Coming to Rock Island Auction Company December Premier Auction. Walther WA 2000. This will probably go for 10 to 20K, why I don't know.
Here's your chance to get a Walther WA 2000
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What the flying patooty poops is that? I don't have a suit and tie expensive enough for that goofy thing. Is that designed to fit in the trunk of a Ferrari?
Fancy-schmancy German bullpup 300 Win Mag sniper/target rifle designed for police use after the '72 Munich Olympics terrorist incident. Only 176 were made because they were expensive as hell to produce, and were only briefly used by German police but not adopted by anyone else because A. they cost a fuckload and B. they turned out to be too fragile for rough use.
There are something like 10 of those in the USA. One of them belonged to the President of Walther USA. I believe Roy Jinks had one, too.
Expect this to go for north of $30k. Just for the rare factor.
Sirhr
Expect this to go for north of $30k. Just for the rare factor.
Sirhr
About as retrosexy as possible!
Had a chance to buy one a couple years back - these baby’s show up more frequently here in EU, missed it, and I hate myself for it.
Had a chance to buy one a couple years back - these baby’s show up more frequently here in EU, missed it, and I hate myself for it.
Does Archangel or Choate make an aftermarket stock?
That's a second variation in the pic. It's apparently more accurate but I think it's uglier than the first variation.
There was a drug bust in Kamloops years back. They found one of these in the dealer's collection. Rather than have it destroyed (which is SOP for the RCMP with seized firearms) they donated it to the local Gun Club.
Don't forget, they barely fit out of a great big window let alone a regular window. Probably not a small one. In spite of the fact it'a bullpup design, they are so damn bulky!
Never seen nor held one in person so I wouldn't know, but they are really boxy and bulky-looking. And while I approve of that Germanic robustness in their castles and some of their small arms, the WA2000 doesn't have that robustness despite its bulk.
When you want to butt stroke someone with a Buick... use a Walther WA2000...
x2 I’d rather have the H&K honestly...
Nothing against Walther, their rim fire rifles are pretty much the best in the world.
Anschutz would probably disagree
I would actually love to see a medal count and rifle used, last one I saw was biathlon and Anschutz ran away with that one. Do you know of one for summer games?I’m sure they would. But the Olympic Games don’t lie
ETA... Are there even any other manufacturers in the games, well besides the Russians
From my conversations with actual competitors, the KK500 and KK300 are much more prevalent and considered a step above Anschutz. I don’t think Walther makes a dedicated biathlon rifle...
As far as other competitors, you have Grunig & Elmiger, Bleiker(would love to have one one day!), and obviously many customs... realistically I’m sure they’re all close enough that it’s like splitting hairs..
Germans: "Lets make it throw hot ass 300WM brass right on the shooters arm."
What a great idea
What a great idea
10-20K my ass, there was one on GB a year ago for 45K and it sold, i suspect 75-100K
This one sold for $75K.
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The WA2000 is a Phenomenal and super accurate rifle. One of the post said it was fragile! Not at all !!! The last one sold at Rock Island auction for almost $100,000 in 308. The desirable caliber is 300 Winchester magnum
What's REALLY fascinating is the history and the how and why of the Germans decision to do and design the things they did in that time period. Sitting just south of they're border was the answer and yet they refused along with other well regarded choices.
Curious what you're referring to as the answer south of their border, and other well regarded choices.
Historically, the above has been true of all militaries with sufficient domestic industrial infrastructure.
Walther also made a bolt action sniper as an alternative at the time, the Walther JR Sniper in 308win.
I knew the then Walther importer in Norway in the 70/80'ies well and was offered a WA2000 in all calibers, 308, 7,5x55 and 300winmag, for app $3000 at the time. I had just finished school, military service and had just started in my first proper job. I could simply not afford the rifle. But, I bought the Walther JR. I sold the JR to a shooting buddy amost immediatly and he still has it in his safe collecting dust with less than 500 round through the barrel. I think the (long)action is made by Keppeler.
The Walther trigger is terrible and the bolt can be locked in the closed position by pushing the bolt knob in to the bolt. Not a good feature to have in an action if you want fast follow up shots.. I quickly deleted this feature on mine. I've also seen this rifle chambered in 7x64.
A few Walther JRs were issued in some German police units and I think a few of these rifles has been offered for sale as surplus in recent years.
Here's a picture of the JR from a shop in Germany:
The scope is 2.75-10x45
Date code november 1977:
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Sure, that makes sense. I thought you had in mind some other semi auto sniper rifle, which is why I was confused.
Don’t forget the buyers premium RIA charges and the seller is on the hook too. Both ends cough up an additional 20% of the winning bid price. So if it brings $75K, RIA collects a total of $30K from seller and buyer. ($15Kea)
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