One of my friends let Don talk him into a 7X65R Model 10 when they first came out, loaded her up…first three shots weren’t on paper at 50 yards, back it went. Came back in a week or so, dang thing put three inside an inch at a 100.
His first 76 was a running joke, they had not used any release agent (it had a synthetic stock, maybe Brown) when they bedded it. He got the stock off somehow and had it re-stocked and re-barreled to .330 Dakota. It had a fabulous piece of wood, and put five Jensen 250’s in an inch of you could handle the recoil.
The 10 was one of the real beauties of the single shot world, IMO. Always wanted one, but I had a practical hunting rifle…ULA Model 24 in .270, just never had enough money at the time to own more than one $2000 rifle.
