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The article that John has in the latest issue issue of GUNS magazine on the "All around rifle" is a great read. It is one of those articles that I hate to finish as I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thanks John.
Dan
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Dan,
Thanks very much!
A few other people have e-mailed me directly, saying they really liked the article.
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Guess I'm going to the magazine rack this weekend.
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Just read it online: FACT OR ENDURING MYTH Excellent article!!
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yes I read it too
good job
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Excellent read!!! Only thing though, is now there will be no more threads on which cartridge is better.....   
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The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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+1 As usual, cutting thru BS and Urban Myths with facts and logic. DF
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As usual, cutting thru BS and Urban Myths with facts and logic.
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+1 Excellent article.
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Don't need to read it. He already said that the ideal all-around rifle is a .29 caliber.
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great article...
great pictures...
one question...
what is that scope, on the custom rifle in 6.5x55, it looks great.
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Guess I'm going to the magazine rack this weekend.
ddj Dang me 2... Dober
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Very good read as always, I was disappointed on one question left unanswered in the article, "which is better the 270 or the 280?"
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Dan,
Thanks very much!
A few other people have e-mailed me directly, saying they really liked the article. Well, I liked your article on neck lengths every bit as much. Maybe we could have a Campfire argument about the best all-around neck length... Casey
Casey
Not being married to any particular political party sure makes it a lot easier to look at the world more objectively...
Having said that, MAGA.
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gordie,
The scope on the 6.5x55 is one of the discontinued Burris 6x compact scopes. Once in a while they turn up on the Campfire Classfieds.
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Another good one by John...fun read.Common sense stuff as usual.  I liked the central theme of the article, which seemed to be that many different cartridges work well....and that old standards have not been supplanted by more modern stuff.
Last edited by BobinNH; 02/16/13.
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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gordie,
The scope on the 6.5x55 is one of the discontinued Burris 6x compact scopes. Once in a while they turn up on the Campfire Classfieds. I had one of those scopes years ago on my '06. (My all around rifle ) and sold it with a different gun. DUMB! Dan
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You covered the 260 AAR in the latest Guns?
I am ON it!
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Yep, I did include the 6.5x55!
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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Touch�!
That is ironic... I'm actually in the process of building my "All Around Rifle" in that very cartridge based upon the blueprint of your "honest" .338 WM.
A buddy gave me a Steyr LR 98 action, I got a light taper 21" Apex take-off and Talley LWs here, pulled an Oberndorf style alum BM unit from a PH action I bought here, bartered the installation of a Chapman 2-position safety, and am going to stick it all in a Bansner after I cerakote it myself. It'll be my only synthetic stocked rifle. A buddy here has a Leupold 6x 42mm that he may be selling, otherwise I'll likely do a 3-9x 40mm FFII w/ BP.
Oh yeah. All around perfection!!
Thanks again John,
efw
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