It's going to be either my 1938 Mosin, got a nice whitetail last season, or my dad's Remington 1917. I used my dads 1917 to get my first deer. I'm not sure of the date on his, it was an old armory rifle they bought years ago in his home town when he was in his teens. Him and his brothers all bought one each, I think for $25. They burned up all their money in the Herters catalog, sportster stocks and had a local machinist turn of the rear sight ears and DNT them for scopes. Dad still uses it every year for hunting, guessing he hunted with it for over 50 years now.