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Ive got a few pigs, I guess, but they're all Tikkas. Compared to the high end and custom jobs they might be pigs, but I'm all about accuracy so I don't mind the curly tail. T3 Superlite Stainless T3 Another Superlite Stainless T3 I bought used here on the Fire Just for fun I get the bolts fluted. I swap out the plastic bolt shroud for metal. So I guess there's some lipstick. P
Obey lawful commands. Video interactions. Hold bad cops accountable. Problem solved.
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When you take them out hunting, you don't fret about damaging them near as much.
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Accurate utility rifles in my care usually remain as purchased. The trigger may be replaced if it's hard to get good field position accuracy. Other than that, I leave them alone.
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My Pig:
Early R700 LH 270Win Mtn contour, bought for $270.00 McMillan Edge stock I traded into Light weight firing pin ass. Trigger Job, by me Talley Lt Weights Swaro 3-10
7lb 6ozs
and shoots .75-1" groups with 150r Core-Lokts
Go Figure!
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I have got a .30/06 Springfield rifle, ugliest sporterised military straight stock that someone whittled on and then scratched some checkering onto and called it good. Probably done in the 1950's. It has a Parker Hale receiver sight cobbled onto the side. It would be the ugliest bloody rifle I ever saw, excepting a Mosin Nagant or any kind of Savage. I got it basically for nothing. The space it was taking up was worth more than the rifle. I had visions of using the action to make a nice old-school sporter in a fine stock, a la Griffen and Howe. All it had to do was just shoot alright and I would be satisfied with three inch groups.
But with any load I give it I can shoot a one inch to 1.5 inch group at 100 meters with that peep sight, and it seems it was brought up in the wild by a family of .300 Magnum's because she gives me top velocity as well.
Can't really bring myself to do anything with it now. Sometimes they earn their place as they are.
"A person that carries a cat home by the tail will receive information that will always be useful to him." Mark Twain
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My brother gave me his funky ol' first year Marlin 917V, spray painted desert tan & brown w Simmons glass. No telling how many rounds he and his two kids have shot thru it.
Cleaned barrel best I could and put older Micro T1 on it for summer pest control. Does $600 optic on free rifle at least qualify as lip balm?
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�When in doubt, I whip it out.� Uncle Ted
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Does $600 optic on free rifle at least qualify as lip balm? Yep.....
You better pray to the God of Skinny Punks that this wind doesn't pick up......
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Nothing like raw html for good reading... Heck, it's shorter than some of your posts... LOL, I almost spit out my coffee!
“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Nothing like raw html for good reading... Heck, it's shorter than some of your posts... LOL, I almost spit out my coffee! You're welcome. Go Cards!
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Does $600 optic on free rifle at least qualify as lip balm? Yep..... Well played, DS! Need to get a shot of the 917 w sumpin dead this weekend; may get a Sharpie and Kuiu up stock first!
Last edited by ColdCase1984; 06/13/17.
�When in doubt, I whip it out.� Uncle Ted
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