Any plans for a new rifle in 2025?

[RL338]

I've (mostly) stopped buying factory rifles and started re-barreling.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[filmjunkie4ever]

Every time I get excited about adding a few more to the herd, an appliance takes a dump or a vehicle needs tires etc. Been remodeling the house too. Insulation, plywood, hardware, paint, et al really cuts into a fellows folding money.

I bought a Stoeger Uplander 20 gauge SxS a while back, that’s been a nice shotgun for the money.

I also recently bought a Remington 788 .308 that is exquisite but will likely go down the road soon.

I have my Remington 700 in the shop getting a .257 Roberts barrel put on, and a pre-64 Model 70 that is getting a McWoody pillar and glassbedded to it for being a foul weather rifle.

My .300 Savage restoration project is almost complete. That was expensive but not nearly as bad as I initially expected.

As far as factory rifles go, I’m kinda sorta looking for a Model 70 FWT (XTR, Classic, or BACO) in .270 as I gave my Browning to a well deserving nephew for Christmas and now am sans a .270.

Gunshow is in March, I will likely take some of them up there and see what happens.

 

[walkinhorseman]

Not really any plans for a new one. Kinda interested in a 357 or 44 lever action.

Might sell one or more. Seems like an awful lot of rifles around here anymore.

Guy

Same here. I wouldn’t mind a 45LC levergun and I look at Sako L series and A series a lot. My focus this year is getting caught up on some projects that have languished. I have several new guns that I have not shot yet along with some scopes that need diagnosed. Add into that, looking to shoot my BRMXD F-Open 284 in a couple bench matches, I have enough on my plate.

I do have a Sako L-579 in a McMillian Sako Classic stock that currently has a #5 Hart 10 twist 308 Win barrel screwed into it. I may get a #3 Brux or Kreiger 6mm 8 twist to chamber in 243 Win or 6BR. I have other 308 mid weight rifles that makes this platform redundant.

 

[Slimfinn]

Might sell one or more. Seems like an awful lot of rifles around here anymore.

Guy

This thought has been on my mind as well, i should probably just rebarrel.

 

[Slimfinn]

And then you get an email like this...

 

[Blkram]

And then you get an email like this...
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I really liked the Mountain Guns that they did back in the 90's. It was too bad they only had 4" barrels on them, as we could only buy handguns with 4.2" barrels. A 41 Rem Mag was high on my wish list of the day.
The Air Lite (IIRC) was another version that intrigued me as back up for hunting, hiking and fishing. Might have been a bit of handful for some, but they would have been carried in the field a lot more than they would have been needed to be pressed into service (Not that we could carry them in the field for recreational use anyways! ) Here in Canada, certain professions could obtain special Carry Permits for handguns while working, with certain requirements for doing so.

 

[Blkram]

"Might sell one or more. Seems like an awful lot of rifles around here anymore.

Guy"

I too have had this terrible thought running through my mind...
Then I review my list...and think that this one or that could go...then think that I'll either miss it or that I bought/built that rifle for a reason...and I need, er want, to complete that plan...
The investment has already been made, and I have everything I need to shoot, load and/or hunt with that firearm...
It is not the rifle's fault that I haven't used it enough yet, or gotten around to loading or shooting it yet...and I still have plans for doing so and I just need to git 'er dun!
Or do I need to let it go to help fund that next project???
Or fund that next hunting trip??? My father/daughter hunt proved that this a worthwhile endeavour! (I miss those rifles as they were rare, scarce and took me over 20 years to find and acquire...but had neither hunted, or in some cases, never even fired them - BUT I appreciate the experience of the hunt with my daughter and creating memories more!!!)
Priorities, priorities!
Need vs want! But then I recall my own words..."what does need have to do with it?"

 

[GregoryB.]

I plan on buying a Ruger #1 in 308. Just need to save a few more dollars. Have seen a few on Gunbroker lately that were out of my price range. They had a 1967 #1B that went for over 5k.

 

[JD338]

And then you get an email like this...
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NICE!
I guess it's safe to say that you are getting a S&W 686 Mountain Gun in 2025. Congratulations buddy!

JD338

 

[Slimfinn]

NICE!
I guess it's safe to say that you are getting a S&W 686 Mountain Gun in 2025. Congratulations buddy!

JD338

If one shows up local I may be very tempted, i have a 686 4" and would want to compare against.
I have the 41, and had the 44 at one time, never figured i would be able to get the full set of 4. I may need to rethink that haha

 

[PJGunner]

I won't say the urge to buy another gun doesn't happen and lately it's been quite insistent. However, I believe that at my age I should be divesting myself of a goodly portion of what I do have. I just can't seem to get started doing this evil deed. It's like kicking m kids out into the cold cruel world.
Paul B.

 

[cloverleaf]

Rare that "planning" ever gets involved in my rifle purchases.... but then I guess I looked for several years before I found my curernt replacement for the original 250 Savage....and I spent the better part of a year getting her back up and running again when the bolt broke. Lots of "planning" keeping "Aggie" up running and shooting.
Would like to find a cheap Browning SA-22 or Norinco clone, or a left handed savage for my daughter some day. CL

 

[Wolfshead]

I’m also retired and on a “fixed” income.
I’m not good at using all that I have right now, so I don’t have any intentions on buying another firearm.
As JD338 has posted, it’s going to be more load development for me.

 

[1100 Remington Man]

I have wants but no needs, and after last week finishing up a excessive tag for antler less deer hunt. I began to wonder if I ever need more rifle than my first rifle I ever bought. My Remington 700 BDL 6mm Rem. I will most likely never hunt Grizzly and I can say today I have never shot anything with my other rifles I don't think my 6mm Rem would not have taken with a quality bullet. I enjoyed carrying it all of last week and I missed it like a old friend and we have traveled many a miles together. No new rifle for Me as I sit here and think about another.

 

[wildcatter]

I'm right now in the process of having a new LR Varmint rig being built. Dropped off the Laminated Walnut heavy Varmint Stock, 28" Brux HV barrel, Blueprinted Axis action with the bushed firing pin hole and smaller dia. pin, and my new 257 AI .291" NK reamer, to my gunsmith Tuesday afternoon last week. It will finish with the 26" flute 1/4" wide flutes that will start 2.5" from the muzzle, and run to 4" in front of the action.

Still acquiring the rest of the components for the 338-06 AI, also coming soon.

 

[JD338]

I'm right now in the process of having a new LR Varmint rig being built. Dropped off the Laminated Walnut heavy Varmint Stock, 28" Brux HV barrel, Blueprinted Axis action with the bushed firing pin hole and smaller dia. pin, and my new 257 AI .291" NK reamer, to my gunsmith Tuesday afternoon last week. It will finish with the 26" flute 1/4" wide flutes that will start 2.5" from the muzzle, and run to 4" in front of the action.

Still acquiring the rest of the components for the 338-06 AI, also coming soon.

Sounds like a great build. The 257 AI is a good one! Looking forward to seeing it soon.

JD338