Putting your money where your mouth is

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chuck nelson

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Imagine that you are going to hunt the world, but have a strict $5000 budget for two firearms and their optics. You can't spend more than $2500 on any one rifle, and they need to be absolutely ready to hunt for that amount. If you think you can do it with one rifle cut that budget in half.

Then do it for $1500 per rifle (including optics and mounts).

Mine for $2500 per:

-Winchester Classic stainless action
-Pac-Nor stainless super match in Winchester fwt contour. .280 Rem.
-McMillan compact EDGE stock
-Williams Oberndorf bottom metal and extractor.
-Talley light weights
-Leupold FX II 6X36 with the LR reticle.

-Winchester Classic action
-Pac-Nor stainless super match #2. .375 H&H
-McMillan Echols stock
-Williams Oberndorf bottom metal and extractor.
-Talley light weights
-Leupold FX II 6X36 with the LR reticle.

Mine for $1500 per.

-Rem 700 XCR. 30-06/.270
-Talley light weights
-Leupold FX II 6X36 with the LR reticle.

-Rem 700
-Factory 375 H&H takeoff barrel.
-Talley light weights
-Leupold FX II 6X36 with the LR reticle.
 
You can do it with 1 rifle. A quality muzzleloader (TC), with some good optics (3-9) and tailor your load and bullet style to what you are hunting.
Everything from 175gr ballistic tipped, to 500gr solids.
Price...$1500. :cool:
 
Mine for $2500 per:

- Remington 700 action
- Gaillard 23" 1-8 twistin 260 Rem.
-McMillan Mtn Rifle stock
-Talley light weights
-Leupold FX3 6X42 with the LR reticle.
- 120 gr Barnes TTSX

-Winchester Classic action
- 21" heavy sporter contour barrel in 375 Ruger w/ sights
-McMillan Classic stock
-Talley QD rings & bases
-Leupold FX3 6X42 with the wide duplx reticle.

Mine for $1500 per.

-factory Rem 700 LSS mtn 280 Rem
-Talley light weights
-Leupold FX3 6x42mm with the LR reticle.

-factory Ruger M77 hawkeye african 375 Ruger.
-Leupold FX II 4x33

one gun for the whole world :

custom 700 in 375 Ruger with a couple spare scopes in QD rings
 
Its easy for me I already have it so I can spend my money on something else. I would just go with my Ruger Alaskan in 375 Ruger for everything. I already have a Kahles scope on it so maybe spend some money on a new stock for it but I actually like the factory stock so...
 
I thought I responded here and someone deleted it, but realized it was on Albertaoutdoordsmen.com.

I would likely keep my 700Ti SAUM that was BDL'd when I bought it. It wears a Leupold FX111 6x42 in lightweight talleys. It's accurate, feeds well and come to the should well. I have $1500 into the rilfe and and $500 into scope and mounts for a total of $2,000. That being said the Sako AV I sold to buy the Ti would also have worked great, I had about $1500 into it total including a Zeiss Conquest 3x9x40.

Second would be a CZ safari Magnum in the basic walnut stock which seem to range form about $1,000 to $1,400 retail and would put something like a 1.75x6 scope with nice thick crosshairs. I would probably be into the scpe and mounts for $5-600 making the total less than $2000.

It would leave me enough money to upgrade my airline ticket to whereever I was going to hunt and get a nice travel case.
 
Now this is the type of game that I like to play!

#1 Remington 700 ADL, in 30-06 $485.00
Gentry safety installed $400.00
Accrurized (Trigger tuned, bedded, lapped, recrowned) $400.00
Leupould dual-dovetail rings/bases $55.00
Leupould 2-7X compact $420.00

#2 Weatherby MarkV Synthetic Mag, 375H&H, $1100.00
Accurized, $400.00
Leupould dual-dovetail rings/bases, $55.00
Leupould 2-7X variX 2, $390.00

The rest of the budget would get blown on shooting both to work out the bugs!
Mike
 
While I own and hunt with a .280 Rem, this cartridge, as well as the .260 (and others that have never truly generated much popularity here or abroad) would be among my last picks for an international hunting rifle. Given the selection of factory ammo is very limited even on our well stocked shelves here in NA, I seriously doubt you would have much luck picking some up in Asia, Europe or Africa, should you need to. Given the nature of international travel, this may be a more important consideration that any other.

I would stick with cartridges like the 30-06 or 7mm Rem Mag and 375 H&H for this reason alone. As far as rifles, any and all would work, although I would go CRF for the 375 given the nature of the work one would ask of it.
 
For the $2500.00 set

The bigger bore
FN Mauser 98 action
Cro-Mo barrel in .375 Ruger #4-5 profile(.375 H&H would be great but the Ruger's a better fit to the action)
3 position safety
Dayton-Traister or Timney trigger
Sound Metal Products bottom metal http://www.soundmetalproducts.com/
English walnut stock
Talley rings and bases
Leupold VXII 2-7X33 or FXII 4X33 scope

The smaller bore
Same as the above but in .270 Winchester with a lighter profile barrel.
 
I'd keep what I already own .........

1. I have an older BRNO 602 getting a new 22" SS 375H&H bbl right now. I'd top it with a 1.5x5 or 1x4 Leupold. Warne QD rings. It'll be tuned and bedded to the original stock.

2. Rem 700 SPS in 270Win. Tuned, bedded, and restocked in a Bansner High Tech stock and topped with a VXIII 2.5x8 B&C. Talley LW rings

I'd be well under budget with that. :dancingbanana:


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Mauser98 said:
For the $2500.00 set

The bigger bore
FN Mauser 98 action
Cro-Mo barrel in .375 Ruger #4-5 profile(.375 H&H would be great but the Ruger's a better fit to the action)
3 position safety
Dayton-Traister or Timney trigger
Sound Metal Products bottom metal http://www.soundmetalproducts.com/
English walnut stock
Talley rings and bases
Leupold VXII 2-7X33 or FXII 4X33 scope

The smaller bore
Same as the above but in .270 Winchester with a lighter profile barrel.
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Each one of these rifles would be very conservatively at least $1800.00 before the wood was added. I know from experience that Mauser 98 projects get very expensive very fast, and if you cheap out, you end up with the worlds most expensive headache.
Mike
 
I'd just buy a Sako Kodiak in .375H&H, slap a VXIII 2.5-8 on it, and call it done...:cool:

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todbartell said:
if I went to africa, I would be a rogue poacher
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The caretakers, family, and PH's on our property in South Africa are all ex-military, having done mandatory service before it was abolished, have more guns each than you have fingers and toes, purchase excellent optics and night vision, love to shoot and hunt like we do, usually from high koppes, horseback, or custom jeep, they drink a lot, and are very very bored at night, in a remote situation.

You would be great entertainment for them.

I imagine they would say they know lots of places to bury people, as per the old days.

That is, if they don't simple want to pay the "species fee" to the authorities for a poacher. Your life wouldn't be worth a 17 Inch TV and carton of smokes.

You have never been, and don't understand the culture there if you say want to poach on "the dark continent".

The locals will kill you for being competition if you are in parkland, or the owners will kill you, or just hurt you bad, if you are on a reserve or game farm.

Depending on the species fee of course.

You would be a rogue poacher? You better be good then.

I am guessing you would be a blood stain on red earth, then hyena and wild dog food for 24 hours.

Can they get DNA from Hyena poo?
 
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