Thread: Rifle and Optics Snobs

Originally Posted by mudgripz

I think we can all have a little bit of snob in us from time to time. One thing is clear - there is no one right firearm, no must have firearm setup for our shooting conditions. Variety is the spice of life.

Its 100% valid to buy only top of line, beautifully wooded arms like Schultz and Larsen, Mannlicher etc - and yet have them rarely leave the cabinet. There is a real pleasure in owning a well crafted item - an investment too. Also valid to save the pennies and buy that nicely wooded Sako with Nightforce on it - even if you only shoot it 2-4 times a year. Especially if you only shoot it 2-4 times a year. And there is great sense when you shoot alot in demanding terrain to buy less expensive but accurate, reliable firearms like the Savage, Marlin, Howa etc. Certainly with greater frequency of shooting, the terrain often guides what rifle you need to buy. Examples - if hunting in dense northern bush with valleys full of bush lawyer, supplejack and blackberry you won't want a mint Sako - at all. And if covering high country rocks, matagouri, shooting from trucks at night across thousands of acres, again it won't be flash you choose. It'll be functional. But all of the choices valid in right conditions.

I suppose the one golden rule is if you want to take that expensive setup to the range, put the nose in the air and show off a bit - you better bloody know how to use it..

I like those wood, blued firearms since I got no wish to turn hunting trip into sniper mission. I am kind of "tight-fisted" for myself... but come to age with life became stabilized, I think I should spend little more. Sako and K98 is on my shopping list, for scope...do `t have much ideas, too many choices, do `t know which one fits me except for Nikon since I like photography I knew some people, they bought H&K, but never took them out, those rifles are only for show to other people. For me, sako for example, I will never care about it will get wet, have mud on it, or drop it on hard rock or something like that.