Factory "Gentleman's rifle" - if there is such a thing

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Looking for members opinions on what they consider a "gentlemans rifle," make, model caliber etc.

I have a couple decent rifles, some junk, and one higher priced custom sheep rifle. But what im talking about here is Blue / Nice walnut and heirloom quality.

For the purposes of this question, the caliber must be capable of taking all NA game animals.

Rifles that come to mind for myself are:

-Win M70 Supergrade in 300wm, 7mm, or 06
-Maybe a nice Rem 700 BDL? in the above cals, has Remington lost its class?
-A classic WBY MkV in 300wby?

Just tossing around ideas and looking for input for next spring when I will be back in the market and in the mood for putting on the safari shirt, packing a stogie and a flask and chasing critters around the hills.

Mike.
 
Kimber 84L Classic Select 30/06. Although I think the true gentleman’s Rifle is the same rifle in 257 Roberts, but you stipulated all NA game.
 
My dad handed down his Winchester model 70 featherweight in 30-06 to me. I guess that means its heirloom quality.

He bought it in the 80s and used for hunting deer. 30-06 will work on anything that lives in North America.

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My pick today would probably be a nice, older, wood stocked MKV in a Weatherby magnum caliber. But really anything with nice wood and bluing would qualify.

Stainless and composite are much more practical, but there's something about handling a nice wood and blued gun that puts you back in a period of time long before you were born.
 
One of the guys at our club recently got a gorgeous Copper Mannlicher in 375... beautiful rifle and definitely reminiscent of an old " gentleman " gun
 
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todbartell said:
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Too bad there is a Mossberg action in that nice stock.
 
Not popular calibers but should not be out of place here...

Heym 16ga / 7x65R



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hoytcanon said:
Too bad there is a Mossberg action in that nice stock.
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That jest'bout sums it up nicely.

nowarningshot said:
So looking for Fudd rifles.
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No, noarms, yer think'in awf them back east pumpy sort awf ker-pows..................:popCorn:

Only thing that I can think of that wood trewly fit the bill would be an old
Brno 21H oar 22F.
With the dubble set's.......................:p
 
micus said:
Looking for members opinions on what they consider a "gentlemans rifle," make, model caliber etc.

I have a couple decent rifles, some junk, and one higher priced custom sheep rifle. But what im talking about here is Blue / Nice walnut and heirloom quality.

For the purposes of this question, the caliber must be capable of taking all NA game animals.

Rifles that come to mind for myself are:

-Win M70 Supergrade in 300wm, 7mm, or 06
-Maybe a nice Rem 700 BDL? in the above cals, has Remington lost its class?
-A classic WBY MkV in 300wby?

Just tossing around ideas and looking for input for next spring when I will be back in the market and in the mood for putting on the safari shirt, packing a stogie and a flask and chasing critters around the hills.

Mike.
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if price is NO option...VO Sporting Falcon Rifle
 
Gnome75 said:
My dad handed down his Winchester model 70 featherweight in 30-06 to me. I guess that means its heirloom quality.

He bought it in the 80s and used for hunting deer. 30-06 will work on anything that lives in North America.

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I have the identical rifle in 7x57. Only difference is optics [VX III 2.5-8] Definitely a fine shooting iron. Dave.
 
I think everyone has their own definition of what makes a "gentleman's" rifle.


First, who is a gentleman?

1. A civilized, educated, sensitive, or well-mannered man?
2. A man with an independent income who does not work for a living?
3. A man of noble birth or belonging to a family of high social station?
4. A man whose conduct conforms to a high standard of propriety or correct behavior?

IMO the kit a person carries does not necessarily define them. You see miscreants in court, dressed up in a suit and tie - their clothing certainly does not make them a gentleman.

I would consider my best friend a gentleman. He hunts with a McMillan stocked, trued SS Remington 700 with a Krieger barrel - all put together by our very own Guntech. His firearm is a tool and he has it fashioned in the way it will serve his needs best.

In some ways the question reminds me of a "gentleman's knife", which is something you might carry to a fancy dinner, in the pocket of your suit. It would be quite slim, classy and elegant. So is a "gentlemen's rifle" just something classy, elegant and timeless? If that is the case I would consider, new, a Merkel single shot rifle. In my eyes a person carrying a single shot rifle has an air of confidence in themselves and their kit. For used, any pre-war Mannlicher Schoenauer or Oberndorf Mauser.

If you end up with a Mannlicher Schoenauer then you should also take a copy of Hemingway's Islands in the Stream. And Old Man and the Sea.


“A gun is to shoot anyway, he thought, not to be preserved in a case, and this was a really good rifle, easy to shoot, easy to teach anyone to shoot with, and handy on the boat. He had always had more confidence shooting it, as to being able to place his shots at close and moderate range, than any other rifle he had ever owned and it made him happy to pull it out of the case now and pull back the bolt and shove a shell into the breech.”
—Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

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