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What would he buy? Caliber? optics?
Im going to say A Kimber 84 select. 338Federal. 2.5-8x36 VX3 in talleys. Turner sadlle sling and 210's zero'd for 150.
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I think he might be sick to his stomach with all the plastic...
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He'd shop around for a pre-64 Winchester Model 70 Featherweight in .270 WIN.....
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I think he'd like the new Winchester Model 70 Classic Sporter & the sporter laminates. I think Jack would also like the Ruger Hawkeye as they are built like a rifle should be. I suspect he would probably go with the 270, 30-06, and 280 Remington. These are classics that haven't really been improved upon!! I think he might seriously consider the new 270 WSM or 300 WSM in addition to that though. For scopes it would be a 4x or 6x Leupold or possibly a 2.5-8x36 Leupold.
Now for bullets old Jack would shoot the beloved Partition which is still the standard, and the new Nosler Accubond or E-tip.
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Kimber Classic Select 84 L in 270 win, 130 gr partitions and Leupy 6x. I would also suspect he might try one in 30-06 or 280 AI.I think he would also have one in the 84m Classic Select in 257 Roberts. By what I read of his writing, he liked light rifles and see him toting fine wood and blued
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What would he buy? Caliber? optics?
Im going to say A Kimber 84 select. 338Federal. 2.5-8x36 VX3 in talleys. Turner sadlle sling and 210's zero'd for 150. Don't know if that would be JOC's choice, but I like it. Nice wood, handy rifle, Partitions, plenty of umph, works for me.
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He'd shop around for a pre-64 Winchester Model 70 Featherweight in .270 WIN..... He might try all kinds of things,but this is what he would hunt with.....and since they are still around,he'd have Al and Roger Biesen remodel the FW to his specs. He would do this because he used such rifles and the 270 Winchester successfully on several continents; on African plains game,moose,elk, grizzly,sheep (how many Grand Slams?) He'd write about all the new cartridges (just the same way he wrote up the 7mm Rem Mag,300Win Mag,300 Weatherby, 338, etc),and might hunt with some of them.But I think he'd stay pretty close to time proven classics like the 270, 280,7x57,and 30/06.
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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JOC was right. The 270 Winchester on a Model 70 is a great combination as is the 30/06 and 375 H&H
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I'm not so sure. He wrote about the M70 because it was a standout at the time. There are many other options today and I don't think the M70 is the standout now that it was then. Still excellent no doubt, but not the across the board consensus of being the top dog. Sakos & Kimbers, to name two, might appeal to him a pure hunting rifles. But, since .270 appealed to him then, I see no reason it wouldn't appeal to him today. All speculation of course.
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I'm afraid if he lived today he just might shoot a T/C Encore on a hunting show on TV.
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He'd shop around for a pre-64 Winchester Model 70 Featherweight in .270 WIN..... Bingo! Does anyone really think gunmakers have eclipsed his absolute favorite? Some of them are now having trouble just building rifles that customers won't want to return! Or pass along to some schmuck.
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+1 stray ground lol
if he shot a kimber , he would look at the palm sized shot group, sell it and search for a pre-64 model 70 .270 and keep on killin' them.
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I think he'd buy what he could afford and go hunting.
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I talked to him last night via a ouija board and he said a new model 70 fwt in 270 WSM.
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New FN Model 70 in .270 Winchester. Why would he change?
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He'd shop around for a pre-64 Winchester Model 70 Featherweight in .270 WIN..... Bingo! Does anyone really think gunmakers have eclipsed his absolute favorite? Some of them are now having trouble just building rifles that customers won't want to return! Or pass along to some schmuck. Yeah, and Winchester had a pretty busy service dept before 1964 (for good reason). Also, if factory pre 64 M 70s were so great, why did guys like O'Connor feel the need to spend twice the cot of the rifle customizing them? A hint would be the stocks shaped like plain Canoe paddles. KoolAid drinkers are funny.
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I think he'd buy what he could afford and go hunting. Bingo..
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New FN Model 70 in .270 Winchester. Why would he change? Hi there, Swampy. You speaking for JOC, or are you feeling a new urge to drop Ruger for FN/Win? I think you and I can agree that JOC would NOT buy a new Rem 700 in any caliber. New Hawkeye, maybe? He may go with a Dakota 76 with a nice piece of wood. DF
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Oh I think he would be shooting a NULA Model 24 in 270 with maybe a 6 x 42 mm Leupold on it.
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