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Looking through the safe tonight and I noticed my pre 64 M88 in 308 sitting there. Pulled it out and looked it over real well. What a rifle. I hunted w/ mine but still havent dropped anything with it...yet. Anybody use one of these??

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I have a couple in 284, but I don't hunt with lever action rifles and I don't like the pistol grip geometry of the Winchester 88.

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While I don't have one, my FIL has one and it has been a primary since he was a young lad. It too is a .308 and I can only guess the game it has been responsible for.

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Yup. Have a post-64 in .308 Win.

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I had one for about 4 months. A range buddy sold it to me, I completely disassembled it, cleaned it up, repaired the stock, glassed it, and took it elk hunting. He bought it back soon after the hunt. Said it was a family heirloom. Didn't want to ruin a family.

I liked it alot. Shot about 1.5 MOA, carried well, and handled great.


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Almost as good as a Savage 99......

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Originally Posted by 260Remguy
I have a couple in 284, but I don't hunt with lever action rifles and I don't like the pistol grip geometry of the Winchester 88.

Jeff


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Was it you that had one rebored to .338 Federal or is my mind going? I know someone posted about it.

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I still have the one dad bought in 1961 when he bought me my .300 Savage. I have killed 5 or 6 deer and one elk with it. Nice rifles.

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RAS - you have been a stranger for a while - that new baby doing okay?

As you know I have a couple of them, a .308 and a .284 - I hunt with both of them. They fit me fine; guess it pays to be built a little off kilter!


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Bruce,

Good morning....

Yes, all is great. Big as a house now. I will send a PM.

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I've owned 4 over the last 40 years or so. Always like them except for they all had the very worst trigger of any rifle I've ever owned.
One nice thing about them is if your lefthanded you can pop the safety and turn it around and put it back in for a lefthanded safety.
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Originally Posted by DocFoster
I've owned 4 over the last 40 years or so. Always like them except for they all had the very worst trigger of any rifle I've ever owned.
One nice thing about them is if your lefthanded you can pop the safety and turn it around and put it back in for a lefthanded safety.
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ditto on the trigger, however mine was worked by a gunsmith to break at about 3.5#'s it took the gun from 2 MOA to 3/4moa just by fixing the trigger.

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I had both a pre and post 64 in 308, kept the better of the two (post) and had it rebored to a 338-08 (338 Federal) Good shooter, trigger's not all that bad once you get use to it.
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yessir, I still hunt with mine. post 64 .308 with a FX4 on it.

I done kilt me some deer with it & even a bobcat once.

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I've got a post '64 in 308 also. I've been meaning to get it hunt ready. Just havent got around to it. Maybe this spring she can kill something.

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I have one I bought in 64 or so. Carried in a scabbard a lot, Refinised the stock twice now.I accurized it myself and it will stil shoot 3/4 " even with the bad trigger.It's getting pretty loose in the action now and has a tendancy for the lever to fall down. I shot a lot of deer and quite afew elk with it until about 1970


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I traded for one here with a really gorgeous piece of Maple for a stock with awsome checkering as well and already had a PAC-NOR bbl in 358 Winchester. Trigger has been worked over some and has a trigger shoe mounted as well but it is still mushy. Outside of that, a pretty cool hunting rifle. Mine is a truck/ATV gun for bumbling about in Bear country or Elk if in season as it can be put into battery very quickly with two clips full of ammo topped with 225gr Barnes TTSX's in my shirt or coat pockets. Cannot have ammo in the magazine of any rifle whilst in any sort of motorized conveyance here so the 88 in 358 fits a need quite well.


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Should add that mine is scary accurate as well. Kicks a tad....

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RAS, Glad to hear the update on the monster kid, good on ya!

Did you end up keeping the pre 64 model 70 30/06 you bought as part of the package deal we did last year or did you get it sold off?


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safariman says that it "kicks a tad"; I agree. I had a .308 and I sold it because of the kick. The recoil combined with the bad trigger made it not very accurate for me. I never measured the stock, but the dimensions must be quite different from my Rem.

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That sounds like a dandy package safariman. Would love to have mine in .358 and may make that happen some day. Mine wears a 2.5-7 Weaver Classic. I am also drawn to the German #4 and #1 reticles.

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