Grail Guns

[FOS373]

You reload those by swapping out big dewalt batteries right?

More of a Milwaukee guy

 

[Jebel]

I appreciate the multiple NULA callouts in this thread. That would be my pick as well in 7-08, 284 Win, or 7 SAUM. I do have a Forbes Rifle (7-08) and a Barrett Fieldcraft (6 CM).

If not the Grail rifle, I’d just be happy if Barrett brought back the Fieldcraft.

 

[Jpsmith1]

Got involved in handloading shortly after we got married in 2000. Got myself a subscription to Handloader magazine and an article by Ross Seyfreid about the 45 Colt really caught my attention.

He strongly recommended a New Model Blackhawk Bisley and my then new bride managed to put this gun under the tree for our second christmas as a married couple.

While I don't feed it a steady diet of heavy loads, it'll launch a 300-350 grain lead slug at 1330 and thump the shooter less than my buddies 629.

It has yet to take a head of game. The Bisley grip/single action has been challenging for me to master shooting consistently even with the cheater on it.

 

[UnckleBob]

You reload those by swapping out big dewalt batteries right?

The batteries are cheaper at Harbor Freight.

 

[shmtastic]

Taurus Raging Bull in 22 Hornet

 

[RockAndSage]

I'll bump this back up with a grail gun I don't have, with debatable practicality, but a ton of cool factor: an original .500 Linebaugh, made by John Linebaugh.

Why? Partly the form factor, partly the idea of being able to put half-inch holes several feet deep into and through something on demand with a quick, handy revolver.

 

[43.6N]

The 223 Master Sporter @AirborneEScouter has listed in the classifieds is getting pretty close to grail status for me.

 

[AirborneEScouter]

I played a lot of battlefield 2 and 3 (the video games) in the army/college so the m40a5 and the AI arctic warfare were always dream guns for me. I built an m40ish on a tikka (it’s badass) so for me it’s the AIAW and probably an m40a1 in forest camo with the unertl

 

[Wrench]

1902 Parker Delgrego and sharps rifle.

 

[TomJoad]

Blaser K95. Absolutely love all facets of hunting this thing. Current rig has 30-06, 6.5 Swede and 22 hornet barrels. I’ve made multiple stocks for other rifles but not this one. I’ve got designs on getting a standard 6xc barrel (not stutzen) and making a modified rokstok for it to improve spotting shots. Anyone with a killer walnut blank they aren’t using???

 

[Bluumoon]

The 223 Master Sporter @AirborneEScouter has listed in the classifieds is getting pretty close to grail status for me.

The fact that he’s fondled it, but not shot it is disgraceful. Damn fine walnut on that one too.

 

[Jpsmith1]

I'll bump this back up with a grail gun I don't have, with debatable practicality, but a ton of cool factor: an original .500 Linebaugh, made by John Linebaugh.

Why? Partly the form factor, partly the idea of being able to put half-inch holes several feet deep into and through something on demand with a quick, handy revolver.



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A Linebaugh conversion was the end goal of my Bisley until I saw the cost.

Not that they're not worth it, just that I can't justify the spend.

 

[robtattoo]

My grail gun is probably about as practical as a broken leg & I'll never be able to afford one in my lifetime. If I win the lottery.... maybe. But it'd probably never leave the house! I saw my first one at the Royal Game Fair back in England when I was 14 years old. I got to handle one when I was 19 & shot one when I was 32. That's literally the only 3 I've ever seen in person. I love my wife more than anything in the world, but I'd shoot her in the face for the chance to buy a lottery ticket to win one.

A scoped Wesley Richards Droplock double rifle in 9.3x74R.

Because, just effing look at it.......

 

[Q_Sertorius]

The 223 Master Sporter @AirborneEScouter has listed in the classifieds is getting pretty close to grail status for me.

If that thing is still available at the end of the day, I’ll be shocked. I messaged him within about two minutes of posting it. If he would take a trade, it would be gone. But with all my work this month being non-billable business development (finding new clients), I can’t justify an outright purchase.

On the topic of grail guns, an early 20th century Mannlicher in 6.5x54 was my grail gun for the longest time. The Mauser 8x57 I am currently selling is the closest I could come to it when I was a kid. I can’t justify another safe queen in my life.

My other grail gun was a pre-war J.P. Sauer drilling. I got one a couple of years ago. It was made in November 1939. I need to take a better picture of it for this thread. The only one on my phone right now is this…

 

[Q_Sertorius]

My grail gun is probably about as practical as a broken leg & I'll never be able to afford one in my lifetime. If I win the lottery.... maybe. But it'd probably never leave the house! I saw my first one at the Royal Game Fair back in England when I was 14 years old. I got to handle one when I was 19 & shot one when I was 32. That's literally the only 3 I've ever seen in person. I love my wife more than anything in the world, but I'd shoot her in the face for the chance to buy a lottery ticket to win one.

A scoped Wesley Richards Droplock double rifle in 9.3x74R.

Because, just effing look at it.......

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Holy… that’s gorgeous.

 

[AirborneEScouter]

The fact that he’s fondled it, but not shot it is disgraceful. Damn fine walnut on that one too.

It does feel disgraceful, really having cognitive dissonance over this thing. It’s one of my less costly rifles and yet it’s in such good shape I have a hard time bringing myself to abuse its beauty - I’ve bought brand new guns that weren’t as clean as it is

 

[robtattoo]

Holy… that’s gorgeous.

Right?!

I've had 1 really pretty gun in my life &, like @AirborneEScouter, it never got used.


A WR double would be utterly wasted on me. Now, if someone would make a practical, well regulated, nitrided double with a polymer, laminated or plain birch stock & scope mounting provision, I'd be on it like white on rice!

 

[SloppyJ]

Pre 64 Model 70 modified to a left hand action is my grail gun.

 

[WoodlandCritter]

Smith Machine Group reproduction FG42 in .308. Would love to have an FG42 in a cartridge that is more available than 7.92x57 and that I wouldn't be damaging a (100,00$+) piece of history if I were to take it in the field.

Obviously I wouldn't turn down an original if they were givin' them away. But every gun I own is a shooter.



Mateba Unica 6 Semi-Auto revolver. Preferably a .44, but .357 would also be great. Just a mechanically and aesthetically bizarre, Blade Runner-esque gun. Look at it, how can you not want one?

 

[Funzy0798]

A Johnson rifle for sure. Always loved early semi auto closed bolt milled receiver firearms, before there was a well established "best way" to do it



They're also 30-06 like the Garand so ammo isn't an issue