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Pre 64 300 H&H is what the OP needs

yea, it won't likely be worn out when it gets handed down.

Cooper if it was me

I can assure you the make, model and chambering will mean a whole lot more to you than your son. When the time comes, he won't be holding a Sako, Cooper or Weatherby. He'll be holding Dad's rifle, and that's all that will matter to him.

It matters a lot more what you do with it than who made it. Better yet what you do with it together. My son got his first deer sitting on my lap in a shooting house with the Model 7 he got the week before for Christmas. Should God bless him with children I expect the plastic and stainless 7 will be an heirloom.

cooper would be my choice. i looked at one today in little rock. ar. chambered in 30-06 and price was 8k.

Make that 3 for the Sako.

Having owned a few older sako's, a sampling of weatherby's from German made to modern, 9 lugs and 6, and recently my first Cooper, I'd pick Cooper no hesitation

"Socko" for me too.

SPOT ON ! !


Of the 3, I'd choose Say-ko, (Socko - if ya ain't Southern <G>)

A cool yet useable huntable classic would be hard to beat. About a year ago I sold a pre-64 Model 70 in 300H&H for $1750. If I had not HAD to sell it to be able to buy tires for my rig, there is now way I would ever have let go of that rifle.

Of the three choices, I would look long and hard until I located a clean Weatherby Mk V Lazermark. One of the prettiest rifles to ever come from a factory, and also one of the rifles that I have lamented having to sell in the last couple of years. You might have to look a while to find an appropriate gloss finish scope for it, but they come up here and elswhere from time to time. If you get any of the three you mention, please keep looking until you find a good scope with the right finish. Seeing these gorgeous guns with matte finish scopes atop reminds me of someone buying a Ferrari and spray painting the wheels some awful color. Just should not occur.

Agree, pre-64, or one of the old Southgate Weatherby's built on an FN Mauser action would be nice too ...

A nice old Sako or pre-64 is where I'd be lookin'.

AS mentioned, it won't matter too much, it's pop's rifle.

Thank God, my dad didn't like junk like that.

Blaser

This.

Sako

LOL, mine never had the chance. They didn't make "junk" like that when he was around. Not to worry, son has more that came later not fitting that description. And a few of mine as well.

SAKO in a older Forester or Finnbearer, Deluxe if it can be had.Or get a 2013 Shiloh Sharps catalog and have them build you a 74 with an original style chamber. Get a adj KAL tool paper patch bullet mold and lifetime supply of casings. Learn to load and shoot it with your kid along side you. Take it and him hunting with you. There is only 1 gun and they are 74's. Magnum Man

EvilTwin and Sharpsguy have me thinking about an heirloom rifle too. I'm leaning hard toward a Shiloh Sharps. My difficulty is in picking which model I prefer.