Just as we’ve looked at expensive and indulgent cars in the Sotheby’s catalogue before, here’s the gunny equivalent at Collector’s (right-click to embiggen):
I know, at $7,950, the price is nosebleed-high, just like those half-million-dollar cars we saw.
However, a rifle of this quality cannot be simply dismissed as a pricey gee-gaw. It’s been created by a master gunsmith for Griffin & Howe, from the world’s best action (Mauser 98). If your .30-30 lever gun is a Toyota, this rifle is a Bentley R1; if your field shotgun is a Beretta, this is a Holland.
The comparison cannot be made just by logic.
Are there other guns that could do the job as well as this one? Certainly. Would those guns evoke the same feelings of pride and wonder when opening the case? Not even close.
And by the way, I happen to love the venerable Savage .250-3000 cartridge for its outstanding speed, flat trajectory and devastating effect upon arrival. Yeah, it’s spendy.
Don’t care, just as I don’t care about the fuel consumption of a 1956 Mercedes 300 SC.
Want. Both.
that rifle sure is a beauty!!! what do you use the .250-3000 Savage cartridge for? Is it for varmints going up to coyotes and such? How is its ballistic performance?
I took a Ruger 77 Mk II in 30-06 out the other day but not to the range. I bought it over 20 years ago and it’s not a bad looking rifle. It’s certainly no Winchester Model 70 pre-1964 style made in New Haven let alone a Griffin & Howe though.
Thanks for posting more firearms Kim!
JQ
It’s essentially a 6mm bullet, leaving the barrel at 3,000fps. You could shoot anything short of big game with it, and they’d be equally dead.
Years ago a co-working gave me some old magazines dedicated to wingshooting and high end (Sultan & Royalty type) shotguns. They were beautiful but the price tags were in the high 5 figures, and for me at least, they might as well have been on the surface of Mars, for as close as I was ever going to get to something like that.
Still enjoyed looking at them, and the above.