Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats Here's my 7mm Mashburn, show us yours!

Great! Thank you Sir, you know, I should verify the Mashburn at 100, then twist it up and see what it will do at 900, bench is still over in the second pasture, iirc, the 160 AB leaving at 3220 is still packing near 1800 fps at 900 yards, that will be fun, I have a phone call after while, then i'll shoot and take some pics!

Thanks again Big Buddy!

Bill Leeper

A fellow Remington lover!

That's my new one.

1-8 Bart
Legend EDGE Shell - Standard Fill
P64 Magnum action
3.650 box
Blackburn BM

You guys are going to end up making me reach for my folding money.

This was Ol' Nasty.. A M70 Push Feeder I had Matt's reamer shoved into. It was my original BG rifle and to be honest my new one doesn't shoot any better.

B&C Stock
3.650 Mag Box
Shortened Bolt Stop

It is still out there in the hands of my old goat hunting partner, and still slinging 160 AB's with authority. It's a great old rifle for a pusher..

Send them when you want!

That’s a darned fine rifle. Every time I see it I can just tell how well it works and looks. What’s yours weigh scoped?

Kevin will get you one spun up in no time buddy. I happen to know where a great reamer is as well. It’d take the wondering right outta which rifle you’d have to take for that Grizz/sheep hunt

7lbs 12 ish ozs

I need to put mine on a diet next time it gets rebarreled. That’s about darned perfect.

You guys are not helping my addiction. But I think I need one.

Getting the right reamer means a lot. I’ve had a short one and long one. The short one shot everything well, the long one does great with the heavies and both got the same speeds. I’ll do a short throat next time.

Well, I found out a 200gr Lehigh Penetrator from a 45 ACP will smoke a garden bunny just out the gate, verified 100 yard setting, did little tracking test, 4 left, 4 right, two up, two left, two right, two down, the little NF SHV is going to be a good hunting scope, I pissed around too much waiting on dusk to shoot at 900, phone went off again and used my time.

I'll give 900 a go tomorrow before the rains get here.

Don't think I haven't considered it.

Might go 28 Nosler just for the ready made brass.

It's a heck of a cartridge nyrifleman, I went with a 25 inch 8 twist #3 Brux, bet it would spin 180gr ELD's or 190gr A-Tips up good and tight at near 3000 fps.

Beautiful rifles guys! How does the recoil compare to a 300 win?

About the same to me ejo, a 160gr AB at 3200 or a 200gr Partition at 3000, both in roughly 9lb all up rifles.

Yeah, that is a serious pro. Until ADG started making brass I wouldn’t have hitched it with the Nosler brass but the ADG brass is very good brass.

I think the beauty of the Mashburn is a rifle like Pathfinder’s at 7lb 12 ounces all scoped and ready to hunt. My goal was 8lbs or under. I believe next time around I’ll be using a less beefier barrel and get some action skeletonizing to drop the ounces.

My answer to weight was a Brown Precision pounder stock and no bottom metal. I also speced all the graphite fiber in the forearm that was possible for stiffness.

By doing that I could go up to a #4 Lilja barrel for stiffness and Leupold 6x36 LR. All up weight is 7.5 lb with a nylon sling and no ammo. Shoots 175 gr Sierra at 3075 into .75" 5 shot groups. Zero 3" high 100, on at 290.