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If you could only have 3 long guns, which would you choose?
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<blockquote data-quote="Teri Anne" data-source="post: 2789941" data-attributes="member: 118816"><p>While we all have our favorites, the question is, If you could have only three <strong>LONG</strong> <strong>GUNS, </strong> which would you choose? That is not really a difficult question on my behalf. I don't own any exotic long guns, simply long guns that shoot well out of the box, My first choice would be my Remington 11-87. It's an original that was made before Remington started messing with success. My 11-87 is a 3 inch version, I did at one time have an 11-87 Super Mag, which was manufactured when Remington was starting to, lets just say not paying a lot of attention to quality control. A guy at my gun club watched me shooting trap with it, and wanted a 3 1/2 inch semi auto shotgun for goose and turkey hunting. By this time I had the major issues ironed out under Remington's warranty and their Minnesota repair center (Hats of to them. they did a great job.)and let's simply say, "The price was right." I sold it and bought my current 3 inch 11-87 online through Kramer Auctions out of Prairie du Chien, WI. It is a Premier version and Curt had identified it as being in very good used condition. I have bought and sold a lot of firearms from them and trust his judgement. I have never been burned. A 12 ga shotgun can be used to hunt anything and everything from bunnies to moose so that is my first choice. The second choice. since everyone needs a good .22 is a Tikka T1x. This rifle out of the box shoots a 0.8 MOA group at 100 yards. Lots of target 10/X rings have been blown out, as well as quite a lot of squirrels being decapitated way out yonder where they think they are safe. The last choice, keeping in mind that I am an old chick and have owned a lot of rifles throughout my life is a Tikka T3x in 30-06. Super accurate right out of the box. After the rifle was sighted in I was out shooting with a right to left gusty crosswind. The gusts were up to 28 mph. I was trying to shoot between the gusts and was just a little off here and there. I was using Sako 165 gr hunting ammo that day and as one can see, out of the box gun with out of the box ammo and it performs. Handloads on a calm day result in 0.05 MOA groups all day. I would take this rifle over all others for anything on the North American continent up to and including the big bears, but no, I would not shoot bunnies with it. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teri Anne, post: 2789941, member: 118816"] While we all have our favorites, the question is, If you could have only three [B]LONG[/B] [B]GUNS, [/B] which would you choose? That is not really a difficult question on my behalf. I don't own any exotic long guns, simply long guns that shoot well out of the box, My first choice would be my Remington 11-87. It's an original that was made before Remington started messing with success. My 11-87 is a 3 inch version, I did at one time have an 11-87 Super Mag, which was manufactured when Remington was starting to, lets just say not paying a lot of attention to quality control. A guy at my gun club watched me shooting trap with it, and wanted a 3 1/2 inch semi auto shotgun for goose and turkey hunting. By this time I had the major issues ironed out under Remington's warranty and their Minnesota repair center (Hats of to them. they did a great job.)and let's simply say, "The price was right." I sold it and bought my current 3 inch 11-87 online through Kramer Auctions out of Prairie du Chien, WI. It is a Premier version and Curt had identified it as being in very good used condition. I have bought and sold a lot of firearms from them and trust his judgement. I have never been burned. A 12 ga shotgun can be used to hunt anything and everything from bunnies to moose so that is my first choice. The second choice. since everyone needs a good .22 is a Tikka T1x. This rifle out of the box shoots a 0.8 MOA group at 100 yards. Lots of target 10/X rings have been blown out, as well as quite a lot of squirrels being decapitated way out yonder where they think they are safe. The last choice, keeping in mind that I am an old chick and have owned a lot of rifles throughout my life is a Tikka T3x in 30-06. Super accurate right out of the box. After the rifle was sighted in I was out shooting with a right to left gusty crosswind. The gusts were up to 28 mph. I was trying to shoot between the gusts and was just a little off here and there. I was using Sako 165 gr hunting ammo that day and as one can see, out of the box gun with out of the box ammo and it performs. Handloads on a calm day result in 0.05 MOA groups all day. I would take this rifle over all others for anything on the North American continent up to and including the big bears, but no, I would not shoot bunnies with it. ;) [/QUOTE]
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