Thinking of going small

[perry42]

My safe and loading room are getting crowded. I load everything from 45-70 & 30-40 Krag BP to 218 Bee and have decided to limit my reloading to 218 BEE, 223, 6br, 6.5x55AI, 270 Win, and 308 Garand along with the BP rifles, 38 Special, .45, Makarov, 30 whisper, 45LC in handguns. I will soon be selling a Savage Mdl 12 308 in SS, A Mauser with heavy barrel in 308, a WWII Garand in 30-06, and a Savage 110 in 338 Edge. Brass and dies will be included in the sale along with bullets.

perry42

 

[balloonpilot9513]

let me know when you want to sell that Garand, I have been looking for one! (like everyone else).

Always wanted the same rifle my father carried in WWII.

 

[fixr]

My safe and loading room are getting crowded. I load everything from 45-70 & 30-40 Krag BP to 218 Bee and have decided to limit my reloading to 218 BEE, 223, 6br, 6.5x55AI, 270 Win, and 308 Garand along with the BP rifles, 38 Special, .45, Makarov, 30 whisper, 45LC in handguns. I will soon be selling a Savage Mdl 12 308 in SS, A Mauser with heavy barrel in 308, a WWII Garand in 30-06, and a Savage 110 in 338 Edge. Brass and dies will be included in the sale along with bullets.

perry42

I would be interested in the 338 Edge dependant on specs and price. Do you have any pictures?

Chris

 

[K22]

Rethink selling; almost every gun I ever sold for one reason or other I later regretted.

 

[Shynloco]

Rethink selling; almost every gun I ever sold for one reason or other I later regretted.

For some, that may be true. But for me (and I suspect others) as we age, we no longer have the wallet to finance all the weapons we own or want to own and the safe doesn't have the room to house a countless number of weapons. In my case, about a year and a half, I sold a very accurate Benchrest Anschutz rifle that won me some local competitions to help fund a new custom built competition STTAR15. That baby shoots and I don't miss that Anschutz one bit. So I feel what perry42 is talking about and is a condition I easily relate to and allows to me to "expand my horizons" to move on to other calibers I've not yet experienced in my 70 yrs that I look forward too, not worrying about looking back to other successes with calibers I've sold along the way. Each to his own I guess.

Alex

 

[js2013]

Rethink selling; almost every gun I ever sold for one reason or other I later regretted.

I'm just the opposite, I never sold one I regretted .

 

[joshb]

I'll chime in with the "older" comment. I used to love the big boomers. My typical range outings were with 308s, hot loaded 45/70s and a 300 Win Mag. Not so much, these days. I recently bought a 338 Win Mag for a kid of mine (46yr.) I put three rounds thru it and stopped. Ouch!! I'd rather shoot my smaller calibers, now. I'll keep my 45/70s for the time being, but they'll be shot with milder loads.

 

[Shynloco]

I'll chime in with the "older" comment. I used to love the big boomers. My typical range outings were with 308s, hot loaded 45/70s and a 300 Win Mag. Not so much, these days. I recently bought a 338 Win Mag for a kid of mine (46yr.) I put three rounds thru it and stopped. Ouch!! I'd rather shoot my smaller calibers, now. I'll keep my 45/70s for the time being, but they'll be shot with milder loads.

Josh,
Have you thought about putting a BREAK on that 300 Win Mag A year or so ago, I had the opportunity of shooting a customized Christiansen 300 Win Mag that had a BREAK on it. Ain't no way in heck I would have even considered shooting that baby without a BFREAK on it for the reason you experienced. But with that BREAK in place, that baby shot so nicely, smoothly and accurately and it kicked less than my .308. Just something to consider.

Alex

 

[perry42]

For some, that may be true. But for me (and I suspect others) as we age, we no longer have the wallet to finance all the weapons we own or want to own and the safe doesn't have the room to house a countless number of weapons. In my case, about a year and a half, I sold a very accurate Benchrest Anschutz rifle that won me some local competitions to help fund a new custom built competition STTAR15. That baby shoots and I don't miss that Anschutz one bit. So I feel what perry42 is talking about and is a condition I easily relate to and allows to me to "expand my horizons" to move on to other calibers I've not yet experienced in my 70 yrs that I look forward too, not worrying about looking back to other successes with calibers I've sold along the way. Each to his own I guess.

Alex

Being 75 years in age with a fixed income I need to cut down on what I keep and reload for. I will shortly post items for sale.

perry42

 

[joshb]

Alex, my 300 has a brake on it. Thanks for the thought. This new 338 is slated to get a new stock and a heavy barrel with a brake. We were shooting it in it's present "hunting rifle" condition because "we gotta try out the new gun". Perry42 seems to be unloading his heavy hitters. I'm getting a "little" recoil shy myself so I'm exploring some great smaller cartridges. I recently put together a couple 6.5-47s, another 6br, a 7 twist 223 and a 30br. It takes a lot of time to reload for those so the heavy hitters can wait.

 

[Shynloco]

Josh,
That sounds great on the smaller calibers to get away from that heavy kick. I've done much of that in the last few years myself and have thoroughly enjoyed them and reloading for them as well. But that Christensen .300 Win Mag, surprised the crap put of me how gentle she was and how accurate for a weapon I'd never touched or fired before. I don't have a 6.5x47, but recently took my 6.5BR and had it rechambered/new barrel with a .260 Remington that shoots extremely accurately at 100 yds, which is what I have immediate access to. And except of my .308BR, that's as much of a kick I prefer to put up with these days as I age. Good luck and have fun, especially with that .30BR that shoots so darn accurately without much workup.

Alex

 

[Tommie]

Can a brake break?

 

[joshb]

OK, ok. Spelling corrected! I forgot to mention that I picked up a couple 6ppc's. That's a fun little cartridge!