Old classic hunting rifles.

To be honest, its not shown in the best light, quality walnut needs oiling. The stock though is shaped do that you dont feel the recoil in the way you do from a Parker hale or Sako of the same era in the same calibre! Its built properly and I wish it hadnt been scoped as it would have looked even nicer!
The price reflects the market. I could raise more but we are still feeling the pinch here although having seen a boxed switch barrel 3 rifle set by Hartmann and Weiss fetch 1/4 £m in the auctions you knnow there is money out there. G keneth whiteheads Rigby went for about £3.5 k a couple of years ago and it was ropey looking but it was shot almost eveery day. The chap who bought it advertised for £5.5k the next day and it sold. Provenance was very good!
 
Pedigree and Provenance is everything with classics, I agree. I would do almost anything to get my hands on Harry Selby's 416 Rigby or Bell's 7x57 but short of the owners becoming seriously indebtted to me or a felonious act I'll never lay hands on them.
 
We have been flooded by South African rifles in the last few years, those and some more obscure makers/niche calibres have kept prices down if you buy at the right time. it only takes 1 other person to ruin your day at the auction though. Russian money has been very evident!
 
That's precisely why I quit reading the Double Gun Journal...I couldn't handle reading all about the Brit gun auctions. I saw too many really decent prices for things that I'd like to own. It hurt my heart, as my 3 year old daughter likes to say.
 
BigUglyMan said:
That's precisely why I quit reading the Double Gun Journal...I couldn't handle reading all about the Brit gun auctions. I saw too many really decent prices for things that I'd like to own. It hurt my heart, as my 3 year old daughter likes to say.
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I have a friend who is a money man, he really struggles to make sense of the gun market but I keep finding him bargains and he keeps buying them!
Me well when I get those 6 numbers I will indulge myself, having the dealers license is probably the best £150 investment I ever made!
The house needed steel doors and window bars!
 
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Early fifties Marlin in 35 Rem:
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Pre 64 1894 flat band:
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Husqvarna 4100 in 7x57:
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PCMR 1894:
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Pre 64 model 70 in .270:
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Pre 64 model 70 in 300H&H:
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1924, 1894 in 32 Special:
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I had to quote this just in case someone missed it. Can i be in your will? :D Seriously though, very nice collection. I wish it were mine. :cheers:
 
It seems as time goes on, people don't want their old neglected rifles (also known as classics in other realms) and people are practically giving them away and replacing them with new rifles. In the last 2 years or so I've acquired an M98 Danzig sporter with double triggers & leaf sights in 8x57 built in 1919, M98 Geco sporter with leaf sights in 9.3x62 built 1922, Krag 6.5x55 sporter 1903, Savage 99's from 1915 & 1924, Argentine 1891 Mauser in 7.65x53 (probably my favourite caliber), P14 sporter with vintage 4x Redfield scope and a Savage 29 22LR pre-WWII. All these guns I got for practically nothing; maybe there is a big drop in interest in vintage rifles by the older generations who either don't want the open sights or just want a new off the shelf gun.
 
Our love of classics means that these rifles get used, I'm all for that, every time the makers bring out a new model I think to myself "that means more unfashionable rifles on the market, yippee, tomorrows classics!"
The auction houses are great benchmarks of what is fashionable. The David Lloyds were but are no longer, I may have to invest in some and store them away!
 
TimC said:
Our love of classics means that these rifles get used, I'm all for that, every time the makers bring out a new model I think to myself "that means more unfashionable rifles on the market, yippee, tomorrows classics!"
The auction houses are great benchmarks of what is fashionable. The David Lloyds were but are no longer, I may have to invest in some and store them away!
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There are always a few cranks and nuts like us that are unfazed by the new and exciting. There are even more now that there are agitators like John Barsness talking up the 9.3x62, 7x57 (.275 Rigby for the nouveau-African Purist) and .300 H&H (or Holland Super-Thirty if you're really cool).

The internet is making it more expensive to be quirky.:(
 
I have a few of the more traditional well established brands and calibers but I also have quite a few brand names and calibers, just off of center. A few of my bolt action favorites brands are Schultz & Larsen and Husqvarna, and again, in off center calibers like 308 NM, 7x61 S&H and 358 NM. Even when it comes to North American brands, I tend to go for the somewhat more 'vintage' calibers. Two examples are my Varmint rifle which is an old custom Winchester Hi-Wall in 219 DW, and my favorite lever gun, a Winchester model 71 deluxe in 348 WCF. Why I've gone this route, who knows but, ;)no regrets:).
 
I have many newer .22's as fun playtoys, but when it comes to buisness time in the fall, i only have one rifle that i grab, and thats my Churchill .303 That was sold at eatons in the 60's. It's a no4 mk1* conversion in a monte carlo stock with schnabel forend... funny... i only have the one terrible picture of it?

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H4831 said:
I think this one can be termed my classic.
I bought this Husqvarna in December, 1949, as a Christmas present for myself.
I shot a fair amount of game with it, especially moose and goats and carried it on many tough mountain hunts, on some of the remotest game mountains in BC.
That piece missing on the bottom of the pistol grip is evidence of a bit of a crash on a mountain. Much better to have a piece of rifle missing on the mountain than a piece of my elbow!
Most of my hunts and game shooting was with a Lyman 48 aperature, fastened on the two holes factory drilled and tapped for it, as shown.
It is shown here with a vintage Lyman All American 4x scope.
I got the scope from someone on these threads who calls himself Ted.
And here are the results of the first three shots, after one adjustment to get the scope on target.
I did put a custom trigger on it and, like all my rifles, is bedded with pressure on the forward part of the barrel, to take the vibrations out of the light barrel.
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I love the history in that wood H4831. I hope that one day I'll be able to look at mine with such fond memories.
 
1947 Husqvarna 98 (on an FN 98 action) in 8x63 Swedish:
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.35 Whelen build in a 1909 Argentine action with hinged bottom metal:
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.45-70 build on an 1874 Carl Gustafs rolling block action:
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M1910 Ross .280 factory sported with a 2.5X Lyman Alaskan in early Redfield rings.

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1975 production Colt-Sauer in .22-250.
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All these rifles get shot, at least once every year in most cases!
 
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