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This Remington 721 in .300 H&H and I go back to the 1980s when I first purchased it....and for a song!!!! But the poor fitting stock wasn't to my liking so I traded it for something alse.....and then as I was visiting Fajen's in Warsaw MO.....I took a detour to the Bishop factory and found a nice stock just for the old work horse.....So I bought it and when I got home the old Remnton 721 was srtill for sale, so I purchased it a second time..this time to restock

I used it on two African safaris with the new stock but with 100 % of the metal untouched. It's been a special gun to me but it started to have some problems with case separation and hard bolt opening. So I removed a thread from the barrel and rechambered it .055 to a snug fit on the go-gage and while the barrel was off (that was quite a job!) I polished the metal, removed two inches of barrel to make it a 24" gun and installed new iron sights.....it also got the 11 degree crown I like.

The forend and grip cap are walnut root wood that was dug out of a river...it's full of sand and is very hard on saw blades!

John Farner (too many tools) did the bluing for me and walla....here it is!
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Nice way to treat an old friend. Looks great!

Who did the checkering?

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Originally Posted by Brazos
Nice way to treat an old friend. Looks great!

Who did the checkering?


I do my own checkering.

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Nice.

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Originally Posted by vapodog
Originally Posted by Brazos
Nice way to treat an old friend. Looks great!

Who did the checkering?


I do my own checkering.


VERY nice!

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one to be proud of..

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Very nice looking rifle sir.

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Love the story and the work. Good job!


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What a nice rifle and neat background story.


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That turned out very nice...

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Nice - what kind of velocities are you getting from the 24" barrel"


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Originally Posted by justsaymoe
Nice - what kind of velocities are you getting from the 24" barrel"
I took the gun to the range yesterday to fire a five shot group of TTSX 180 grains.....accuracy was excellent.....a keeper and velocity ran a tad over 2950'/sec

It's certainly elk worthy again and for many years to come.

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Originally Posted by vapodog
Originally Posted by Brazos
Nice way to treat an old friend. Looks great!

Who did the checkering?


I do my own checkering.


Now that's impressive.

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Where are the shoes?


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Originally Posted by Steelhead
Where are the shoes?

Under the horse

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that is super cool! I had one back in the 80's, should have kept it.


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