....as some here know, I am now working at a pawn shop here in town. With no gun shops in Walla Walla save for Big5, we are pretty much it insofar as firearms go.

The boss carries a pretty good assortment of new guns, we have a case of assorted 1911s for example, but obviously used guns from trades or lost pawns make up a portion of our offerings.

Today I was in the vault checking pawn tickets and found a cool old rifle. Remington 722 with a factory carbine barrel chambered in .300 Savage. Someone checkered the stock, and did a fairly good job of it. They also made a nice grip cap out of blonde horn (sheep?). It has a severely collapsed recoil pad which will need replaced, and has pretty obviously never seen a scope. The rear sight "bulge" is missing the sight, and whatever peep sight was sitting on it is long gone as well (the stock was relieved for the peep slide Watson).

The bore is good and the little thing handles slicker than snot. Boss told me he was going to sell it for 229, but it was mine for 150 if I wanted it.

I owe my soul to the company store........

Otony

Otony, that sounds like a VERY cool deerwhacker. If you can determine what kind of aperture sight was on it and find one, you are set. Ain't no flies on the .300 Savage round, either, except that factory ammo is a bit hard to find. If you reload, you're in for a heck of a good time with that little rifle.

I know that song! The 300 Savage was very popular over in Idaho, when I lived there...Mostly 99s of course but most shops then, stocked a good bunch.
Rob

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It is a very cool rifle, and you are right, no flies on the .300 Savage cartridge either.

I do reload, and will play with this a bit. Should there prove to be any issues with the present chambering (which I rather doubt) there are plenty of 700 take off barrels out there. Ideally, I would like to make it a 257 Roberts if it needs rebarreling. My little girl will be wanting a rifle of her own here in a few years.....

Rob is correct about the .300 cartridge. We are purty darn close to the Idaho line, and folks come in on a fairly regular basis asking for rifles so chambered. We just sold a very minty 99 with a Herters 4x scope for $599. It was a late '40s rifle, REAL nice. Had it been a .250 it would have been difficult to pass up!

Otony

Have been looking for one of those Rem 722s for just such a price to create a 250 Savage with. My brother has one in 300 Savage and it is an absolute tack driver.