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<blockquote data-quote="HSmithTX" data-source="post: 2661913" data-attributes="member: 121677"><p>LOL, I have a Rem 700 in 308 that I got in one of those black friday rifle package sales when my kids were getting old enough to hunt, it was/is a 26" heavy 12 twist barrel, with a spectacularly flimsy craptastic camo plastic stock and had an equally craptastic 3-9 scope in the package for FREE lol. I think after the rebate it was $325 bucks and 340-ish out the door? The store didn't have the 243 I wanted so I took a 308. I bought it and a different rifle we won't talk about that day..... It got taken apart and put back together with the rings and bases checked etc. It shot 150 powerpoints to an inch at 100 easily if you didn't lean on it much, and it's heavy so recoil is mild, it got the nod for my son's first deer. He shot his first 3 deer with it. He's learned a lot of his reloading skills with it and shot several hundred rounds through it at least. Over the last years I/we have routed out the super flimsy stock, epoxy bedded both carbon arrows and 1/4" square steel tubing through it, epoxy filled the forend cavities etc. It was a chore reinforcing the wrist of the stock with nothing visible from the outside but we managed LOL. I found a Savage 110 long action one piece pic rail in the clearance bin at a gunshop for 8 bucks, a chunk of that has been cut off and it was bushing bolted through the 1/4" square tubing epoxied into the stock for a pic rail bipod mount. It has a full custom lol JB Weld bedding job to complete the bubba'd kitchen table no budget renovation on the stock, complete with the blue play-do dam residue visible in places. The whole time I have been modifying it I have had a really nice greyboe stock waiting for it but seeing if a $3 stock and $40 worth of epoxy and parts would make it work better has been entertaining. Nothing to lose, if it didn't work out put it in the good stock and go right? It is still in the trash but solid stock, it now has a nightforce steel rail, an old but fresh rebuild Luepold 3-10 Mk3 Marine mil-dot scope, and it stacks bullets. We have shot it past 1000, it's a hammer with 168 A-max and Varget. The original load we developed for it years ago still shoots under half minute at any reasonable distance and I have some really nice rifles but it's the one I grab when I need to go shoot something. It's also the first one I grab if we are going shooting. I guess I just have full faith that it will work and that I can count on it to place a bullet where I want it. If I remember correctly it's almost 13 pounds ready to go with a sling and the accutac bipod that doubles it's value when I put it on. It could be a lot nicer in basically every way, but it's a shooter and it's never too far away from me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HSmithTX, post: 2661913, member: 121677"] LOL, I have a Rem 700 in 308 that I got in one of those black friday rifle package sales when my kids were getting old enough to hunt, it was/is a 26" heavy 12 twist barrel, with a spectacularly flimsy craptastic camo plastic stock and had an equally craptastic 3-9 scope in the package for FREE lol. I think after the rebate it was $325 bucks and 340-ish out the door? The store didn't have the 243 I wanted so I took a 308. I bought it and a different rifle we won't talk about that day..... It got taken apart and put back together with the rings and bases checked etc. It shot 150 powerpoints to an inch at 100 easily if you didn't lean on it much, and it's heavy so recoil is mild, it got the nod for my son's first deer. He shot his first 3 deer with it. He's learned a lot of his reloading skills with it and shot several hundred rounds through it at least. Over the last years I/we have routed out the super flimsy stock, epoxy bedded both carbon arrows and 1/4" square steel tubing through it, epoxy filled the forend cavities etc. It was a chore reinforcing the wrist of the stock with nothing visible from the outside but we managed LOL. I found a Savage 110 long action one piece pic rail in the clearance bin at a gunshop for 8 bucks, a chunk of that has been cut off and it was bushing bolted through the 1/4" square tubing epoxied into the stock for a pic rail bipod mount. It has a full custom lol JB Weld bedding job to complete the bubba'd kitchen table no budget renovation on the stock, complete with the blue play-do dam residue visible in places. The whole time I have been modifying it I have had a really nice greyboe stock waiting for it but seeing if a $3 stock and $40 worth of epoxy and parts would make it work better has been entertaining. Nothing to lose, if it didn't work out put it in the good stock and go right? It is still in the trash but solid stock, it now has a nightforce steel rail, an old but fresh rebuild Luepold 3-10 Mk3 Marine mil-dot scope, and it stacks bullets. We have shot it past 1000, it's a hammer with 168 A-max and Varget. The original load we developed for it years ago still shoots under half minute at any reasonable distance and I have some really nice rifles but it's the one I grab when I need to go shoot something. It's also the first one I grab if we are going shooting. I guess I just have full faith that it will work and that I can count on it to place a bullet where I want it. If I remember correctly it's almost 13 pounds ready to go with a sling and the accutac bipod that doubles it's value when I put it on. It could be a lot nicer in basically every way, but it's a shooter and it's never too far away from me. [/QUOTE]
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