I found a great deal on two 700Ti's in 270 earlier this year. They are 2001 guns manufactured as dealer samples, and both were originally chambered in 270. 270 is cool, but these are consecutive serial numbered and should have me covered on the rifle front for a looong time.

Great deal is $1250 out the door for both.

So with $625 invested in each and scratching my itch to always be a little different, I reached out to Diablo Rifles (Ryan advertises on here) to see what could be done.

I wanted a 2 rifle set for anything I would reasonably come across. 280ai was interesting, but I got stuck on 25-06 and couldn't get it out of my head. The other had to be .35 whelen.

I wanted to keep the rifles light, but at the same time I always thought a slightly heavier barrel on the light action would lead to a naturally steady feel (more on this in a minute).

25-06 has a 24" Deeply fluted, Shilen 1-9"
It's kind of between sporter and lightweight, but the flutes cut out a lot of weight and surprising cool on the range

.35 Whelen has 22" Sporter contour deeply fluted 1-14"

Here's how they look (I just got them back and quickly scoped them up for the range so I apologize for the quality)

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.35 is 5lbs 9 oz w/o scope
25-06 is 5lbs 12oz w/o scope

with scopes...

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.35 6lbs 6oz
.25-05 6lbs 12oz

I fired 7 shots each this afternoon in gross Seattle weather.
The 25-06 preferred the 115gr VLDs over the accubonds

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I really hoped the whelen would like 180gr Barnes, but alas it likes plain old 250gr corelokt.

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The .35 got a vx2 3-9 and the 25-06 has a vx3 4.5-14 CDS


Thanks for looking

Last edited by CreekChub; 12/02/16.
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