Milsurp (military surplus) is my favorite brand. These old military bolt-action and semi-automatic rifles are reasonably accurate (I'm no match shooter) and much cheaper to own & operate than most new rifles these days.

i am going to have to agree with cannedham. milsurp gives you the best bang for your buck. i own several mosin nagant rifles. i didnt pay over 100 bucks for any of them. i will never buy a expensive deer rifle. these work great

Daisy. LOL My 2 cents.

i would have to say sako i mean its accurate right out of the box

Ruger. or military surplus. with both you get bang for your buck, reliability, and in almost all cases, room and ability to modify it.

Now THERE is a question open to interpretation! Rifles, like automobiles, have their devout followers who swear one way or the other. I've fired mostly Marlin, Winchester, Ruger, and Remmington in a variety of calibers and actions, from .22 up to 30-06 and single shots, lever actions, bolt actions, and semiauto. NONE of those rifles were anything other than outstanding in performance, quality, and craftmanship. There ARE some quirks about some. For example, my .22 is a Marlin. The Marlin rifle stock, I believe, is too darned straight for easy opensight shooting, but works very well with an inexpensive scope (due to the design of the stock which makes it more difficult for me to get my eye down for a proper open-sight view). I've worked around that with a butt extension I made which gets my eye back behind this little hump on the stock. For some reason, I just can't bring myself to modify the original stock...I'd rather make another one! Now, there ARE some things I look for...I hate plastic parts on traditionally wooden or metal parts. I'm not talking synthetic stocks here...I mean cheap plastic. But since I never went past the visual confirmation of plastic parts, I couldn't tell you know who made them. Ultimately, the best rifle brand is one where the company stands behind the quality of work, the one which shoots reliably, one that shoots accurately, and the one who makes guns that YOU find visually appealing. And all the brands I mentioned above do that for me.

ruger

Winchester for rifles. Kalashnikov for semi-auto's.

Ruger, Winchester, Remington, Savage, Sako, FN, and many others make excellent rifles. Milsurp are fine if you are willing to take the time and have the talent to work them over. Military rifles generally are not produced for fine accuracy but efficiency and are built on bid (i.e., lowest bidder gets the contract).There are excellent used rifles manufactured by the traditional gunmakers. Look at the brands used by competitive shooters, the actions they use are mostly Remington and Winchester with custom barrels and custom stocks. I've owned Ruger, Winchester, Remington, Sako, FN and found them all excellent. Usually, the gun can shoot better than the shooter.

Remington model 700 and Browning in a .300 wsm caliber quality weapons that will out last a life time and in my opinion its like chevy or gmc they are equal in quality, and this caliber will shoot very far with alot of knock down power and does not drop alot compared to other calibers. bolt action would be a little more accurate than semi- automatics. although the browning bar which is semi automatic is very good quality.

With accuracy and cost in mind, I would have to recommend Savage. 7mmMag or 300 would cover almost any application. Savage has made some excellent rifles in the last few years. Their varminter guns are tack drivers out-of-the-box. Still, I prefer a Rem700 since it's what I've got and it's hard to knock a rifle that has served well.

Marlin and Styer are my favorites also like my ruegers and chippas

The Remington Model 700 rifle because it has the most after market additions that make it truely remarkeable and the action can be accurized in a lathe to deliver sub MOA groups that would be beyod belief.

I love the Frankenrifle. Meaning, rifle parted together by myself built on researched and mated parts for a particular outcome/purpose. Normally I go with the AR 15 lower receiver; of which I have used many different brands, POF, Spike's, Stag Arms, ATI, DPMS, Charles Daly, Lauer, Denny's. Then match that with whatever combination upper, barrel, internal parts and accessories float my boat. Great fun I assure you! If you use a high quality barrel, Kreiger, Lothar Walther, Shillen with matched headspaced bolts, and other high quality internals such as Timney match grade triggers then there is no reason why you cannot achieve as good a result on the range as a high end manufacturer. Sub MOA is the goal, and if you build a rifle more accurate than the shooters, who will know it's not made by JP Rifles? Having said all that, If I were to buy a factory built rifle it would be JP without a doubt. http://www.jprifles.com/ Below is an example of one of my Frankenguns.

Enfield and Brno. The Lee-Enfield No.4 made by Enfield and the BREN made by BRno and ENfield where the best Bolt-Action rifle and Section Machine gun during the Second World war.

I like the oldest manufacturer in America, Remington. :-) But I do own others such as a Winchester lever action, Thompson Center, CVA, Mosin Nagant, Rossi, Savage and a few others. :-D ! ! !

I don't get it. All these posts and only one about Browning and none about Weatherby. Here is my order.... Weatherby Mark V Weatherby Mag Browning A-Bolt Weatherby Vanguard Rem. Mag Browning BLR Remington 700 I know that these are expensive, but the question was asking for the best. The action and accuracy of these rifles out performs any of the others listed in the responses that I have shot. If you want quality action and accuracy right out of the box it is very costly.