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My most trusted/reliable firearm

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#1 ·
Pistols, revolvers, ARs , shotguns, rifles... Have em all by Colt, Ruger, Smith, Bushmaster,Remington, Beretta n then some..... And what gun would I want to pick up in extreme emergency, knowing absolutely it is going to fire n dissipate the threat..... Easy - my Ruger super blackhawk 44mag single action.
As a kid of 21 I could hit dime sized bulls eyes...... Now in sixth decade, I can only hit silver dollar sized with that super black hawk.... I think I'll keep it. LOL
 
#2 ·
I'd have to say either one of my Mossberg 500 12 Gauge shotguns. I alternate loads of 00 buckshot with solid sabots. And that definitive racking sound has been known to make many a burglar re-think their profession.
 
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I own a bunch of modern and pricey firearms, but my all time favorites are my 6.5 swedish mauser and my Mosin 91/30. Slow and inexpensive, but when I hit that steel plate, sure sounds like it would knock the fire out anything else they hit. Just love how sturdy those old guns feel.
 
#9 ·
I've got a good lust too, and live my mausers and mosins, but the io asked what I grab in an extreme emergency, nit sure something with odd ammo would be that choice . 12g is easy to find, 6.5 Swiss, 8x57is& 762x54r, not so much, though as far as enjoyment goes, those are way more fun!!
 
#10 ·
My favorite, go-to, last to leave my fingers is my Springfield Armory rack-grade M-14. It's really a semi-auto "M1A", but it has never missed anything I wanted to hit, never EVER failed to operate as intended, and will do anything I need it to do. I have prettier, fancier, more modern guns, but this one is mine. As far as the M-14s I was issued back in the dinosaur days, I was never issued the selector switch, so I never learned to miss not having one on my rifle.
 
#12 ·
MY Ruger P-89 and CZ-75 compact both in 9mm have never jammed even with shooting reloads.A couple thousand rounds in the Ruger and about 500 in the CZ.Very reliable firearms.

Honorable mention for reliability:SP-101 and 10/22 in 22lr.

Remington 870 has jammed up.
Browning Buckmark has jammed up.
H&R 22 revolvers have gotten dirty enough for the cylinder not to turn.
S&W model-59 in 9mm has had jamming problems.
Taurus 8-shot 22 magnum has not fired some of the cylinders and fired off on the second strike.
Savage pump 22 has jammed.
Henry lever 22 has jammed with shorts and certain soft lead bullets.
 
#17 ·
My single barreled 12 gauge.
 
#19 ·
Nope! Just a cheap import form Brazil. I've had it for over 4o years, and I can promise you that it has put a lot of game on the table!
 
#21 · (Edited by Moderator)
Sometimes I hate google.

Twenty years or more ago, there was a cheap shotgun being advertised in Shotgun News. Made in South America, and called the SOB. I think it came as both a single and a SxS, and was available either stocked or with a pistol grip.

Thinking that might be what Carver has, I planned to ask him, and link to something about it.

Google, however, insists on autocorrecting SOB shotgun to SOB Shotgun Revolution, which is a song.
 
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Mine is just a cheap Brazilian made gun that I probably paid $35 for new. The first gun I ever owned that would take big game, such as deer, was a single barreled "long tom" with a 36" barrel, full choke. I hunted everything with a single 12 ga. shotgun. I learned to make fast reloads, and I have shot a many a duck, squirrel, deer, and anything else I could cook, and eat! When I go squirrel hunting, or rabbit hunting, this is the gun that goes with me. And I have shot quite a few deer with it as well.
 
#28 ·
My thoughts went to my $75 NEF .410 The best $75 I've ever spent on a gun.
My most "trusted" gun? Hard to say, my life fortunately doesn't put me in a position of having to trust a firearm beyond CC and hoping nothing comes my way.
If I nudge the question to "which gun do you own that has given you the fewest troubles"?
I hope I don't curse it, but after at the very least 5000 rounds, my SIG 226 has never FT fire, feed or eject. And, I'm definitely not "Mr. Clean" with my guns.
 
#27 ·
The brain seems to be working, finally.

Maybe Brasil, but certainly in South America, they made a cheap, utilitarian hunting shotgun they called a Bob. Why a Bob? Heck if I know. Maybe B.O.B. stands for something in Portagee. It came as both a single barrel and a SxS. Year or so later they started selling a short-barreled version with a pistol grip stock. This was Son Of Bob - SOB.
 
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