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I buy rifles and sometimes sell them before ever hunting with them. Did pick up a couple recently that may make the keeper pile . Newer 700 youth model 243 , put it in an older ADL wood stock , trigger job and 3-9 leupold. Seems to shoot pretty well with several loads. The other is kind of an oddball but should make a handy woods rifle. Ruger mini 14 6.8 spc that shoots way better than it should.

I like getting a new or new to me rifle, gathering up mounts and scope, then trying it out.

I have a scope that’s lonely.

You should buy it!

Shoot ballistic tips!

I sure want it!

That’s me. I notched two virgins last Fall. If the weather settles, I may add another this weekend, though my enthusiasm level is pretty low when it comes to dragging one out. My son blooded one I gave him and the kids last weekend in VA.

Model 70 Classic with a new #2 Pac-Nor 1:8 twist barrel in a Legend Echols stock.

Should be back in the next month. Already have some 170gr Nolser BT, 160gr NPt,

Have not been able to find any more 277 heavies to play with. Looking forward to shooting it.

Nothing planned here, but if a Montana or Custom Select in 260 Rem fell in my lap.........

Not a new one, but I have a remington 7600 carbine in 308 that I'm going to be using a lot more

I've got a 7600 carbine in 06. Tough to beat for a woods gun .

I only got 3/4 of the way through the 4 rifle rotation I had planned this year. Now I've started playing with my long-dormant .25-06AI and different bullets so I think I'll throw that into the mix which is like getting a new rifle, I haven't used it in so long. I may also retrieve my .303 Savage that's currently at my son's house to quiet the inexplicable urge I have had lately to get get a .30-30.

I really don't have any desire to get a new (or new to me) rifle. I'm really trying to cut back. I recently sent two handguns and a rifle down the road and used the proceeds to buy a new sporting clays gun which I like a lot. However, I find myself asking why because I only shoot sporting clays a couple of times a month and I've always been happy to do it with my duck gun or one of my bird guns.

All that said, even though I'm not actively looking for another gun of any kind, if I come across any one of several revolvers, shotguns or rifles at anywhere near the right price they will come home with me. I don't think I'll ever be cured.

Just finished scrubbing out the bore of a new to me Encore 6.5 Creedmoor barrel. There was quite the accumulation but the borescope didn't find an alligatored throat and there weren't any broach marks. 5R rifling. I put a new to me Redfield 3 x9 Tracker scope on it and collimated the crosshairs. On the paper and close to POA at 50 yards out behind the barn....waiting for some better Michigan weather to go to the range and zero it at 100 yds. This should make a nice walking around rifle for the U.P. woods.

Not sure but imagine some will come along. I am thinking more about selling more than a few. I just cant seem to make up my mind of which ones. Maybe a Rem 725 .270 or a dozen others.

Was at my favorite LGS the other day and they had a Ruger 77/44 Stainless/Synthetic with a Leupold 2-7 that is identical to my 77/22 mag.

Same scope.

For $700 I couldn't pass it up

Michigan is one of those retard states that has a straight wall rule for the southern portion. Cheap way to get into the straight wall game for the few times I hunt down there and don't feel like using a muzzle loader.

Going on 3 years since my last gun purchase........

Cant even imagine what would cause me to add a rifle to the collection. I got about twice as many as I need.

What’s your secret??

Right there with you. Nothing is going to work better than what I've got. When it's go time I want something in my hands that's tried and true, tuned and fitted to my specs and fits like a glove. I've got that.

If anything I need to pair down the collection. I used three different guns this year, one of which had killed an elk and a couple of doe but never a buck, one that I haven't hunted with since 2010, and another I've owned 5y and it tallied it's first deer.

Had no plans for one. But found a guy that had a m760 cut to factory carbine length. Cerakoted, carbalite stock, timney trigger etc....

Can't buy cheap 760s for projects and he already had the expensive stuff done.....I basically paid for the work and parts and got the rifle free. Couldn't let it sit there. It's 300sav for now which is why it sat long enough for me to see it I think. But, JES can fix that for me....already have a 7600 Whelen carbine I keep with a ghost ring setup. This will be a 358win carbine with a scope...probably going to ditch the carbalite stock...nice stock but way too heavy for me.

Oh ya...has a decent Burris scope I'll take off too...so I'll be able to offset my stock and rebore prices..