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Can't jump right into these Sam. It would be like giving a baby a race car.

Keep at it with the Red Ryder, you've got plenty of time.

the bedding works ...........my nula rifles are better looking than that one but they are not what you guys are use to when looking at a mcmillan stock bedded with all the cnc cuts to it

I have rifles bedded by Melvin and Mark Bansner and both lack appeal but shoot lights out

I'm not going to send it back until I shoot it..

Mebbe they've hired some lightweights. I've done prettier jobs after 8 Bent Nails.

Jeez, Sam.. You might want to see how it shoots before you give up dibs.

You should be out shooting it!

I've seen a few Forbes, and they all looked like that.

It's a factory rifle, that happens to have, quite possibly, the best made fiberglass stock on the market (though I'm personally not a fan of the shape).

Like any factory rifle, I think a certain amount of "cleaning up" should be expected.

If all the ills of this rifle were addressed at the factory, the price point would most certainly rise.

Were I to own one, I'd rather just clean it up myself than pay for it.

For the coin you paid that looks unacceptable. I hope it shoots but that is still pretty pathetic.

RL15 works well.....if you can find some!

Fugyeah! Sweet day today, but there's a lacrosse tourny.

Going to shoot tomorrow.

Heathen

Brad when you say best do you mean strongest?

Jesus said hell yeah, go shooting!

I haven't seen a Forbes yet that made weight. They seem like nice rifles, but there's no excuse for advertising a weight (especially in a flyweight rifle) that misses the mark as badly as Forbes does.

Maybe that was the weight before bedding.

Dunno. Forbes claimed the weights, so I assumed that was for the finished product, which would include the bedding being done at the factory. I don't have any issue with the actual weight of Forbes rifles, but I take exception to the claims being so much lighter (relatively speaking, of course).

Yes, when I said "best made" I meant strongest, not best shaped, etc.

As to the nitpicking about the stock's shortcomings, obviously the Kimber MT stock comes to the owner in far prettier shape... BUT the stocks are made, bedded, finished and painted in Costa Rica in order to maintain the Kimbers price point. The Forbes isn't made in Costa Rica, and US wages being what they are, it's not surprising the stock lacks the attention to detail the Kimber has.

Looks like it was bedded by a forum member, based on some of the threads I've seen

Undoubtedly Rancho is a handy dude and can "polish the turd" (said tongue in cheek).

The Forbes isn't my cup of tea in any way, but it's obviously a nice rifle!

I agree completely about the weight. I was attempting a joke about the bedding.

See what I get for not paying attention.

I think I'd brush on some Devcon with an acid brush to smooth things out in the mag well etc, and cycle the bolt a few hundred times while watching TV, and then hit the range.

All

The bedding in my 4 NULA's is perfect as smooth as glass. the actions tend to be a bit gritty at first. They are tight fitting and anodized, so they take a little while and a few rounds to settle in. They do really smooth out especially the long actions. A little moly lube on the cocking cam is never a bad idea.

I have no doubt that the 24's will really shoot.

Lefty C