anything, to get away from the birch and plastic bm.....
My favorite 600/660 is a parts gun with a 660 action, a 24" 700 SPS matte finished take-off barrel in 308, a set of Willie Manning's bottom metal, and an old, discontinued, style of McM stock that I bought on this site a decade or so ago.
this week I'm buying the timmy trigger and I'm putting some on the layaway on the rifle,I've already got the barrel.can't wait! oh and by the way those are some cool rifles out there!
Well I only have 1 - 600 in 308 vent rib, with a 3 x 9 Leupold. But, I have 3 each 660's, 1 in 308, 1 re-barreled to 260 Rem with a 24 inch 1 in 8 twist, both with 2 x 10 Weaver scopes. Last but not least a 660 re-barreled to 458 x 2 American, with a 1 x 6 Leupold VX - 6. I have replaced the bottom metal (plastic) with replacement bottom metal sold here on the Campfire, on all but the 458x2 so far.
This is my favorite thread so far. I have some 600s. I also have a 458 American chambered barrel and am now thinking why haven't I put the two together?
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Rustzipper The only difficulty I ran into with the 458x2, in the short action 660 was, it would only feed semi-spritzer bullets. I liked the Hornaday 350 grain RN bullets I had been using in my full 458, but, they would not feed. So I went with the 300 and 400 grain Barnes Originals, which I believe was the only semi-spritzers going 30 years ago. Now there's more options, but the Barnes 350 TSX FB looks like the ticket. I have not tried them yet, but will this summer, always thought the 350's would be nice. Liked the recoil of the 300's, but the 400's in a light rifle with full house loads where just getting uncomfortable. When I was on the Islands or anyplace that the Big Bears roam, the 400's where always in the mag. I replaced a nice 458 mag I had built by a friend who used to Smith for Stanley's Gun Room in Santa Ana, California just before moving to Alaska in the early 70's. it was a nice rifle, nothing fancy, just a working gun, with a Lyman receiver sight. But, and this is why I built the 458x2. My 458 mag was 46" long, right at 11 pounds with a full magazine. I took my Father after Brown's down in the Wood Tikchik lake system in southwest, Bristol Bay area with that 458. Well climbing through alders and other brush dragging that big ass gun with me, I said never again. I would have been very stressed to get that rifle in action in some of the areas we hunted. Loved that gun shot well and should have kept it, but................ Less than 8 pounds loaded and 40 & 1/2 inches on the 458x2 will drop anything out there and handles well.
I just bought one cheap at the pawn shop with an old school fiberglass stock in 257 Roberts ackley improved. Has a canjar trigger and I pretty much stole it I think at 350. Have yet to shoot it butbthe wife is already claiming it.
Rustzipper The only difficulty I ran into with the 458x2, in the short action 660 was, it would only feed semi-spritzer bullets. I liked the Hornaday 350 grain RN bullets I had been using in my full 458, but, they would not feed. So I went with the 300 and 400 grain Barnes Originals, which I believe was the only semi-spritzers going 30 years ago. Now there's more options, but the Barnes 350 TSX FB looks like the ticket. I have not tried them yet, but will this summer, always thought the 350's would be nice. Liked the recoil of the 300's, but the 400's in a light rifle with full house loads where just getting uncomfortable. When I was on the Islands or anyplace that the Big Bears roam, the 400's where always in the mag. I replaced a nice 458 mag I had built by a friend who used to Smith for Stanley's Gun Room in Santa Ana, California just before moving to Alaska in the early 70's. it was a nice rifle, nothing fancy, just a working gun, with a Lyman receiver sight. But, and this is why I built the 458x2. My 458 mag was 46" long, right at 11 pounds with a full magazine. I took my Father after Brown's down in the Wood Tikchik lake system in southwest, Bristol Bay area with that 458. Well climbing through alders and other brush dragging that big ass gun with me, I said never again. I would have been very stressed to get that rifle in action in some of the areas we hunted. Loved that gun shot well and should have kept it, but................ Less than 8 pounds loaded and 40 & 1/2 inches on the 458x2 will drop anything out there and handles well.
I called Willie Manning's Coquille Valley Machine Works number, 541-396-6246 and got a disconnected message. He doesn't have a web site.
Is he still in business, does anyone know how to reach him?
DF
I hope so, he was on this forum in the last 6 months I believe.
I want to ask if he could make M-700 ADL trigger guards sorta like the one rj308 made. That one would look good on a McM or Brown Precision stocked 600.
I don’t like the looks of a reversed ADL trigger guard, would much prefer what rj308 did.
With the cvmw phone number not in service, I’m concerned.
I hope he's still making the BM. I've put off getting one and now I'm in the process of putting together a creedmoor for my wife! Missing puzzle piece!
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