Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Could you build a better rifle.

All I have are Tikkas so I’m no judge.

Part of the fun might be in the build. You likely won’t get better accuracy and yes, it will take a lot of effort, but if it’s the effort you enjoy I say build.

But buy the Tikka while you’re in the building process. That way you’ll still get to shoot while you’re waiting. Afterward you can sell the Tikka, maybe for more than you paid.




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An elderly Mauser 98 I picked up in a pawn shop for $350.00 because it had a funky-looking blue job on the barrel shoots quarter-sized groups at 250 yards off a sandbag rest. It's got a 26" heavy varmint barrel, a massive Fajen stock, and has been converted to single shot configuration, and it's chambered for ".22 Varminter"- - - -the granddaddy of the .22-250. The original military trigger has been converted to single stage, with about a 6-ounce pull weight. That's with an ancient 10X Weaver steel tube scope. The gunsmith who built it obviously knew what he was doing. The rifle weighs around 12 pounds. It looks like it was probably built in the early 1950's or so. I had ideas of installing a more modern scope, but the burning question is "Why?" A groundhog or crow doesn't care whether or not I spent a few thousand dollars to give it a terminal case of lead poisoning, and I'm far beyond caring what a bunch of keyboard jockey trolls that I hope I never meet in person think about anything.

…but I continue to post my stories in hopes that those same keyboard jockey trolls will read them.

It's calles sucker bait and you bottom feeders bite every time.

I think the feeling is mutual, Yet like Pharm said you still post.