Why Buy a Rifle from McMillan?

[strambo]

There's an old saying, the wealthy are wealthy because they buy quality the first time around. Poor man stays poor because he buys lesser quality budget items multiple times.

I don't buy it (heh, pun intended). Nobody gets wealthy by buying consumer items at all. Well thought out purchases in terms of expected service life vs. initial and replacement cost may help preserve wealth, but it won't build it!

 

[JohnBT]

"What practical advantage does the McMillan have over the custom?"

Resale. Warranty.

The question is, over whose custom?

 

[JohnBT]

"I sure wish folks would quit ragging on people that can afford expensive things, it's getting old. "

I wish I could afford stuff. Speaking of expensive, our monthly poker tournament got moved on short notice due to illness. Wow, nice house. 10k square feet and all brick, including the tower and some of the flooring. I like red Virginia brick.

 

[OldBrownDog]

I will never be in position to spend $6,000 on a rifle (well maybe if I win the lotto...). But, I would think that even if you aren't a world class shooter it would at least buy some peace of mind that any issues are virtually certain to be with you, not your equipment.

Plus, doesn't McMillan do CRF actions? Custom CRF actions are hard to find. Montana Rifles, Dakota Arms, and McMillan are the only custom CRF actions/rifles I know of. Unless you find an M98 action to piece into a rifle (PITA shipping, etc) or you want to chop up a Winnie or Kimber....

CRF rifles ain't as plug-and-play as an M700 or Savage. Some people just gotta have the claw, I guess.

 

[taliv]

There are a few people out there shooting the McMillan Rifles to their full potential, and most of them are in Afghanistan or Iraq.

really? aside from the tac50 used by canada, i'd be very surprised if the tac308 is over there

and it's definitely not the most accurate rifle money can buy.

mcmillan rifles are (recently) owned by same company/guy that owns surgeon. I like and use mcmillan stocks but don't care much for their rifles at all. the tubb2k they made was pretty good though. if i were in the market for an accurate, field-usable rifle, mcmillan wouldn't even make the top 20 of my list (though most of my top 20 would sit in mcmillan stocks)

there's nothing the mcmillan tac308 will do that a surgeon scalpel won't, and i'd take the surgeon any day. or a GAP, or any one of dozens of others at 1/2 the cost.

btw, although the market for precision rifles is small and somewhat esoteric, there is a good market and custom builds by smiths that have a reputation will hold their value pretty well (assuming the person who spec'd it out didn't spec out something stupid that nobody wants.)

 

[hentown]

My statement was just validated by the OP in the previous post.

As far as high dollar shotguns go, once upon a time I watched a Texas Game Warden outshoot several people with Perazzis and Kreighoffs at a charity shoot.

His shotgun was his issue Remington 870P with a sidesaddle and an extended magazine.

It is not the song, its the singer.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

Mr. Leon, we agree about the importance of the skill of the shooter, singer, etc.; however, that subject isn't germane to this thread.

Maybe you just never had many/any wealthy close friends? Friend of my son's paid over $6k for a memory foam mattress! Hell, he could have bought a McMillan rifle for that!

 

[Art Eatman]

After Gale died, his son(s?) sold the rifle business; kept the gunstock business. A "McMillan Rifle" isn't a Gale McMillan product.

Be that as it may, folks are free to buy what they want, for whatever reason they have. I don't see much point to bum-rapping them about it.

 

[taliv]

the press release on their page say it was sold nov of last year. (i guess that is technically after Gale's death, but I thought his brother owned that business anyway)

 

[aka108]

I asked a acquaintance of mine who is a anal competitive shotgunner why so many on the competition circuit have 30, 40 and 50 thousand dollar guns. His answer was that it is really a show off deal between the competitors, ie a eqo trip and the fact that those who own these guns can more than well afford them. Said he's seen major matches won by some of the old Stevens guns that sold for under a couple of hundred dollars years ago. So if buying what you want doesn't take any beans off of the table, go ahead and buy it. You only live once so enjoy the fruits of you labor or what Mommy and Daddy willed to you.

 

[taliv]

that may be true for shotguns (i have no idea). it's not generally true for rifles. at least not for the competitions i shoot in. that's not to say you need a $5k rifle. you can start with a $500 rem700 action and do $1500 in upgrades, or some of the savage models and do a few upgrades in order to be reasonably competitive, but there are still some disadvantages and it just depends on whether or not the course of fire exposes those or not.

on the positive side, the $2k - $6k difference in mid-to-high priced rifles is not nearly as big a deal as the $50-60,000 shotgun

 

[itsa pain]

Mc Millan along with others likes to rip off the military with these guns and with their 2000 dollar stocks. People here are saying somehow if you have their rifle like in 308 you could use it to the fullest extent. What does that mean? Savage shooting team uses their stock rifles under 1500 to win most long range events

 

[LeonCarr]

Your right hentown, I don't have any wealthy friends.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

 

[hentown]

Your right hentown, I don't have any wealthy friends.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr
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I'm fortunate, in that I have friends from different income/asset levels. Despite the one anecdote posted in this thread regarding expensive shotguns, my experience is that people with real money ($25M+) don't waste a lot of their time trying to impress folks with their shotguns or other possessions.

AAMOF, I gave firearms instructions to the ex-wife of a well-known Hall of Fame baseball player. She's worth tens of millions of dollars, but is really down-to-earth. She would like to own a Ferrari, but won't buy one, as she doesn't want to be ostentatious. She did buy a G26 on my recommendation, though.