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I like this WR rifle. It is well made and beautiful. But closer to,practical than a lot of WR creations which IMO are over embellished.

I do question a high gloss finish on any hunting rifle.

I'm not ordering it nor paying for it, so it's not my custom rifle.

I do question. The description of the weight added by the scopes. The same scope model for each barrel, yet the .300 scope is almost twice the weight as the .375 same scope?

One problem with take down rifles with more than one barrel is rifle weight. I would prefer a .300 with a lighter overall weight, Especially if it was to be used as a mountain rifle. Conversely a .375 benefits from a little more weight.

With a common butt stock, the forend and barrel weights might be utilised to increase the karger calibre rifles overall weight. Overall balance of rifle and swapoed barrel and forend? Perhaps removable inserts in the button stock? Or just suck it up and accept the weight.

Two cartridges, one at a time. On a safari, having a .300 AND THE ,375 AT THE SAME TIME US FAR PREFERABLE. Unless one is hunting plains game only specifically I'd be using the .375 barrel for everything.

With my Mauser M03 unsolved this with my plebian rifle choice compared to this WR M98 Takedown. I purchased a second M03 rifle, Image barrels for .222, 6.5x65, 8x68S and ,404, In Africa, I could have a wooden stocked Mauser M03 with the 8x68S barrel attached, And the Mauser M03 Extreme rifle with the .404 Jeffery barrel. The 8x68S for plains game, The ,404 for large and DG. No need to swap barrels, or have the wrong barrel at the wrong time,

An advantage of switch barrels is FAMILIARITY, The guy with 25 or 250 rifles is he is not familiar with any of them. Unless he uses spefic ones most of the time. I use mybM03 in ,222 a lot. So when using the .404 or 8x68S, at least the rifle is very familiar. The trigger, set trigger, magazine, stock feel, scope if the same model us used,

This WR M98 takedown, the same stick, trigger, safety, mounts, scope and bolt and magazine. Same barrel length, Slightly different weight, The trajectory of a .375 and a ,30-06 is similar. A ,309 H&H slightly flatter. A .300 Win Mag flatter again.

I've answered twice above!

For the classic armoury I'd choose .300 H&H Mag, and .375 H&H Mag. Combined with a .450 NE double rifle, par excellent safari armoury. If building such with a British gunmakers this is what I'd go for. With money not being limited. I'd have 2x full takedown rifles, If they could interchange? Even better.

My alternative would be the above mention 8x68S and a ,404 Jeffery. Add in a 6.5x68 650 mm barrel. And a .500 NE double rifle this time. Though I don't have one, only a .500 BPE.

In the meantime I'll cope with my Mauser M03s.

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John aka NitroX

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