A little Eye Candy for the Remington Collectors...

[Artos]

One of my favorite guns they ever produced...haven't seen one of these repeaters for sale in a long time & it's a dandy!!

http://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/rifles/remington-rifles-40x/remington-40x-sporter-repeater.cfm?gun_id=100966268

[bsills]

Is that a good price? It is a beautiful rifle.

[WBT]

It's certainly a beautiful rifle, but the asking price seems awfully high.

[Hoss163]

Dang I thought it was going to be a hot blonde in a bikini holding a Remington!

[Artos]

Is that a good price? It is a beautiful rifle.

It is really one of those guns where current market value is not set in stone...with only about 700 made they rarely come up for sale & especially since that one is mint. Only thing I would say is if I had the money & wanted one for a long term collector item, this would be the one to get. Do I think it's high?? Yeah, my guess it would gone if it was $8,000-$8500...having said that, whoever pays the $10k will be able to sell it for more way down the line at some point.

The last one that sold on gunbroker I was watching went for $6k & had similar quality wood & styling, but was a 95%-97% gun with some minor blueing loss & handling marks. Nothing major.

Every repeater was said to be a special order made to spec...I found mine about 15 years ago I guess & is unfired. Even had The box but it went missing along the way?? I found this pic on my phone but can dig it out & take more if anyone is curious. The one I acquired has open sights & yet to see another one that does. Not my style but dig the uniqueness.

[Brute Killer]

A nearly $10k .22!

[BUCKSTAR]

Sophisticated

[captainsling]

It is really one of those guns where current market value is not set in stone...with only about 700 made they rarely come up for sale & especially since that one is mint. Only thing I would say is if I had the money & wanted one for a long term collector item, this would be the one to get. Do I think it's high?? Yeah, my guess it would gone if it was $8,000-$8500...having said that, whoever pays the $10k will be able to sell it for more way down the line at some point.

The last one that sold on gunbroker I was watching went for $6k & had similar quality wood & styling, but was a 95%-97% gun with some minor blueing loss & handling marks. Nothing major.

Every repeater was said to be a special order made to spec...I found mine about 15 years ago I guess & is unfired. Even had The box but it went missing along the way?? I found this pic on my phone but can dig it out & take more if anyone is curious. The one I acquired has open sights & yet to see another one that does. Not my style but dig the uniqueness.

I like the wood on yours better than the other one. Nice rifle.

[Old Bald Guy]

That's a nice 40X rimfire repeater. Didn't they call those a Sporter?
Not a repeater but back in the early 80's Howard Dietz built me a 40X .22 that was death at the local turkey shoots. He ordered a 40X rimfire barreled action and bedded it in a BDL stock. At a casual glance it looked like a short action BDL Varmint. It loved Eley 10X ammo. My baby brudder and I won 11 out of 12 turkeys at one local shoot with it. We didn't shoot the final round but let everyone else shoot the 40X. I sold it during a divorce but sure wish I knew where that gun is today.

[Artos]

Yeah...I would have liked to seen that gun too. Dietz made some neat guns for sure. I'm guessing he ordered you the shorter bbl/action and not the more common target?? If so, I didn't know that was an option.


Most all the 40x sporters you see are single shots & there are some really handsome ones out there from time to time...I guess the proper name for these would be 40-x sporter repeater.

[Old Bald Guy]

Yeah...I would have liked to seen that gun too. Dietz made some neat guns for sure. I'm guessing he ordered you the shorter bbl/action and not the more common target?? If so, I didn't know that was an option.


Most all the 40x sporters you see are single shots & there are some really handsome ones out there from time to time...I guess the proper name for these would be 40-x sporter repeater.

At the time he was on Remington's favorites list so he got about anything he wanted. It was a 24" varmint weight bbl I'm thinking like they used on the target guns. I didn't want the target stock so he ordered a barreled action.

[sierracharlie338]

Man that thing is mint! Beautiful gun


Sierracharlie out…

[rosco11]

Very cool rifle! Thanks for the history!

[trophy8]

Holy....

That is awesome.

[Artos]

At the time he was on Remington's favorites list so he got about anything he wanted. It was a 24" varmint weight bbl I'm thinking like they used on the target guns. I didn't want the target stock so he ordered a barreled action.

The target barrels were normally 26" (some maybe longer??) with very little taper...super heavy. You may have very well had a one of kind as the target contour would have required a crazy amount of inletting for a standard bdl stock. Makes me wonder what you actually had??

I know a lot of folks would take the Winchester 52 target & turn the barrel down & restock to their sporting configuration...wasn't original but was a cool way to get a shooter vs an expensive 52 sporter I guess. I don't think I've ever seen it done to a 40x but reckon it has at some point.