Good Gun Deals This Week

[geoff rath]

Whoa!

HARTMANN & WEISS CUSTOM BY RAUCH DOUBLE SQUARE BRIDGE MAGNUM TAKE-DOWN MAGAZINE RIFLE .505 GIBS

HARTMANN & WEISS CUSTOM BY RAUCH DOUBLE SQUARE BRIDGE MAGNUM TAKE-DOWN MAGAZINE RIFLE .505 GIBS for sale online.

www.gunsinternational.com

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This would make someone's perfect, heirloom D/G "last purchase" rifle, VertigoBE has made the ultimate statement ...

 

[rookhawk]

Mauser .404 j anyone?

This is a travesty. A super incompetent gunsmith that didn’t know how to install a G&H mount drilled the action and used torx screws to bolt a G&H Military base to the action rather than a civilian one. They are thicker. Thus, he didn’t inlet the metal so it is inside the stock, but rather notched the stock to accommodate it. And since its nearly 1” too high on the action, its complete F’d up.

So he took a high dollar rifle, perhaps worth $7500, and then utterly ruined it. The gun is now worthless. Ruined a single square bridge 404 Jeff banner action. outrageous.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

There is a 9.3 B&M for sale in this link. Comes with brass and dies. If you play around with the stock configurator on their site and just input the obvious features the stock alone is worth just over $2k itself. LOP is 13.5”.

Pre-Built Gunstocks - Accurate Innovations Gunstocks

www.aigunstocks.com

 

[Christian Davis]

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/948047246

I'm not sure it's a great deal, but this Whitworth sure looks nice. The seller seems to claim that it has a four round magazine as well. If only the front stud were a barrel band, and it had a second crossbolt. I have an M70 Safari Express on order, and have since last December, but I'm still tempted by this one.

 

[rookhawk]

Whoa!

HARTMANN & WEISS CUSTOM BY RAUCH DOUBLE SQUARE BRIDGE MAGNUM TAKE-DOWN MAGAZINE RIFLE .505 GIBS

HARTMANN & WEISS CUSTOM BY RAUCH DOUBLE SQUARE BRIDGE MAGNUM TAKE-DOWN MAGAZINE RIFLE .505 GIBS for sale online.

www.gunsinternational.com

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@Daniel Cary I know you've looked for high quality speculative assets in the past. If they'd take a low-ball flyer on this one, this is a true investment grade weapon. It would probably cost $80k-$100k to have H&W make it today, and their life expectancy is not very long. No finer modern rifle exists anywhere.

If I had $45k in a suitcase I'd probably show it to WLM&S on a day when the stock market is tanking and Putin is threatening nuclear war.

 

[Rare Breed]

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/948047246

I'm not sure it's a great deal, but this Whitworth sure looks nice. The seller seems to claim that it has a four round magazine as well. If only the front stud were a barrel band, and it had a second crossbolt. I have an M70 Safari Express on order, and have since last December, but I'm still tempted by this one.

I feel fortunate…I bought the identical gun on GB last year for $1200. It shoots great with 1 MOA at 100 yards and is going to Africa with me in 23 for my lion. Great rifle for the money. Nice wood too

 

[Rare Breed]

I feel fortunate…I bought the identical gun on GB last year for $1200. It shoots great with 1 MOA at 100 yards and is going to Africa with me in 23 for my lion. Great rifle for the money. Nice wood too

Meaning same brand/style

 

[Christian Davis]

Nice. Very happy and excited for you re: your lion hunt. Prices seem to have gone up a lot. Maybe due to CZ not making the 550 anymore, and the Safari Express not available anywhere. Does your Whitworth really hold four down?

I feel fortunate…I bought the identical gun on GB last year for $1200. It shoots great with 1 MOA at 100 yards and is going to Africa with me in 23 for my lion. Great rifle for the money. Nice wood too

 

[Rare Breed]

Nice. Very happy and excited for you re: your lion hunt. Prices seem to have gone up a lot. Maybe due to CZ not making the 550 anymore, and the Safari Express not available anywhere. Does your Whitworth really hold four down?

I need to check. I have only been using three down when I take it to my range

 

[freefall]

Nice. Very happy and excited for you re: your lion hunt. Prices seem to have gone up a lot. Maybe due to CZ not making the 550 anymore, and the Safari Express not available anywhere. Does your Whitworth really hold four down?

The one I had only held 3 down.

 

[Christian Davis]

The one I had only held 3 down.

I need to check. I have only been using three down when I take it to my range

Thank y'all for the info. I strongly suspected that it only held 3, but the description said total capacity 5 rounds. If I had known for sure it was 4+1 I think I would have bought it.

 

[rookhawk]

Thank y'all for the info. I strongly suspected that it only held 3, but the description said total capacity 5 rounds. If I had known for sure it was 4+1 I think I would have bought it.

When you're into mausers like the Whitworth, you *may* be able to buy blackburn bottom metal. No cheap deal, probably $350-$400, but it will get you a rigby style magazine that will add one or perhaps two rounds to the gun. It will require custom inletting, perhaps custom bottom screws, bluing, and maybe some feed or follower adjustment. But that's how you get it done.

 

[Daniel Cary]

Thank You @rookhawk

@Daniel Cary I know you've looked for high quality speculative assets in the past. If they'd take a low-ball flyer on this one, this is a true investment grade weapon. It would probably cost $80k-$100k to have H&W make it today, and their life expectancy is not very long. No finer modern rifle exists anywhere.

If I had $45k in a suitcase I'd probably show it to WLM&S on a day when the stock market is tanking and Putin is threatening nuclear war.

I was hoping for your valued opinion .. "and their life expectancy is not very long"

 

[Vagrouser]

I called on the Gibbs and about an hour before someone had agreed to purchase.
From an investment standpoint I wonder how the H&Ws will do once the current makers pass and they fade a little from the then collective conscience? Twenty or thirty years from now? I suppose similar guesses could be made re David McKay Brown

 

[Daniel Cary]

People buy million-dollar paintings, w/o thought.

 

[rookhawk]

I called on the Gibbs and about an hour before someone had agreed to purchase.
From an investment standpoint I wonder how the H&Ws will do once the current makers pass and they fade a little from the then collective conscience? Twenty or thirty years from now? I suppose similar guesses could be made re David McKay Brown

Thats a very good example. McKay Brown, Hartmann & Weis, Marcel Thys. These are the best small production houses alive today.

We hope they become the next MacNaugton, Dickson, or Woodward. I feel bad reading obituaries looking for death notices, but that’s when fine art goes up in value.

 

[CJW]

People buy million-dollar paintings, w/o thought.

Yeah but now you're into an entirely different kind of person, and that's putting it nicely.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

Merkel K1 .308

Merkel K1 .308 for sale online.

www.gunsinternational.com

 

[Christian Davis]

Would be interested to know @rookhawk's thoughts on this piece vis a vis value. Asking for a friend haha @Daniel Cary?
Apologies if this piece has already been discussed but I don't think I've seen it mentioned.
https://www.westleyrichards.com/usedguns/view/rifles/1660328324-reto-buehler-500-jeff/

 

[krish]

That is a nice looking rifle.
Krish