Favorite Gun in your safe thread

[FlatTopPete]

Thought I’d start a fun thread: what is your favorite gun in your safe and why?

Mine is my trusty old Savage .17 HMR with wooden stock. Paid $300 for gun and scope half a dozen years ago and it’s one of the most accurate guns I’ve ever shot. Awesome plinking gun and great thing to carry around in the vehicle when cruising around. Dispatched many a blackbird with that thing. Sunflower eatin SOB’s…..

My Dad’s would be his Browning BL22. He got it for an xmas present when he was around 12 years old and he’s in his 60’s now. Always tells me a story about how he killed a Whitetail doe with that thing in the 60’s.

So what’s your favorite and why?

 

[Browneye]

My Savage .17 HMR is also the most accurate rifle I own. Always thought that .17 revolver would be fun.

 

[Skeeter]

Picking a favorite gun is like picking out your favorite child as they all stand there and stare at you waiting for your answer. Each one I have has a purpose, I’m not a gun hoarder so I don’t have a huge amount, but every one is cleaned, oiled, and ready to kill commies or liberals, whichever one invades first.

 

[guywhofishes]

easy one

Benelli M2 20ga

 

[fj40]

In my golden years, I have to decide who gets what. My 6.5 Jap that my dad brought home from Guadalcanal that I shot my first deer with has to rank up there. My 1917 Enfield that my second son shot his first deer with ranks up there. I inherited that from my uncle who died many years ago. There is my 1873 carbine trapdoor 45-70 that my older brother dug up in a farm field just north of the wahpeton Indian school. I have my Irish grandfathers model 12 shotgun as well. I have many others that I have acquired through the years, many of them high quality modern firearms. But I guess if I had to chose, it would be the series 70 colt 1911 that I carried thru 40 years od law enforcement.

 

[guywhofishes]

you guys that inherited guns with history/connection are blessed!

 

[PrairieGhost]

I have to go along with Skeeter on this one. Not only does it depend on the need at hand, but also your mood. I know everyone thinks I shoot long range only, but often I grab a single shot 45/70 or a lever 44. I normally have five or six rifles along on a deer hunt. One year three of us had four rifles each on bipod I posted a picture on nofakoutdoors and got comments stupid beyond belief. One said these are deer not terrorists it must sound like a war when a deer runs past. I had buck tag and four doe tags, but still I can only shoot one gun at a time.
Favorite deer rifle would be my 300 Win Mag. Favorite coyote, plinking, long range prairie dog, steel target rifle would be my second 6.5 Creedmor. Plinking only Ruger Mark 4 with Spriner trigger, silencer, and Fastfire3.

 

[Rut2much]

One of the newest editions but easily the Winchester 243 coyote lite in SS and fluted bbl, that thing has been an absolute heat seeker. Never thought anything could surpass the ol' ruger m77 270 w/ paddle stock my dad got me for my youth season moons ago..
Honorable mention goes to to thee 22-250 ruger hawkeye in that class A wood stock they have with the SS. Best looking guns ever made off the shelf imho.

 

[Jiffy]

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Not in my safe. Still one of my favorites. I have many.

 

[Allen]

Whichever one is in my hands at the moment is my current favorite.

Right now that appears to be a Midcontinent remote control. :;:huh

 

[Sum1]

Picking a favorite gun is like picking out your favorite child as they all stand there and stare at you waiting for your answer. Each one I have has a purpose, I’m not a gun hoarder so I don’t have a huge amount, but every one is cleaned, oiled, and ready to kill commies or liberals, whichever one invades first.

I’m pretty sure they have both already invaded.

 

[Jiffy]

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This one although inoperable was also one of my favorites

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I have much better pictures that many would like to see but they’ll never be on the Internet sorry guys

 

[257Bob]

Remington Model 7 .222. Or is it the Ruger 77 .257 Roberts?

 

[LBrandt]

They all serve a special purpose not a real favorite one in the bunch. They all fit when needed, From 17 to 300 mag. LB

 

[Kentucky Windage]

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[AR-15]

Remington Nylon 66 gave to me on my 13th birthday from Mom and Dad, have shot 1000's of rounds thru it

 

[Kurtr]

218 bee breach loader my grandpa got built years ago

 

[SDMF]

218 bee breach loader my grandpa got built years ago

Falling block style or Martini Cadet?

 

[Wags2.0]

218 bee breach loader my grandpa got built years ago

COOL! post a pic if you can

 

[Kurtr]

Falling block style or Martini Cadet?

honestly I don’t know. The extractor is shot and bbl needs the stock mount braised back on and the smiths I talked to didn’t want to mess it up or couldn’t find parts so it’s not functioning but cool anyway.