I own a variety of rifles including DTA Covert/3 barrels and several GAPs. If I could only have one, it would be the GAP Crusader in .308, hands-down. 2nd place isn't even close. Best rifles I've ever owned.
One rifle and only one rifle
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If there is life on other planets.... I doubt they will miss your light signals. Jesus.... What do you do with that thing??
My Surgeon Scalpel in .308 with S&B scope will always be my go to rifle. I am very happy with this setup. It is a very rugged accurate rig and of course .308 ammo will always be plentiful.
LOL. That is the classic internet "tacticool" Black rifle. The more shit you have hanging on it the better. I was looking for a multi barrel whack job but couldn't find a good one. I had the Tirty point buck rifle in mind when I was looking but couldnt find anything.
Haha!! It looks like something similar to the Ghostbusters gun. That really is the most "tacticool" gun I've ever seen. It can guide in a jet... Open a canned good, or MAYBE even hit something with a bullet
If the question means the only firearm you could own and it has to be a bolt action rifle than the answer is the Browning repro. of the Winchester 52C Sporter.
Im surprised by many of the calibers suggested here. Many of them would be burnt up before the next election, especially if it was your only gun. Another reason I said the SRS.
The choices listed in this thread are not going to be very meaningful (or maybe more accurately: applicable) to anyone but the person that lists their choice. Each person has a variety of factors that go into their decision, including weighing the expected uses they foresee. One person may never hunt with the rifle, so their answer may be an a tactical rifle, while another may foresee 90% of the use being hunting, so they are more likely to favor a lighter stick in a common hunting flavor.
I often only have one, very nice rifle, which is probably the reason I so often buy and sell rifles. Everything is a compromise of features and when you choose only one, you'll realize that one usually can't fulfill all possible uses very well.
I currently have a 308 Krieger barreled MATEN that fills a few needs. Going forward, I intend to pick up an AI AE MKIII and then after that, a pencil barreled AR15 with Aimpoint micro. If I was only to keep the MATEN and never get anything else, I'd want to ditch the 1" profile Krieger in favor of a mid weight barrel and get the rifle down to less than 8lbs from 11, but then again, that's a compromise (weight vs barrel temp vs repeatable accuracy).
I often only have one, very nice rifle, which is probably the reason I so often buy and sell rifles. Everything is a compromise of features and when you choose only one, you'll realize that one usually can't fulfill all possible uses very well.
I currently have a 308 Krieger barreled MATEN that fills a few needs. Going forward, I intend to pick up an AI AE MKIII and then after that, a pencil barreled AR15 with Aimpoint micro. If I was only to keep the MATEN and never get anything else, I'd want to ditch the 1" profile Krieger in favor of a mid weight barrel and get the rifle down to less than 8lbs from 11, but then again, that's a compromise (weight vs barrel temp vs repeatable accuracy).
Reviving this thread. My vote would be a 7mm Remington mag head spaced off the shoulder. Would not be the funnest gun to shoot, but it does it all. Plenty of available ammo. Great ballistics. Kill any game in north America. Apparently a great paper puncher out to 1500 yards. Stick with berger 180 vld. The 7mm does not get the credit it deserves. I would be all about the 7 wsm if that cartridge caught on. Availability is limited on that round. Just got a 6.5 creedmoor build started but Plan on getting a 7mm mag build started in the spring. When the SHTF, the 7mm mag would be the cartridge of choice.
Gap extreme hunter
I dont own one yet but would like to.
GA precision extreme hunter 6.5 SAUM
From the thread on it, it seems like a great do it all rifle.
Didnt george win the cup with one?
Custom Rifles - GA Precision
http://www.snipershide.com/shooting...s/185807-new-gap-extreme-hunter-6-5-saum.html
I dont own one yet but would like to.
GA precision extreme hunter 6.5 SAUM
From the thread on it, it seems like a great do it all rifle.
Didnt george win the cup with one?
Custom Rifles - GA Precision
http://www.snipershide.com/shooting...s/185807-new-gap-extreme-hunter-6-5-saum.html
My GA Precision Hospitaller in .308 with Schmidt and Bender scope.
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It would be a hard choice between my AW .308/ AX .260. But yes an AI in any platform would be my choice.
M-1A........If you know ahead of time you only get one rifle but have no idea what the road ahead looks like. Any good 7.62mm with a box magazine for that matter. Good legs but still does a good job close quarters, though over penetration is a problem.
For a precision rifle, it's an easy choice. My sako TRG 22 in 308 with the Nightforce 5.5-22x56, running 175 grain Federal Gold Medal Match ammo. The combo simply stacks bullets with boring repeatability.
i know AI has to have a PSR'ish gun in a AW stock i want that. switch barrel with thumbhole. if i couldn't have that then DTA or AI PSR would work
Didnt read the thread but one bolt gun (I assume due to it being in the bolt gun section) and one bolt gun only I would take a DTA due to switch barrel/caliber.
I've been playing with some 100 grain bullets in my 7RM because I wanted to fire form some brass and because I just felt like it. I find these very fun to shoot as the recoil is down towards 243 territory (in my opinion). Accuracy has been ok (not LR stuff but fun). I shoot at crap with it, practice trigger control, practice my off hand shots, and did I say shoot at crap? I love it.
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Man!!!! it Has to be a Desert tactical arms rifle. they come with a switch barrel. So its like two in one. I would get the barrels in 6.5x47 Lapua and the other in .338 Lapua. this would make an okay rifle for almost anything I can think of. And it would be topped with a Schmidt..... PMIII.
DTA SRS A1. Love mine and now getting ready to sell most of my precision rifles and redundant premium scopes. It's about time I can start putting money back in my pocket and my wife is extatic! If she only knew what I've spent over the last three years....
Rem 700 custom in 308win. 20in barrel 308 is still the most popular caliber in the USA. It can take any game in North America and still reach out and touch somebody.
If it was any rifle I would pick my LMT 308 MWS. Nothing like a 1/2 moa semi auto with 20rd mag
If it was any rifle I would pick my LMT 308 MWS. Nothing like a 1/2 moa semi auto with 20rd mag
Can't really say it much better than that.
The DTA comes in all the calibers I need now, and calibers that I may want tomorrow.
I hear a 6.5 WSM or 6.5 SAUM and a 22-243 calling my name.
Luckily here in the US it is a "what if" for those of us that don't mind having multiple rifles. Because we are not bound by ridiculous laws stating the number of firearms we can own, as is the case in other countries.
There still are those in the US that don't want a rifle for every purpose and would prefer to have one bolt rifle to do it all.
I did not read a single response in this thread. Even attempting to scan this thread left me flinching as if acid were about to be cast in my eyes. Please try and purge this entire line of thinking from every corner of your brain. The closest thought you should entertain is "which one rifle for a given situation". As such you are selecting from your inventory only one rifle for say, deer hunting on a power line versus deer hunting in thick woods. You can only bring one at a time, but you would need two to choose from, at a very minimum. This is the ONLY context in which any talk should focus on a single rifle. I can only hope that other posters were similar in their responses to this tragic concept. Godspeed.
An 18" Tango 51 with NF F1.
Or a similar built rifle as I'll never be able to justify the money for a real one
Or a similar built rifle as I'll never be able to justify the money for a real one
if you mean "have" as in "free", whatever one they'll give me.
a VO falcon would be nice
VO Vapen AB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJdR4nwIoeA
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if I ever am down to only one rifle. The one I will choose is the one with ammo remaining. In the meantime I vote a multiple rifle battery in numerous calibers to fit various needs and to cure boredom.
That would be nice until I slammed it into every barricade I could find...then it would have some character. ;-) I'd take my GAP built, badger M2008 rifle. I've already got (2) 243 barrels as well as a 260 barrel for it. Wouldn't be hard to switch the bolts and have a saum or wsm.
I would probably go with a Blaser myself. Since this is a thread being revived.
But in the end, as long as it's a rifle that the owner shoots, who cares.
People who read these threads, or post the, thinking they can divine "best" are going to be poorly served.
Each person's priorities and situations are different.
TTR
