I bid $700 to start it and dang if I didn't almost buy it!


https://www.gunbroker.com/item/796735683

I think you mean you almost got stuck with it.

Close one...

Cheap money for a rare caliber !!I think the stock couldbe cleaned up. I got one in about the same shape private sale for $500 i was a happy camper. Take the stock off put it aside and put a nice EG style stock on it.

That would be a rare bird.

A spade is spade and a POS is a POS

This one just happens to be a rare and cheap POS

Roy didn't want it too bad or he'd would have bid $710.

Good call on his behalf IMO...

Mine will keep the 1" rebar at 200 yds dance all day at the range.

I would have bid $710, but i didn't want to be bidding against Roy, the dings in that wood could have been dressed up easily,..not so much the pressed checkering

Just bid. I bid what it was worth to me. I already have a rotary mag 22-250. I would have cleaned it up for a winter project.

I don't doubt that even one second.

Everybody likes what they like and they want what they want, I get it.

If I want to make rebar dance with a 22-250, I think I would spend my $710 on something a little easier on the eyes.

I have no interest in fugly women, I don't care how good they can cook.

Just me...

i looked at it Roy, but have a life long aversion to leprosy. scared me off. plus am still holding out for a 303

That made me chuckle.

Roy, post-mil rotary mag .22-250? A Pre-mil custom tinkered .22-250 would be cool. (Note that until 1965 the .22-250 was still a wildcat. Remington didn't confer legitimacy on it until that year. Up until then it was called the .22 Varminter as often as not, as per Jerry Gebby who copyrighted it back in the 30's.)

post mil DL donor w/ DL buttstock, RT style forearm

The stock could be cleaned up real well on that. Have seen worse guns sell for more. We all have.

Man, post mil guns get no respect and among those the magazine fed models seem to be the lowest of the low. I’d like to see some more discussion on these guns as they can’t all be that bad. After all, what was Remington and Winchester pumping out during that time? Some weren’t very good but some of the Savage offerings of the period may, in comparison, be just fine and may make good starting points for new guys getting into this great hobby of ours. Thanks Roy for kicking this one to the head of the class.

Remington at the time with the 700 was building a pretty nice reliable and accurate rifle, if anything a little too shiny. Winchester' post-64 M70 suffered the criticisms of guys who were used to the grand old pre-64 M70. Truth be told the new ones shot as good and served their owners well- the complaints were mostly cosmetic in nature, and virtually the same can be said of Savage. If anything everybody slid into a Dark Age of Aesthetics during the 60's-70's including Savage, and not just guns. Take a good hard look at the crap churned out by Detroit during that time period- good powerful lusty V-8's, sure, but stuck into bloated softly sprung behemoths.

The Postwar boom was about over. The prewar and wartime technology that made it possible was getting long in the tooth and The Greatest Generation were finding their first gray hairs and feeling the first twinges of arthritis. We Baby Boomers were stepping up and frankly our tastes sucked- take a good look at the clothes we wore- and everything we did was in protest of the sensibilities of our parents, usually for no better reason than to force change for change's sake. Aesthetic principles that had matured over decades became passe- out with the old in with the new, be different, man!- and our rifles followed suit. White line spacers, Monte Carlo stocks, flashy finishes- man if your company didn't provide that you were left in the dust.

I'm not quite sure how we grew out of it and returned to "classic" sensibilities, but I'm glad we did. Perhaps we woke up to the fact that something had to pay the price for rapid growth and head long change for change's sake, and that something was aesthetics.

Savage's post-mil's strike that chord of aesthetic poverty that taints my view of the whole era in general. Nothing against the guns, per se, they work and shoot ok. I'll stick with the older stuff thank you very much. But then again, I wear Woolrich plaid instead of Mossy Oak camo too.

Thanks Gary. So I guess it was a messy mix of bell bottoms jeans, 72 Cadillac Eldorados and rifles with glossy finishes and white line spacers. Ah, the good old days.

how can you say Detroit didn't put out beautiful cars in the 70's Gary?

Well...

The only thing good about them was the girls, and the fact that light beer wasn't invented yet.

Yeah I guess all the free lovin' stuff came down to the old saying that "there just aint no such thing as a free lunch."

yeah, the free loving i got has cost me everything for 50 years!
remember that the 60's didn't really start until 1968, most of the stuff people think of as "the 60's" were the 70's

By coincidence, another 22-250, albeit rebarreled


https://www.gunbroker.com/item/797372337

And another! Holy Smokes. coming outa the woodwork

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/797446588