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First gun is my standard 257

Pair of guns is my 257 supergrade along with my 270 Al Biesen.














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Bother, I’m currently looking and scrubbing through every pile of vintage clothing at Goodwill Outlets to procure old school Woolrich or Pendleton hunting clothes...Wait, I may still have an old onesie set of long-johns somewhere, so I’m almost there.

I hope the clothes will help me shoot dad’s 06 better than I used too. I sucked bad on anything past 200 yards with it. Maybe I should stick an apple on the muzzle and hope for a buck to come close enough for a taste. Laffin 😬😎

Beautiful rifles KC.

I admit, I lost touch with this old Pre64 Mod 70....I’ve been handling it daily since I took it out, looking it over, and remembering back when dad carried it hunting while I was following behind him as he taught me about hunting. Great memories! 😎

Did some finish work today on a couple of rigs wearing skinny jeans that are going travel hunting with me this season.

Accurate Ordnance build in 7/08 I bought from LoneWolf here...120g Nosler BT @ 3075 FPS
Three into one hole after sighter round.



Scott Weichel build that landed last week. 7WSM 160g Nosler Abonds at 3011 FPS
Two sighters then five into middle.




I’m going to grab a box of Fusion and box of Nosler Abonds in 150g and 165g to try in the Pre64 for a start...😎

My God Mark, leave it alone and make meat brother....

Leave what alone? I haven’t even bought a box of ammo for it. 😎

Your post said it shot MOA. I would never mess with MOA in a hunting rifle. If you remember what you were using I would try that load again. Many years ago I set up a .338 Winny on a Mod. 70 "Classic Stainless" action. A near perfect gun for Alaska that always performs well. But, I also have a very good Pre-64 Featherweight 30-06 that shoots 168 grain Barnes TTSX bullets MOA. That load is plenty of the "right stuff" for any Alaskan critter.

I had a guy put and Old English recoil pad on it, recut the checkering and apply a good oil finish and inlet some super Grade swivel studs and added a cross bolt and ebony forend and grip cap and bedded the action and floated the barrel. The trigger breaks at a crisp 2.75 pounds average on my Lyman trigger pull gage. The Talley bases feature a Brockman's pop up receiver sight and the scope is in Talley QD rings. That grand old Winchester Featherweight 30-06 would be the last bolt rifle I would part with.

I don't remember reading any thing negative about the Hornady ELD X bullet.