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I peruse Gunbroker quite often and I always notice a slew of Blaser rifles with zero bids. Does anyone actually ever sell these things to the public? What are some adjectives that would describe the type of consumer who would drop that kind of coin on a rifle? Finally, do these dealers actually have these rifles in stock, or does Blaser keep them in a giant warehouse somewhere and dole them out once in a while when someone comes along with more money than sense and buys one.

The R93 In some iteration is what you usually see although there may be some new R8s now too. It's--the R93--fairly popular having sold over a 100k rifles and that was early in the decade.

Seems you know a lot about "them" (ie, more money than sense). What has been your experience with Blasers? The incredible accuracy? The take-down feature that let's you switch scoped barrels in different case head sizes in minutes? The light, compact ergonomics? The long list of of wood grades/synthetic and chambering choices? The detachable scope mounts that hold scope zero or fits on any other barrel?

I see what you mean. Nothing there anybody who is into rifles would like..

I would love to have the coin to drop on a Blaser and a few extra barrels, so even though I don't have more money than sense, I wish I did.

I gotta rich squirrely buddy that buys em; he thinks my old pre-64's wearing period glass are outdated draconian trash.

Gunner

Don't know much about who buys them, but it used to be when I did a search for Lefthand rifles on gunbroker, a gazillion blazers would clog my search results. I had to type up a fairly complex boolean search string to exclude the majority, but not all blazers that came up since sellers spelled and listed them so many different ways. Kept it in a text file so I could copy and paste it in. Don't have that problem anymore and haven't used that complex search string for a long time.

I just see $1000 barrels and $250 scope mounts, and figure anybody that would buy one is Nuckin Futs

I can think of literally 100's of rifles I would buy first.

The K95s sure are nice though.

You can keep the rest......

I'd go Dakota M10 in a single shot, but then I don't buy a lot of single shot rifles.

Excellent question. I have wondered the same thing myself about the Blasers.

Europeans love them because many European countries only allow ownership of one rifle, and with the Blaser you can have one rifle in just about as many calibers as you like.

Draconian?

I dont know what he was implying, I think he meant medieval, or something to that effect, he thinks the old rifles are outdated junk.

Gunner

I don't know anywhere in Europe where people are restricted to buying just one rifle?

Not even in the UK does our system work like that..

I would say that most Europeans who buy a Blaser are looking for a finished high quality off-the-shelf rifle, rather than one where they have to get the trigger altered, the action bedded ect..

Also many Europeans travel to hunt, and travelling with one take down rifle and a couple of barrels is much easier than two full size rifles.

Quite a few people in the Club I belong to own them, and while I can see the attraction they are not for me.

Blaser have also had a few "issues" over the years with rifles suffering unexplained major failures when the trigger is pulled. I saw one last year at the range where the action froze solid after the shot and the case couldn't be extracted.

Such problems are undoubtedly rare, but Blasers just seem over engineered/complicated compared to a standard bolt action..

Had one. Beautiful rifle. A friend wanted it so it's gone.

If I had that kind money to spend on a rifle, I sure as heck would buy somethin' else.

I used a Blaser R93 rifle (outfitter's gun) a few months ago, in Spain, to take a Beceite Ibex.

It is indeed a fine piece of work. I would probably buy one, if it was chambered for a caliber I really wanted.

I have an older, Camex Blaser, imported into this country in the '80's. I have four barrels for it- none of them shoot worth a flip. The big drawback to the early Blaser was the scope mounting system- each barrel had a dovetail slot for a twist-in scope mount. With time, those mounts, and slots, begin to wear, so much so that they actually affect accuracy.

I would sell the whole thing, but I don't hate anyone that much.....

there is just something about the Blaser that turns me off. I would much rather have my 700 Rem or Mod 70. For Varmint hunting give me the AR any old day. I will keep my coins and you can have them.

I don't like the look, mechanical operation of the Blaser nor a straight pull bolt rifle for that matter.

To each his own.

I was always the same idea,
that in Europe ( Germany and Scandinavian coutries ) that folks were limited to the number of rifles one can own.
So, the swap barrels were popular.

There are too many that will never buy anything that doesn't look like a post WW II bolt action gun.

Just as a lot will never look at a Chippa (?) Rhino revolver because it's different than a S & W.

Everything you said is correct. If I were limited in the number of guns or even started with a Blaser then I might have a different opinion.

Also I don't even know what a "Rhino" revolver is without looking it up.

Even then straight pull rifles give me the creeps.