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It was an unintentional project. Like a lot of us we need a tinkering project and I was in Cabelas one day and they had this used "Cabelas exclusive edition" which means fluted barrel sps in 7mm rem mag. It looked hardly used but was less than $450 bucks so I'm thinking donor.

I took it out and shot it with just some Winchester 150 grain factory loads and it shot well but the cases were sticking. I didn't think those would have been hot factory loads so I loaded up some low velocity rounds and tried them and still sticking. After closer inspection I could tell it was rough chamber. Reamer must of dull out or something and this is probably why they got rid of it.

So, I polished the chamber very lightly for 5 seconds and the problem was solved.

It shot well enough I decided to keep the barrel and tinker so I bought a B&C Alaskan II stock, bedded it worked up some 145 barnes lrx loads with RL22 and thing shoots very good. So then the bolt went to Karl Kamfield for Ti fluting and his hunter knob, had a buddy cerakote it graphite black and even put a Pacific tool tapered lt weight bolt shroud on it. I put a Vortex viper lr 4x16x50 I had picked up and some talley rings and bases.

It shoots very good and holds it's accuracy out to 500 yards which is as far as I have shot it. I did take a lope at 426 yards last month. So, it was really just a factory spruce up.

This was on the mountain top in Wyoming last month......

"Campfires" favorite cartridge.....270 Win

Yesterday.

M77, 264

VXII 3-9

Sunday. Remington 700 MR 7mm08.

Saturday. 1st Model Newton in 256 Newton.

FN .375 Ruger

Good looking rifle there. Details?

1913 Kar 98 Mauser in .257 Roberts, shoots 100gr TTSXs into 0.6 if I do my part.

Marlin 336 in 35 Rem that I have $100 exactly into including the Burris 1.75-6 and rings.

.257 AI, Mexican Mauser action, Krieger barrel and Rimrock stock. 2-7X Nikon Monarch in Buehler mounts.

That is a legit mexican beauty Ben!

UNCCGrad, good score there. Look nice.

If you wanna double your money lemme know.

Thanks Joe. It looks nicer in the pics than it is...has some freckling on the barrel and receiver but it's a good candidate for what I use it for, which is the short range thick stuff. After the Newtown incident when people were going crazy over AR's I traded a stripped lower that I had $0 net in straight across for the rifle. I bought the scope for $65 here on the Fire and rings and bases for $25. Add in the hammer extension and I'm sitting real pretty at $100 for a nice shooter grade 336 in 35 Rem.

There was a lot of deals made like that that im afraid are being regretted now.

I wish id had a truckload of lowers a week after that. Saw a few stripped lowers bring $500-600...

Nothing fancy here, Savage 24V .357 magnum/20 gauge.

I bought 3 stripped lowers for $99 each, traded one for the rifle, another for a S&W .357 revolver and sold the third for $300 so I was up two guns for free.

Both guys that I traded to knew it was a dumb trade on their part but they HAD to have an AR lower in case things went south with a ban.

Man I like that rig! I've always been a little soft in the head about .35 caliber Marlins and that one's a beaut UNCCGrad!

'03 Springfield 30/06, Williams peep, 19 1/2in. barrel.