join the herd.

Also.....
Ain't those Montana slings the bomb??

 

[gaseousclay]

Also.....
Ain't those Montana slings the bomb??

they are indeed. simple but ingenious design and made in the USA. now that I own a Montana Sling I won't buy any other brand for my rifles

 

[Mick]

Ain't those Montana slings the bomb??

they are indeed. simple but ingenious design and made in the USA. now that I own a Montana Sling I won't buy any other brand for my rifles

I just noticed your sling.

It is a similar to the style that I have used on all of my hunting rifles except the ones I have are from the 1950's and made in Austria.

I found them in an old gun store about 40 years ago and they were no longer available (NOS) back then. I bought all they had and your pic is the first time I have seen this style of sling since buying those.

The ones I use have a carved wooden cross piece that you grab to loosen or close the sling down which makes it uber simple to use and easy to find when you have gloves on.

Cool that someone else is making this style of sling once again as it is the best design I have ever come across.

 

[jkingrph]

I enjoy my Swiss straight pull bolt action rifles, Swedish mousers, as well as a delightful Swesish Husqvarna mod 46 sportier in 9.3x56 (it's a factory built sportier on the mod 96 Mauser action, but handles like a SxS shotgun.

I shoot a 102 year old Parker double along with a 16 ga Charlin and a 28 ga Darne, the latter two being French sliding breech SxS double barrels.

 

[auk1124]

I have no pics, but the single-shot .22 rifles of yesteryear were great rifles. These old 22s are rusting away in pawn shops and in closets all across North America. They deserve some love. Remington made some great ones (the TargetMasters, etc.), Stephens/Springfield made some fine ones, heck practically every gun manufacturer up through 1960 made a good 22 single shot.

They could put a squirrel or rabbit on your table, dispatch a varmint from the back yard, and teach your kid how to shoot. What more could you want?

 

[packersfan117]

I have a numbers-matching Mosin-Nagant model 91-30 that I love. The 7.62x54R round packs a wallop on your shoulder, and it'll tear through any game animal you want. I'm planning on moving to Florida and using it to tear through the local boar population. My particular rifle was made in 1933 and it is lethally accurate. I also have a Verona 12 gauge shotgun that I like. It's a very light gun so the kick is a little more than other wood-stocked shotguns I have used.

 

[dreadpirate]

I have no pics, but the single-shot .22 rifles of yesteryear were great rifles. These old 22s are rusting away in pawn shops and in closets all across North America. They deserve some love. Remington made some great ones (the TargetMasters, etc.), Stephens/Springfield made some fine ones, heck practically every gun manufacturer up through 1960 made a good 22 single shot.

They could put a squirrel or rabbit on your table, dispatch a varmint from the back yard, and teach your kid how to shoot. What more could you want?

I esp. like the dual caliber single shot rifles; eg. 22 and 410 shot. Savage has a new one;

http://savagearms.com/firearms/model/Model42

 

[CyberJCM]

Can't share a pic with you guys, but one of my favorites that I own is the Winchester Model 12 20ga. shotgun that my Grandpa gave me. A real classic!

 

[Hawkeye5]

Can't share a pic with you guys, but one of my favorites that I own is the Winchester Model 12 20ga. shotgun that my Grandpa gave me. A real classic!

I have one also that my Grandfather gave me. Smooth as butter!

 

[Acmemfg]

I have a numbers-matching Mosin-Nagant model 91-30 that I love. The 7.62x54R round packs a wallop on your shoulder, and it'll tear through any game animal you want. I'm planning on moving to Florida and using it to tear through the local boar population. My particular rifle was made in 1933 and it is lethally accurate. I also have a Verona 12 gauge shotgun that I like. It's a very light gun so the kick is a little more than other wood-stocked shotguns I have used.

For sure, your Mosin will be more than adequate in the hog department down here. You may find it a tad large for work in tight brush, but that would be really the only disadvantage I could see. I usually find myself totlng a Remington 870 Super-Magnum with a Hastings rifled barrel chambered for 3" sabot rounds or a Marlin 336 .30-30.
Next hog hunt I'll be using another Marlin lever gun-1895 in .45-70 Govt. Yeah, that should handle Porky & Company

 

[noelekal]

Classic Winchesters are always appropriate.

Here are some Model 70s. Three are pre-64s: a 1937 .220 Swift, a 1947 .257 Roberts, and a 1954 .30-06. The unscoped rifle next to the .30-06 is a 1980s Model 70 Super Express .375 H&H Magnum.

Here's a odd variation of the Winchester Model 12 shotgun. Winchester would provide the Cutts Compensator and interchangeable choke tubes on special order and this Skeet Grade 12 gauge Model 12 was so ordered in 1941.

An uncommon factory option, the homely Cutts Compensator is the one custom feature that most Model 12 collectors could do without so it adds no enhanced value to an otherwise nice Skeet Grade Model 12. The device does work as advertised, reducing recoil at the expense of increased report. This shotgun is very effective in the field though.

 

[ia_james]

Classic Winchesters are always appropriate.

Here are some Model 70s. Three are pre-64s: a 1937 .220 Swift, a 1947 .257 Roberts, and a 1954 .30-06. The unscoped rifle next to the .30-06 is a 1980s Model 70 Super Express .375 H&H Magnum.

No offense, but on what planet is a pre-64 M70 "less hyped?" The post-64 I could see, but the others?

 

[noelekal]

Hah! As the old Packard ad says, you have to "ask the man who owns one." The Winchester Model 70 in its pre-64 guise is most gratifying to own and use. And this despite a few obvious design flaws.

The original post was looking for comparisons with the AR15, a rifle so hyped and overrated as to be unbelievable.