Nice looking rifle. Cabela's had one on the rack a few years ago, a trade-in. They were only asking $1,700 and it was in .470 Capstick as well. Had I the money then I would've bought.
It is a grand thing indeed to find such a giant Slayer in perfect condition that came out of the factory that way for cheap...........Or is it?
Some years back I stood there in awe as I hefted the A square chambered in the absolutely nuclear bomb powerful T-Rex round envisioning in my mind's eye dropping the biggest elephant ever ever recorded. And this baby came loaded. Scope , sling, case, 200 loaded rounds, 200 new case,bullets out the wazoo, dies...
And though the price was rediculously low......to the point of me almost believing it had to be stolen, the woodbe seller becoming giddy at the prospect of finally getting rid of this rock around his neck let loose with this fatal collection of words, " I never though I was ever gonna get rid of it", which made me say, "well, I'll think about it and get back to you", as I never said that I was going to buy it.
He quit smiling and started throwing figures about til finally I said that I would start putting money on his table and when I stopped dropping if he picked it up fine, if I picked the money up it was adios forever and he could keep his rifle.
I stopped dropping money and he dove on it.
He smiled and then told me how he has been selling it for almost 10 years and no one wanted it.
Now! If someone wanted to drop the bad mouth on a round about recoil this would be the one. It throws a 750 grain fmj at 2500 fps + which makes the recoil of the 460 a joke.
If you wanted to buy just one round they are on sale on the internet for $39.95@ plus shipping, and when you reload them you don't buy powder by the pound, but by the keg.
And everyone who sees it wants to handle it and rub their bad luck deep into the pores of the wood and make comment on how heavy it is, with some pontificating to his fellow onlookers how stupidly overpowered the round is, though he himself is the .17 rimfire champion of the 5 moa 100 yard sharp shooters off a machine rest.
So " CT"....there's a reason why that beautiful rifle you saw at Cabela's was going for $1,400 bucks when it originally went for many times that amount. Cabela's either took it in as trade or bought it outright used from a customer for between 4 to 6 hundred dollars knowing that even with a national chain it's gonna sit for a while. The T-Rex , though exciting all by itself would take even longer to sell if you don't have the correct outlet where people who desire such artilary congregate.
The 470 is a fine round, but doesn't get the play it deserves because the firearms industry isn't yet ready to exploit it.
They will never be ready to exploit the T-Rex.
