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Hey varmitsinc, is that a t3 std contour in a mickey stock?
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Southwind and Shane, thanks for the insight.
I've enjoyed wringing out this 308 so far. The heavy sleek bullets hold interest for sure if I can get them to shoot straight.
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Southwind that is a T3 lite in a BC stock. I had a BC and a Manners side by side and for me (Im sure someones head will explode at this) I could not justify the extra expense. I cannot honestly say what a Manners would do for me that the BC doesnt. My failure to read a wind correctly will have far more outcome in the field than any mechanical advantages a $700 stock might offer.
If you want some side by side photos of the BC with a OEM let me know.
Hunt hard, kill clean, waste nothing and offer no apologies.
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I am not one to flog you over owning a B&C, I own 4 myself. All work well and fit well. I have some HS Precision and Micky's as well certainly can't find any fault in my B&C's Funny, never had a game animal yet register a complaint about be harvested by a rifle with a B&C stock on it. I do have a Tikka 338 win mag with a B&C too, fits beautifully and shoots lights out like all Tikkas I have shot. I thought I could see checkering on your stock in the photo but it may just be my eyes. Good shooting and take care.
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Not checkering. Im a texturing fool with the devcon, cant help myself from doing it on every synthetic stock I have. Close up of one stock
Hunt hard, kill clean, waste nothing and offer no apologies.
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I like it! The whole rig looks good. Do you sand the original surface to prep for your devcon. Are you a krylon finish guy or do you use something else?
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The stock is high tech krylon with sea sponges done by my kids. If I want to go high tech I will coat the whole thing with clear cerakote. The base rifle and scope and done in sniper grey cerakote.
Hunt hard, kill clean, waste nothing and offer no apologies.
"In rifle work, group size is of some interest...but it is well to remember that a rifleman does not shoot groups, he shoots shots." Jeff Cooper
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Shane is my hero behind the .308, and I don't have many heroes. Always pushing the envelope of accepted thinking. A true pioneer. Shane what is your COAL with the 208s?
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I'm loading the 208s to 3.05" OAL. They kiss lands at 3.08", but at that length a loaded round will not fully extract/eject without releasing the bolt.
If I push them down to 2.98" they will load and feed from the Wyatt's box, and still shoot ok, but a fair amount of compression and sometimes they will 'grow' especially if moly'd.
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I just finished this rig in .308. Once I get her broken in, I'm gonna try to feed her some 208's.
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Since one of the subject rifles here is a 270 Win., I will throw my hat in the ring. Just yesterday I took a fella out to shoot some LR, he had never done it before. I was shooting my Jon Beanland built 6.5 Creedmoor, but I let the new guy shoot my sons 270. It is built on a Rem 721 by Mike Bryant, trued and with a Hart barrel in an HS stock. I kept it all sporter weight as a pack-able hunting rifle, and for glass it just has the old tried and true SWFA fixed 10x42. No fancy Bergers in it either, just a plain old 140 NBT running right at 3000 fps. But it reaches out a grand just fine, even though the wind really starts playing with that NBT the further you push it. Out to 700-900 it shoots really nice though, the ranges it is intended for deer. I really need to go apologize to that fellas wife, I think I just cost them some money. He had a real good time stretching that thing out. Here is what it looks like.
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Nice looking rigs, Grand and JTP.
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I got a 1938 Atlas Craftsman 12x36 lathe when a friend died of a heart attack while hunting. I built a rifle with it. 1956 Winchester M70 action 22" PacNor lightweight taper barrel Bordon Rimrock stock Weaver Aluminum scope mounts Medium Aluminum 4 screw rings Leupold 2x7x33 scope Stoney point knob Harris HBLS 8.5" - 12.5" type S bipod Butler Creek stretchy sling Butler Creek objective cover Dvorak instruments soft eye cover _____________________ 8.9 pounds unloaded I killed (8) mule deer between 329 and 510 yards with that rifle.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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tag for future reference.
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