My best has been a Coggie double square bridge Mauser in 318.
That first season with it, due to work I could only hunt the opening weekend(7-10 days?) - opening weekend rained, and rained hard two days straight - the rifle never got out of it's case and I never went back for my buck. The rifle sat for a whole year.
The next year stuff came-up, and could only manage a day or two in the deer woods - this handsome and pricey rifle had become a dust collector in my cabinet. Never again will I put big money into a deer rifle...times are short and your at the mercy of the elements. My rifles now are 22lr and 17Hmr, and as a landowner I can hunt these durning deer season - so who knows!