IT followed me home, honest IT did!!

[Hardcast416taylor]

I was browsing in a gunshop today looking at all the rifles for sale. Suddenly I was overcome by a mental thought from the next rifle on the rack that was saying "Take me home"! So, I commenced to dickering with the clerk and finally when all the shouting and counter slapping was done the gun was mine! The gun is a Rem. Model 721 in `06 cal. with a Bushnell 3x9 variable 4 Plex type scope in weaver mounts and Q.D. sling swivels and studs. There are no nicks or scrapes on the walnut stock or rust visible anywhere on the very nice blued metal. The bore looks as new. He said the dust on the forend tip and on the scope was free with the deal. I walked out of the store $300 and taxes lighter, but it`s mine now! Now I have a "Big Brother" to go with my "Little Brother" Rem. Model 722 in .300 Sav.Robert

[x101airborne]

For that price, it could have followed me home also.
Great buy!

[yotatrd4x4]

Good find and good price. I used one when I was younger to shoot a big doe on doe day back in North Carolina.

[TCLouis]

I woulda had to say YES to that deal also and I am "Flush" in 06s.

[starmac]

I had 3 new (old) guns follow me home the other day. I must have forgot to mention them to the wife BUT a friend was over that night and they were leaning against the wall in the office.

He asked if I had picked these up recently,and I answered today about the time the wife stepped through the door. lol No secrets around here.

[yotatrd4x4]

Starmac,
I hear that I usually say "oh I have had that just don't shoot it much" anyhow I have made fatal mistakes before and got some good chewins for it. Once I sold an old mauser that I put about $250 in and just could not get it to shoot with anything I tried so I sold it to a friend who wanted to rebarrel it so he knew it was a 3 inch at 100 rifle. Anyhow I had extra stocks and pieces and parts as well as a bill from the smith who said he didn't find anything other than it needed headspace adjusted which he did will no results. Anyhow I bought me a brand new vx3 2.5-8x36 for the upcoming Caribou season and on the way to hunt my wife called and said when in the h*** did you buy a $400 rifle scope. Luckily I was gone for a week and only had to say sorry please forgive me I had to have it. For those that don't know it is far easier to ask forgiveness than permission. Anyhow it does happen from time to time.

[MBTcustom]

finally when all the shouting and counter slapping was done the gun was mine!
Ha! that's funny!

[Hardcast416taylor]

Ha! that's funny!


It was a pretty fair match on who did the most shouting about price and slapping the counter about that offer of yours is "NUTZ"! I must have worn him down or he ran out of swear words? I must say we were getting an audience at the counter watching us go at it. I cleaned it up last night and am finding a few things that show it was used, but still am tickled with it.Robert

[Lloyd Smale]

cool old gun at a great price.

[sparky45]

Where's the pictures?

[smoked turkey]

haggeling is about half the fun of the deal. Can't beat the -06 for most things being shot. Good addition to the family.

[o6Patient]

..you tried, what are you going to do when you lose the fight?
good deal:mrgreen:

[richhodg66]

A guy can always use another '06. I had a 722 I worked on for almost a year and then gave to my brother in .300 Savage. Good rifles, I kinda like them better than the 700s.

[26Charlie]

Also picked up a nice old hunting rifle this past week, a Remington M722 in .300 Savage. It is excellent, and has a Lyman Target-knob receiver sight on it. Date code puts it out of the factory in September 1948. With the weather as it is, have only been able to try some small game loads off the back porch at 25 yards. A couple of inch groups - 3118/115 grains with 9.0 grains of Unique; 311241/125 grains with 7.5 grains of 800-X, and a half inch group with RCBS 32-84-RN and 3.5 grains of Bullseye. This was elbows on a table, not a very solid rest. Had to give four bills for it, but it is nice. The sight alone is worth a hundred these days - all steel.

[John Allen]

I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago I was picking up a 629 and while waiting for the background check made the mistake of looking at the rifle rack. There was a brand new Timberwolf in 357 which I have wanted for years. Oh well it is only money!