Just as we’ve looked at expensive and indulgent cars in the Sotheby’s catalogue before, here’s the gunny equivalent at Collector’s (right-click to embiggen):
I know, at $7,950, the price is nosebleed-high, just like those half-million-dollar cars we saw.
However, a rifle of this quality cannot be simply dismissed as a pricey gee-gaw. It’s been created by a master gunsmith for Griffin & Howe, from the world’s best action (Mauser 98). If your .30-30 lever gun is a Toyota, this rifle is a Bentley R1; if your field shotgun is a Beretta, this is a Holland.
The comparison cannot be made just by logic.
Are there other guns that could do the job as well as this one? Certainly. Would those guns evoke the same feelings of pride and wonder when opening the case? Not even close.
And by the way, I happen to love the venerable Savage .250-3000 cartridge for its outstanding speed, flat trajectory and devastating effect upon arrival. Yeah, it’s spendy.
Don’t care, just as I don’t care about the fuel consumption of a 1956 Mercedes 300 SC.
Want. Both.