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If they offered an open type two lever trigger it would be pretty nice. As it is, just another almost good action with a dirt and icicle box strapped to the bottom. Oh, and needlessly round bottomed (motto: "We twist in YOUR stock") although the recoil lug is decent.

If they offered an open type two lever trigger it would be pretty nice. As it is, just another almost good action with a dirt and icicle box strapped to the bottom. Oh, and needlessly round bottomed (motto: "We twist in YOUR stock") although the recoil lug is decent.

KK
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Hi guys. new to this forum. I have a story about the best action I ever had at least, My dad had 2 rifles built in the 60s. Both were built on 1951
Commercial belgian large ring mausers. ONE was a 270, other was a wildcat known as the 22-250 varminter. Dad built the stocks. they were really nice. with silver inlays. He had a little shop in santa fe where he would do costom work for people. little stuff, mostly reload wildcats, and glass bed rifles.. ,,,,,,,anyway, the 270 got stolen from our house in Denver in the 80s.... . . I ended up with the 22-250 and started loading it in 1991. I would take it out to the grasslands and shoot full pop cans. and water jugs. It was deadly accurate. I guess it had a douglas barrel on it. I started having pressure problems, but i didnt know thats what it was, so i took it to a smith way out in boonies named Greg tannel. he was just starting out building custom rifles, He scoped the barrel and said , I cant see the barrel. I said 'WHy'" He said because its packed with copper. So that day I learned how to actually clean. After i cleaned.....it I brought it back and he said the rifling was gone,,So i called Douglas barrel and asked them if they would put a new one on for me, and they said send it to JIM McCoullough down in Selma Alabama. So I did. and he turned it into a 6mm rem ..with a 1 in 8 twist. I had a few more great years with that old 1951 mauser until i started buying stainless steel tornado brushes, Over the span of 2 years i ruined 3 barrels,, including the 6 mm rem,,, the barrel was so rough i was getting 3 to 4 foot groups at 25 yards, I spent months trying to smooth it out, and i finally got it to shoot ok again. . ,most painful and difficult lesson i ever had to learn.. I dont shoot it much now, dont know what to do with it. thought about selling the barreled action and putting the stock on a wall. . So,,,,,hi to everybody. my first post. { ps , that dude out in the boonies greg Tannel, moved to rifle colorado.GRE-TAN Rifles..Still building rifles and custom dies.. See ya.