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-Mini-14 with an aftermarket medium barrel
-CZ 527 carbine
One wouldn't shoot and the other didn't fit me. I like my Handi-Rifle so I'm 1 for 3 on .223s so far.
Hell...Reloading/Shooting are still my favorite things to do,besides play in the box the kids came in.................
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Ruger 1B in 223-red pad. Beautiful stock and I really like the design. Over a thousand rounds with a dozen bullets and powder, free-floated forend, upward pressure, o-ring, etc. Never could get it to group consistently.
I will probably try another one some time as I hear others have better luck-must have just gotten a bad one.
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I've had two different Savage 110s, a 22-250 and a 270 Win, and although they shot well enough, I just didn't like the looks of them and couldn't get used to the safety or the bolt release. To me the safety should have been where the bolt release was!! I know, it's a bit petty but I just didn't like them.
Larry *********** "Speed is fine but accuracy is final" - Bill Jordan "We do not exaggerate when we state positively that the remodelled Springfield is the best and most suitable "all 'round" rifle".......Seymour Griffin, GRIFFIN & HOWE, Inc. 
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Another Winchester Model 70, bought it for my wife in 74? a 243 XTR. She used it for several years and took many deer with it. After many years and my knowledge and reloading came about I wanted to see what it would do. Found it would not do better than 2 1/2" at 100 yards, and not often that good. Tried everything, bedding, new scope, new rings, different stock, reloads from light to heavy bullet different seating, different powders, you name it I tried it. Only rifle I have ever owned that I could not improve or at least find "one" load it shot under 2". Going to try a new barrel next..
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A nula .25-06, after reading all the hype on this forum i had to have one. Didn't like how i couldnt eject a loaded round, as the receiver port is to small. Then that clunky azz safety felt like i could snap it off any time i used it. I actually like my kimber .308 and .243 much better then i did my nula.
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Any Remington 600/660 or Mohawk 600. I can hardly walk past one without buying it. I cannot tell you have many I have owned but I handle it, shoot them for a bit and the love is gone. No particular reason I can put a finger on, sort of like a one night affair.
Tikka's T-3's are the same way with me,I have owned quite a few but they do not stay long.
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223 Rem, my favorite cartridge - you can't argue with truckloads of dead PD's and gophers.
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Another Winchester Model 70, bought it for my wife in 74? a 243 XTR. She used it for several years and took many deer with it. After many years and my knowledge and reloading came about I wanted to see what it would do. Found it would not do better than 2 1/2" at 100 yards, and not often that good. Tried everything, bedding, new scope, new rings, different stock, reloads from light to heavy bullet different seating, different powders, you name it I tried it. Only rifle I have ever owned that I could not improve or at least find "one" load it shot under 2". Going to try a new barrel next.. I had one of those, and it shot good until the throat started to go. When it got to 1.5 MOA, a friend said he'd like it, and as far as I know, he still has it. He just doesn't shoot it much, a couple times to confirm zero and if he's lucky, a couple times during the season. I also had a .308 Remington 700 BDL, a beautiful rifle, but wouldn't do better than 2.5", no matter what. I traded it for a .308 Savage 14 American Classic, which I traded in on a .308 Ruger All-Weather. I still have that one.
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the last couple Rem 700's I came across were terrible... poor workmanship, never could get them to consistently shoot anything.
243, 223 22-250 sps stainless, trying to get a decent calling rifle, no dice with any of them.
tried aftermarket stocks, bedding, aftermarket triggers, checked the crown etc. was all money down the rat hole.
moved on to tikka and savage...
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Every Savage I've owned just never lasted long with me. I think I've had two or three 17HMRs and about the same .22LRs. I've had a .223, .300WSM and one of those solid bottom, left port, right hand actions I put a .243 barrel on. I could get them to shoot usually, nothing spectacular, but acceptable. I just don't have any love for them. Hopefully I've learned my lesson with them.
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When I was hunting elk a lot I thought a 7 1/4-7.5#,scoped,300 Win Mag would be the ultimate rough country elk rifle. Never mind that I had one weighing 8.5#'s that was a hammer and had killed bulls with it,but delusion has no boundaries.Neither does stupidity.
So I had a lightweight 300 Win Mag built to the specs and worked up loads with 180 and 200 gr Partitions.
It kicked like a mule,despite a good stock,and after range sessions my head and neck hurt and I felt like I had gone a few rounds with a professional boxer.I learned my lesson,pulled the rifle apart and built something else. This was quite a few years ago and ever since have thought lightweight 300 magnums ain't such a hot idea. That one would have been a good candidate for a barrel chambered to 257 Weatherby. mathman: I made it into a 7 Rem Mag.....MUCH better!
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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I'd be curious to know what vintage the 700's were. I have a first year 300RUM that's heavy as hell at 14lbs but I love the thing, shoots great. Also have a rem model six that's a tac driver but hurts way worse than the RUM. Still playing with the mini 14. Can't say I've had a bad rifle.....yet.
If you don't have anything nice to say, you must be talking about Hilary Clinton.
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BobinNH, My .300 WM in a Brown Precision stock weighs 8.75 "ready to hunt" but unloaded. I like it just fine. Very accurate, very shootable. I will trust you that I would like it a lot less if I figured out how to take a pound out of it. I will build a light .270
Clinging to guns & religion since 1959
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I rode the Mini-14 bus. Expectations were the ONLY thing it could consistently hit.
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Make Gitmo Great Again!!
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ss model 7 in .260,kimber classic in .708,cabelas 700 mountain in .708 all gone now.
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1 Rifle, 1 scope....
Century Arms Centurion M98 30-06. Bought this when I was 19, by the time I got it to where I liked it it was 20 years, and literally every part replaced but the receiver and barrel.
Weaver Super Slam 2-10x50...not really the scopes fault. Optically it was excellent, tracked perfectly...just couldn't like that 50mm objective, looked like that damn Hubble. Replaced it with a 6x36(not as good optically, but no slouch and looks much better on the rifle), but I wouldn't be at all opposed to giving the 2-10x42 a try.
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I don't always shoot Mausers, but when I do...I prefer VZ-24s.
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Just about every Ruger Number 1 i have owned
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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Cz 452,accurate but never fed or ejected worth a darn.
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Though it took me three tries to get a Mk V UL in 280 Remington that would shoot, it is now my most accurate commercial 280.
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My two least favorite guns I owned at the same time . First was a S&W 1500 in .25-06. accurate and light enuff, but did not feed and would stove pipe a round regularly.
I also had a Custom Remington 600 in .257 Roberts. Light(6.5 lbs. with scope) 23 " barrel and Brown Precision stock, awesome light handling gun. Not very accurate and fed poorly.
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Redhawk rifle in 300SAUM, Ruger Ranch rifle, Tikka 7mm08, Remington 700 7mmMag, AMT 22 Mag pistol...all shot poorly
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