Recent content by dcgauger

Mine dates from the first half of the 1970's. It works OK but it is NOT a 70 Win or 700 Rem. I bought it beacuse I am left handed, wanted to build a rifle, was out of the service, in college, and not made out of money. The WORST thing about the design is that the trigger group is separate...

I have one that I built years ago. It started as an action from Brownell's that I barreled in .25-06. Later, I opened up the bolt face and it is now a tight-neck 7mm Rem Mag. Mine is a left hand action in a Fajen walnut/maple laminated stock.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought HS Precision was using some kind of radiused groove profile in some of the barrels they were making on site six or eight years ago. Didn't hear much about them, maybe for good reason. Think I saw it in some of their advertising propaganda at the time. dg

Good Point! With the .243 case, i was intending on staying around 3000fps. I have a 22" barreled 700 BDL that you CAN'T make shoot over 2950 with 100 Sierra flatbases. Also, with a faster twist, the rotational energy component will be higher at the expense of the translational component for...

Hi, I am new to this board. I have several .22 centerfires and a Hart-barreled tight-neck 7mm Mag varminter that I use for PDs a couple times a year. A few years ago, I rechambered a Savage 112FLVSS .22-250 to .22 Cheetah MarkI. It is in a Choate varminter stock, has a Canjar trigger and a...