Thread: Cheapest most accurate and reliable rifle you've owned

Originally Posted by gadgetman

Watch them. They seems to have an inherent issue. I bought one, turned my back for a little bit, then found there were another two of them in the safe.

tell me about it i only went to buy some powder get up to the counter and theres a little lost rifle holding my hand with puppy eyes i didnt have the heart to let it stay in that cold lonely place

Originally Posted by northdude

tell me about it i only went to buy some powder get up to the counter and theres a little lost rifle holding my hand with puppy eyes i didnt have the heart to let it stay in that cold lonely place

Good man. And those vege breaths would say hunters are heartless.

My original rifle was a CBC 22LR. Iron sights, full length barrel. Bought from the local sports shop for about $50 if I remember correctly. Munched on any ammo with stunning results. Being a young lad, I couldn't afford either 1) to miss my target, 2) pay too much for ammo. The possum, rabbit (both hairy and feathered) populations were kept well in check with that baby. God I wish I had kept it. My ex wife made me sell it (hmmm,, maybe there's a connection there )

My latest 2 favorites are both JW15's. I bought my (but apparently now my daughters - how did that happen ?) original JW15S as a complete package from GC. Once the usual smoothing of moving parts was sorted - she is a fantastic little shooter. My daughter loves it (did I mention that?)

The other JW15 honey in the safe was purchased for $80 as a beat up POS. It was the A model. Broken stock, full length barrel. New second hand stock (stripped, oiled and varnished), barrel chop to 17", threaded for a suppressor, and, wow, another super accurate tack driver. (My wife has this one)

I do have a model 56 Springfield that I resuscitated that cost me $50. Performance is not as good as my old CBC or the Norincos, but shes a classic, and I cant bring myself to chop it or tart it up.

Marlin Glenfield Model 20. My Dad paid $20 for it from a City of Sweetwater FL Police surplus sale. Has a cheap Western Auto scope on it. It is a nail driver and rsined holy hell on squirrels and rats when I was a kid.

Sti have it sitting in my safe.

I purchased a marlin XT22 varmit last year in 22 mag and its a good shooter but nothing on my oldmans old marlin 917 varmit.

That rifle with cci vmax's was deadly on foxes in the spotlight

my .30/30 Marlin 336 could be the one . . . $300 asking price from the second owner and probably had 2 boxes thru it total. maybe 1.5MOA for 2 shot groups at 100yds which could be considered accurate, good enough for 200yd shots on game anyway. Good honest totally reliable rifle . . came with dies, cases, bullets.

Just thought of another one. My Winchester 69A. My grand father kept it under his bed (lol). When he passed I got it, it was rough as guts but holy crap could it shoot bug hole groups. I really learned how to shoot with that rifle and attribute my skill to thousands of rounds down its pipe. Many many unfortunate critters on the farm fell to that shooter, I pulled of some amazing shots with it right on .22lr's envelope. It handled a lot like a shotgun really and i even got good at smoking rabbits and cats at full steam with it. There was a circle of death around my bedroom windows until the magpies would scatter at the flicker of a curtain. Man I miss living on a farm.