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DF that’s a beautiful rifle I like it!

Here is my latest, a (way too) slow twist 6.5-06:







I purchased the short-chambered tube from GB where seller said they’d measured the ROT at 1-in-9” but after range testing I found it MUCH slower as 140 NBTs, 130 VLDs, and 120 GMXs wouldn’t group. Luckily 100 GR TTSXs did and worked nicely on does this past fall!



I like the Wisner safety & S&K bases/rings. The curly maple stock I got in the classifieds here and it’s lovely.

I’d love a much faster twist and may get around to a rebarreled at some point but for now I think of it as a 25-06 which is what it’s think it was if it could read...