My favorite....
is a rifle my brother built 20 or so years ago, and ended up giving to me.
It is a Mauser '98 receiver with a Shilen barrel chambered in 30-06.
It has a custom curved bolt handle, a low-profile safety, and a Timney
adjustable trigger set at 2 pounds.
All that steel is set in a hand-carved black walnut stock, free-floated barrel,
with a Pachmayr recoil pad. On top is a Leupold 3 to 9 Vari-X II scope.
It was just a "project gun" for him, but when he gave it to me I spent
many hours working on a good handload, and finally got one that will shoot
a 1 inch group at a hundred yards. That's good enough for a hunting gun
where I live.
It's not nearly as pretty as a Weatherby or a Winchester Model 70, but it
is my number one deer hunting gun. I have a Remington 700 .243 I haven't
even used to hunt with since I got that Mauser.
As a rule, I don't give "pet names" to things I own. I broke the rule for
this gun. I call it my "meat-stick". It has never failed me.
Walter