Italian bolt action with interchangeable calibers

[Hunter007]

 

 

[Buckmaster7600]

1300$ 600$ barrels and unknown pride for bolt face. In Europe they make perfect sense because they’re only allowed a certain number of long guns. In the good old US can’t imagine it being much of a seller.


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[eaglemountainman]

Looks very blocky and bulky to me. Certainly not sleek and trim like, say, an M70 Featherweight. It's not for me, but others might  like it.

[Dinsdale]

Lots of Euro makers offer switch barrel guns.Blaser, Kreighoff, Mauser, Sauer.....

The Sauer 200 and the next generation 202 have been using a receiver with similar clamping for a switch barrel since mid 80's, and you don't have to take off the bottom metal to change out different barrels. Sauer milled in scope bases for their light weight version of the 202 with alloy receiver body. I think my 200 in 30-06 is from 1988 IIRC.

That changing the screw torque on the action will need a wrench to be repeatable, and the 200/202 suffers the same issue with scope mounted to action and barrel being swapped. It requires a check and resighting after a swap. Its close, but it does shift.

 

Sabbati hurt their reputation producing some double rifles for Cabelas and cheating how they achieved a grouping. They dremeled the crown to try and manipulate the POI as the proper way is very labor intensive. They got caught by some customers and all that asked got refunds and some hinky business by Cabelas has some of those lemons floating around on the market.

[Hunter007]

I remember holland and holland made a bolt actions with the interchangeable barrels as well back in the 90s 

Dont know if they still do .

I actually like  the wood on that  stock  more then the gun itself .

Would be scared to hunt with it and it getting scratched up .

[Dinsdale]

6 minutes ago, Storm914 said:

I remember holland and holland made a bolt actions with the interchangeable barrels as well back in the 90s 

Dont know if they still do .

I actually like  the wood on that  stock  more then the gun itself .

Would be scared to hunt with it and it getting scratched up .

Takedown guns and those that feature switch barrel capabilities have been around since the turn of the last century.

Bespoke makers have always offered this feature using several different methods to remove barrel/fore end from receiver.

Thats nothing new. Travelling with smaller, discrete cases has always been the desire of those going far afield.

But the offering of practical mass produced multishot takedown/switch barrels at cost point where one can achieve a sales return is relative modern concept. Lots of single shot switch barrel, look at popularity of TC offerings. And TC tried their hand with their Dimension rifle and swapping barrels.

Blaser is most successful selling roughly 110K R 93's and doubling that since 2008 with the newer R 8.

Very hard to beat the repeat ability of their system with scope/barrel/bolthead swap all coming back together without a re- sighting required.

On wood quality; most folks think of this backwards. Its the high grade stock that is easy to repair and re finish. I don't treat my stocks any different from composite to some unique walnut (English,Turkish,French) and I can clean up a high quality stock easier with a clothes iron and some oil. Its stamped checkering and spray finishes that are a PIA.