Your Ol Faithful?

Mauser 98 I love the styling on that 375 ruger. It looks exactly like what I build on a mauser 98.

JD I like the look of your rifle too!
 
Really liking my Sako 85 now that I've used it for a season. It's really heavy compared to my T3 that it replaced but I'm used to it now and the set trigger is nice. Bit lucky too lol

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Slimbo said:
Yep thats what I meant. Was thinking purely aesthetics, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Aesthetically speaking, I kinda like the look....it sets them apart and reminds me of the original intent... even if I can't personally get use to the scout scope set-up. Also, my OCD won't tolerate the screw holes, even if plugged. So I will just leave the chubby little buggers as is. But I do know a few Frontier owners who removed the scout rails.
 
Seems a day for resurrecting old threads and I harkened back to this one... the thought was; "old faithful versus new faithful."

Quite by accident, I realized that over the past several years I have gravitated from what I have always said (thought) was my preference of Walnut stocked Blued rifles, to various forms of synthetic/stainless rifles and even more recently stainless rifles in laminate stocks, as I prefer the feel, balance and heft of wood over plastic/resin/fiberglass alternatives. I still love the look and feel of blued metal against nicely grained walnut, but they just don't get the field use as much anymore.

New faithfuls;
 

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My ol’faithful would be my Marlin model 30A in 30-30 Winchester. I’ve shot more deer with this rifle from less than 20 yrds to 110 yrds and never missed a shot. They will bury me with it someday lol.
 
Old faithful for me is my model 94 winchester I bought with my own money I earned on a farm picking up bails of hay and putting them in the hayloft.I was getting paid and the old timer asked me what I was going to do with my money and I told him I'm buying a 30-30,well I've got a brand new one right here I'll sell you he says.he had a new 30-30 he had bought at the general store ,it came without a box but wrapped in brown paper with bailing twine on it,hang tag said $118.50 .my favorite rifle to this day.
 
Out of all my rifles i own, my goto rifle happens to also be the first rifle i ever bought. I dont have any pics on my phone of it but is a parker hale custom no1 with all the PH accessories
 
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Old faithful for me is my model 94 winchester I bought with my own money I earned on a farm picking up bails of hay and putting them in the hayloft.I was getting paid and the old timer asked me what I was going to do with my money and I told him I'm buying a 30-30,well I've got a brand new one right here I'll sell you he says.he had a new 30-30 he had bought at the general store ,it came without a box but wrapped in brown paper with bailing twine on it,hang tag said $118.50 .my favorite rifle to this day.
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Great story.

My first gun was also a Model 94 Winchester.

Mine came, in a very roundabout way from my grandfather. My grandparents owned a camp ground and had a groundskeeper they really liked working for them. They bought him the Winchester as a gift. The groundskeeper was the uncle of a young man who eventually married one of their daughters (so, my uncle by marriage). Groundskeeper gave it to his nephew, my uncle, who gave it to me eventually. I still have it. Its an ugly son of of a ##### from just after Winchester switched to the casting process. Functionally its 100% fine, but the finish is awful. I'll never get rid of it as it has the sentimental value, but I dont carry it much.
 
I have no go-to rifle, never did..............maybe one day I will. I utilize a different rifle/cartridge for that particular application of big game animal.
 
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