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Favorite cheap rifle?
elubsme
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Hands down my bring back M-1 carbine with a cut down stock and missing hand guard.
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Current 'favorite' is TC Compass II in 6.5 Creedmoor, but mostly because it came with a threaded muzzle. OK, there is the fact that it's surprisingly accurate with several bullet weights, doesn't vary POI (much) with various bullet weights, and is inexpensive.
Previous 'favorite': Savage 110 with a custom 25/06 barrel. Still my 'back up favorite'.
'Favorite' changes every few years as I explore new choices.
Savage 110 300WSM
tc compass in 308
Remington 550 that my dad gave me when I was a kid. Who knows how many rounds have been put thru it and it's still the most accurate iron sight rifle I have.
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I have one of those Yugo/ CZ Training rifles, a bolt action mag fed 22lr "Mauser" looking gun. I got it free from a guy who I helped clean/ fix or put right 50 M1 Garands one time. He had a few of them in various condition. Mine is in good shape and it has excellent iron sights with a real military 2 stage trigger and a 5 shot magazine. Hands down my favorite gun and it was free(sort of). I shoot it almost every day and am deadly with it.
I guess I would have to pick Ruger American since I have more than one.
I have one of these also, great little shooters!
I'd have to go with one of my 10/22's.
Savage 110e 30-06 bought as a redo project for $60.00 at a yard sale .Stock finish had flaked off and it was so rusty it looked like it had been used for a tent stake Only plus wss the bore was good . Multiple hours draw filling , sanding etc, finally got it looking decent. I spent several days bluing it . With a $50.00 used Swift scope it has became my primary deer gun for the last 12 years . Boringly accurate with my hand loads , inch to inch and a half groups as long as i do my job .Counting everything i have less than $150.00 invested
TC Venture 30-06 picked it up cheap on a Bass Pro close out sale. It is really accurate and isn't picky about what it is feed
I think the least I've paid for a rifle(and granted, I've bought all mine in the last 5 years) has been a barely pre-64 Model 94, $461.10 out the door at the local gunsmith shop. Very handy rifle. All my other rifles have been $500+.
Ruger 10/22 is shot the most I think.
Savage model 110E bolt action in 243 Winchester. Bland birch stock. Got that locking ring on the barrel used to headspace the thing. Overall, a plain-jane that shoots MOA with my handloads tailored to it. Paid well under $200.00 for it brand new quite a while ago.
Ruger American, T/C or a Howa.
Marlin Model 60. .22LR. Picked it up in a pawn shop years ago for $75 ish. Most accurate .22 rifle I have ever owned.
Spanish mauser saddle ring carbine or Mossberg 44us . Both shoot better than I can see.
Back in the mid 80's dad needed a scoped .22 and my brother and I ran onto a distributor doing a closeout of Winchester 490's for $60. We ordered one for dad and because of the price, each of us got one too. Scoped up one and dad proved that both he and the rifle were pretty darned accurate. Mine was stolen in that break-in that occurred in 1989 that I've mentioned before, but since dad passed away, his has been in one of my safes ever since. It sits next to his Winchester 69a with the factory peep sight that was saved from being altered for a scope by getting him the 490. I've got a lot of rifles, some inexpensive and some pretty pricey but that $60 Winchester, because of its history, ranks up there as one of my favorites. Bob
Battlefield pickup Arisaka 7.7, that my dad gave me when I turned 18. Has the bayonet and sling. Most accurate rifle I ever owned. I can pick the pimple off a flea's butt at 100 yard with that thing, and not even make him flinch!!! LOL. Well almost. 😁
When a local Dick's Sporting Goods was having a closeout on all their guns in 2019, I caught a Savage 93 FVXP in .22 Magnum for 175.00 marked down from 325.00 It came with a substandard scope and so I bought a Vortex scope on sale for 100.00 marked down from 225.00. Hit the counter with the rifle and scope, pulled out a 15% off coupon and another 25.00 dollars off mailer they had sent out. Out the door for 219.00 for both. Sold the substandard scope for 60 bucks... 159 bucks invested......
The gun is a tack driver........
Winchester model 1890 in WRF made from two different serial numbers with a Marlin .22 short, long, long rifle barrel. I gave $12.00 for this rifle many years ago at a garage sale. I carried it in the truck for years. It shoots very well and is pretty accurate. I finally this year got around to grinding off the caliber markings and added the WRF markings. I wouldn't want someone after me to try the wrong ammunition.
my whole life hobby money has always had me owning cheap rifles 😁
just for a ll around fun inexpensive reliable gun it would be difficult to beat a ruger 10-22 and depending on when it was bought would easy go into the cheap rifle category
have to add in the SKS when 59.00 would get you one fresh out of a crate and every gun show had hundreds of them and the same 59.00 give or take would get 1000 rounds of surplus ammo .
Oh If I had only known 😥
Right on.
I still have the one I squirrel hunted with as a teenager with iron sights. Was my Dad's gun.
It was also a jeep gun on the ranch. It did not receive lots of TLC but always functioned correctly and accurately. I eventually refinished the beat up stock after it got retired from being the in vec ranch rifle.
Very accurate. I later bought another one that was inoperative and factory grooved for a scope. Very accurate rifle and not to picky about type of ammo for good accuracy.
I had to replace a part in the 550's bolt, quite a learning experience task getting one back together.
They have the floating chamber and will reliably operate with shorts, longs and long rifle shells.
I have a cheap old Savage 219 that started life as a 30-30 and was reborn a 38-55. Its Iron sites are just the bees knees.
Great gun and someone Carved Mayme in the stock Rather good carving I will try to post a pic someday.
My '03 Springfield. Started out as a $150 yard sale find. Maybe another $100 more into a new stock, handguard, rear sight, and front band/bayonet lug/stacking swivel. I should have taken before pics. It was sad and embarrassing what Bubba had done to it.
Savage 110 in 270. It shoots 1/2 moa at 200 with 130 remington corelokts
H&R m12 from the CMP, $225. Shoots well. Scope was extra.
For a rifle a Ruger 10-22 with a 25 round Bulter Creek mag. For a pistol a Ruger Mark 4. Both of these works great and hard to beat for the price.