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No pics, yet. There will be, after I get it from the shop in a couple weeks (money down; final payment after some pay comes through).
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sean...what kind of configuration is this rifle? A Mark X kind of thing, or more Whitworthy...?
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Mark X. But, old MkX. Manchester, England stamped, so we'll see if it's a Whitworth under the barrel root when it gets home.
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I cobbled up a Mark X in .30-06 and kinda like how it turned out...gave it to Ingwewife... ![[Linked Image]](http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss45/thmsbrownlee/003_3-1.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss45/thmsbrownlee/015_15.jpg) She's done OK with it.... 
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That rifle is simply stunning.....
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I did some culling with it on the last trip.... ![[Linked Image]](http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss45/thmsbrownlee/020_20-1.jpg)
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How on earth did you manage to kill that beast in your final picture without the help of the hound pictured above?
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ingwe, Is that Foxi I see? ![[Linked Image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/jfrazer2/Africa%2006/Africa%20Hunting%2006/foxiandbone.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/jfrazer2/Africa%2006/Africa%20Hunting%2006/hartebeest1web.jpg) Coincidentally, the rifle in the second picture is my Whitworth, though in a McMillan stock.
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GREAT grab! I have some 100gr TTSX's and lots of other 25 cal bullets for you to try, also have the dies. Just bring fresh brass.
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Awesome!
If only the TTSX had a better BC.....
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Ingwe, I do like the way you cobble. Beautiful!
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Have one of those around the same vintage. Plain vanilla wood stock with a very good trigger. Shoots 120 Hornady HPs into 1/2 to 3/4. Haven't loaded for it in a while so will have to check the powder charge later. But I recall it was on the high end of book with R-22.
Turned out to be 52.5gr RL-22.
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ingwe, Is that Foxi I see? Coincidentally, the rifle in the second picture is my Whitworth, though in a McMillan stock. That is none other than Foxi!  we had many adventures together! Including me kicking a crazed jackal off of him....and shortly thereafter sending him to Jackal Heaven via the 7x57 express train... Another Foxi pic, after a dynamic tracking job! ![[Linked Image]](http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss45/thmsbrownlee/34990020.jpg)
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Great pics... Great grab... ANd of course, i am a quarter bore fan as well!!!! I just like the .25 on steroids (257 Roy)!! 
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Awesome!
If only the TTSX had a better BC..... I've kilt big mule deer bucks out to 495 lazered yards with 'em. the deer did not notive the 'poor' BC. Of course I was starting them out at a real mans velocity of 3800fps, not a wimpy measly 3300....  I have a pile of other 257 bullets to try as well. CT's, Vmax's, NBT's.... Most of them already coated with moly. Will order up some Varmint grenades if you want to nuke some rockchucks with it. Could be spectacular. Just bring fresh brass, all else can be handled 'in house'
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I could probbly round up a 257WBY reamer, as well. Have a 'few' 25 Roy cases lying around. The only thing better than a TTSX at 3300 is one at 3600+
LOVE God, LOVE your family, LOVE your country, LIKE guns and sports.
About 2016 team "R" candidates "We definitely need a crew with a sack of balls the size of hot water bottles, bloviated estrogen leaking feel-gooders need not apply." Gunner 500
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I bought a Rem 700 .25-06 from CrimsonTide years ago, and I have to say that it is one of my very favorite rifles. Shoots great, kicks like a cupcake, and kills stuff dead.
I love my quarter bore!
Wade
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I could probbly round up a 257WBY reamer, as well. Have a 'few' 25 Roy cases lying around. The only thing better than a TTSX at 3300 is one at 3600+ Nope, no Roy, as per matching the .30-06 and 9.3x62 set-ups. Don't need it... Moly, is a given.
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Ingwe, you can "cobble" together anything you like from my gun safe except my L579 Sako. It's "cobbled" close enough for me. E
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