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I used it yesterday on a hog. Band flop at 175 yards.

The trigger SUCKS. I can't get over how Remington triggers suck now, they used to be decent. I guess I will need to put a Timney in.

No way,---It's new math.

With a 30" drop tube that's pretty easy to do!!

I just took the action out of stock and adjusted the trigger. I took the screw out of the trigger shoe, the backed out the bottom screw until flush. I had to dig out the glue with a dental pick. I don't have a trigger gauge but I could tell by feel that I lightened it up.

Plenty of good choices for rails and rings. I went economy on this Remington and used TPS 20 MOA Steel Base with Super Low Rings. Bolt handle clears fine. Don't really need the canted base with the super chicken unless you are reaching out very far, but if I decide to re-scope later on, I have my bases covered.

The TPS super low rings compare to other's low ring at 0.820"

SD

SD65, thx for that info....

Viking, how's the Remington shooting? Thinking about getting one of those myself.

Yesterday I was able to check the trigger pull, just less 4 ponds. More like 3.5 with a Lyman gauge.

Sorry, I didn't see your question and my*%}}{>>€£<~~ iPad gives me fits of rage, it keeps shutting down.

But anyway, I don't really know how it groups yet. I just got the trigger bottomed out around 3.5-4 ponds. They have to be the worst trigger Remington ever put out.

Next step, is purchasing a Swfa 10x or a VX3. All I got on it know is 3200 BL Fire fly 3x9/50. Great scope but I want something better suited for long range.

And then I need to decide what bullets. I want to try 165-168s or 178's. I plan on using Sierras or Amaxs, although the new Hornandy looks really interesting.

I need to recoup after the hog hunt, that hit my play money kind of hard.

As much as I like the concept of this setup, I'm still on the fence about mine. The trigger absolutely sucks, but that's easily replaced. The other problem I'm having is how heavily the barrel fouls for me. Maybe I'm just too biased to having a quality lapped barrel, but my groups go to crap after about 15 rounds with mine.

I would like to do a build similar to this or a Sendero style, in the 30.06.