Cool old rifle

[T Bone]

By my own choosing my life has been consumed lately with building a house. We're nearing the end of the process and I'm feeling toasted.

I dropped into a local gun store to at least think about having some fun. I spied this bottom metal a mile away.


A Remington 722 in 300 Savage!

I inherited my Grandfathers 721 in 30-06 and appreciated what it meant to him, and my father and uncles that hunted with it. I love the nostalgia associated with the 721 and 722's. A generation of returning WWII vets, trying to piece together lives resembling normalcy.

This little 722 was darn near pristine at a price that was beyond reasonable. Most of these rifles have boringly straight grained walnut, but this one has some figure.



I wasn't familiar with the cartridge at the time of purchase, but I've looked it up.

As the predecessor of the .308 win, it's no slouch. In a bolt gun, I should get 150 grn partitions at 2800ish mv....that'll do! Dies and brass are on order, and I've a pile of the partitions to try.

Hopefully it's a shooter.

 

[7mm08mo]

Sweet find, I have always wanted a 300 savage. Being a Remington 722 is icing on the cake in my opinion.

 

[marksjeep]

Neat! How's the bore?

 

[T Bone]

bore is pristine.
Can't find anything bad about it except the stock has the square cut for the receiver sight, and some rust on the bold knob.

Original butt plate, great bluing, original unmodified trigger, unbuggerfied screws, etc. Usually, with any kind of use the bluing on the stamped bottom metal is worn off.

 

[belly-deep]

Cool!

I've always wanted a 300 Savage

 

[Bambistew]

Nice find! Be a fun little rifle.

 

[F250]

I shot my first deer with a Remington Model 760 in .300 Savage. The .300 Savage was a popular round in the woods of New England before the .308 arrived. 180gr. Remington Core Lokts were my choice.

 

[marksjeep]

Great find. Post up how it shoots once you get her figured out.

 

[sbhooper]

I'll bet that rifle shoots great. That should make a great deer combo.

 

[sigpros]

Love the 300 savage. Bought my wife a 760 when we first started dating. She shoots left handed. It's a great little round. She wants to get a black bear with it. The nosey in me wants you to pm what it cost Ya

 

[noharleyyet]

Venerable rifle and caliber....nice find and safe mate to the ought -6.

 

[dallsheep]

I have his twin brother 722 in .300 savage. A great shooting gun. It was my dad's first gun and he used it on deer until graduating to a very heavy, but nice shooting, Sako .270.

 

[Big Slick]

Very nice rifle. My .300 savage is a model 99.

 

[dalbo]

Very nice find, I would love a little 300 Savage like that.

I put a synthetic stock on my dad's old 721, 30-06 a while back. This year I worked the dings out of the original stock and gave it a hand sanded/rubbed oil finish and put it back on the gun. Dad thought it was pretty cool breathing new life into the old gun.

 

[idnative1948]

Very nice find T Bone!
Brother is still shooting the .300 Savage 99 (circa 1921) that dad passed on to him. After dad passed I ended up with his Rem 721 in .06 which I have since re-stocked because of the hatchet job somebody tried to do with inlays on the sporterized stock.

 

[cpoplayer]

That's a sweet rifle! .300 Savage was the bee's knees back in it's day. Congrats on a great find!