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[quote=bsa1917hunter][quote=Pharmseller][quote=Marshhawk]Like many before have posted Tikka T3X Lite or Superlite in either 7mm08 or 308.

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Add stainless and I’m your huckleberry.

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Me too..



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I'll see your Tikka and Raise You One more!





Jerry

Had an A-Bolt doing the same and took it to the Browning headquarters 10 minutes away. Seems the front action screw was a wisher too long and actually engaged the threads on the barrel shank. They were going to rebarrel it because they could see thread damage but it made removal of the original barrel a beech. They ended up giving me a brand new A Bolt. I read elsewhere after this on some forum where this issued had happen to a number of A Bolts and was identified and fixed but not after a bunch left the factory.

Original A-bolt correct? Not an A-bolt II.

Jim

I haven’t heard that but I always wondered.
Too late for me but nice to know.

Thanks

Jerry

For standard rifles, about the only thing I would consider would be a Kimber of some sort or a Fieldcraft.

Stainless/Synthetic. Standard round like a .308 or .30-06. Nothing fancy.

Correct. It was a A Bolt micro to be more specific that I bought used at a great price.

If you're paying for it, a Proof Glacier Ti in 6.5PRC. Synthetic, nitrided, and CF barrel.

If I'm on the hook for it, probably a Christensen Ridgeline, again in 6.5PRC. I would for sure ditch the Ridgeline stock and go with a McM Game Hunter or Mesa Precision Attitude.

Rev Mike,

I really like the look and feel of the M70 Featherweight, but not enough to keep it if it’s not a shooter. I’ve had mixed results with Winchester rifles over the years and the only one that was a charm was a push feed Featherweight .257 Roberts that I sold to finance an elk hunt. Let me know if you find a cure!

Just bought a Ruger Predator in 6 CM , it's very impressive in accuracy. After trimming trigger spring and adjusting the trigger it's a sweet 2 lbs. I love Tikkas but they're getting pricey and this Ruger Predator is sweet for the price.
https://imgur.com/a/SRip1uX

That's all. You gamble, you lose:






^^^^ +300WSM and 6.5 CM Superlite:


For a superlite, it shoots pretty good^^^ Sub moa day in day out. Post what you got...

Look closely, those are 2 different Tikka's. My 308 and 7mm08. Both great rifles.

I’ve never heard anything bad about Tikka’s my only complaints are that the stocks are ugly as sin to my eye. That and the 22-250 has 1/14 twist and the .223 weighs more than a 7-08 due to not being built on a scaled down receiver.

There is also an eight twist 22-250
https://www.eurooptic.com/Tikka-T3x-Lite-22-250-Rem-224-1-8-Rifle-JRTXE314R8.aspx

BSA

I wondered IF those were 2 OR if one was wet ?

Jerry

Damn GW, I would pay to take a tour of your gun room some day! (And your knife collection, beer fridge, liquor cabinet, humidor etc. ) Always the coolest stuff on the 'fire.

Depending on your personal budget, the choices are endless. Personally I really like the Tikka T3 Stainless/synthetic, if I could only have one caliber, it would be 25-06.

Geedubya, what did your taxidermist have to say when you got that porcupine mounted. I can’t imagine that was his favorite job.

If I had to start over I would go on gunbroker or similar site and buy an old late 70’s early 80’s vintage Remington 700 in 30-06 or 270. Adjust the trigger, bed the action, bolt on a 3X9 Leupold, feed it cheap green box ammunition and kill stuff.

Here is the story!

I've been using the same taxidermist since the early 80's. He had probably done in excess of 40 mounts, most of which were done between 2000 and 2008. In fact I used to go by his shop once a week and bring him a six pack of Miller Beer and drop a $50.

I'm pretty much out of that routine these days.

Anywho, I had been at his shop, enjoying a brewski and a stogie when I spied a porcupine he had just finished. When I hunted in Rocksprings, Tx. there were porcupines all over, but at this particular time, and the lease I was on, I had only seen one porcupine in the last half dozen years. I mentioned that the next porcupine I saw, if I could take it, i would have him mount it.......

At this point a Sven & Ole joke comes to mind............ Sven had been out coon hunting. He managed to bag a couple. On the way home he warmed up with a couple of sips of schnapps and when he passed by Ole's Taxidermy shop he got an idea. He had numerous mounts but no coons. So he stops, grabs the two coons and goes in. He tells Ole that he would like him to stuff those two coons. So Ole replies, so ya' vant dem' coons mounted, eh'. Sven thinks a minute then replies, "No, Ole, I've got a Missus and kids at home, just have them holding hands!

So of all things, about two weeks after seeing that Porcupine at my bud's shop I was heading up to my lease. It's six miles in off the nearest paved road and it takes about 45 minutes to traverse the distance. I was past the first bump gate when I saw this Porky' crossing the road. I slowed down as he went into the brush. I was cussin' myself as I did not have a rifle or a shotgun at the ready. Well it wasn't but a few seconds later that the Porky climed up a scrub oak a few yards off the road. He stopped on a limb about 10' off the ground. I had this Taurus Titanium Snubby in 44 Special on my hip so I walked over as close as I could get being as the tree was surrounded by cat claw and cactus and commenced to blasting. Knocked him right out. By time I was able to get him out of the scrum, I was bleeding worse than he. So I pick him up by the hind leg and carry him over and toss him on th back of the trailer my 4 wheeler was on. When I got to the next bump gate and passed through I stopped to make sure everything was in working order. I noticed that the porcupine had slid within a foot of the end of the trailer, so like a dumbazz I grabbed him by the tail.
Yowsir!

Anywho, should you ever grab a porcupine by the tail.......

Some say cut the quills as they are hollow and expand with pressure. Others say no. I had a pair of toenail clippers with which I cut the quills. I got them out, but it was not fun.



ya!

GWB

LMFAO. They were a target of opportunity where I grew up and a menace to the timber industry ruining many a maple and other quality trees. With the way they stunk and all the quills I never had a desire to do anything but leave them where they fell. The Indians use the quills for crafts but I never had any use for them.