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<blockquote data-quote="Buffalobob" data-source="post: 66553" data-attributes="member: 8"><p><strong>Re: Next year\'s new toy!</strong></p><p></p><p>About four down under your post is a very long and very thorough "basics of bedding". It is easy to do if you get your wife to read you the instructions before you start (I only read them when things go wrong). My first bedding job took two years to shoot loose because of a small burr on the vertical part of the recoil lug that I did not take the time to file off. But that action was really bedded.</p><p></p><p>Also go one page back in this part of the forum and look for "270izzy". He got all the same advice.</p><p></p><p>What I would do for a second backup gun is choose a caliber that is on the edge of a back up deer gun and really good for something else I wanted to hunt.</p><p>The 300 Win Mag and 7 Rem mag basically cover the same set of animals. Maybe you need a good 25 caliber which is a super varmint cal and still good for any size deer. I actually do the reverse from what I am advising you- I use a 24 caliber on deer and the 7mm as back up -you seem happy using the 7mm on deer and thats fine with me - it kills them dead. Maybe you need a 338 for polar bear hunting but it would still be ok for deer (might not be much meat left). That is just the way I think about things when getting a new gun. I never buy two guns for the same critter, just try to make sure I have overlap in the cabinet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buffalobob, post: 66553, member: 8"] [b]Re: Next year\'s new toy![/b] About four down under your post is a very long and very thorough "basics of bedding". It is easy to do if you get your wife to read you the instructions before you start (I only read them when things go wrong). My first bedding job took two years to shoot loose because of a small burr on the vertical part of the recoil lug that I did not take the time to file off. But that action was really bedded. Also go one page back in this part of the forum and look for "270izzy". He got all the same advice. What I would do for a second backup gun is choose a caliber that is on the edge of a back up deer gun and really good for something else I wanted to hunt. The 300 Win Mag and 7 Rem mag basically cover the same set of animals. Maybe you need a good 25 caliber which is a super varmint cal and still good for any size deer. I actually do the reverse from what I am advising you- I use a 24 caliber on deer and the 7mm as back up -you seem happy using the 7mm on deer and thats fine with me - it kills them dead. Maybe you need a 338 for polar bear hunting but it would still be ok for deer (might not be much meat left). That is just the way I think about things when getting a new gun. I never buy two guns for the same critter, just try to make sure I have overlap in the cabinet. [/QUOTE]
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