Nicest gun you have ever used

ormondprop · 29-03-2010 6:06pm #1

just wondering whats the nicest rifle or shotgun you have used, doesnt matter how much or whether its a standard or custom gun, personally i reckon the nicest rifle i have used is one of my friends fathers old remy 700 mountain in .270, was a lovely light well balanced rifle with nice grain in the stock, kicked hard enough due to the weight but i just liked the feel of it, he traded it for a sako 75 in .223 that he rebarrelled in .204, havent used it yet but it looks like a cracking rifle and he had great sucess with it this year lamping foxes, can't wait to try it out some time.
the nicest shotgun i've used is my fathers beretta 686 sporter, bit heavy but i still havent used anything nicer

deeksofdoom · 29-03-2010 6:22pm

Nicest gun I ever shot with was a 40 year old Browning B80, it had been used and abused. It was probably the ugliest thing I've ever seen but it just suited me down to the ground.

sako75 hunter · 29-03-2010 6:25pm

Hey, the nicest gun i have ever used is actually the same rifle im using now. Its my 6.5x55 Sako 75 Hunter with wooden stock.:D It had and still has the iron sights attached. I recieved my licence the same day i made my last payment for the rifle. It was the second week in september and it was going to be another month before i had the money paid on the 8x56 Docter scope i was putting on it so unable to hold of i took it out to shoot my first fallow buck with it. Walking down hill beside a wood i remember this is what its all about. No scope, no binoculars, no range finder! All i had was my gun and knife.:). Anyways i spotted a buck right on the edge of the wood i was stalking about 70 yards away and with that i lay on my stomach. Nervous as i had ever being i took a deep breath, held it and pulled the trigger and down he went. Dragging him back i kept thinking wouldnt it be great if we werent so caught up in technology. I no its great with all these new and exciting new riflescopes, rangefinders, binoculars and all sorts that we think we need to hunt these days, but do we really need them. Sorry for ranting on!!!:P:)

It wasn't me! · 29-03-2010 7:13pm

I've had the privilege of shooting a great many lovely rifles and some lovely shotguns. Some that stand out in my mind are:

A Pedersoli Sharps rolling block in .45-70 Govt. It was a match rifle, about sixteen pounds. Trigger was heavy, about five pounds, but unbelievably crispy. Had nice aperture sights. A very special gun to shoot.

A Savage 10FP in .308 Win. The trigger was the finest tuned thing I've ever seen, as good as Swiss handmade competition rifles, and it was a self-done job. Beautiful work, and 1/4 MOA accurate. Loved that, nearly bought one!

Dwighet's .300 Win Mag, Remington 700 custom, by John Greene. That's a seriously nice bit of work, everything on it just about perfect.

My own two, as I'm afraid I'm biased:

Anschutz 1807L. It's from the best days of Anschutz, by some reckonings, and it certainly is more than capable of perfect scores. Superb barrel on it. I've spent a huge amount of time tuning everything about it to my satisfaction, and apart from upgrades which require additional finances, it's perfect for me at the moment.

My Sako 75 Hunter in .25-06. This has the best trigger of any sporting rifle out there. I'm a fiend for details and fully expected to have to tweak this for my own likings, but it was just perfect, brittle as anything. The rifle fits me superbly, comes straight to the shoulder and points where I'm looking. I love that gun and can't imagine a set of circumstances in the future where I'd be without it.

skullzxr · 29-03-2010 7:15pm

The loaded one, when i went to the bank to withdraw money, i didn't want to fill out the forms....lol

edit: Just adding this for the humourless or confused:
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gunhappy_ie · 29-03-2010 7:17pm

I can see this getting very interesting !

patsat · 29-03-2010 10:02pm

nicest gun i have ever held was today.
up getting ammo for the .223 and had a look at the dealers gun. it was a sig-sauer 202 in .243, everything about it just felt perfect!

sikastag · 30-03-2010 9:49am

One of the nicest would be Krico Model 700 in .243. Nice short action, lovely handling rifle, almost felt like you could shoot woodcock with it!

demonloop · 30-03-2010 2:40pm

Shot a few that were a a great experience to shoot, not because they're great pieces of engineering admittedly...

M16 - felt like being in Hollywood
MP5 - see above
Accuracy International sniper rifle - they were testing at Bisley and gave a few of us a chance at 600 yds from a bench

- it was some new weird calibre which I can't recall

marlin vs · 30-03-2010 2:45pm

Beretta 302,you could hit thing's without trying.:D

doyle61 · 30-03-2010 4:34pm

H&K MP5. beautiful piece of kit
Barrett light 50 (twice). first time with S&B which was really nice the second time with leupold which i didnt like. the first time i fired one we used armour peircing incendery tip rounds and had jerry cans of petrol for targets...........deadly crack!!!!!!
my favourite bolt action is my own. remington 700 in .308 with laminate stock and IOR 6-24 x50 scope with 35mm tube. john greene built it

sonofthegun · 31-03-2010 7:01pm

was in mayo at clay grounds over the weekend lad instructer had a browning with him let me use it and OH MY GOD nicest shotgun i have ever held you could feel the quality
ps it was 10 grand new :eek:

demonloop · 31-03-2010 7:09pm

doyle61 wrote: »

Barrett light 50

Jammy git!

Sparks · 31-03-2010 7:43pm

An LG110 air rifle. Only rifle I've ever used that had no recoil. (And I mean none. Absolutely dead when you fired it. Wonderful engineering).

There are others which were definitely memorable - jaycee's .308 has perhaps the best trigger I've ever encountered outside of a match gun (and its condition is down purely to the efforts of its owner, who polished the mechanism to near-perfection); the SMLE mk4 that beat the living daylights out of my shoulder at a VCRAI shoot in the midlands last year; Jozef Gonci's P700 in Finland in November, just because it had been used to win so many matches; and my own Anschutz 2002CA, just because at this point the damn thing has been built around me and doesn't really fit anyone else

But the LG110 was the most impressive of the lot I think, just for the exceptional engineering involved.

me_right_one · 31-03-2010 7:47pm

An FN FAL, 7.62mm

tomcat220t · 31-03-2010 7:59pm

The most memorable was a genuine 7.62 AK47 but the nicest was either a sako 75 or RPA .

Grizzly 45 · 31-03-2010 8:10pm

There has been a load of them,but memorable has been a SXS Purdey Royale matched pair for absolutely stupid money.25 grand per gun.
But the workmanship!!!

Rifles,too many to find a memorable one. The most memorable is a Sauer8x68 s with a Zeiss glass.Shot my first deer with that on the Continent.

Nicest pistol has to be an AMT longslide.45ACP 10ins[?] of stainless steel,topped with mag na ported 10.5in barrel,a .45 that as much recoil as a .22 lr.

Spunk84 · 31-03-2010 8:26pm

Cynergy Feather Composite i want one used one in the states and love it

meathstevie · 31-03-2010 9:27pm

1972 Liege built B25 trap gun. Lovely walnut stock, perfect blueing, lovely sense of weight and balance. Also a s/s 12g Saive, another Liege built jobbie. It was the first 12g I ever fired at the age of 9.

Handled and fired a couple of assault weapons and pistols but they're just tools for a job in my books. Sufficiently accurate and very relaible but they don't really push my buttons.

Tackleberrywho · 31-03-2010 9:55pm

tomcat220t wrote: »

The most memorable was a genuine 7.62 AK47 but the nicest was either a sako 75 or RPA .

Fired a Romania made AK 47 in Reds Indoor Range, South Austin Tx Summer 2007, Great craic. Fired a .44Magnum that day too.

I was with a Texas gal who had a drivers licence and that was all I needed.
$8 for rent of gun's and the 7.62 was like $10 for 40 rounds, but the .44 was $40 for 50 rounds.
Man did that Dirty Harry kick like a mule, less recoil off the AK

I also love my Remmy 105Cti, They get negative press, but for a lefty they are great and they have very little recoil firing 3" Magnums

Boiled-egg · 01-04-2010 10:06am

It is the weapon in use by the finnh Defence forces. It has iorn sights, 30 box mag, Calibre 7.62 x 39 and is spon on accurate.
Really sweet weapon. you can see from the picture is looks like its neighbour Mr. AK.

gunhappy_ie · 01-04-2010 10:37am

Boiled-egg wrote: »

It is the weapon in use by the finnh Defence forces. It has iorn sights, 30 box mag, Calibre 7.62 x 39 and is spon on accurate.
Really sweet weapon. you can see from the picture is looks like its neighbour Mr. AK.

Valment M76.... one of the nicer/better AK based guns

Feidhlim Dignan · 01-04-2010 11:24am

me_right_one wrote: »

An FN FAL, 7.62mm

FCA by any chance ?

coolest ive shoot is the steyr AUG, but the nicest shotgun was my uncles beretta silver pigeon

patbundy · 01-04-2010 7:22pm

i like the two rifles i have since i took up shooting ie a savage 64 and a ruger m77

tomcat220t · 01-04-2010 9:55pm

Tackleberrywho wrote: »

Fired a Romania made AK 47 in Reds Indoor Range, South Austin Tx Summer 2007, Great craic. Fired a .44Magnum that day too.

I was with a Texas gal who had a drivers licence and that was all I needed.
$8 for rent of gun's and the 7.62 was like $10 for 40 rounds, but the .44 was $40 for 50 rounds.
Man did that Dirty Harry kick like a mule, less recoil off the AK

I also love my Remmy 105Cti, They get negative press, but for a lefty they are great and they have very little recoil firing 3" Magnums

Always wanted to fire an AK and got the chance 3 years ago .Not very accurate but lots of fun

kay 9 · 01-04-2010 10:56pm

Nicest rifle believe it or not is my own remmy 700 .223, maybe because I'm so used to I don't knwo to be honest and shotgun was my cousins Brownig O/U
(not sure of model) but was the sweetest thing to swing and shoot I ever handled...

gunhappy_ie · 02-04-2010 1:15pm

Origional AK47s are actually quiet rare as they were not as mass produced much to popular belief ( production problems slowed there manufacture with alot of rifles failing "quality control")

What was made in massive numbers though was the AKM due to the break up of the USSR alot of eastern european countries produced there own versions of the AKM along with other communist countries.

Nicest firearm ive shotgun ive fired was a benelli M4.. i really shouldnt have sold that but i wanted another rare shotgun.

I fired a Barret .50 ..... was sweet !
the HK UMP .40 and the FN P90 are my most memorable but I just love my Enfield build G3..... old school hardcore !!!

tommyboy26 · 03-04-2010 8:19pm

nicest rifle i have ever shot is my b.s.a martini lever action .22. i have a zos 10-40x56 on it whole lot cost me less than 500 euro. it loves eley team and most memorable shoot is the day i shot 237 out of 250 (not marked by me) best day shooting ever and can easily say i will never sell it.......

tommy

Sparks · 04-04-2010 3:10am

Speaking of BSAs...

http://10point9.ie/2010/04/04/vickers-bsa-martini-jubilee/

One of the fun things about being in a club that’s been around a while is that some interesting stuff builds up in the historical archives. I’ve an interesting bit or two from the archives to put up on this blog but I thought I’d start with last night’s fun, the Vickers BSA Martini Jubilee.