Most fun rifle I've ever shot!

[snowwolfe]

Couple of weeks ago picked up a Sig 522 along with a couple of extra 25 round magazines. Put a Ultradot on it and headed to the range. These little suckers can shoot!
Rifle comes with a folding, collaspible stock and built in piccitanny rail. But the Ultradot may come back off and be replaced with a scope. Even the crappy Remington Thunderbolts will shoot about 1 1/4 inches (5 shots) at 50 yards with the Ultradot. Am thinking a scope will shave that considerably.
Over the course of a couple of hours tried various ammo and three different magazines. Zero failures to feed, fire or eject. Sig must of designed this well as it has a little felt recoil, about 50% of what a .223 would.
Now I know how to get rid of all that oddball .22 ammo we have laying around

[Jack Stanley]

Don't forget to take a couple kids to the range with you so you can have them load magazines for ya !!:bigsmyl2:

Jack

[1hole]

I like them all but I enjoy my old 39A and the neat little Redfield .22 "Sportster"scope best.

[rbuck351]

M92 Winchester in 25/20. It has to be one of the best carry around small game rifle cartridge combos ever built. Plenty of power for anything coyote or smaller to 150yds or so. Shoots flat enough with very low recoil in a light quick handling rifle. Cheap to shoot using cast. And just plain fun. Whats not to like. Rossi could sell a bunch in the smaller original calibers. 256Win would be even better.

[Suo Gan]

Stevens Favorite and Hi Standard pistols! No centerfire comes close to these guys for fun!

[Southern Son]

Goes through stages for me, at the moment it is my Marlin 94 loaded with .44Spl. I just can't get enough. It has taken me about 4 weeks on and off, but I just finished cutting a heap of old PMC .44Mag cases back to .44Spl. Now I won't have to re-load after every range trip.

[lead Foot]

You need to take your gum boots and floaties out to the range with all that rain ya been have'n up there after That cyclone.:kidding:
Lead foot;

[JIMinPHX]

Most fun rifle I've ever shot?
......Red Rider :mrgreen:

[405]

Gotta admit those 17 cal steel RB shooters were fun!
For sheer ammo burning insanity either a Mac 10 or an Uzi
For reals these days either a 200 year old flintlock or a 130 year old Win 1876

[sheepdog]

Does my first Red Ryder count?

[Freightman]

Does my first Red Ryder count?
I won the neighborhood sparrow kill contest at 10 years old with mine, haven't won a thing since.

[izzyjoe]

i would have to say a 92 winny in 32-20 hold 12rds. keep work'n the lever and shoot all day long,accurate,low recoil. like shoot'n 22 shorts, but you can see them bigger holes at a distance.and cheap to shoot if you reload.:castmine

[Multigunner]

Probably an M-1 carbine I was asked by a store owner to test fire to discover why it would often fail to open and the fired case jamming the action shut so tight you had to kick it open. The righthand lug surfaces had raised nibs, which was apparently to reduce incidents of the slide flying open far enough to chamber and fire a round if dropped on the butt plate. After smoothing the lug surfaces slightly with a stone it operated flawlessly, so I had the opportunity to fire off hundreds of rounds of free ammo before returning it to the store.

The Henry .22 lever action is another fun to shoot rifle, that one belonged to a friend.

Of my own rifles I'd say my .25-20 Savage 23B has been most satisfying. I haven't shot it much, but every shot goes right where aimed without ever touching the sights. I've seldom found any rifle sighted in so perfectly for me.

[Echo]

DCM 30 Carbine. Shoots 3-4" groups all day, with practically anything I stuff it with...

[Southern Son]

Your not wrong about that, Lead Foot. The Cyclone was a bit of a fizzer (LUCKY, I went for a drive around when it was comming and half the town had left wheelie bins out, old punts leaning against fences and all sorts of **** that would have flown throught the air and trashed someones house). The rain stopped yesterday arvo, I was thinking of sneeking out the the range this arvo, but the bosses rang and directed me to come down to a meeting in Mackay that don't finish till tomorrow. Now I am stuck in a cheap motel room. Might try and go on Saturday morning, maybe Sunday arvo, too.

I would have sent you some of the rain, but I thought that pretty much all of Queensland has had more than enough.

[Beekeeper]

Years ago I would have said the most fun gun was a 7mm model 95 Mauser.
Not so anymore.
Monday I had a chance to take one of my 71/84 Mausers to the range.
Wasn't trying to hit anything just prove to myself it still shot.
I have 2 of them and they are complete rebuilds from junker barreled receivers.
I am impressed with the old war horse.
Moderate recoil and sure gets everyones attention when you bring it to the line.
I found that at 100 yards it is extremely accurate and intend to shoot its mate the next time I go to the range and then try for accuracy at the longer distances.

I think the real adrenalin thrill was seeing something I built shoot and something 130 years preform that well.
What a hoot.


Jim

[Lead Fred]

Fun? NEF Handi 45-70

Best $200 I ever spent.

Long distance, short distance, light boolit, heavy boolit, black powder, modern powder.
Jacketed, cast, RN, FN, Postel.

The fun never stops.

[ReloaderFred]

My .45-120 Sharps. After that, everything else is just a tool.......

Fred

[missionary5155]

Good afternoon
This took some real pondering.. Pure Fun !
Up there in the state of ILL it would be my old Marlin Ballard in 38-50. Was a 38 Long until someone re-chambered. I cannot think of anymore fun than pocking about wood lines and ditches to pop another groung hog. Light and handy with a 28" Octagon barrel. 9 grains Unique with the Ideal 37583 Bumped to .382. A case full of 2F is just as good out to 50 yards.
Down here.. no question my 1907 built Winchester 1892 in 44-40. With a .433 bullet it will do 3 " rocks al day at 50 yards and farther if I can hold my wiggle steady. 8 grains Unique with a Saeco 443 220 grain FN.

[big dale]

That's easy... the Remington model 12 pump 22 my dad taught me to shoot with. It was one of those rare guns that would pattern shots on a target, but would always hit the game that it was pointed at. I sure with it wasen't stolen.

Big Dale

[32ideal]

Probably the Thompson the Navy let me shoot along with all the free ammo I could load in 20rnd mags or my Marlin M45 Carbine, just as much fun but now that I have to provide the ammo slower fire is better!
32ideal

Found this oldie photo, guess I always liked Thompson's, what I would not give to have that toy back! 32ideal

[wildwilly]

Hands down....my Marlin 1894/357. For a plinker , it's as inexpensive to shoot as 22 rimfire, and just as accurate, too.

[10 ga]

Easy answer. 50 BMG, it belonged to Uncle Sams Misguided Children. Anything bigger is artillery. 10 ga

[Wayne R. Scott]

M92 Winchester in 25/20. It has to be one of the best carry around small game rifle cartridge combos ever built. Plenty of power for anything coyote or smaller to 150yds or so. Shoots flat enough with very low recoil in a light quick handling rifle. Cheap to shoot using cast. And just plain fun. Whats not to like. Rossi could sell a bunch in the smaller original calibers. 256Win would be even better.


Yep!! Rossi should make a run of .25/20 Model 92's. My fun gun right now is an original Marlin 1894 in .25/20. I had T/C custom shop make a carbine barrel for my contender in .25/20.

I have a Rossi Puma 92 in .45 Colt that is just great quick handling rifle, but I would love to have one in .25/20. Did I mention that I like the .25/20?

Wayne

[Old Goat Keeper]

a rossi ro Marlin in 25-20, 32-20 and 327 federal. All would be nice light guns that would do the job on smaller critters and be light for an old farts carry gun. And yes a Rossi '92 could handle the 327 cause they make em in 454 Casull which operates at higher pressures.

Tom

[dnepr]

wow this is a hard question , I enjoy shooting all my guns but some more than others , I can't pick just one but it would be down to my M92 rossi in .357 with 38 special mild loads or my russian sks . there a bunch that are close also but these are the " fun guns" , my mood could swing that away to about a halfdozen other choices ,

[Southern Son]

Tom,
I do like the idea of the 92 Rossi in 327Fed. I was thinking of getting a Martini Cadet and chambering it in that.

[Hickory]

As far as "fun guns" go it would be the Ruger 10/22 full auto, 50 round magazine with a can.
Guy I know a county north of me has one. I was at his house years ago
and had brought several guns and a couple of bricks of 22's.
Sherriff in our county don't want us to have any fun.

[WILCO]

Hard to pick one, but for now, I'd say the Romanian M69.

[alg3205]

The most "fun" gun I have is a old Martini cadet in 218 Bee. It has a Burris scope, greatest short range varmit rifle I have ever shot.

[atr]

hard to pick because I like shooting them all....

but my #1 favorite is my Savage 25-20,,,,,followed very closely by my High Standard .22 autoloader.

[Wayne Smith]

I've got to say now it's my Remington 25 in 32-20. Close to next is my Uberti 1873 Short Rifle in 44-40 loaded with BP.

[.357]

Tie between shooting my grandfathers 38-55 because I didn't know the man and it was awesome to have something of his, and my uncles savage 99 in 300 savage much the same reason.

[jimb16]

I have to vote for my Ohio Ord. BAR!