Which firearm do you have to most fun shooting

Dang, hard choices so will only list four.

Pre-64 Super Grade 22 Hornet is an absolute blast.

Pre-64 7MM Mauser with 175gr Northforks and 160gr CEB flat nosed solids takes no prisoners, 2680 and 2800 fps respectively, there is no plains game animal in all of Africa I wouldn't tackle with that rig.

303 British double rifle is pure sweetness, heck, you could dip the muzzles in your coffee if you need to sweeten it up a bit ; ]

Suppressed stainless synthetic 10/22 Ruger that I've had for over 20 years is a short range farm pest control gun extraordinaire, quick example, two garden bunny thieves munching on little Wifes strawberries, Whapped the first one in the side of the head out a spare bedroom sniper hide window, second bunny thief hopped a 180 looking at his partner in crime like WTF?.....................WHAPPPPP!, they both went to that grand strawberry field in the sky that day.
I was wrong ladies and gents, the 160gr 7mm Mauser solid is a Northfork, getting my small bore solids mixed up, CEB indeed makes a 210gr copper flat nosed solid, but it's for the 303 double.
 
First, last, and always a rifleman. I prefer offhand, if just an afternoon of fun shooting, I grab the Buchel Luna in 22 short. Probably made in the 1920s, the bore is a mirror. Notice the cast off in the stock.
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My Perazzi....
Fitted to me down to a millimetre.
After more than 50 000 rounds my muscle memory takes over....it seems to run on auto-pilot. Deadly on the circuit and anything with feathers.

My 50 Cal Muzzleloader...
Brings the smiles out from everyone...and deadly in the veld.....
 
My EDC Les Baer .45 It is a joy to shoot and leaves me smiling and happy.

It is on me everyday and everywhere legally allowed to carry. It saved me from an attempted carjacking in 2011. I shoot it regularly enough to have worn it out and have it rebuilt.

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Tex, out of curiosity how many rounds did you have thru your LB before it needed a rebuild? I have about 2,300 thru my Premier 2 and plan to wear it out thru proper care and regular feeding
 
With all the SHOT show videos and ads for new gadgets and guns being posted - what do you have the most fun with? What rifle/pistol/shotgun brings you the most smiles? For me it’s probably my Vudoo 22 when my kids and I are competing against each other. Yes I love my 375 H&H and my 450 Alaskan; enjoy shooting clays; shoot NRL Hunter; am drawn to the lines and machine work of top shelf 1911s; marvel at freedom arms revolvers and the feel of my Parkwest single shot, but that little 22 always produces a lot of smiles and goes through a lot of ammunition.
I love shooting all my guns from the .22s to the .458 WM, but if I had to think of one that's just fun to shoot I think it would be my Marlin lever action .22. I think my grandfather gave it to my dad in about 1939 and Dad passed it on to me a couple of years before he died. It was the first gun I ever shot. It is outfitted with a Marbles tang peep and is very accurate. At the range, it's the gun everyone wanted to shoot.
 
Lately, it is an iron sighted Mauser in 9.3x57. Ringing steel with iron sights is a good time!
 
My favorite can be paraphrased by what Stephen Stills wrote "Love the one you are with" - my favorite is the one I am shooting at the time.


There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
A-telling me I got to beware
 
Ma duece 50 caliber. Belonged to my Uncle Sam.
I saw one of those big Barret 50BMG rifles at TAC-PRO Shooting Range near Thurber, Texas. I asked the owner how expensive it was to shoot. He replied, "It is the cheapest rifle to shoot I own. One magazine takes all day to shoot.".
 
Even though I have several safes full of firearms, my air rifles get shot more than anything else.

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My Walther LG400 gets shot in the basement at exactly 10 meters nearly every day. All standing offhand Olympic style.
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My squirrel rifle is an Air Arms S500 single shot 22 cal I traded for an old spring piston rifle at a local airgun only gun show.

Both of these can be shot in the basement or backyard without the neighbors knowing as long as you don't use one of the steel backstops that ring like a bell. The totally quiet solution is a target box like this that uses the old Duct Seal putty.
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The 177 caliber pellets cost around $4 for 500, and 22 caliber hunting pellets are around $12 for 500.
 
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With all the SHOT show videos and ads for new gadgets and guns being posted - what do you have the most fun with? What rifle/pistol/shotgun brings you the most smiles? For me it’s probably my Vudoo 22 when my kids and I are competing against each other. Yes I love my 375 H&H and my 450 Alaskan; enjoy shooting clays; shoot NRL Hunter; am drawn to the lines and machine work of top shelf 1911s; marvel at freedom arms revolvers and the feel of my Parkwest single shot, but that little 22 always produces a lot of smiles and goes through a lot of ammunition.
I find it hard to beat large bores or full autos when just shooting. Cool only gets cooler when it gets bigger or faster.
 
I love Reloading to develop a load that will be extremely accurate in a rifle. The rifle I’m working on while I’m doing that is my favorite at that time.

There’s no such thing as good enough

My OCD will not let me stop until it’s all in one hole

Sometimes that results in new barrels
 
Ppsh 41 FA close second STG44.....just built a 7.92x33 bolt gun that is fun ...but total favourite is Steyr in 6.5x54ms
 

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