Your favorite hunting rifle of all time

[Sand Rat]

Newest addition to the herd, Ruger Hawkeye African in 6.5 X55.

 

[BeeMaa]

Newest addition to the herd, Ruger Hawkeye African in 6.5 X55.
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I saw one of these in Cabela's...gave it heavy consideration.
Great caliber and beautiful rifle.

 

[TheoR8]

Blaser R8 rifles, own 3 and about to get another one.

 

[Mike Van Horn]

This has to be my new Royal Ultramark in .257 Weatherby.
Got it last spring and will be taking it hunting in October for mule deer. The .257 is already my favorite cartridge on everything up to elk. I have shot one for a few years now

 

[Donnachaidh]

Great replies, and some fine looking rifles for sure. I've had my Winchester M70 EW for less than a year, but it just seems to fit me, which gives me a lot of confidence. Another M70 in .375 is on the shortlist for my next African trip. If they built an EW in 6.5x55, I'd swap my T3X without a second thought.

 

[kevin masters]

That is an easy question for me. My dad gave me a Remington 700, 243 when I was eleven years old. It was my first deer rifle. At some point in its life it had a beautiful
Walnut stock, but not now. The bluing leaves much to be desired as well. It was given to me topped with a Redfield tracker scope and that's still what it wears today.
It is in the corner next to our garage door ready to be picked up at a moments notice. Now I'm not bragging but I don't know how many deer and coyote, fox and ground hog
that rifle has killed. Never kept count. I wouldn't take ten thousand dollars for that rifle!! My son doesn't hunt and my daughter will only turkey hunt with me so
maybe a grandchild?

 

[raimanparoni]

Tikka T3 Stainless Lite 30-06. with Limbsaver Recoil pad
I use three scopes
- Leupold vxII 1-4 for short distances and driven hunt
- Leupold VXIII 4.5-14x50 for long distances
- Zeiss 7x50 wit red dot for spotting (night and day)
- I use handloaded Nosler Accubond 165gr for hunting and Nosler Custom Competition 155gr for practising

 

[Scrumbag]

For me, my FN Commercial in 9.3x62. Just seems to be lucky and inspire confidence

 

[CAustin]

Ruger Model 1 in 300 Win Mag on the left bottom picture! Was given to me by my wife as a gift. As I’ve said before I would never part with it and I have taken everything from porcupines to eland with it!

 

[Mr. Zorg]

Currently my Interarms Mark X .25-06 Remington rifle has impressed me with doing everything I've asked of it. It came with a 3-9X50 Nikon Buckmaster scope mounted. I've been using Federal ammo with the 110 grain Nosler Accubond bullet as well as Federal Power Shock 117 grain JSP. I discovered Doubletap and Underwood offer a .25-06 round loaded with the 110 grain Nosler Accubond at 3250 fps mv. I'll see how that performs,at the range and if all goes well, I'll mount my Leupold VX5HD 3-15X44 IR scope insyead of the Nikon, and get a custom turret for the Underwood load. Doubletap has been flaky on lead times advertised on their web site and responding to inquiries when I ordered from them - lead time shown was 2-3 days and wound up being 6 months after I placed my order and a bunch of unanswered emails and lack of return calls by phone about my order in between. I'm done with Doubletap personally.

 

[Ragman]

Ruger Model 1 in 300 Win Mag on the left bottom picture! Was given to me by my wife as a gift. As I’ve said before I would never part with it and I have taken everything from porcupines to eland with it!

I had a Ruger #1 in .270 Win, and like an idiot I sold it. That's a dandy of an Eland by the way. Old one ear!

 

[CAustin]

I had a Ruger #1 in .270 Win, and like an idiot I sold it. That's a dandy of an Eland by the way. Old one ear!

Thank you sir he was indeed a nice one!

 

[Clodo Ferreira]

Hi Scrumbag,

Can you show some pictures of your FN Commercial 9,3x62? How many rounds can be loaded in the magazine?
Thank you!

CF

 

[Kawshik Rahman]

My favorite fire arm in general is my 12 bore Beretta S686 Special model over-under built to take the 70 millimeter cartridge . It has a fully choked upper muzzle and a half ( modified ) choked lower muzzle. It is excellent for bird shooting and with an SG cartridge in the lower barrel , it is excellent for Sambhar deer as well . I killed my final and 32 nd man- eating leopard in 1995 with an SG twelve pellet cartridge from this gun's half choked barrel ( however l do not recommend this practice , as it is very risky ) . . Italians make very good fire arms .

 

[Ridgewalker]

I have been struggling to figure this out. JMO, but the rifle is only a tool for the next adventure. I really don’t think I am passionate about any as long as they are accurate. The hunt seems to always be my priority.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

View attachment 297407 My FAVORITE hunting rifle of ALL time is the BRNO ZKK-602 . Hands down . I own a custom piece built on a ZKK-602 action barrelled in .350 Rigby Magnum. Who built this beautiful rifle is a mystery to me. But they did a very , very skilled job. It holds 5 In the Magazine and 1 in the chamber. It shoots sub MOA at 100 yards and is regulated for the Kynoch .350 Rigby Magnum 225 grain soft point spitzer or FMJ round nose bullet . I have already " bloodied my rifle " with Elk , deer , pronghorn , Coyote , moose and Caribou . It's going to be my plains game rifle in Africa for 2020.
I have a spare ZKK-602 action lying around for building an 11.2 × 72 mm Schuler rifle some day in the future ( l wanna revive this caliber , as l think it deserves a spot amongst us brother sportsmen ).
The best ZKK-602 actions are the ones made before 1978. They have a little peep sight that folds. Very classy.
ZKK-602 rifles were originally made in .375 HH Magnum , .358 Norma Magnum and .458 Winchester Magnum. I have had good fortune to see the .375 model and fire a .458 model. You seriously can't get better than this.
Unlike Many seasoned hunters who like the Mauser 98 action above all , l prefer the ZKK-602 . It's the ONLY action where l have NEVER seen a Magazine floor plate pop open due to recoil even once.
My second rifle is a Winchester Model 70 pre war model in .375 HH Magnum . It's a great tool and a good rifle , but not as accurate as the BRNO ( it gives 3 inch groups at 100 yards ) . Also the stock split and the feed ramp needed to be customized to reliably feed 300 grain soft nose bullets.
I am also fond of the old Mannlicher Shoenauer rotary Magazine rifle in .458 Winchester Magnum and have always wanted to shoot one , but the only big game caliber they used to come in , was .458 Winchester Magnum . And unlike the ZKK-602 , you can't rechamber it for a larger , better caliber like .500 Jeffery or .505 Gibbs.

Goss Delgado
That 350 Rigby should go very well. I used a 35 Whelan with 225grain accubonds at 2,850fps nothing got up from it. All 1 shot kills.
Nice rifle
I hunted with Harold and Liezel at Osambahe Nord safaris in Namibia.
Cheers mate Bob

 

[leslie hetrick]

I guess I should say that I don,t own any firearms I don,t like, some just a little more than others.

 

[crs]

Leslie,
Great closing volley. A good place to end this thread.

 

[chashardy]

I didn't actually count the replies, but seems like the Model 70 was mentioned the most, and I do love mine in 300 winmag, but my current favorite is my Chapuis double in 375 H&H. It's a pleasure to hunt with. However, I haven't hunted yet with my John Rigby Big Game in 416 Rigby. Once I get back to Africa next year, I may have a new favorite.

 

[PARA45]

I guess I should say that I don,t own any firearms I don,t like, some just a little more than others.

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That room is beautiful sir. I thought I had issues with owning too many rifles & shotguns, but seeing your room, I guess I do not.