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Picked up this one today - owner said he fired one round, hard to say tho….it’s in nearly perfect condition. Anyone else have a Lipsey 708?
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That's awesome. Would love one in 6.5x55.
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Very nice. I’d sure be happy to carry that.
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That's awesome. Would love one in 6.5x55. They are out there! It’s hard to find info on this 708. I contact Lipsey and got the info and this.
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So Lipsey guns have their own unique serial number?
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I don’t know that. But it could make sense tho.
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So Lipsey guns have their own unique serial number? How did you come to that assumption?
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They have a unique model number and they may have a sequential block of serial numbers, but I don't think that they have unique serial numbers.
The Lipsey's non-cataloged Ruger RSIs that I have seen or owned have had the standard Ruger serial number format of 3 numbers, a hyphen, and 5 numbers.
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So Lipsey guns have their own unique serial number? They can. I have one of the hundred Ruger RSI's in .275 Rigby that were made for the Dallas Arms Collectors Association. The serial numbers are DACA ### which reflects who it was made for and doesn't follow the standard Ruger numbering pattern.
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Anyone else have a Lipsey 708? I don't own a 7mm-08. But recently I fell in love with a left-handed Dakota 76 in that caliber that had been customized by Dietrich Apel (Paul Jaeger's nephew, Ruger employee & the owner of New England Custom Gun). Unfortunately someone with way more money than me blew my pathetic bid out of the water. For a lefty, rifles like these are unicorns so when one slips through your fingers it makes you sigh wistfully for a while... But I'm a fan of that rifle type & caliber combination so I'm glad you were able to land a good deal. Your new purchase gets a thumbs up!
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So Lipsey guns have their own unique serial number? They can. I have one of the hundred Ruger RSI's in .275 Rigby that were made for the Dallas Arms Collectors Association. The serial numbers are DACA ### which reflects who it was made for and doesn't follow the standard Ruger numbering pattern. They can, but did they on any of the multiple non-cataloged runs that they've made for Lipsey's ? Ruger could give them unique Lipsey's specific serial numbers, something like LIP-00001 thru LIP-00260, but none of the Lipsey's stainless RSIs that I've owned had unique serial numbers, they had the standard xxx-xxxxx serial number format. When you have a Ruger question that the Ruger CSR can't or won't answer, call Rody's 'cause someone there will either know the answer or they'll know someone who knows the answer.
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So Lipsey guns have their own unique serial number? They can. I have one of the hundred Ruger RSI's in .275 Rigby that were made for the Dallas Arms Collectors Association. The serial numbers are DACA ### which reflects who it was made for and doesn't follow the standard Ruger numbering pattern. Rifle on top is fantastic. Details?
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Anyone else have a Lipsey 708? I don't own a 7mm-08. But recently I fell in love with a left-handed Dakota 76 in that caliber that had been customized by Dietrich Apel (Paul Jaeger's nephew, Ruger employee & the owner of New England Custom Gun). Unfortunately someone with way more money than me blew my pathetic bid out of the water. For a lefty, rifles like these are unicorns so when one slips through your fingers it makes you sigh wistfully for a while... But I'm a fan of that rifle type & caliber combination so I'm glad you were able to land a good deal. Your new purchase gets a thumbs up! Thank you I hope to sight it in soon
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Rifle on top is fantastic. Details? I shot my first deer with a Ruger #1 in .303 British so I have a nostalgic fondness for that round. The rifle on top is an Uberti Courteney Stalking Rifle chambered in that caliber. https://www.uberti-usa.com/cartridge-rifles/1885-courteney-stalking-rifleI pulled the factory Weaver quarter rib off of the rifle & installed the iron sights accessory base in its place. So my .303 British Ruger #1A is scoped with a fixed 6x42 Leupold & my Uberti I use without optics. Both of them work really well on deer in the southeastern woods.
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