Would you buy a second rifle of the same make and model as you already own, just a different calibre?

[AJ#]

I have a Sauer 100 XTA Stainless (22") in .308 and love it, its a keeper! I use it for stalking with an Alpex sight. However, i do fancy a 6.5 Creedmoor, also for stalking and will either share the day/night sight or buy another later, however, I do fancy getting a nice glass scope and also use this gun for some distance range shooting. As the XTA has a 22" barrel, i thought that would be better for the 65 calibre and so why not just buy another rifle of the same? but its nice to have something different too.....so undecided?

 

[palmer_mike]

I would

 

[mr baddoo]

I did

 

[NP435]

I have a couple times.

 

[Dunwaters]

No. I like the visual clue that the rifle you have in your hand, and the bolt and ammunition in your pocket might not be compatible.

 

[Essexsussex]

Yes have done so

It’s handy that one has a jewelled bolt and the other doesn’t so easily identified.

 

[nf-fuse]

Yep. Just dont mix the bolts or magazines up.

 

[Tim1]

Yup.

 

[Scarpa]

I have an Akaska Sauer 101 in 30-06, I'd definitely buy another but would choose a different stock configuration, poss thumbhole in a smaller calibre. Love that one rifle for everything though.

 

[FISH BOY]

Yes - have three identical Mausers - 243, 6.5 and 30.06.

Bolts and safety’s are all different, but do double check before an outing.

I guess I’m a creature of habit - if something works well, I stick with it.

 

[Heym SR20]

Nope, for the very simple reason that two rifles, one in 308, one in 6.5cm will be pretty much indistinguishable from each other in both form and function. And you are filling up two slots with effectively the same rifle.

I would make one a very different type of rifle to the other - for example make the 6.5cm more of long range target style rifle or get a really lightweight little 223, or have a flat shooting (6.5prc, 270, 300 etc) long barelled open ground rifle.

 

[foxer1]

I would definitely and have done quite often and its a Sako 75

 

[Donkey Basher]

Yes, and I did! Owned five Tikka M595s at one point - only got four now

 

[The Singing Stalker]

I did it with tika, then Blaser.

 

[VSS]

Yes.
I have.
2x P-H Safari Deluxe, one in .243 flavour, and one in .270.
Have adjusted trigger pulls to be identical, used pads to make LOP identical, and fitted identical cheek raisers. Also same type of scopes on each rifle.
Only visible difference between the two is that the .243 is screwcut.

Very easy swapping between the two rifles, as muscle memory is the same whichever one I'm using.

 

[SimpleSimon]

I have an Akaska Sauer 101 in 30-06, I'd definitely buy another but would choose a different stock configuration, poss thumbhole in a smaller calibre. Love that one rifle for everything though.

Ooooooh, I like that!

 

[6mmarc]

Absolutely
Even in the same caliber

 

[AJ#]

Nope, for the very simple reason that two rifles, one in 308, one in 6.5cm will be pretty much indistinguishable from each other in both form and function. And you are filling up two slots with effectively the same rifle.

I would make one a very different type of rifle to the other - for example make the 6.5cm more of long range target style rifle or get a really lightweight little 223, or have a flat shooting (6.5prc, 270, 300 etc) long barelled open ground rifle.

My common sense would agree with that lol, but being quite new to buying guns i always wanted a 308, so that come first and i will never get rid of that gun now. I do have 65CM and 223 approved, but thinking 65 can do a fairly low bullet grain, so does allow for quite a difference in capability, and if im just out getting Muntjac and Roe's then 65CM would be ideal, and 308 for the Sika, clearly both do all. Im just trying to justify the spend to myself

 

[blaserhunter88]

Yes no problem at all

 

[Scarpa]

Ooooooh, I like that!

It was certainly a bit of a jump up from an air rifle and a shotgun I had to wait over a year, that was the last Alaska that Sauer made. I now live in Austria (but spend half the year working in the UK where I stalk) so I wanted a weatherproof model that could handle wild boar when I eventually do some trips to Hungary and Slovenia.