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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.....

I think 2muchgun drank 2muchgin.

It happens. This I know.



Travis

I'll bring the Budweiser and wife beaters . I'm sure Tanner will be drinking his cinnamon "whiskey."

A Texan couldn't fling a bullet past the 500 without going full cross-eyed.



Travis

We'll save that for Round 2???

I promise I will remember I typed that tomorrow if I forget I was done with this thread again.

The only way this works is 2 guys show up, one guy leaves with 2 rifles. I'd take the Pepsi Challenge with a lot of schit, but there ain't a phuqqer on here I'd waste my time with doing this kinda schit.


And it ain't going to happen anyway, so nobody needs to get their hopes up.


'twas a day on the 'fire and all on the net,
2 fools were bitching and making a bet.


(You brainy acts finish it)

On the other hand, it would be a good reason to get together and have a weekend shoot in the grasslands east of Ft. Collins. I hear DS has a good "range" up there and it's a heck of a lot closer than the icebreaker. Camping on public land too, could be a good time.

DS and 2MG could be the main event, the rest of us could just shoot. Travis could host some duels, with playoff brackets and sudden death.

I'd kick in a $100 or two to make it worth 2MG's time. Any other takers?

You're welcome to shoot up here anytime.... so is 'flave, though by appointment only (you need time to prepare for a man of his stature).

'Flave needs to run the peasant rifle....

I'll bring this POS down there.

But Colorado seems like an awfully long drive to meet people that aren't me.

Although if I am passing through there I would like to shoot.



Travis

I will be there. Not sure I will hit any targets, but I will be there.

Tanner

Tanner---Is he as dumb in person as he is on the net?

Read the above quote with the nice pitchers in it.

He takes a quote in which I was clearly talking to Dogcatcher, says it right on the screen "Dogcatcher" and wraps quotes around it like I was talking to him. Or he answered when I speaking to someone else and I never knew it. Of course, that would go back to his reading ability(or lack thereof).

Or does he just not know his own screen name??

Unbelievable.

So how many times have I asked this now?

$2k and which rifle can I shoot?

I haven't left my couch in nye over 2 years so I cannot answer your first question with any honesty.

If you are going to be in Colorado anyways, you should just come shoot. We always have a good old time (or so I've heard). There are big targets (for me) and little targets (for me to miss), and lots of prairie dogs to shoot.

Tanner

That does sound like fun. And I'm only giving your buddy a hard time. He ain't so bad.

I am actually trying to put together a muley hunt for next year. As usual, I need to get my brother off his a$$.

He is in Evergreen, with some other folks I know......

I am pretty stupid.... and I've had more than one black eye that I certainly deserved for running my mouth. If that's what needs to happen here.... then so be it....

Come on out, shoot all the steel you want.... I'll even put you on some pasture poodles. But, it's gonna be on video.... and one of us is gonna have a mouthful of crow.

Like I've said a dozen times before, I bet there'd be a lot more laughing and high-fives..... than schitt talked.... if rounds were actually flying.

I seriously just may do that. Sounds like fun to me.

As of now, mule deer season would be the estimated time of arrival.....

Travis: you need to get out more.

It's just a rifle. Nobody is trying to make it more than it is, however the difference is it is not hard at all to find a bunch of examples of Remington 700's that have major mechanical issues and it is hard as heck to find someone that HAS HAD major issues with T3.


This is what it offers-



Over Savage 110's- everything. A stock worth a flip, a trigger that's not Glock stupid, more consistency in barrels, a DBM that works, and if one cares about such things the smoothest action made.

Over Remington 700's- Significantly better barrels with chambers cut straight, crowns cut straight, triggers that actually work and are as good as most replacement triggers for 700's, safeties that work, bolt handles that don't pop off, and a useful stock (though it's still crap), and if one cares about such things the smoothest action made.

Over Howa/Vangard- better barrels, generally better twists, generally better stocks, a DBM that works, and if one cares about such things the smoothest action made.


Over a RAR- better barrels, WAY better stocks, a trigger that's not Glock stupid, and if one cares about such things the smoothest action made.


I could give two flips about recoil lugs, shrouds, or plastic mags. None of them have proven to be an issue- plastic being the least. The pistol I'm issued is plastic, the mags are plastic, the holster's plastic, the mags for my rifle are plastic, even some plastic sights have proven to be less prone to breakage than the best metal ones.



In short I won't say the Tikke T3 is the "best" it is the one that you can be most assurd will just work without having to screw with it. Everyone tries to make the new inexpensive rifle out to be the "most accurate" ever, the RAR being the newest one. Two weeks ago I had a dude that was doing exactly that with his RAR and how it NEVER shot more than MOA. Funny things was when he brought it out it never shot even close to MOA. Like most he taken one or two groups that happened to land the shots under an inch, and then BS'ed himself that it was him "if he did his part". Now the RAR's have shown a tendency to be good shooters, but they ain't even close to the no fuse easy accuracy of T3's, at least those I have seen.


All of those manufactures may make a good gun, but only Tikka produces a normal hunting rifle that I could take out of the box, mount a scope, zero, and do VERY well in most major LR/Tac matches.