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Yeah, that would be a wonderful Roberts, or a 6.5x55 Swede.

Roberts with Stripes big time!!!

Dobro

Melvin tells me that Douglas .25 barrels tend to really shoot, even more than most calibers. In my experience with NULA's in a .257 Bob and .257 Bob AI he is correct. I am just starting work with a .257 Roy NULA and it seems to be carrying on the tradition, as its first 3-shot group went exactly 1/2". It will do better as R&D continues....

Then again, one summer Eileen used a .223 NULA for PD shooting and it shot pretty darn well too!

Mule Deer,
Knowing that you have both the NULA and the Kimber Classic Select in 257 Roberts, I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on a comparison of your two rifles. Thanks!

Maybe they have a "hot button" for those. I've read similar comments on target oriented boards about Broughtons in the 6.5mm size.

That very well may be. I had a Douglas barreled 25-06 that was pleasingly accurate with several different bullet and powder combinations. It wasn't even their match grade air guaged.

Kimber7man,

The NULA Bob is actually my wife's. It has a 24" #2 barrel (stainless) and weighs 6.5 pounds with a 3-9x VX-II. It shoots real well (under 3/4" and sometimes much less) with a bunch of loads and bullets, as a lot of NULAs do. It is also known as the "Ugly Stick," due to an unusual color combo in the striped paint job. Melvin has offered to repaint it but Eileen says it is too lucky a rifle to change.

The Kimber weighs 7 pounds on the nose with a 6x24 Burris (no longer made). The 22" barrel is a lot thinner than the NULA's, and is free-floated. It shoots well but not spectacularly. If I remember correctly it will do around an inch or a little less with 115-grain Partitions and 43 grains H4350. This is the only load I've tried in it so far. It's a heck of a lot prettier than the NULA, with a nice walnut stock with some decent grain and wavy figure in the butt.

I am late to this party, but acquired my first NULA this past spring slightly used from a board member here. It is a 7mm-08 with a 22" barrel. With a 2.5x8 Leupold scope it weighs 6# 2 oz. I have only had it to the range twice to zero scopes since I started with a 1.75x6 but switched to the 2.5x8. Both times it shot factory Fed ammo inside of 0.75" at 100 yards. I hope to get it dialed in with handloads in the next month. Really like the rifle but with my small hands the stock feels slightly large in the grip area. Excellent quality overall and am very happy with it. I also have a Rem 700 stainless mountain rifle with the same scope and rings. I put a Bansner Sheephunter stock and an aluminum trigger guard on that rifle and it weighs 6# 12 oz. Those rifles are my two lightest and both shoot about the same with factory ammo. I sold four rifles to raise the funds to buy the NULA and am happy with the result.

I'm ugly enough on my own.

Then again maybe a stripped NULA would make that not so obvious.

My personal favorite among NULA stock "colors" is Henry Ford's basic black, but there is something very identifiable about the stripes, sorta like the Leupold gold ring....

I'm with you on stock color. Why take a firearm of this high quality and alter the appearance to shift focus from the overall gun itself to a paint scheme. To each their own.

I can't like the stripes one bit and agree on black (brown, grey or OD too) for sure.

But I don't like McMillan's Brunswick Bowling Ball stocks either

I am familiar with the diagonal stripe NULA look, but their website has a couple of photos wth some unstriped paint schemes. I didn't see a color chart or anything with an organized presentation of schemes to choose from. Did I miss it, or do you work it out at the time of placing an order?

Doesn't have a color chart on his website. He'll do just about whatever color scheme you want.

Yeah, the choice is pretty much unlimited, the reason there's no color chart. He even does metallic paint jobs on a lot of varmint rifles.

I just talked to Melvin again today, mostly about a couple of other things, and meanwhile found out that the off-the-rack rifles will be painted in whatever color you want. Painting only takes a day. He's keeping the stocks in primer only until he finds out what the customer desires.

Over the years those ugly stripes have grown on me. I'd do one in stripes "Fo Sho"

Bite your tongue my good man.
I love the stripes on her rifle.

In fact, I know of "a guy" that sent a photo of that rifle along with his stock to the man with the polane T paint and said..."make it look like that"......

I have heard so much about that rifle... I gotta see a picture.

I have personally seen/ touched that rifle!
It IS the equivalent of rubber hammer to the knee if you wanna check your gag reflex!
But, like mopeds, '54 Chevys and other things that shall remain nameless, it feels good, you just wouldn't want to be seen in public with it...
Ingwe

miket,
You still got yours? Would like to see pics of that as well...