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Seacy Mauser For DG
There ha benn more threads on the Searcy DR than I can remember. What about the Searcy Mauser, how do they fair as a DGR. Are they the same value as the Searcy DR.
Thanks
Dr B
21 March 2006, 10:11
333_OKHI was wondering the same a few months ago and got no resonse on another website.
21 March 2006, 12:11
RustyI tink that Butch still can make the action. He told me in Dallas that it had been a while since he had made one. Lack of orders I guess.
Rusty
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21 March 2006, 12:39
ErikDquote:
Originally posted by Rusty:
I tink that Butch still can make the action. He told me in Dallas that it had been a while since he had made one. Lack of orders I guess.
I have gotten the impression that he bought actions from Prechtl.
21 March 2006, 13:17
RustyErik,
That may very well be the case. We were having a discussion about making mauser type actions. I express an interest in trying to manufacture an action at my facility. Butch told me that he'd rather make a double rifle action than a mauser type and that he hadn't made one in a long time.
Rusty
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DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member
"I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends."
----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836
"I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841
"for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”
It may be that the 15K price tag limits the amount of orders as well. When one considers the fact that there are several very good smiths making bolt action rifles, one would really want to have a Searcy to go into that price range. Especially when his double guns cost less!
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21 March 2006, 13:45
bulldog563Personally if I were to spend 15K on a bolt gun I would go to someone who specializes in bolt guns. I am not saying Butch isn't an excellent craftsman and is comepletely capable of turning out a bolt as fine as most if not all of the top makers, which I think he definitely is. I would just rather have someone who currently specializes on bolt rifles make my bolt rifle. I spoke with Butch about his bolt rifles and I think he said that he has only made one or two and that because his shop was set up for making DR's it would be a pain to turn out one bolt gun in the middle of a DR shop. I don't blame him.
The bolt on his site sure does look beautiful though. I am sure that if someone did get him to build a bolt rifle it would be exqusite and totally reliable. Also how can you go wrong with someone like Butch, he is honest all the way.