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Bwinters, it appears the Kimber force is strong with you! Lol
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If you replace the trigger, have the action trued and put a decentstock on it it might be ok.
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IMO if you can find one of the special run Gander Mountain Guide rifles in 7mm08 you’d be in tall cotton. I had one and stupidly sold it. Marty, I still have that 7mm-08 Mtn. Guide that you sold me a few years back. I bedded the lug and tang, and free floated the barrel. It shoots your RL-15, 120 gr. TTSX recipe sub-MOA very reliably. I've taken several elk with it and I still love the thing. If I decide to sell it, you'll be the first one I notify! For the original poster, I also have a Kimber Montana in 7mm-08 (unthreaded barrel) that I picked up on here two years ago. It shot 1.5" groups when I first tried it so I bedded the recoil lug and tang, and it now consistently shoots a 120 or 140 gr. TTSX sub-MOA. Not much for roulette with that one. I have two of the rifles you're inquiring about, and in the same caliber. I can't say that I hold one in much higher regard than the other, but here are my thoughts on the two after a couple of years of comparison. I like the lighter weight of the Kimber when it comes to packing, However, I like the Mtn. Guide's weight (~10 oz. heavier) a little more for shooting, in that it's steadier. Both shoot outstanding and I haven't had a lick of trouble with either one. I like the ergonomics of the Kimber stock a little more than the first generation Ti stock of the Mtn. Guide. I carry both of the rifles throughout my elk seasons in MT and WY, and I usually just grab whichever one I feel like taking for the day. I don't think you could go wrong with either of the choices. Shoot me a PM and I'll give you my number if you want to hear more details, as well as an option to "build" a Mtn. Guide. Good luck in whatever you choose.
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It’s called a Winchester Model 70 Featherweight.
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The crap trigger, extractor, plunger ejector and soldered on bolt handle are enough to make me look elsewhere.
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I bet you can't do this with a Remington Tikka Superlite ![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/78039.jpeg) And I am sick of having to have Remington bolts sent off to have the firing pin bushed, this is the boltface of the last Remington I will ever buy ![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/79609.jpeg) Check out what a bolt face should look like ![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/full/79611.jpeg)
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I bet you can't do this with a Remington Tikka Superlite U R right. My Remingtons don't choot 90* L.  I have both Rem & Tikkas.
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You gotta shoot'em gangsta style
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It’s called a Winchester Model 70 Featherweight. Very nice rifles, the wood doesn’t do it for me.
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"U R right. My Remingtons don't choot 90* L. " You gotta shoot'em gangsta style R O F. I'll have to try that. 
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You keep beating up on the 700, but I have had at least one in my collection since 1974--back when the safety locked the bolt-handle down. Don't know how many the total has been, but it's at least several dozen, and the number of rounds fired through them has been at least 100,000, and perhaps much more, partly because of shooting varmints including ground squirrels, prairie dogs, rockchucks and coyotes. I must be really lucky, because none of the extractors have broken, none of the triggers have malfunctioned, and none of the bolt handles have come off.
I've also spent a lot of time in the field and at the range with a bunch of friends who used 700's, and none of their extractors or bolt handles broke. There may have been one accidental discharge when a safety was pushed forward, but the rifle was pointed in a safe direction, and the shooter admitted their finger could have been on the trigger. There was no way of knowing for sure.
Dunno exactly how many big game animals I've killed with 700's, and am not going to take time to go through my hunting notes because it would take too damn long,
but in Montana alone I've probably taken over 100 antelope, deer and elk with various 700's.
Can say from memory the big game included around 15 species in North America from Texas and Old Mexico to Alaska and the Northwest Territories, but also several in Africa and New Zealand, including animals some people would consider lifetime trophies, such as kudu, grizzly and my biggest mule deer and caribou. Temperatures have ranged from well below zero to over 100 Fahrenheit.
I'd say that's a pretty fair sample, enough that I don't have any worries about someday taking another Remington 700 hunting again.
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Nice shooting Winters, yeah you can get a few more fps out of an AI, I thought you had a .280 Rem.....and I totally understand the love for the 84L as I have it too 😁, I love the scaled down CRF action.....Hb
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I had a 700 Mountain Rifle in 7-08 for several years. It was the stainless with the B&C stock. Very nice handling rifle, light and shot good enough for whitetail hunting. Only gripe was the trigger, and a Timney cured that problem.
I like 700's, and have quite a few of them, and if I had a hankering for another one, which I just might have, I'd buy one without any hesitation.
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I have a 700 mountain guide that I picked up last year. Is the adl model, stainless with b&c stock. Shot one whitetail with it last fall. Shot first 3/4 group with it with a hornady custom factory load this past weekend. With Leupold 3-9×40 in talley lightweights it comes in right around 6.7 lbs with 3 rounds I my memory is correct. I'm loving that rifle and it carries like a dream. Wish I had gotten it years ago.
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I’ll keep this one, stainless T3 ![[Linked Image]](http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w84/pharmseller/6E3DDD18-4BB6-413E-BB45-E4360FC2E0F2_zpsoqk4lwk0.jpeg) P
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STA
I like that ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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STA is that the early version of the mountain rifle?
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What do those other guys always say? GFY, that’s it. P
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