From battle to hunting to home defense, there may be no more versatile and useful firearm ever made that the accurate, reliable bolt action rifle. Rugged, reliable and easy to maintain, a good bolt gun lets a shooter reach out and touch anything  from a can on a fencepost at 25 yards to an enemy insurgent a mile away.

It took some careful consideration, but we managed to come up with our list of the top 10 bolt action rifles every produced. Did we miss anything?