OK, you won the lottery, first rifle?

[Carl 9.3x62]

I'd probably just buy a bunch of old double barrel shotguns and a Mannlicher stocked rifle or two.

My 9.3x62 has a Mannlicher stock.

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

I’d be talking with my new best hunting buddy, Doyle Mossback, to see what he recommends for 900 yrd running shots on spider bulls, spider bucks, spider boars, spider rams, and spider billies.

I would love to shoot a spider boar

 

[deer_shooter]

John Rigby & Co., London Best in 275 Rigby. Grade 11 walnut stock, full scrollwork and white gold inlay. Per the website this rifle would come in just a hair under $110,000. Might as well go all in right?

 

[Wally Dog]

Hoenig rotary round action chambered 9.3x74

 

[Schaaf]

Ohh, I’d also finally get that bottle of Pappy Van Winkle and pair it with a delicious Diet Coke

 

[Ben Lamb]

I'm no expert. I've read that they were designed to protect the barrel on mountain rifles. I just think they look cool.

Yep, this. And it's also a holdover from fullystocked blackpowder rifles & muskets too. Protecting the steel, which was more valuable than the wood, meant preserving your firearm longer than getting is beat to crap on the bbl. I've got a Haenel 1888 commission carbine that's mannlicher stocked for Mouflon & Chamois hunting. Wonderful little rifle. Kicks like a mule.

 

[MarvB]

Actually I’d probably drive into the City and become Nosler’s new doorman/greeter for awhile before deciding!

 

[44hunter45]

I’m not selling any.

I want that 45/70

 

[44hunter45]

I know this is blasphemous, but I don't know I would buy a rifle. I have what I need for everything I do. If I did anything, I'd probably have my side by side fitted for me. I'd donate an assload of money to charities within the community and I'd buy the OW Ranch and enroll it in Block Management. Then I'd hunt. A. Lot.

Buzzkill

 

[44hunter45]

Johannsen Mini-Mauser .223 in varmint configuration. Then I would buy the company

Mini - www.mauser-rifle.com

www.mauser-rifle.com

 

[Doublecluck]

I’m a simpleton, M82A1 with a Nf ATACR . Used to own one, wish I had kept her.

 

[Ben Lamb]

I watched a documentary on Netflix last night about some dudes who tried to buy a submarine off the Ruskies for the Cali Cartel. The commies offered them a nuke too.

We're thinking way too small here folks.

 

[geetar]

Shiloh Sharps.

 

[noharleyyet]

I'd bonus every employee 5 years salary, shake their hands/hug their necks, say my goodbyes, lock the gate.....then hire SAJ-99, we'd both work from home. Fin would keep track of the beans.

 

[VikingsGuy]

A third thought - I would give @BrentD $750,000 and tell him to go find me some guns he thinks are worthy of my new status as a "Gentleman".

 

[dcopas78]

First I'd buy a boatload of land, then I'd buy some more guns. I'd probably try to get licensed for fully automatic firearms and I'd buy a WW2 era BAR. I've always had a fascination with those old guns.

 

[Gerald Martin]

I’d be talking with my new best hunting buddy, Doyle Mossback, to see what he recommends for 900 yrd running shots on spider bulls, spider bucks, spider boars, spider rams, and spider billies.

An old flip flop works for anything related to spiders.

 

[MarvB]

Maybe repurpose a Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II for hog hunting...

 

[Ben Lamb]

Shiloh Sharps.

The company was for sale not too long ago. Only $5 million IIRC.

Buy that and expand manufacturing to include other falling block singleshots & classics sporting rifles, special run pistols, etc.

I could see having that as a tax write off.

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

John Rigby & Co., London Best in 275 Rigby. Grade 11 walnut stock, full scrollwork and white gold inlay. Per the website this rifle would come in just a hair under $110,000. Might as well go all in right?

At that price you may as well buy a few