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Your income doesn't sound very "meager".

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what does a blaser Lx go for?

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I hunt varmints more than anything, so I would order a christensen arms rifle. The (corbon one custom)in 22-250 imp. with a remington 700 action titanium,anda lilja barrel. Opticsswarovski 30mm PH4-16x50.

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I think they don't make the Lx any more its called a Prestigue. The last one I bought 3 yrs ago was $1250 but the deals like that are gone. More in likely $1500-$1800. I bought my Luxus for $1300 guy needed money. I had a Synthetic I bought for $1200 and sold it a year later for $1400.
Everything for these is getting way out of control. But you can shoot from a .22 LR to a 416 Rem mag in the same gun.

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Blaserman

You need to check current prices. Your deals were SMOKING! A Prestige retail for around $3K, a Luxus for around $4500, and a synthetic for over $2500. You are 100% correct that prices are getting way out of control. They are blaming ot the value of the dollar against the euro.

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Yes, Steve, you are so correct about this! Publicly accessable hunting lands on which there are sufficient populations of game as to make bagging something not too impossible are rapidly disappearing. So are hunters!

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Hunters that are willing to walk more than 100 yards froma fire lane or logging roadare rapidly disappearing as well- think there's a correlation?

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"Hunters that are willing to walk more than 100 yards froma fire lane or logging roadare rapidly disappearing as well- think there's a correlation?"

You got that right. Those who do get a little ways off the road and kill a deer often give up dragging it and leave it lay.Several years ago in WV i found a niceten point thatsomeone gave up ona couple of days before.Snow had fallentwo nights before:The deer hadbeen field dressed and it had snowed onit.i just tagged it, dragged it out and checked it in.

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There probably is. America in general has become a lazy, overweight, materialistic society that doesn't like giving up any sort of comfort. Look at all the hunters who think they need ATV's to hunt. Most hunters have stands no more than a couple of hundred yards from a road and yet they feel they need to fire up an ATV to get them to it! Just doesn't make any sense. City folks AND rural folks are NO better than the other either. The city folks may like their fancy sports cars and expensive clothes and things, while in small town America everyone seems to need the latest truck or ATV while they would be better off to do some walking to burn off some of the blubber they have accumulated over the years. Then people wonder why they have no money. If they didn't waste it on useless stuff, maybe they would have some!

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any gun huh. hmmm probably just for the heck of it would get an ar-50.
.50 cal bullets are huge there like this long. lol. so do the wave cause you can, and while your at it with your new ar-5o start a long range war with turkey.

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falcon, I hope someone hadn't gone for help to drag that 10 pt out:D

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Well it is but I work a second job most days just so I can buy those cheep Savage rifles.
As for me dragging this post so far off topic, which I did, I apoligize, it wasn't intended.
As for the prices of those European made guns, they'll continue to inflate as long as people are willing to sacrifice and skimp just so they can say I GOT ONE Superspensiveboomer!

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Perhaps. But I think it varies by locale. Causes are many, but I think the "subdividing of America" has a LOTto do with it- at least around here, anyway......

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Definately a problem. Farms that haven't sold out to subdivide make a lot of money from hunting leases. They run upwards of $1000/person in my area, and in the trophy buck areas along the Mississipi river, they run much higher. On the other hand, the northern 1/2 of my my state is mostly state/National/county forest land and is very sparsely populatedthat anyone can hunt. Yeah the hunting isn't as great as in the the Trophy managed areas of the state, but then again, you don't have tofilthy richto hunt there.

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RR- what's the cartridge that is 2nd from the right in the picture? Is it one of the .450s or .458s? How do you like it? I really want to get a bigbore upper for my AR for whitetails. BTW, nice hardware.

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[/quote] As for the prices of those European made guns, they'll continue to inflate as long as people are willing to sacrifice and skimp just so they can say I GOT ONE Superspensiveboomer!
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Sorry, I need to correct your statement a bit. They arent inflating, theyre appreciating and will continue to do so as long as their quality of craftsmanship remains above the competition. I, among other people, invested in a beautiful foreign firearm because of this reason.

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Kimber or Cooper. I just got a kimber and love it. Now I'm saving for a cooper.

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Lazerone rifle, fitted for a 30-378wby magwith Swarovski optics!!!!!!!!!

Damn I just pitched a tent typing that!!!!!!!

I need some personal time now, thanks alot :)

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I would like to have my Grandpa's and my Dad's guns back that they sold.My dad had this win.30-30 octagon barrel and he sold it ,man that thing ment alot to me.One of my grandpa's had an old .22lr it was a stevens auto and I learned to shoot with that rifle.I could shoot a single ragged hole at 50 yards with that when I was only 10 years old.Those rifle would be worth more to me them any euro or custom made.

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I'd rather have one really fine gun then 2 dozen Savages, not that i have anything against Savage... I just happen to have figured out that the "finer guns" give me much more pleasure than owning a dozen "average" guns...

I do all of my hunting with my "fine" gun, and i've been on hunts out in the bush liveing in a small tent for weeks at a time. I'vealso floated rivers above the artic circle, stoping to hunt and camp in the brush along it's banks... My gun didn't get any spl. treatment i wouldn't have given a Savage if i had been carrying one...

Ever have your Savage out in driveing rain/snow weather for a week or more at a time on the Alaska Peninsula? Living in a small tent without heat or any fire because of the weather. I'll bet you your Savage will rust up a lot faster and need more maintance then my "rust blued" Krieghoff will... I know this because i've been there and done that numerous times with friends along with "average" guns, whoi watched fightthe rust every day.

DM

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I'm just an old school kinda guy . I would go with a Mauser like the old MarkX in a western monte carlo stock in medium weight bbl chambered for 30-06 . Since money is no object 2 more are in order as a treo 1 in 223 and another in 458 win mag . Now I can shoot more and hunt the whole world .