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Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig RickF #6770172 08/12/12
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada Jordan Smith OP Campfire Outfitter
OP Jordan Smith Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada	Sounds good. Let me know when, and I'll try and be there. Of course I'll probably just get laughed off the range, so maybe I should stay away...

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Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig Jordan Smith #6770262 08/12/12
Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,584 East Kootenays, BC RickF Campfire Tracker
RickF Campfire Tracker Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,584 East Kootenays, BC	My goal last year was don't finish last, so I hear you! Homestead, at 5000' and on the side of that hill, is very humbling. A 2MOA wind in one direction one minute, then the next shot 3 minutes the other way, while trying to hit a 1 MOA 5 ring and a 1/2 MOA v-bull. It's all in fun anyway. Anybody who seriously concerns themselves with the adequacy of a Big 7mm for anything we hunt here short of brown bear, is a dufus. They are mostly making shidt up. Crunch! Nite-nite! Stolen from an erudite CF member.

Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig RickF #6770272 08/12/12
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada Jordan Smith OP Campfire Outfitter
OP Jordan Smith Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada	Yeah, Homestead is a nice range, but the terrain makes for some interesting shooting, as you say. It would be fun to come out and meet with you and some of the other guys at the next shoot.

Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig Jordan Smith #6921556 09/29/12
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada Jordan Smith OP Campfire Outfitter
OP Jordan Smith Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada	UPDATE: Spent an hour in the shop and installed the Karl Kampfeld Campfire knob. I also got an email from Rick a couple of days ago saying that my Mickey A5 is en route. Can't wait to see the new Rhino camo. My 3-year old seems to be a stock crawler...

Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig Jordan Smith #6923353 09/30/12
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 9,129 A Ackleyfan Campfire Outfitter
Ackleyfan Campfire Outfitter A Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 9,129	What's rhino camo? Cute little stock crawler you got there....looks like you have room to move his scope forward a little

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Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig Ackleyfan #6923433 09/30/12
Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 11,273 High Country Colorado Tanner Campfire Outfitter
Tanner Campfire Outfitter Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 11,273 High Country Colorado	Cool beans Jordan, I think I was about 3 when I built my first 243 A.I. too

Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig Tanner #6923652 09/30/12
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada Jordan Smith OP Campfire Outfitter
OP Jordan Smith Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada	Rhino camo is a new scheme from McMillan. I'll post pics when it gets here! This is the second Campfire bolt knob I've installed on a 700, and I'm REALLY liking it. It's a lot smaller than most other tactical knobs out there, but it's just big enough to be a noticeable upgrade to the factory bolt handle as far as feel and function go.

Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig Jordan Smith #6924014 09/30/12
Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 24,637 Midwest SKane Campfire Ranger
SKane Campfire Ranger Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 24,637 Midwest	Jordan, That's shaping up! The rug-rat looks like he's stretching out nicely. WWP53D

Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig SKane #6924258 09/30/12
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada Jordan Smith OP Campfire Outfitter
OP Jordan Smith Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada	Yeah, he's come a long ways... After the Mickey shows up, I'll skim bed it, and the build will be done for now. Once I burn out the barrel, I'll likely grab a Krieger, Rock, or Bartlein in Rem Varmint contour in either .243AI again, or else .260 or .260AI, and rock on. But for now, the A5 will give me what I wanted to end up with- I hope. The only bummer (if you can call it that), is that I'll be gone moose hunting for a week when the stock shows up. Barb will have to crack open the packages for me and send me a text with pics. How are things going down in your neck of the woods?

Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig Jordan Smith #6960436 10/11/12
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada Jordan Smith OP Campfire Outfitter
OP Jordan Smith Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada	Got back from moose hunting and a package was waiting at the post office for me Just some quick pics for now until I can get out and get some decent ones. Top rifle is the .223 in Arctic camo, bottom is the .243AI in Rhino camo. The .243AI is sitting on the vice as the bedding compound sets up right now...

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Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig Jordan Smith #6960489 10/11/12
Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 11,273 High Country Colorado Tanner Campfire Outfitter
Tanner Campfire Outfitter Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 11,273 High Country Colorado	That thing is sweeeeet. I bet it won't shoot worth a darn... grin

Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig Tanner #6962103 10/11/12
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada Jordan Smith OP Campfire Outfitter
OP Jordan Smith Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada	That's what I'm afraid of! I'll post a range report once I'm done the bedding, etc.

Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig Jordan Smith #6962906 10/12/12
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 5,792 The Big Country H Hondo64d Campfire Tracker
Hondo64d Campfire Tracker H Joined: May 2003 Posts: 5,792 The Big Country	I LIKE that Rhino Camo. Great looking rigs! John If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig Hondo64d #6963460 10/12/12
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 17,167 Northern California Hammerdown Campfire Ranger
Hammerdown Campfire Ranger Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 17,167 Northern California	Looks great. Randy NRA Patriot Life Benefactor

Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig Hammerdown #6966295 10/13/12
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 627 Sask_Hunter Campfire Regular
Sask_Hunter Campfire Regular Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 627	Jordan how long did your stock take to get there? I'm at 15.5 weeks on my game scout

Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig Sask_Hunter #6966335 10/13/12
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada Jordan Smith OP Campfire Outfitter
OP Jordan Smith Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada	Ordered the pair in the middle of May and they were shipped out the last week of September. Arrived first week of Oct. I was at 17 weeks exactly from the order date to completion date.

Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig Jordan Smith #6971536 10/15/12
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 42,722 Southern Oregon USA S Seafire Campfire 'Bwana
Seafire Campfire 'Bwana S Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 42,722 Southern Oregon USA	When I crossed that bridge... I went with a Model 70 Long Action, and a 28 inch Pac Nor barrel in a heavy magnum contour and chambered it in 6.5 x 57, with a one in 8 twist... no regrets at all... "Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC “Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig Seafire #6972146 10/15/12
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada Jordan Smith OP Campfire Outfitter
OP Jordan Smith Campfire Outfitter Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 14,481 Calgary, AB, Canada	I may go to a .260AI barrel once this one's shot out, but in the mean time I need to have some fun with this tube first!

Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig Jordan Smith #6972287 10/15/12
Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 28,277 Bozeman, Montana Mark R Dobrenski Campfire Ranger
Mark R Dobrenski Campfire Ranger Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 28,277 Bozeman, Montana	Nice Jordo! Rhino camo, I likey...grin I'm still thinking about maybe a HTH (or General Purpose) handle for my WSM action and a new 7WSM tube for it as well. Do any of you know if they'll do Edge fill on a HTG stock? Seems to me I heard once that they will...? Thx Dober "True respect starts with the way you treat others, and it is earned over a lifetime of demonstrating kindness, honor and dignity"....Tony Dungy

Re: Ideas for dedicated LR rig Mark R Dobrenski #6972288 10/15/12
Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 28,277 Bozeman, Montana Mark R Dobrenski Campfire Ranger
Mark R Dobrenski Campfire Ranger Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 28,277 Bozeman, Montana	Forgot to mention, I love the backpack pic! Dober "True respect starts with the way you treat others, and it is earned over a lifetime of demonstrating kindness, honor and dignity"....Tony Dungy

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