Holy grails of sporting rifles
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O'Kelly's Boys
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- Grande Prairie
I'd sure like to have something like this BSA Lee Speed.
Funny you should mention that. I bought one from a gun store in Winnipeg 8 years ago or so. Fell absolutely in love with it. I love the whole turn-of-the century, classic sporting rifle thing. The staff said they were super busy and could I come back once the transfer had gone through. I paid for it and said sure. I come back to find that it had been 'promised to someone else' and had already left the store and that they would be happy to return my money. I was so pissed I blew a gasket on the firearms manager. Someone working at the store got a beautiful rifle. Haven't looked super hard, but I've never seen another like it.
Like your semi's eh.
I've seen a couple of model 71/.348's for sale here in Manitoba. One was at the Dugald Gun show 2 or 3 years back, with the rare bolt peep, and the other was at the Brandon Gun show the next time after I saw the one at Dugald (pretty sure it wasn't the same gun)
I haven't begun to read all the posts, but the holy grail of hunting rifles should by all means, be the one that more were made over a hundred plus years, than any other rifle in the world. That, of course is the Winchester Model 94, usually found in 30-30 calibre.
In the desperately harsh years of the great depression, families depended on the hunter of the family to get wild game, any time of the year, to keep adequate food on the table. And the 30-30 Winchester was rifle used by most families.
As a young school boy I have seen a rather large family of school mates coming to school in the winter and the only food in their lunch pails was dry bread. Then the dad got a moose and the pails suddenly became nearly full of cold, boiled moose meat. The rifle the dad had, that virtually fended off starvation, was a 30-30 Winchester.
My case rests.
In the desperately harsh years of the great depression, families depended on the hunter of the family to get wild game, any time of the year, to keep adequate food on the table. And the 30-30 Winchester was rifle used by most families.
As a young school boy I have seen a rather large family of school mates coming to school in the winter and the only food in their lunch pails was dry bread. Then the dad got a moose and the pails suddenly became nearly full of cold, boiled moose meat. The rifle the dad had, that virtually fended off starvation, was a 30-30 Winchester.
My case rests.
I had an original Newton .256 once, serial number 14! Traded it off for something or other, can't even remember what now. I didn't even think to get pictures of it before I let it go.
I think my personal ultimate holy grail would be one of Karamojo Bell's original .275 Rigbys, or Jim Corbett's tiger rifle. Not much danger of that though, since his old Jeffery .400 is languishing in the Elmer Keith museum.
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Mine would be the Anshutz .22 Mannlicher full stock carbine with double set triggers model 1418. .It's an almost perfect match to my Steyr Mannlicher full stock carbine with double set triggers model l in .308.Even has the same skip checkering,took me almost 15 years to find it. No one sells them if they have them
I love my 1418 also, I'm very lucky to have it.
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- The Conservative part of Ontario
Nicely put.
Win '94 30-30..the holy grail?...thats ridiculous...whats next, the .303 Lee-Enfield? ...That's like saying the 50cc Honda Cub is the best, most desirable motorcycle...after all Honda made a zillion of them and they are still popular and doing transport duty all over the world....BUT.... You missed the point of the original post....to quote "the ones that are very hard to find, or unique."
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beretta boy
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- Orillia, Ontario
I've got a Remington 700 Mountain in 257 Roberts and a Remington 7600 in 35 Whelen. Hardly "Holy Grail", but not easy to come by.
Would upgrade the 257 in a NY minute to a pre-'64 Model 70 Supergrade.
Regret selling a Ruger 44 Magnum Carbine (the tube feed model) a Model 42 with a Simmons rib and a S&W Model 29 (1968) in 8-3/8".
Would like a Dakota in 375 H&H with nice English Walnut And may some day come by a buddies Model 71 converted to 450 Alaskan as
he's pretty much given up all shooting & hunting. An A.H. Fox HE or maybe an XE in 20 ga. 28" or longer would be a find too.
Would upgrade the 257 in a NY minute to a pre-'64 Model 70 Supergrade.
Regret selling a Ruger 44 Magnum Carbine (the tube feed model) a Model 42 with a Simmons rib and a S&W Model 29 (1968) in 8-3/8".
Would like a Dakota in 375 H&H with nice English Walnut And may some day come by a buddies Model 71 converted to 450 Alaskan as
he's pretty much given up all shooting & hunting. An A.H. Fox HE or maybe an XE in 20 ga. 28" or longer would be a find too.
My holy grail rifle would be a factory scoped Mauser Oberndorf sporter. I wouldn't be too picky on model, but I'd love it to be a 7,8 or 9.3mm with a tangent sight and the inside the bow magazine release.
I bought this old girl earlier this year to hold me over while I save and look. It's a model S in 8x57. The action and trigger are better than any 'sporter' that I've handled. The bore doesn't look like it's seen much use either. The numbers match and there's only a tiny chip in the stock at the back of the action. Not bad for a 90 year old!
I bought this old girl earlier this year to hold me over while I save and look. It's a model S in 8x57. The action and trigger are better than any 'sporter' that I've handled. The bore doesn't look like it's seen much use either. The numbers match and there's only a tiny chip in the stock at the back of the action. Not bad for a 90 year old!
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My personaly holy grail was the Win Model 70 f/w in 6.5x55mm. Lusted after one ever since shooting my buddies example circa 1995.
Very happy to report I recently scored one after many years of looking. All good now!
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NAA.
Very happy to report I recently scored one after many years of looking. All good now!
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NAA.
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