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I'll help with the bacon vest....

I doubt that will happen. The poor lad crowns just hunting whitetails.

Many lions have fallen to cartriges much less powerful than the .30-06. The 7.62X39 and the .303 have probably taken more that all other cartridges combined. They aren't hard to kill.

I don't own nor have I ever owned a Ford Focus. Remington makes the best firearms in the world for a reasonable price. Yo can't say that about all American products, but we do make the very best firearms.

Sorry about Focus was mistaken by picture from the fire but for the rest of your saying i was sure that only Remington was good american maker. You spend time calling other products bad. So if Remington is the best American gun maker as you claim, i'm sorry to desagree with you: american firearms are no more the best in the world.
You better open your eyes, do a bit more testing and try other products.
I'm not the only one on this forum to think the same, even if it's makes me right there surely a small part of true in that way of thinking.
Have a beer for me, i'm going to the range to zero the awful, inaccurate bunch of scrap that the new 70 Safari 375HH is. Made by a foreign company in the USA by US workers....

That's a 5 shot 100yrd group I got out of a recent production Remington MILSPEC 5R .308WIN with my handloads. The only things that aren't stock are a Jewell trigger that was added and I put a different HS stock on it. The HS that comes with it didn't fit me very well. IMO, the MILSPEC 5R is a damn fine bargin at $950.

I'm pretty happy with Remington right now.



TheDude, sometimes a dog gets out from time to time, we all know that, but I think on average Remington is doing a great job these day's. Certainly much better than in years past. I wish you all the best and hope your problem is fixed to your satisfaction.

Terry

TFF

TC1: I gots to know...

Have you shot your Mini-Mauser.....??????

signature line refers, but pictures, particularly when furnished by the victim, makes it so much more fun to ridicule..

Yeah, I've had it out 3 times now. I haven't hunted it yet but that time is coming soon. I ran into a guy at the gun club that has a nuisance permit for 85 doe and wants me to help. I plan on using it for that.

On the mini mauser accuracy, I'm getting about MOA at 100 yards. I think the rifle is capabile of better but it only has a 2.5 power heavy reticle scope on it which handicaps it a little in my hands.

The rifle is becoming a celiberty of sorts . It made the cover of ACGG winter issue this year. Brownells wants to use it in a new calender they're coming out with. Maybe it'll be miss July and Tom Turpin say's it'll be in the next Guns Digest (2012 issue.)

Terry

Dat will be no problemo...either on the MOA or the scope...thats good shootin' with that combo!

Nice to see it will be hunted...

Oh yeah, if you can't use it, it's not worth having.

Terry

OMG everytime I see that image i start laughing uncontrollably ROTFLMFAO it's [bleep] priceless

The Germans,Czeck's and Finn's might hotly contest that statement and after owning several firearms from each as well as many Remington's, I'd have to agree with them.

Yeah, folks are lined up to buy a REMINGTON 1903A3 over a K98, Persian or numerous South/Central American 98 Mausers.

Swampy, AS ALWAYS, cannot seem to explain why the builder of the finest dangerous game rifles in the world are still using Mausers.

Foreign is not bad, just different. Seems like the reality of a world economy escaped Swampy (along with the Serbian, Russian and Turkish "REMINGTONS".)

How much would that Lion safari set us back ?

Waste of good bacon.

My approach to shortening screws, is to run 'em through a wee piece of scrap steel that's already been drilled/tapped, then scuff off the protrudin' excess with a Dremel tool.

Sometimes a bottom tap will clean out the offendin' tapped hole, if the "proper" screw bottoms out a bit short of where it needs to be?

Money well spent no matter the cost

That's the funniest thing I've seen in about a month.

Swampy your right about Sako's not being made here but I don't think I would call it pissing away money if someone buys one. I shot all these groups Tuesday morning (05-17-11) and have a question for you. How come the Remington could not groups as well as the Sako's? All 3 shot groups at 100 yards. Dots are one inch.
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Okay, here's the scoop, the front action screw doesn't have to be drilled all the way through. It serves no purpose when the barrel shank is in the way. The picture below is a Savage Precision Target Action:



Note that the Weaver base is a tad too long and the screw Weaver supplied is deeper than the receiver threads. The screw has to be shortened or it will bottom out on the barrel threads and not clamp the base down, but it will bugger the barrel threads. Buggering the barrel threads will make the barrel harder to remove and can damage the receiver threads when it is removed.

In the photo below, we see that the screw has been shortened just enough to clear the threads when it is set to 22 - 25 in.-lbs. torque. If the front action screw hole is drilled just short of the barrel shank thread diameter, as in the Remington, then a long screw can't bottom on the barrel threads causing problems. Thus there is no need to drill the hole through the receiver, but there is a need to fit the screw, regardless of how the hole is drilled.



The base was also shortened so as not to interfere with the recoil lug. In some actions, the rear screws may also have to be shortened so as not to interfere with the bolt.

Scope mount manufacturers use generic length screws as it is nearly impossible to provide custom screws for every action. Mounting bases is a job that almost always requires some degree of fitting, it is not as simple a job as it first appears.

If the bolt won't open or close on a Remington action loosen the trigger guard screws beginning with the front one. If that fixes it, then shorten the screw slightly until the bolt is free when the screw is tight.