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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! ![[Linked Image]](https://image.ibb.co/nGcLwx/IMG_2875.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://image.ibb.co/hxoh9H/IMG_2854.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://image.ibb.co/grH9pH/IMG_2868.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://image.ibb.co/eiCyic/IMG_2865.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://image.ibb.co/j3QvUH/IMG_2873.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://image.ibb.co/cQG29H/IMG_2862.jpg)
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Nice way to treat an old friend. Looks great!
Who did the checkering?
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Nice way to treat an old friend. Looks great!
Who did the checkering? I do my own checkering.
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Nice way to treat an old friend. Looks great!
Who did the checkering? I do my own checkering. VERY nice!
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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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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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Nice way to treat an old friend. Looks great!
Who did the checkering? I do my own checkering. Now that's impressive. donsm70
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that is super cool! I had one back in the 80's, should have kept it.
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