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![[Linked Image]](http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k129/GuyMiner/Alaska%20Hunt%202017/IMG_2390_zpsppjaooeb.jpg) Pillar bedded, free floated, trigger tuned to a crisp three pounds. Topped by an old 2-7x Redfield. Okay - it's not fancy, but since last September this rifle has given me: black bear pronghorn antelope mule deer cow elk wolf arctic grizzly Not one problem from the rifle. Never shifted zero. 100% reliable. Accuracy is sub MOA time after time, no matter the weather. Used two different loads for those hunts, a 165 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip at 2900 fps, and a 200 grain Nosler Partition at a bit over 2600 fps. Could have done it all with a 180 grain load. Ya, I'm pretty happy with my simple setup. Might upgrade the scope someday, but I kind of like it. Guy
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beware the man with one gun, he probably knows how to use it! or something like that. glad to see another person that sticks to what works year after year. 3006 is my go to rifle altho i have several others to play with. have you read one man one rifle one land by jones? he used one 3006 to take everything in this country and a few others. thanks for the look into what works! D O M I T !
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I have one in 257 Weatherby and one in 270WSM. Great rifles!!
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I also use the 30-06 for almost everything. I have a few others and came up on the 270 but for about 15 years now, 90% of the time its an 06.
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please provide the inside savvy on the pillar bedding and floating... how you accomplished it. I have a 700 CDL in 280 i would like to do the same towards
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That rifle rose to the top quick for you Guy! That's a great looking rifle and it looks good set up the way you have it. Congrats on an awesome year with it.
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Guy,you do know that the .30/06 is obsolete and over-rated? Read that here on the 'fire.   Nice rifle and Congrats on your grizzly hunt. 
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Proper bullet placement + sufficient penetration = quick, clean kill. Finn Aagard
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please provide the inside savvy on the pillar bedding and floating... how you accomplished it. I have a 700 CDL in 280 i would like to do the same towards I took it to a real good local rifle-builder! ![[Linked Image]](http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k129/GuyMiner/Loading/RemCDLbedding_zpse634efb0.jpg) He did my 25-06 and 30-06 700 CDL's at the same time. They're almost identical. Guy
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Mighty fine set up ya got there......
Now all ya gotta do is thread on a new tube in some 6.5 -06 AI Whizbang with high BC bullets, ditch the lumber, put on a tacticool scope and spray paint the thing and be REAL.
Or not. Ha!
Bonus points for keeping schit simple!
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It's nothing short of a miracle you were able to accomplish all that without a Mcmillan stock, a Nightforce or SWFA "super chicken" scope and bullets with a BC of at least .700. You must be a praying man shooting at animals with a very sinful past.
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No way! You just can't do schitt like that....without having a .378 case necked down to a 6.5 whizzbanger moving at nanosecond velocity!! You just ain't 'hip' man!! 
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Guy,
I, too, have a CDL in .30-06. Love 700s, love the stock, and love the cartridge. Mine has a Timmey trigger and is free-floated. Unless someone comes along and offers me twice what it's worth, I'll never part with it.
Only a fool would sell an accurate .30-06
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My 280 AI is built on a. CDL. I flat love the stock. I hope to stumble onto one in a stainless fluted 06.
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The 30-06 has been a favorite of mine for a long time. I've enjoyed reading about your hunts with the old war horse this year. The bedding job on those two looks superb!
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My favorite rifle is my Remington CDL 280, but I also have one in 30-06 also... they are sweet!
HMM-161, HMM-364
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Nice rifle. I would hunt it with pleasure.
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I love the CDL...nicest remington configurations ever imho.
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Guy -
Very nice rifle - and congrats on the hunts!
I had a nice BDL in .308 I sold because it was hard on cases and I wanted an AR. Probably the most accurate rifle I've ever owned.
Coyote Hunter - NRA Patriot Life, NRA Whittington Center Life, GOA, DAD - and I VOTE!
No, I'm not a Ruger bigot - just an unabashed fan of their revolvers, M77's and #1's.
A good .30-06 is a 99% solution.
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Congrats on building one heck of a history with that rifle! I have a similar, somewhat simple rifle that I'm trying to build a good story with.
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