My two are easy. I have always been a rifle guy first. I seem to always have too many guns, but when I started travelling to hunt I put together a first model ruger 77 in.338. Graphite stock, Magnaport (old style) and 1.5x6 Leupold. First group with Federal Premium 210 Partitions went into 3/8". I killed every head of game I shot from coyote to elk with that gun, every one a one shot kill.
The other is a Ruger No. 1 that started life as a 25-06 Varmint that I loaned to my Dad for what turned out to be his last deer hunt and last shot from a gun. Still have the case. I did a total redo of it in the style of a early 1900's Fahrquarson in 300 H&H.The stock was from a piece of French Walnut sourced from a grove outside Paris torn down by Panzers early in WWII. CC action and furniture, express sites, 1/2 octagon half round barrel. It was in memory of his service during the war.
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