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    Custom browning x-bolt?

    I did the same thing with my last build . I started with a new rem 700 action .$ 480. Then after you price to true the action and all the other work it put the cost into custom action territory. You can look up pricing from LRI and it adds up quickly . Then as many had said its...
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    What else are you supposed to do while driving ?

    Don't forget this one!
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    Needs some help on picking a scope.

    The shv line has a zero set I think they call it . It works the same as a zero stop basically.
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    ATF eForm 4 Reduced Wait Times?

    I had the guy at my lgs say that yes they hired more agents to handle the situation but they don't check the old back log. I've got 3 waiting. 6/13/23 individual 8/22/23 trust silencerco And the new one 5/13/24 trust silencerco Hope the new addition pushes the other two thru and it doesn't...
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    The way it should be!

    Nice!
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    The way it should be!

    The way it should be!
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    What Is Your Favorite African Caliber/Cartridge/Rifle

    Not that I'll ever get the opportunity but I've got a savage 116 in 375 ruger . I haven't shot it much but a 270 or 300 gr solid will definitely put a hurt on something. I'm planning on a 270 gr barns ttsx for a elk hammer inside 500yds
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    Tick Season!

    Went out to Gainesville Texas to hunt pigs on a buddies place and had one of those Damm ticks just under my ball sack!!! And another under my arm . I did the spray everything with the poison thing before we started hunting and still found the two . My buddy saw what he thought was a...
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    Painting a stock

    I followed some of Lance's advice on the Testers paints and the clear and it came out awesome for me . I did have a old stock to test colors and applications. I didn't want to make any mistakes with my Manners lrh . It did give me the opportunity to test colors and pick the combo I...
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    Leupold Scope Warranty Service

    Had a pair of binos that went in for repair and got a new pair about 2 weeks later. I guess they quit making the ones I had .
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    Suppressor help

    Definitely a new gunsmith!!! The can is longer than a break and if the threads are off the longer you get from the end of the barrel the worse its going to get. The threads aren't cut perpendicular to the bore . I've seen some pick up the outer dia of a barrel and cut threads . If the bore...
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    I Know This Is LRH... But What Is The Shortest Distance You Have Taken A Live Target?

    About a foot off the end of the barrel for me . Hunting javelina with my grandfather's interarms 243 before I completely re- built it into a 7-08 . I had shot one in the same spot 7 years earlier with my bow . I was on one side of the brush and saw them coming right to me . No need to...
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    Weirdest Noise

    Ouch!!! Looks like he might need a 22 lr to persuade him to stop. Some subs and a can will make quick and quiet work of him.
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    What is the longest shot you have made on a live target

    Javalina with a 300wm pushing a 150gr xp3 . Up hill at just under 450yds . Clean miss! The follow up was at under 10 feet and required no field dressing .Bullet entered front shoulder and exited off side rear . Blew out just about everything inside only one small cut to finish field...
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    Needs some help on picking a scope.

    I just finished my own 280ai and went tangent 315 for a scope as budget was nonexistent. I've got a few other rifles in need of scopes and outa your list I'd go ten mile then nightforce shv. I've got a few of the nightforce a atacr 5x25x56 and a few shv 4x14x50 and 5x25x56 and the ten...
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