Where Did All the Stevens 200 Go?

Probably the best deal out there at the time.
Thing 2 gartzs one in .308win from Santa uno journo.
Dawl’d it up with a laminate stock from Richards back in the day.

Seems you had a pretty gal also NAA?
 
It's not just the 200's... one doesn't see many centerfire Savages from that era (for sale) either. I'm watching for WTS ads almost daily, but it's as though those Savage owners are holding on to them.
 
They just aren't being sold. Probably because they're worth more to the owner than buying a more expensive replacement.
 
kamlooky said:
Probably the best deal out there at the time.
Thing 2 gartzs one in .308win from Santa uno journo.
Dawl’d it up with a laminate stock from Richards back in the day.

Seems you had a pretty gal also NAA?
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I've had a Model 200 in .223 and 7mm-08 before. Still have one in .243 Win that I put into a Boyd's pepper laminate stock.

The original action/stock was picked up cheap off the EE. The Boyd's stock I imported to put it in.

Just thinking, with the numbers of 200's that must've been sold back in the day, the owners must like 'em 'cause they rarely come up on the EE anymore.

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NAA said:
I've had a Model 200 in .223 and 7mm-08 before. Still have one in .243 Win that I put into a Boyd's pepper laminate stock.

The original action/stock was picked up cheap off the EE. The Boyd's stock I imported to put it in.

Just thinking, with the numbers of 200's that must've been sold back in the day, the owners must like 'em 'cause they rarely come up on the EE anymore.

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And the 223 shot white box sub moa. Honestly kicking my ass for selling mine. But I was in the if it's not bull barrel it's not cool phase.
 
Cabelas has axis ii for ~550 and 12 FV for 580. Weird you can get the better action for 20 bucks more and crazy how much prices have gone up. 300 bucks was a pretty good price for an action that takes prefits for tooling around on
 
I haven't seen one for sale on EE for ages. Funny thing is when they were new, my LGS didn't stock them. Had to get the LGS to order them in and the comment was always "oh those are throw away guns". Yet, now that same LGS stocks a lot of Axis on the shelf - go figure.
 
OkayShooter said:
And the 223 shot white box sub moa. Honestly kicking my ass for selling mine. But I was in the if it's not bull barrel it's not cool phase.
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And, it wasn't too, too long ago this stuff was only $17.95 + tax for the 40 round bulk box! :(

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And, it wasn't too, too long ago this stuff was only $17.95 + tax for the 40 round bulk box! :(



I'm still longing for the days when you could buy Hornady Steel Match 223 75 grain. For the way that ammo shot, it was a real bargain.
 
iroc22 said:
I haven't seen one for sale on EE for ages. Funny thing is when they were new, my LGS didn't stock them. Had to get the LGS to order them in and the comment was always "oh those are throw away guns". Yet, now that same LGS stocks a lot of Axis on the shelf - go figure.
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They were certainly the harbinger of things to come with regards to cheap rifles that could shoot a hair off a flies ass.
 
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They were certainly the harbinger of things to come with regards to cheap rifles that could shoot a hair off a flies ass.
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That grey stock was ugly as sin, but yeah, very accurate rifles especially for the $$ at the time. IIRC, they were ballpark $269-$279 way back when. Had one in 223 that I called my liars gun...as in you'd think I was lying if I mentioned the groups it could shoot. I think the magic was 500 rounds of cheap pmc ammo, and after that, it was hard to find a load that wasn't at least "good".
 
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