It honestly shoot’s really well IMO. I have been looking for a used one. But then I have 10 whole rounds through one 5 at 25 and 5 at 50 due to the limit at the range. But yeah I want.Originally Posted by rcbusmc24
It honestly shoot’s really well IMO. I have been looking for a used one. But then I have 10 whole rounds through one 5 at 25 and 5 at 50 due to the limit at the range. But yeah I want.
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I've always thought the Browning Bar was a beautiful looking rifle. Don't think current production has irons but they did. Magazine fed if it matters.
Stop. Please.
The No.4 models with the aperture sights are nice.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
I would not disagree with that.
7x57 Mauser ammunition is even harder to find around here than .257 Roberts (another fine cartridge that has dropped off most radars).
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A few more suggestions, some echoing others here, and all within your price range:
1891 Argentine Mauser engineer's carbine in 7.65 arg
I owned one in similar shape, and it was an absolute peach; the best military trigger I've yet dealt with. I should never have let it go. They do thump the shoulder, but nowhere as severe as one would think.
Extra style points for a beautifully machined Mauser made by German Jews for South Americans who think they're Italian.
( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Loewe for some background. Ludwig and brother Isidor got around!)
And here's a lovely confection of a long gun in a legendary chambering:
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/978273314
Something tells me this one is either a refin or newer than the stated age...it just doesn't have the right patina for being a century old. Caveat Emptor.
And a 1962 M-S MCA full stock carbine in 30-06
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/977107770
A bit more wear but a very handsome piece.
"If I ever needed to hunt in a tuxedo, then this would be the rifle I'd take." - okie john
"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." - Michel De Montaigne
I have wanted that rifle forever, but in 6.5 M-S.
However, your Husqvarna thread has me thinking about iron sighted vintage rifles in .30-06. The search for, and cost of, obscure brass and dies gets old, so I recommend a pre-64 Winchester, similar era 700, or something odd like the 1640. Even if it needed a new barrel, it would still come in under the OP's budget.
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Some years ago a friend ragged on me with my "can I get ammo for it at walmart" comments when we talked rifle calibers, he liked the wildcats and obscure stuff, feeling that when things got tight, it would be what was left over and easier to find..... One of the first things I do when daydreaming about various rifles is see if brass can be had.
In that light, my 6mm Rem project rifle is being made as a switch barrel, with a standby 243 barrel planned. I have some 6mm brass, but being able to buy ammo and brass easier or on the road is a big plus.
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
Finding interesting rifles with irons has been tough for some time. I finally just started having decent sights put on them. I settled on the Williams Shorty ramp front, screwed and sweated on if the gunsmith was capable, and using a sourdough type, or square blade sight with brass rear face, and generally a receiver sight on bolt guns. Id zero the receiver sight, then remove the slide and keep with the gun or hunting gear, or in the case of the 338, inletted a place under the recoil pad for it so it was always with the gun if the scope got bonked when out in the hills.
I have a front sight in mind to make from a cut off AR front sight, milled to barrel contour so it sits at the correct height for a bolt gun, silver soldered to the barrel. It would then have the protective ears and some small amount of elevation left to adjust, but my go to guy for such hair brained projects has passed.
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“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
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