For a family heirloom with hundreds of fond memories built into its huge sentimental value you might want to keep that scratch in the stock that you made while crawling through the plum thickets to retrieve your first buck. 

In the 1950's very few hunters carried large calibers.  In fact, a .300 was almost unheard of in normal hunting circles, making a .300 H&H a rare find in a Remington 721.  This month we built a period-correct combination…

During WWII companies like Remington and Weaver had increased their workforce as much as 20-fold to help save the free world.  Yes, the same one that would hate them for some reason a few decades later.

Collecting vintage guns is fun. Setting them up with period correct optics is even more fun. Especially when you are collecting in the golden years of optics.

If you owned this combination back in the day, you probably thought you were the bomb of long range hunting...and you probably were.

In 1948 Remington introduced its bolt action 721.  This rifle would come to define hunting accuracy for decades.  In the post-WWII era scopes were still hard to afford yet hunters and shooters were looking for more accuracy and adjustment than iron sights offered.

In the late 1970's when coyote pelt prices were at an all time high and prairie dogs made great off-season practice, this is the setup I would have dreamed about....

When scopes were blued to match their rifles, the combinations always looked like they made sense.  This month we matched a combination that really makes sense, whether you planned to coyote hunt, or shoot a match.

In 1991 I was looking for a gun that could hunt as hard as I hunted.  No bluing to rust, no wood to scratch or warp, and then Ruger came out with their awful looking Zytel (boat paddle) stocked M77 Mark II.  It was beautiful ugliness that I immediately fell in love with.