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How well a rifle feeds is much more interesting to me than how accurate it is. Consistently the best feeders for me have been:
Bolt action:
Pre-64 M70
FN Mausers
Oberndorf Mausers
Lever Action:
Winchester 94
Savage 99
Semi auto:
M1 Carbine
AK
Pump guns:
J.C. Higgins model 20 (a greased up ball bearing shell shucker) but ugly.
These are some of the most reliable rifles I�ve had in my hands. For absolute reliability title, I have to give it up to my M1 Carbine. I�ve had it for more than 20 years now and it has been my go to fun gun. It gets several thousand rounds through it each year and the only malfunction I have ever had was when it broke an extractor. Even then, it would function 14 out of 15 rounds, thanks to a tapered case and a nice chamber.
When you factor the round count, the time in my hands and the reliability rate, nothing has a better record IN MY HANDS.
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The Savage 99 I had any my Marlin 1895G seem to feed well also........
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"Prolly" is long reknowed cyber-shorthand for "probably".
If any more Canuckial Clarifications are warranted,please sing out...I'm happy to help.
That were apt.......................
Brad says: "Can't fault Rick for his pity letting you back on the fire... but pity it was and remains. Nothing more, nothing less. A sad little man in a sad little dream."
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All your feeding are belong to A-Bolt. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> I figured Stick might be bored of insulting Canucks, so I figured I'd give a bit of Japanese punk talk just to get him going again. It is sooo entertaining, after all. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
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Ever see one of those dolls that has the string hanging out the back? You pull the string and the doll talks! Woody on "Toy Story" had himself one of those strings...
So does "The Stick." Comical to watch indeed Jon!
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JB, I thought he was like a catfish??? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Still LMAO on that one awhile back! MtnHtr
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<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> "Da Stick" knows of what he speaketh, he just doesn't know when to stoppeth! I get more of a kick out of the herds of "sticklings" that follow his comments like he's the "Great Pied Piper" of the Great White North! "The Campfire hath no fury, like those who denegate their beloved Massa... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />" Full disclosure though, I have taken up his advice on "light for caliber" TSX bullets... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> I built a load for my 30-06 using 150 grain TSX in part because of some of his comments about his use of light bullets in the 7-08. "He'll,prolly take credit for my intelligence,for using,that load." Then agin,meybe not... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
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JBabcock, Too Funny!
Stick do have entertaiment value, and I think of his postings like panning for gold. Something that's fun to do, and if you sift through alot of gravel, every so often you come up with a Nugget!
I gotta credit him for getting me to try out the Leupy 6x42 scopes.
Reguards, Rob
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The "smoothest" feeding rifle in my collection is a mid-1970's era Colt-Sauer - never felt anything like it.
The most positive machine-like feeding, and the rifle I most trust in this aspect, is a custom Model 700 with a hand fitted center-feed magazine box.
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'Cock,
What did your Guide charge you,to say that?.....................
Brad says: "Can't fault Rick for his pity letting you back on the fire... but pity it was and remains. Nothing more, nothing less. A sad little man in a sad little dream."
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Sauer's are slickery bastards...good call....................
Brad says: "Can't fault Rick for his pity letting you back on the fire... but pity it was and remains. Nothing more, nothing less. A sad little man in a sad little dream."
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My smoothest rifles
Winchester Model 71
1952 Mannlicher
1954 custom Mauser .270
1956 Mauser by Marholdt
Sig Sauer SHR970
Magnum Mauser in .375 H&H by Krieghoff and Griffin & Howe
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Hey Journeyman, tell us more about this handfitted center magazine rascal for a 700. Some of us might be intensely interested in such an item. Who did the work?
Thanks,
SS
No words of mine can hope to convey to you the ringing joy and hope embodied in that spontaneous yell: �The Americans are coming; at last they are coming!�
I hadn�t the heart to disillusion them.
John "Pondoro" Taylor
Africa 1955
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SS, I have 3 center-feed 700s. The first is a G.A. Precision .300 WSM with a Wyatt's Outdoor extended box. It feeds the WSMs well but only comfortably holds 2 down in WSM (though my particular one with Badger bottom will take 3 UNcomfortably) The second is a 7-08 mountain rifle with an H-S Precision detatchable I installed myself. The third, and the one I refer to above, is a box my regular 'smith built himself similar to the Wyatt's except it is all stainless and is not extended. This one is on my Ti actioned .280 AI and as stated above is dead reliable. Unfortunately the 'smith isn't taking work and doesn't wish to be "advertised" as it were on the forums...(sorry <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />)
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I didn't know you could shoot out of the back of a jeep in africa? Hell, I've nver even SEEN a jeep in Africa! So you mean to tell me that I could have avoided walking those 8-10 miles a day when I could have shot out of the back of a "jeep"?
I'd like the name of that outfitter please. Oh yeah, in my experience, either a well tuned 70 or a M-98 clone. But what do I know, I WALKED when I could have rode! jorge Jorge, robert my last boss in CAR got one jeep wagoneer 4 doors but it was not in use and was rusting in garage and not driving at all of course .... we had toyota and a GMC 6x6 from WWII ... as you stated never seen a jeep (brand) in action in africa .... maybe the lovely roads are too confy ....!!!! see you
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My slickest is a Tikka T3 chambered for the nicely tapered 6.5X55.
I do, however, have a Ruger Ultralight Mk II 257 Roberts that will feed empty cartridges from the magazine. It's the only controlled round feed Ruger I own that will do it. Not as smooth as the Tikka though.
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My best feeding rifle is an early 50's FN Mauser that spent the first 45 years of it's existance as a .30-06 and the last 10 as a .35 Whelen.
My next best is another FN in .270 Win
And my third best(but coming along nicely) is a 1908 Brazilian(Oberndorf) in 9.3X62.
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The bolt on my Savage 99 imidiately engages the cartridge from the rotary magazine well before they enter the chamber; I think you could cycle shells with that thing while hanging upside down from a trapeez bar.
hammerless
99F 300 Savage
Ruger 96 22wmr
Ithica 49 22lr
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My best feeding rifle is an early 50's FN Mauser that spent the first 45 years of it's existance as a .30-06 and the last 10 as a .35 Whelen.
My next best is another FN in .270 Win
And my third best(but coming along nicely) is a 1908 Brazilian(Oberndorf) in 9.3X62. Nice taste in rifles.
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