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What is it? What is your thought on the one cartridge that is epitomy of being a rifle loony? You know, when some has one it just oozes rifle loony.
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Obviously, the answer is JB's B-29
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If you own two .308 Noma magnums and are looking for an SS Model 70 classic to convert that could define it.....
Barring that owning a 7x61 Sharpe & Hart with a long neck so you can use resized 7mm Remington Magnum brass without trimming...
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Hahaha nice!... I had thought .280ai, but that has receive too much mainstream gun press in the past couple of years maybe. I thought of a couple that might make the grade as suficiently Rifle Loonyish. 7x57 .250AI 6.5-06
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I don't know what it is, but I just can't get over the idea of having a slim, handy rifle chambered for .257 Kimber. Is it the ultimate R.L. cartridge? I doubt it, but it's the ultimate for me. (For right now, anyway )
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I thought of a couple that might make the grade as suficiently Rifle Loonyish. 7x57
I'll agree on the 7x57 but only if you stamp it .275 Rigby. That would give you some extra rifle loony panache
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I'll agree on the 7x57 but only if you stamp it .275 Rigby. That would give you some extra rifle loony panache Brilliant! That has to make the ranks there.
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I had my 280 Rem stamped 7mm Express for the sytle points
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Building a rifle in a chambering that requires a $200+ set of custom form dies to load a cartridge that is the ballistic equal to something already commercially available
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A .280 AI reeks rifle loony in My book...............Hb
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.219 Zipper, 8x57JS or 30 Newton.
Enough already, just shoot it!
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My vote is for the 7 MM Gradle- Requires lots of work to mimic already existing ballistics-
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I'm with Royce.
It's gotta be one of the rounds that requires 20 trick moves to equal a 300 Savage in a 9 pound hunting rifle.
I do have a friend that built 25 RUM the first year 300 RUM brass came out. He was running 100 grain Sierras at I don't remember how fast. That barrel couldn't have lasted 700 rounds. Wish I still remembered all the stupidity of that adventure.
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My vote is for the 7 MM Gradle- Requires lots of work to mimic already existing ballistics- A 7mm gradle express would be kind of cool...although redunant with the 7mm WSM and SUAM available now.
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The 7x57 has got to be it.. Not chambered in any modern American production rifle (for good reason), this makes it all the more enticing to the evening tea drinkers. Even though the 7-08 will do anything the 7x57 will do, it's just too "plebeian" for use by those who wear smoking jackets, womens slippers and enjoy discussing the subtle nuances of their favorite brandy. Finally, because some animals were shot with it many years ago in Africa, (millions, if not billions more probably wounded), the high pockets find it irresistible. These folks are usually only inches away from catching the gay, if not already a carrier of the disease.
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6mmPPC is about loony enough for me.
And the.375 is cool but......375 Remington Ultra Magnum is WAY LOONY !
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...These folks are usually only inches away from catching the gay, if not already a carrier of the disease. Just come right and say Ingwe then...
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I didn't want to mention names but....
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JM,
The 7x57 is presently chambered in the Ruger No. 1 International, or at least that's what Ruger's website says.
Now THAT would be a rifle loony rifle.
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Ruger is a Albanian company, so that doesn't count.
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