Favorite hunting rifle?

[tc_topshot]

I am making this thread to see what everyone who uses a rifle to harvest animals or just shooting in general. What do you take out into the field? I personally have three favorites that I shoot.
#1, Savage .308 with a 4-16X NCstar mil dot scope. Great power, super accurate out to 400 yards, and really not to heavy to lug around in the field. Where I hunt in Nebraska, I occasionally am hunting large canyons. I don't like to take long shots, but I am very confident with this rifle.

#2. Swiss K31 (7.5X55 Swiss).I bought this rifle a few years back to challenge myself to hunt deer with an open-sighted rifle. It is an odd looking rifle, but surprisingly accurate at 300 yards. A few years ago, I shot a heavy 8 pointer at 200 yards and dropped him right in his tracks.

#3. Remington model 788 (22-250). Small round, flat shooting and really accurate. I have shot more deer and coyotes with this rifle than anything else I own. Also, its great for prairie-dogs in central Nebraska.

So, what do you shoot?

[lentz]

savage .22 bolt w/o hair trigger dead accurate

mossberg 30-06 alright gets job done

benelli nova 12 gauge

[Go Big Red!]

#1. Savage 110 bolt action 30.06 topped with a Nikon for deer and wild hogs.

#2. Savage .17HMR bolt action with a so-so Cabelas Pine Ridge scope.  Dialed in at 300 yds.

#3. Tikka T3 .223 bolt action heavy barrel. No scope yet.

[dakids]

Savage 243 bolt paired with Barnes X bullets.  Drive nails and the deer drop right where they stand.

[FireRanger]

Hmmm....

1. Remington .308 with 4x1 peep through scope. (the meat gun)
2. WAS my old .303 British Military issue with flip-up dial-down iron sights....dead accurate with this gun. Had to be destroyed due to not being able to import into the U.S.
3. an old .22 Remington pump from the 1930's that has more sentimental value then can possibly be priced.

[rod-man]

Browning BL-22 hits whatever I'm looking at with iron sights (like pointing your finger)
Mossberg 835 drops deer to 200yds with Federal expanders
Mossberg 4x4 270WSM Deer,Bear,Elk,Antelope and Hogs out to 550yds so far
Weatherby Vanguard 22-250 coyotes,fox,coon,crows and p-dogs out to 600+yds (on a calm day)
 

[cavibird2005]

!) Ruger No 1 in 25-06 w/ Leupold Mark4 4.5X14x50 (The tack driver)
2) Sheridan 397 "Blue Streak" W/ Custom billet mount Bushnell ScopeChief II 2.5X9.5 Shooting Skenco Big Boy 13grain pellets (800fps)

[The General]

I don't have a specific rifle that is my favorite but I will tell you this.  If it isn't an auto loader it will never make it in my gun safe unless it was given to me for free same with a shotgun.

[ray634]

Remington Model 76 pump 30-06 with Simmons 3X10X44. It shoots better than I can hold it.
Mossberg 835 3 1/2 inch pump.
Marlin 22 bolt action.
Guns are tools and these tools get the job done.

[Sew Sille]

Remington 760 pump 30/06 with simmons 44 magum scope, Remington 1187 3" 12 gauge, Ithica single shot 22(had sence I was 12) Ruger super redhack 44 mag,  Springfield arms 9mm                                                 

[Onin24Eagle]

1.)  Savage model 16 in 270 WSM with a 4x12 Burris scope.  LOVE this gun!  I've shot 17 deer with it and 16 of them dropped where they stood.  The only one that ran on my was 10 yards away and I was using a bullet that didn't expand enough at that close of range.  Since then I don't shoot at them inside of 30 yards with this gun.  When I post in a stand with long range views (i.e our "field stand") this is my first and only gun of choice.

2.) for thicker stands of woods, got to go with the Marlin model 1894 30-30.  Shot a huge 160+ 10 pointer with this gun last year.  This is my "brush gun" which I also use for still hunting in the swamp.

3.) Shotgun?  I have an O/U 12 ga Baikal that I bought for $250 brand new about 10 years ago.  On a pheasant hunting trip with 15 other guys in SD 3 years ago I dropped 18 birds in one day on 19 shots. The one miss was followed by a hit, so that bird didn't get away in case you were wondering.  One guy on the trip went through over 2 boxes of shells one day and only dropped 1 bird.  I thought that was funny since he also used an O/U but his cost over a grand.

I do have a T/C. Encore with a 30-06 barrel and a 50 cal muzzleloader barrel.  Haven't used the -06 barrel much or at all really since I got the 270 WSM.  There is also the Ruger 22 magnum lever action (I don't recall the model at the moment) which is a blast for plinking.  Then there’s the Savage .243 (left handed bolt action) that I got for my wife.  Beautiful gun but it hasn’t taken a deer yet.  My old New England Firearms 20 ga break action single shot has probably killed 300 or more grouse since I got it when I was 16.  Even though I like all of the guns listed, my favorites are definitely the three I listed first.

[Geodopolis]

#1 would have to be my Browning A-bolt in 25 WSSM.  I gave it to my son for his 12th B-day and wonder "I must REALLY love him!" Very little recoil and extremely accurate.
#2 Even though I just sold it to a buddy for his South Africa safari,  Savage 116 in 338 win mag, stainless fluted barrel with muzzle break, synthetic stock, Nikon 3-9, home job spray-painted both scope and rifle.  More accurate than the browning.
#3 Ithica 37 in 16 gauge that my Grandpa gave me.  Absolutely the smoothest pump gun ever made.
I bow hunt now so my rifles have become less important to me.  There are still a few that I will NOT get rid of but that's for a sentimental post.