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Old 788 in 308.

I had a ruger m77 mkII 338 win mag that liked to punch a ragged hole. It was my trusted elk rifle and I sold it because I got on this damn pre 64 model 70 bandwagon....





I also sold a nice tanger 270 round top because I bought a pre 64 model 70 270 fwt to take its place. It shot damn well for a tanger. The new owner loves it:


Another Ruger that surprised me was my .223 rem Hawkeye. It shot almost as good as my varminter:


Now, those were bolt action rifles so they should shoot pretty good right? This thread is about "surprising one hole shooters". The one that surprised me the most was my 1961 Winchester model 100 that I glass bed. This was the first group after glass bedding it:



Not bad for an old semi auto...

BSA,

Yea, I guess you are right. But for a $300 investment, I was proud anyway. It's hard not to grab this old rifle for hunts that don't require hiking steep and long.

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Back in 2008 I bought a Sako-barreled Rem 03-A3 chambered to 6mm-250 here in the classifieds. It was priced right, full-length bedded TIGHT into a Monte Carlo Fajen and built by Tennessee BR smith HW Creighton.

When I tore the invoice scotch-taped to the cheekpiece it ripped the finish off. There was pitting all over the barrel & trigger guard, I tossed together random loads using 1x 22-250 cases I bought here, and mounted a cheap Bushnell I had lying around.

My first 3-shot group on paper was covered with a penny, and it makes honest one-hole groups regularly with bullets from 60-90 gr. More impressive IMHO is its ability to put a variety of loads to the same POI allowing me to use 90 gr NBTs for big game & 60 gr Sierra HPs for woodchucks/coyotes without changing scope settings. After that awesome group I refinished the stock and had the barreled action bead blasted & parkerized. It wears a Burris FFII 6x40mm w/ elevation turret.

Both my boys LOVE this rifle; my oldest was hitting 12 ga hulls from 100 yds over the hood of my car at 8 yo. My 10 yo knocked over a pair of boars this past January in Texas with it, killing them each with a single well-placed 90 gr NBT (tho one flopped & got a 2nd). One of my former catechism students took out a gallon milk jug with a single shot at 400 yds. A good buddy took his first public land deer with it, and I've gone crazy with great customer service eradicating woodchucks from the farm fields of my clients.

It's a lug but of all my rifles this is one of maybe 3 that'll never go anywhere. After that initial group I bought 1500 blemished 75 gr Horn HPs here, and am almost through em, as well as the 400-80 gr RP-PSPs I got here. If (or when) I toast the throat I'll likely punch it to 6mm Rem or 6x57 AI, but I'm pretty sure I'll always have a rifle chambered to 6-250. Just a fantastically mild cartridge that's a real joy to shoot. A lot.

A woodchuck at farmer Bob's place:

First group on paper:

You'll want to get those those things "dialed" in before you post any more pics. There is a dumbass that goes around talking sh!!t about targets like that.

Oh ya, he'll probably have something to say about 3 and 5 shots groups not meaning sh!!t also.