Which rifles would you replace with the same thing?

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someguy2800 said:
It’s funny how people place value on certain things. Most of us consider a $2500 gun to be an extravagant luxury item, but people put a set of $2500 wheels on a crapy old pickup and doesn’t faze them. I’ve been starting to spend more money on my firearms purchases after realizing I spend $900 on a set of pistons for my race car and I don’t blink an eye, but $900 for a gun seams really expensive to me for some reason.
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Well, it's perspective probably. My first brand new rifle, a Ruger M77V, cost me $170. Based on that, everything now seems expensive.
 
BigBlue 94 said:
Yup. 72x40 metal building. Investigator said it was over 2000°: it was pretty much completely burned to the ground. Tools, grandpas reloading gear and hand written notes, my high school ford bronco, two trucks, 2 tractors and a gator, childhood rocking horse, mounted trout in caught at 10 years old, 100 board feet of actual cuban mahogany lumber, and about anything else you can imagine. The total claim on contents, business, and two vehicles (third was salvage title) was 450k. I watched what i thought was my whole life go up in flames.

My dog happened to be in the house that night instead of his kennel inside the shop...

We had a wonderful experience with the insurance agency (State Farm). On the contents policy, they allowed full new replacement with basically no proof of prior ownership. We stayed fairly true to what we had, but substituted some things for others. Like my metal lathe is a replacement for a wood lathe.

Even on my reloading components, they asked no questions. Right now try to envision having to replace all your reloading components, for north of 35 calibers, from memory alone. I have no idea how many primers, bullets, cases, etc that i had. I had somewhere between 10 and 15k primers, but i cant say how many. I think I bought 10k as replacement. About 25 pounds of powder. Few hundred pounds of bullets. Ill tell ya it was fun buying all that stuff, no matter how sombering. The local tool supply loved my $6000 Starrett order!

So i guess to properly answer the original question, I would replace with similar or exact models on most things. But i would be sure to get every bit I could. Some items like a special order 1873 winchester, colt shooting master, colt python, and three 1897s would be tougher to find. Not impossible, but expensive.

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Started at 10pm. Its still smoldering the next morning when i left for work.
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The bronco in drove in HS is on the left. Was lifted 6". Diesel F350 on the right that was a straight up 20k loss because liability only...
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That’s sucks. Good to hear your insurance worked with you. A friend of mine lost his shop and everything inside almost a year ago. I think he’s still fighting the insurance. He told me to video everything I have, everywhere and in drawers, in boxes and in vehicles. Everything for his construction business was lost plus personal things. They think it was a battery charger for cordless tools that started it.
 
This thread has got me thinking about what I would do if for some reason all my firearms were stolen/burned up in a fire, etc. I would probably only have about 5 firearms. A centerfire rifle, rimfire rifle, that would probably be another Anschutz 1712, a centerfire handgun, a rimfire handgun and a shotgun because everyone needs a shotgun. :D

Those 5 types of firearms would pretty much cover all of the bases for me.
 
BigBlue 94 said:
Yup. 72x40 metal building. Investigator said it was over 2000°: it was pretty much completely burned to the ground. Tools, grandpas reloading gear and hand written notes, my high school ford bronco, two trucks, 2 tractors and a gator, childhood rocking horse, mounted trout in caught at 10 years old, 100 board feet of actual cuban mahogany lumber, and about anything else you can imagine. The total claim on contents, business, and two vehicles (third was salvage title) was 450k. I watched what i thought was my whole life go up in flames.

My dog happened to be in the house that night instead of his kennel inside the shop...

We had a wonderful experience with the insurance agency (State Farm). On the contents policy, they allowed full new replacement with basically no proof of prior ownership. We stayed fairly true to what we had, but substituted some things for others. Like my metal lathe is a replacement for a wood lathe.

Even on my reloading components, they asked no questions. Right now try to envision having to replace all your reloading components, for north of 35 calibers, from memory alone. I have no idea how many primers, bullets, cases, etc that i had. I had somewhere between 10 and 15k primers, but i cant say how many. I think I bought 10k as replacement. About 25 pounds of powder. Few hundred pounds of bullets. Ill tell ya it was fun buying all that stuff, no matter how sombering. The local tool supply loved my $6000 Starrett order!

So i guess to properly answer the original question, I would replace with similar or exact models on most things. But i would be sure to get every bit I could. Some items like a special order 1873 winchester, colt shooting master, colt python, and three 1897s would be tougher to find. Not impossible, but expensive.

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Started at 10pm. Its still smoldering the next morning when i left for work.
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The bronco in drove in HS is on the left. Was lifted 6". Diesel F350 on the right that was a straight up 20k loss because liability only...
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My greatest fear in life besides for something happening to a family member of course is loosing my shop with my race car in it. How do you put a monetary value on something you have like 2000 hours of work into?
 
someguy2800 said:
I recently paid $900 for a unfired 15 year old m77, and that was a deal compared to what I’ve seen some sell for… This inflation is getting crazy.
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Yep. I certainly have more guns worth north of a thousand bucks than I did 3 years ago. What caliber is the M77?
 
HowieG said:
Yep. I certainly have more guns worth north of a thousand bucks than I did 3 years ago. What caliber is the M77?
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It’s a stainless mk2 in 338 win mag. I bought a tang safety in 338 also just to see which I liked better but I moved that one on as I preferred the mk2.
 
My browning xbolt hc speed in 6.5cm & 280AI IF they ever have to be replaced they will be replaced s with another xbolt H/C SPEED din The same calibers
 
someguy2800 said:
It’s a stainless mk2 in 338 win mag. I bought a tang safety in 338 also just to see which I liked better but I moved that one on as I preferred the mk2.
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I am fine with either one. I think the Mk2 barrels are probably more consistent. I picked up a Mk2 220 Swift for a friend and that thing was other worldly accurate. Frankly, I haven't seen any reason to get a Hawkeye.
 
Barnfixer said:
That’s sucks. Good to hear your insurance worked with you. A friend of mine lost his shop and everything inside almost a year ago. I think he’s still fighting the insurance. He told me to video everything I have, everywhere and in drawers, in boxes and in vehicles. Everything for his construction business was lost plus personal things. They think it was a battery charger for cordless tools that started it.
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Hmmm, that's interesting. I might just have to start unplugging mine when I leave the house.
 
someguy2800 said:
My greatest fear in life besides for something happening to a family member of course is loosing my shop with my race car in it. How do you put a monetary value on something you have like 2000 hours of work into?
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It's easy. You figure out what your time is worth per hour and then multiply that by 2000.
 
someguy2800 said:
If my model 60 was a little more reliable it would definitely be in my top 5 favorite firearms.
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Switch ammo? I have never seen a semi-auto that wasn't kind of ammo sensitive. Big box 22 is the worst for a semi-auto. My Remington doesn't like Remington big box at all. It works fine on CCI mini mag. In other words, expensive ammo good, cheap ammo bad.
 
someguy2800 said:
And then I have to get the insurance company to agree to that figure and I have to pay the bill for it…
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Yep, they never will. Frankly, that race car is only worth a bunch to you. Ditto custom rifles. You have a rifle built to match your desires and dreams. Everybody else has their own desires and dreams and they don't want to pay you a whole bunch for yours. They can just take that money and have their own perfect rifle built.
 
HowieG said:
Switch ammo? I have never seen a semi-auto that wasn't kind of ammo sensitive. Big box 22 is the worst for a semi-auto. My Remington doesn't like Remington big box at all. It works fine on CCI mini mag. In other words, expensive ammo good, cheap ammo bad.
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About the only thing it will eat reasonably reliably is federal auto match and it helps if you spray the ammo down with hornady one shot first or just rem oil. Sometimes it fails to extract, sometimes fails to go into battery, and sometimes stovepipes. Lubrication seams to help with the 1st and 2nd problems. If it was as reliable as my 10/22 it would really be my darling.
 
HowieG said:
Yep, they never will. Frankly, that race car is only worth a bunch to you. Ditto custom rifles. You have a rifle built to match your desires and dreams. Everybody else has their own desires and dreams and they don't want to pay you a whole bunch for yours. They can just take that money and have their own perfect rifle built.
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A race car is an excellent way to turn $50,000 worth of parts into a $20,000 car. PM me for more financial tips and tricks.
 
someguy2800 said:
About the only thing it will eat reasonably reliably is federal auto match and it helps if you spray the ammo down with hornady one shot first or just rem oil. Sometimes it fails to extract, sometimes fails to go into battery, and sometimes stovepipes. Lubrication seams to help with the 1st and 2nd problems. If it was as reliable as my 10/22 it would really be my darling.
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Oh. Polish the chamber. Sounds like it's rough.
 
HowieG said:
Oh. Polish the chamber. Sounds like it's rough.
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done that. I believe when it fails to go into battery it’s actually bouncing back open and then hanging up. There is a little hitch in the action right befor the bolt closes with or without ammo but I haven’t taken it back appart to try to figure out what that is
 
someguy2800 said:
done that. I believe when it fails to go into battery it’s actually bouncing back open and then hanging up. There is a little hitch in the action right befor the bolt closes with or without ammo but I haven’t taken it back appart to try to figure out what that is
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Sounds like a mystery. I like guns like that.
 
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