Best Feeling Shouldered Rifle?

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What's the Glove that Fits you just right?


We won't hold looks against you here- but which feels like it just fits like a glove?



Lkm85 seems to be a real close Perfect.
For Me.
 
For me, the simple, easy but incomplete answer is the Weatherby. In a way it shouldn’t be shocking, back when the world was filled with rifles stocked for iron sights he flew in the face of that and designed for those new fangled things. Europeans got on that program fast, some complete with roll over cheekpieces and others that if you looked at them with an open or critical eye would eventually see was a Weatherby with all the corners sanded off.

Then there’s the modern classic, straighter and slimmer than grampa’s gun, almost stick-like by comparison and a lot of people can effortlessly make the stock fit. I haven’t met anyone who couldn’t point a stick.
 
barbarossa said:
My best feeling shouldered rifle is my BSA Lee Speed.It comes up to my shoulder like it was an extension of my body and the sight automatically line up on targetView attachment 1044747
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I had a speeder marked Cogswell and Harison, Bond Street London at my place for about 3 years. If there was such a thing as a rifle that felt like it was alive that was the one. Thats the best way I can describe it. Startling and inspirational. Words fail me. Very stick-like in pointability😄
 
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My Ruger #1 in .303 British fits me better than any other rifle I own. Followed closely by a CZ 600 Alpha in 7.62x39.
 
Hmmm I have a few cause I usually make them to fit! I have quite long harms at 80+ inches, so for me the length of pull makes a difference but more important then the length of pull is the shape of the grip cause I also have huge mitts so I like a rifle that has a “longer” sweeping back grip! I really like my browning bar, love my husqvarna 1640 featherweight with the adjustable comb, I also love my Merkel k5 and my new to me 9.3x62 cz550 with a composite stock that is supposed an Echols stock. The 1640 fits so well and come up so good that I shot a running moose with it at 280m, the combination of fit, adjustable comb, short barrel, light scope make for a pretty sweet little rifle!
 
Kimber Montana is up there but anything with a similar comb profile is super easy to use for me.

It's funny you like the Zastava 85 so much. I bought one for my son years ago and loved how it shouldered so much I almost bought one for myself.
 
I love the AK platform, although I've never actually shot it, only briefly handled an AK47 that was legally possessed by a store. I think it fits smaller people well, and would make an excellent hunting rifle if it were ever legalized. I still think someone should make a straight pull version that fits AK stocks so at least we can get some of the fun.
 
For me it is the Husqvarna 1900s with a distant second to Weatherby Vanguards, any other hunting rifle I buy, usually gets restocked in something like a Boyd's Prairie Hunter.
 
Best fit on a rifle for me would be my custom M1917 that I had Chris Wilcox make a replacement stock for, I just melt into it.
Unfortunately I now think it’s too nice to take out into the field.
For factory rifles my favourite would be the Weatherby Vanguard stocks and prefer the B&C or deluxe wood versions over the synthetic.
The Sako 75 & 85 Finnlight series are a close runner up for me in bolt guns in regards to shouldering fit but the plastic feel drops it a peg.
Something about a model ‘94 as well; classic, intuitive, fast, light, always on target.
Most fit me great, the only one that really stood out as poor to me on a bolt gun was a Model 70 Extreme…loved the look, features, build quality and price of it but the fit was just completely off putting so I passed on it.
 
Rifle fit and handling is the sum of a lot of things put together. LOP, Bbl length, contour, stock shape and overall weight along with a proper weight scope all matter. I see a lot of guys buy a LW rifle and top it with a huge scope or add on a high capacity magazine that adds weight and makes a one handed carry impossible. It all also depends on how you will be sjooting that rifle. A heavy rifle at the bench needs to be different than a rifle shot off hand in the woods.

I have a 700 built into a faux TI complete in 257 Roberts. Stock is a TI take off. Bbl is 22" and contour is between the MR and Std Sporter contour. Scope is a Leupold 2.5-8. This fits me perfectly and handles very well in the woods.
 
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