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Re: rifle looney advice mjbgalt #8885322 05/22/14
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SAUMHUNTER79 Campfire Regular S Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 1,702 WI	Keep the .257 Roberts as is, get the 700 barrel reamed to .30-06 if there's enough to work with. Otherwise, get a new barrel installed chambered in .30-06 and take full advantage of that long action.

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Re: rifle looney advice mjbgalt #8885372 05/22/14
Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 96,158 Likes: 3 Southern New Mexico E elkhunternm Campfire Oracle
elkhunternm Campfire Oracle E Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 96,158 Likes: 3 Southern New Mexico	Originally Posted by mjbgalt wife and i are in the middle of a debt purge and restructuring the way we do things. one of those "the way we did it didn't work" things. so with the new plan, i'd like to pitch in by slimming down my toy collection and making things simple. i have the same raging rifle looney disease as the rest of you. right now i have: mauser 257 roberts remington long action .243 (got a hell of a deal on the action) i deer hunt with a bow almost exclusively due to ohio's laws sucking muchly. i also love to bowhunt. i am eventually going to go do more big game hunting with a rifle but maybe not for a while. think the .243 will do it all? keep the bow and buy a varmint rifle instead? entertain and enlighten me Keep the bow and the .257 Rbts,sell the .243. The Roberts will do everything the .243 will do and a little bit more. Life Member SCI Life Member DSC Member New Mexico Shooting Sports Association Take your responsibilities seriously, never yourself-Ken Howell Proper bullet placement + sufficient penetration = quick, clean kill. Finn Aagard Ken

Re: rifle looney advice 16bore #8885842 05/22/14
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Homesteader Campfire Regular Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 1,438 South Florida	16bore - "The minimalist lifestyle makes more sense everyday." If that were true then we'd be using slingshots. Can't get worked up over elastic surgical tubing the way I do over blued CM and finely figured walnut. Imagine being called a slingshot looney...yuck. 'jus sayin Homesteader

Re: rifle looney advice Homesteader #8885950 05/22/14
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16bore Campfire Ranger 1 Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 17,927	Minimalist as in less stuff, not cheap schit. Gimme one high end piece of gear for 3 mediocre.

Re: rifle looney advice elkhunternm #8886245 05/22/14
Joined: May 2005 Posts: 10,449 north central PA S shootinurse Campfire Outfitter
shootinurse Campfire Outfitter S Joined: May 2005 Posts: 10,449 north central PA	Originally Posted by elkhunternm Originally Posted by mjbgalt wife and i are in the middle of a debt purge and restructuring the way we do things. one of those "the way we did it didn't work" things. so with the new plan, i'd like to pitch in by slimming down my toy collection and making things simple. i have the same raging rifle looney disease as the rest of you. right now i have: mauser 257 roberts remington long action .243 (got a hell of a deal on the action) i deer hunt with a bow almost exclusively due to ohio's laws sucking muchly. i also love to bowhunt. i am eventually going to go do more big game hunting with a rifle but maybe not for a while. think the .243 will do it all? keep the bow and buy a varmint rifle instead? entertain and enlighten me Keep the bow and the .257 Rbts,sell the .243. The Roberts will do everything the .243 will do and a little bit more. This. "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." Robert E. Howard

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Re: rifle looney advice shootinurse #8886549 05/22/14
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OP mjbgalt Campfire Ranger M Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 15,757 Likes: 1	yup. put the 243 in the classifieds. bought a mission riot and sighted it in. keeping the 257 bob and wife wants my old bow. paying off debt as we speak Last edited by mjbgalt; 05/23/14.

Re: rifle looney advice Pappy348 #8889578 05/23/14
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OrangeOkie Campfire Ranger Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 23,319 Oklahoma	Don't sell either rifle. Instead, check out Dave Ramsey dot com. Dave Ramsey's 7 Baby Steps to becoming debt free. "All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee

Re: rifle looney advice OrangeOkie #8896397 05/26/14
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OP mjbgalt Campfire Ranger M Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 15,757 Likes: 1	thanks, i have taken his class. i am also a securities-licensed financial advisor. was just looking for advice from guys who have been there before Last edited by mjbgalt; 05/26/14.

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