I just put up a Ryan Breeding 500 Jeffery for a friend up in the classifieds...like new and about 1/2 price.

What an awesome rifle and cartridge...and, what a nice guy!

Respects,

Phill

It's a great temptation. Too bad you live in Spain and my budget will not allow another weapon. Is the cartridge of my dreams.

Oscar.

No too many Breedings around, for sure.

Nobody?

Biebs:

You've got to get someone to post some pictures for you.

Dave, Good idea..they're on their way to YOU :-)

Wow- a Ryan Breeding Gun! Does it feed properly? Shoot straight? Does it have his world famous TIG welded on front recoil lug?-Rob

Rob, it's trouble-free from what I understand. The doctor who bought it was not savvy on the proper gun fit of a big bore rifle. This one is about 14 1/2, and it used to beat him up. When he was fitted for the Dakota 458 Lott he bought to replace it, his LOP measured out at 15 3/4"!!! No wonder he was getting scope cuts, and punching himself in the nose every time he shot it.

Rob:

Biebs sent me pictures of it. It's very nice. Maybe we could get someone to post pictures of it in the classifieds. Any help would be appreciated.

Dave,

I can put up the photos.

George

I've seen his work many times. fixed a few too! Looks nice on the surface, but before I'd buy it I'd shoot it first! there are no Ryan breeding guns in my gun room and not because I can't afford one.-Rob

Rob, the only thing he didn't like about it was the recoil, but with a LOP almost 2" short I can understand that.

Biebs- no doubt. Idiots buy guns for big bucks without checking those little details. again, I'd personally shoot that RB gun before I put any money into it. Word to the wise. All I'll say is there have been issues.-Rob

"...all I'll say is there have been issues" is not helpful Specificity about issues is helpful. An open ended statement sounding authoritative can be damaging, and it may not be deserved.

Here are the photos:





George

The scope shown has already been moved to his new Dakota, but there may be another one available, as well as some ammunition from Breeding and Safari Arms.

Brevet- look Dude.Learn to Read between the lines! Figure it out for yourself! Please dont platitude me with not being "helpful". Either.I said shoot the gun first and check it carefully for feeding. Is that too hard to understand? I think that's EXTREMELY "helpful"-Rob

Why is the checkering so dark? It looks like the pressed checking Winchester used. Yuck!

Just guessing, but the more lines per inch the darker the checkering is going to look . . . and the more difficult it will be to do.

In some instances, (such as this gun), Ryan stains the checkered area darker than the rest of the stock. This, along with a grey colored finish on the metal, are among Ryan's trademarks. The same treatment is present on my .505 Gibbs by Ryan.

Looks like it's out for a trial run with its new owner.

i had a 505 stainless granite mt arms action rifle built by ryan it was one of the best well put together bolt rifles i ever had i ended up selling it to a another left handed membr here on ar from virginia awsome rifle. if it wasnt for the fact i have a 500 and a 577 double id probably grab another ryan breeding rifle if i didnt already have 2 doubles.

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Originally posted by GeorgeS:
Dave,

I can put up the photos.

George

Thanks George.

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Thanks George.

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awesome rifle Biebs--just wished it was LOP 15 1/4 and left handed!

Ed, not mine, just helping out a friend of a friend. If I didn't have so many big bore magazine rifles, I'd have probably bought it.

I looked at the Ryan Breeding rifles at SCI Vegas. They looked real nice, but pricey. I'm happy with my CZ 550 in 500 Jeffery for about $2500 all in. It functions flawlessly, balance is perfect and shoots one ragged hole groups at 50 yards when I do my part. It did take 3 gunsmiths and about a year to get it right though lol ...

CZ, for those of us who have more time than money.