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It is nothing really special. A laminate stock from Midway about 1996, a Win 70 Classic action from two years prior, Win trigger tuned by me, stock bedded by me, stock shortened and Pachmeyer pad added by me. And finally a three groove 8 in twist 27 inch barrel fitted and installed by Pac-Nor. The scope is one of the Vortex Viper 30 mm tube 6.5-20x44 which Doug got in for a ('Fire special) a couple years back Shooting with RJM on Saturday. I zeroed the rifle at 300 yd with wind blowing about 15 to 20 mph coming from the right and behind us. Then I moved the truck out to 500 yds. Note the tail of the ratchet strap lifted off the truck bumper by the wind. with 720 mm of zoom and I caught a break in the wind. Aim point was the red dot. Drop is 22 inches at 500. group measures 3.75 inches across. The load is a 130 AB at 3300 fps over 71 gr of magnum and a CCI 250 primer. One of these days I might try twisting the turrets. But hell I have been holding over for range since 1968. It still works to the ranges I am capable of shooting.
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Twisting turrets is a no brainer. Crank it up to the 4.5 MOA mark and hold dead on.
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Nice; looks like its ready to kill some stuff!!!
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Twisting turrets is a no brainer. Crank it up to the 4.5 MOA mark and hold dead on. Yeah, I know. I need to get some portable steel dingers which I can set out at 500 to 800 yds and get serious about this. It would be interesting to see if the Viper 6.5-20 is repeatable enough to run that way.
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Yes LOL, how DID I leave that part out.
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Looks like a great candidate to become a 26 Nooozler when the throat begins to show some wear! Or sooner, 'just because' I like it, and a LOT. Perfect overall long range deerblaster there, IMO. Good work and great blueprint.
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Mark,
I just can not get real excited about the 26 Nosler. The 264 is plenty hard on barrels. When I get to experimenting with powders and bullets, I have a hard time keeping the barrel cool. I don't need a bigger boiler room in a 6.5.
If the shoulder could take the abuse, I would be enthusiastic about building a 30-375 Ruger. That would be a good use for such case capacity.
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short arms, eh? i feel your pain.
good shootin, too.
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Mark,
I just can not get real excited about the 26 Nosler. The 264 is plenty hard on barrels. When I get to experimenting with powders and bullets, I have a hard time keeping the barrel cool. I don't need a bigger boiler room in a 6.5.
If the shoulder could take the abuse, I would be enthusiastic about building a 30-375 Ruger. That would be a good use for such case capacity. I was mostly funnin ya. Like I said, I like this build a bunch. I mainly suggested the Noozler round as a re chamber job when this barrel throat gets all crackley. Bumping up to the Noozler round would put your bullets back into fresher rifleing at the start up, and you could give that round a try on the cehap. The WW Classic action is long enough for sure. If WW Made thier classic in 26 Noozler I would probably be trying to figure out how to get one into my hands. Wait a minute.... I just started a thread that said I have enough and I am DONE..... never mind about the 26
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Heck Mark, this barrel is heavy enough and the shank long enough, I could probably just cut three inches off the chamber end and start over............course the stock would look pretty silly then.
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Heck Mark, this barrel is heavy enough and the shank long enough, I could probably just cut three inches off the chamber end and start over............course the stock would look pretty silly then. Bedding compound is your friend.... Rarely does one need to cut off that much barrel. If someday you make the rifle a 26 Noozler very little of the back end of the chamber area would need to be cut. Maybe none at all. I have done this with hotrod .224's. 22-250AI then a 22/243 or the very similar Cheetah and if that one begins to show signs of wear, a 22/6mm or 22TTH. I have also gone from 222 to 223 and then 22/204 on one barrel, getting the bullets into reasoanbly fresh throats and rifleing each time. Rifleing in the rest of the barrels is almost always still perfect.
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