I'll give this some thought and post THEE ONE in the near future.
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But, like everyone else, I have had too many favorites. Throughout the 1990s, I was collecting guns, both long and short. One day (in 2015), I found I had too many...when you get too many, they become more of a liability than a asset. So I had an auction, 30 Rifles and 29 pistols. I was left with about 10 of each in the safe. I got rid of all my non-favorites...well except for the 1969 Romanian trainer...she was rough looking but Oh so accurate. My League gun (Ruger 77/22) was a sweet one too, I sold that to a friend a couple years before the Auction. Another Winner that got sold years prior, long before I was a reloader, was my first factory Rifle that would shoot bug holes, a Ruger #1 in 223rem. I've had a handfull of 30-40 Krags, I liked each one of them, but I never got any of them to shoot very well. Then there was the 1874 French Gras, My brother gave it to me for Christmas...as a joke...thinking I could never shoot it, due to no commercial ammo. Well I did shoot it with a BP handload, that a guy made for me, A friend took a polaroid of me shooting it (this was before the internet, LOL) and I sent it with a Christmas card the next year. Another neat one, a Swiss Vetterli, but it was chambered for 41 rimfire, I never did shoot it, It looked unissued, the checkering (if you would call it that?) was very different, square lines, but perfect condition, excellent metal to wood-fit and finish for a military rifle.