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Gunner I have a 275 Rigby so just send me the ammo LOL. I recently bought a Lipsey's 250/300 and will someday restock it. A new #1 in 35 Whelen with advertised A+ wood cost me $1600 bucks. The wood is nice especially in the forearm and it shoots well. A used #1 in 405 from here was also $1600 but came scoped and lots of reloading supplies. I can use the bullets in both the 405 and my 450/400.
Covid provided me way to much time on my hands so I bought a varmint in 220 swift sold the wood and had the action tricked out some and an exquisite piece of English walnut for the stock and case colored all the metal. Caliber is 300 H&H. I need to get some pics and post them but I've been busy with doctors and went to Wyoming and Sunday is opening day of rifle season but I'll get around to it.

Well, new ones in Canada are going for $2400-2800, and most good used are starting around $1600 when you can find them, so you're not feeling the pinch like us Northerners!

.35 whelen?

Or you picked up a customized one in .35 remington?

My mistake but a good catch on your part. It's a 35 Whelen the custom gun is a 300 H&H but you do have me thinking lol. thanks for the heads up on the caliber I edited the post so it's correct now

Tex, noted, on the build correction, good to hear about your 22-250 enjoying the polish job, I miss that Swift sometimes, it was awkward to carry, but get your back against a big rock or tree, fling open the Harris bi-pod, and it'd get rock steady, 'Smith done something to the trigger that really lightened it up, know he didn't install a Jard or Klepp??

LOL GSP, I have one of the rounds from that old bag I loaded long ago sitting right here on this desk, the Norma brass is smooth as glass and the old style Hornady 175gr round nose has very little exposed lead at the tip, wonder if that means they are slower openers and deep penetrators? especially leaving at a mild 2400 fps, better idea, if I don't buy this RSI maybe you could just send that 275 Rigby to me ; ]

BarryT, holy crap man, the 900 bucks my old buddys buddy is asking me for his 7x57 RSI must be a hell of a fair deal, I haven't looked around in shops or on the net, I know a handful of men that have a few guns, they in turn know a few guys with a chit-ton of firearms, mostly very old family gun collections, some in the several hundreds, I start whining about something I'd like to have/buy, old buddy takes it from there, think he's hardwired into some kind of cell phone app with the rest of those guys, if one has something they want to get rid of, or has a little pity on me, then i'll get a happy phone call.

Still waiting to see pics of the little RSI, the old gloss Burris and bag of ammo is ready, be fun to get it scoped up, zeroed, and shoot a deer or pig with it this season.

The market has changed over the last couple of years. I had an RSI in 7x57 a couple of years ago. Sold it on the fire ANIB and had a hard time getting $1200 for it as I remember.
Gunner my 275 Rigby is a custom build on a 1909 Argentine Mauser action. I'm hoping that next year things will straighten out and I can do that Axis hunt I've been dreaming about. If I do that's the rifle I'll take. If you want to come along you can drool over it. LOL

10-4, Thanks for the clarification GSP, if you shoot, then eat an Axis, it WONT be your last hunt for them, the meat is the best I've had stateside, comparable to fire cooked Eland and Kudu loin in a bush camp on African Safari.

The drooling program may be one I cant resist ; ] I have ample time to ask Wife make a bib with side splash guards!

BTW, got to see pics of the 7x57 RSI yesterday, talk about dead wood! it is however a very clean rifle, didn't see a mark on the wood or blue, guy said in a text he may have fired 10 rounds through it since bought new in 1977, i'll have to think about this one for awhile, it's not advertised, so not going anywhere.

Ive had Eland and Kudu cooked over a bush fire so if the Axis comes close I'll probably gain a few pounds. I'm hoping the new 300 H&H will put a deer in the freezer this afternoon.

LOL, You'll gain some weight then, hope you busted a deer this afternoon, need to get my mind clear and go do some deer hunting myself.

No joy from the blind tonight but theres always tomorrow.

Go Get Em!

Welp, couldn't get passed the dead wood on the #1 RSI in 7mm Mauser, and single shot forum I realize, but, another bud stepped up and sent me pics of a clean as a pin red pad tang safety 77 with a nice stock in 7x57, another bud that's passing through in a few days is going to drop it off, i'll zero this new rifle with the old gloss 2-7 leupold I just yanked off a pre-64 fwt in 243 that I traded for a pre-64 Westerner in 264 WM, finally have a rifle/use for the 175gr Hornady round nose ammo I loaded back in the early 90's, believe i'll have plenty of time to use it on a Christmas deer hunt over in Arkansas with any left over buck or doe tags!

YOU SUCK!

Ingwe or any other 7mm Mauser heavy bullet hunters here, I loaded the old 175gr Hornady round noses to 2400 fps to use in a 96? [I believe it was] Mauser I had at the time, is it a safe bet I can pick my path to the vitals on a deer with this load?

Will be hunting a dang tight pocket/thicket and shots on deer will be close and most likely in the chest or in a going away ham, Thanks in advance.

I was hoping you were going to send me some LOL. The heaviest I've used is the 160 NAB in a 7X57 AI.

Thats a slam-dunko Gunner...

yep i noticed the price is up too on #1`s also not as many for sale anymore,for me that`s a good thing

Thanks Ingwe, will proceed accordingly ; ]

GSP, lol, if a bud hadn't sent me pics of that sweet little 77 I would have been dividing them up between a guy that sent me a pm and you, I shoot 175gr old style Grand Slams and Partitions in my hot rod 7x57 at 2700 fps, it's a little hammer.

Pete, yes sir they are, seems a lot of folk are holding on to certain weaponry in these uncertain times.