Describe your dream rifle

For a dream rifle I shoot a bit higher. The pictures are large so I'll link it instead of post. I love this rifle but would get a different caliber along the lines of a .257 Roberts.

http://www.hallowellco.com/Echols%20Burgess%20416.htm

NH_Hunter

 That rifle is used, selling for 12k.

I just thought up my own dream rifle. Not sure what caliber it should be, probably .25 - .30. Anyway, my requirements would allow for adjustable energy output from 500 ft/# to around 5000 ft/#? It will only drop about 2 inches out to 1000 yards, but at only around 2500 - 3000 fps. It should weigh about 3 lbs to make it easy to carry, but only have about 1# of recoil energy. It will also have a gyroscope built into the stock to aid offhand shots. Well, maybe even Satalitte guided bullets? Also, I think a 3-100 variable scope should work out well. Anything I missed?

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Franz has done several presentation rifles for Safari international over the years, and his work has been featured in many magazines. He is the only true Master Engraver from Austria in this country. His work is incredible. I've shared many (too many) beers with Franz over the years.

 The secound is a miniature functioning Mauser by Monte Mandarino. The checkering is 48(!) lines to the inch. That is an ink pen below it for size scale. Monte's real forte is muzzleloaders, and if you can get your hands on a copy of the book, "Steel Canvas", his guns are featured on the overleafs, and in the body of the work. The last one I handled of his, made for Bob Lee, was a 1760 French fowler, chase emgraved from end to end on the barrel, with gold wire inlay and platinum the full length of the stock. Price? $227,000.

Unfortunately, Monte has quit building rifles, and is only doing restoration work now. And he's a young guy! To see him on the street, you would think he was a street person. And he's a hell of a good blues singer!

At first i thought that it meant that they made a really big pen, but that didnt have anything to do with a dream rifle...unless it was how your rifle looked in "transportation mode!" That would take away the worries of travel, it your rifle turned into a pen!

NH_Hunter

Good morning TIKKABUCK . . . everyone is chattin' about the .260 and the 6.5x55 on Shooters . . . like there is a big difference or something!  Anyway . . . I posted the following this morning.  Guess it explains what I want for an ultimate rifle. 

"There is always an ultimate choice . . . for specific purposes. If I needed a long-range outfit . . . first, for antelope . . . second for targets . . . I selected this outfit a long time ago.

Tikka Sporter chambered in 6.5x55mm
Leupold VX-II 6-18x40mm AO scope
For normal hunting . . . Leupold VX-II 4-12x40mm AO

Now . . . I don't want to be rash . . . but, excepting HIGH MASTER and GAZ . . . I'd be ready to "take you on." Won't make any rash claims, but . . . get ready to treat me at the Outback! Could make DFC and his Sendero 'eat crow!' LOL!"

I would let him set at the same table . . . while eating his crow . . . as long as he kept his paws off my "Bloomin' Onion!"     Of course, the .308 would be my "second" choice in chambering, but the above would suffice.

Have a good day! 

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