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does the forearm have the boss area cut into it? Wonder if the later barrel would have been wide enough to require that the forearm channel be widen enough to take it out completely.

Sounds like a factory rework to me with all of the SP stamps.

Gotta say it sure looks like a factory repair. 70's barrel put onto a 50's rifle. Something a little different, now you have to let us know how it shoots!

This rifle has a straight tapered barrel and the forearm fits the barrel. It doesn't have the boss area cut into it like the "F"'s usually do....

I can't wait to shoot this thing. All my other 250-3000's have the 1/14 twist and I only shoot the 87 grain bullets. I have about 7 boxes of factory ammo that are 100 gr. that I'm going to try. I have some Barnes triple-shock 100 gr. tsx boattail's I want to try re-loading later on. Might go to the range this weekend.

Joe

Well Joe I think you got a real nice rifle, enjoy

Johno

Is the rotor brass or aluminum?

rotor is brass........

Been having some personal problems and haven't been to the range in a while. I've been dying to shoot this rifle that I got from John and see how it does with 100 gr. bullets. None of my other 250-3000's stabilize the 100 gr.'s very well, but this one has a Westfield barrell. I ended up putting a Leupold M8-3X on it. I used factory Remington 100 gr. pointed soft points. It took me 6 shots to get it sighted in. The target below were shots 7, 8, and 9. I'll shoot it again before whitetail season, but this will be the rifle I take to the woods on the first day of Pa. deer season.

Joe

Is that a 3 shot group, or were you still dialing the scope in between each shot?

three shot group....

Not great, but I was in a hurry...Took three rifles to the range to sight in with different scopes. Another 250-3000 and a 300 savage. I probably have a twenty rifles that I haven't shot yet, or have to sight in with a different scope or sight. By deer season They'll all be ready.

I hear you there, got a bunch I need to get out and do load workup on. Discounting the high one as a fluke, that group may not be too bad. Definitely worth taking out again and checking. Do love the 250's though.

Any of those shots would be a dead deer....

That's minute of deer for a long ways off.

This thread has been an educational experience. I'm sure Jacks PA was offering the rifle in good faith. That said, I'm impressed with how you guys were able to figure out the ancestry of this particular rifle. Had I run into this rifle in a gunshop, it would have fooled me. As someone here said, it's a great hunter and shooter but not collector grade, therefore, not at a collector grade price.