After reading BaxterB's post in Medium Bore Rifles ('Tikka T3 with Talleys') and looking at a T-3 Lite in .338WM, my mind's been playing funny tricks! I've got 2 T-3 Lites (.300WM and a 9.3x62). I've just got onto an 'unmarked/as new' Winchester Mod 70 controlled round Stainless/synthetic in .338WM that costs less than the price of a new T-3 Lite. I've always been pretty traditional with my guns (wood/blued) but I bought the Tikkas because of their low price and not having to worry about scratching walnut/gloss finished blueing, etc.
I'm now at max number of firearms I can have legally at home. In the larger gun department I have a .300WM, 375 H+H and a 458 Lott. Do I sell the 9.3 and buy the Winnie? Right now I feel like Meryl Streep from the movie 'Sophie's Choice!'

Cheers,

Adrian!

Just my opine here, but I'd keep 'em all, move to Texas and buy more!

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Originally posted by Gatsby26:
I'm now at max number of firearms I can have legally at home.

+1 on moving where you can own as many as you can afford. Texas is a good place to start.

I love my 9.3, but if I'd bought a .375 first it would seem redundant.

Gatsby26,

Where in the world do you live? This limit thing sucks!

Do I gather that the question is adding another .338 WM when you already have one, and this would require getting rid of a 9,3x62?

I'd dump the extra .338 WM first. Both the .338 WM and the 9,3x62 have a place in the battery as the 9,3 is likely to be handier than the .375 H&H (which also has a place in the battery).

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Just my opine here, but I'd keep 'em all, move to Texas and buy more!

Florida's another option. And our rattlesnakes aren't anywhere as big as those in Texas, or as numerous...

Hi all,

Here in Victoria, Oz you can have 15 firearms before you have to have an alarm fitted, windows barred, security door, etc (this is after mandatory firearm gunsafe unloaded storage and ammo kept in locked separate storage). Where I'm currently living to comply with storage requirements if I buy more than 15 firearms is currently not possible. No I don't have a.338WM but have in the past (and with every gun I've ever sold have lived to regret it ). As I love my Sako 375 I might move the 9.3 and go back to having a .338WM (but damn!, moving to Texas sure sounds good !).
Cheers,
Adrian.

Guys,
You are lucky!! A hunter may own as much as 6 rifles in The Netherlands. However a take down rifle with switch barrels only counts for one rifle

If you like the 338 enough go ahead and trade the closest one you have to it. At least you can own some. There are three limiting factors to the number of rifles I can have here, 1) money, 2) room and 3) the Mrs .
Ken....

The day after I posted this the rifle was sold (no wonder at the price)!

"....Now, where did I put that visa for Texas form !"

Cheers,

Adrian!

There is room here in Tennessee. I even have some Australian neighbors with whom you can reminisce when you start to miss your home country.

Landrum