yankee outlaw
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yes sir at being 70 i still love my old rem 700 in 7 mm
1911's in 45 ACP and rifles in .257 Robert's, along with a trusty .308 shooting handloaded 165 grain Nosler Partitions handles most of my needs. Can't see a 6.5 PRC is any better than my 6.5X284. Nor does the 6.5 Creed exceed my .260 Rem handloads (formed off .308 brass). Then there's my 1895 Winchester in .405 Winchester. Beautiful in the hand and a pleasure to shoot. I 'm not saying I haven't bought and sold many dozens of the "newest, bestest, fastest (such as a 7.82 Warbird), but the old staples are the keepers.Cars? Give me late 60's early, very early 70's
Music? I'm all over the board.
Rifles? Same but lean towards newer customs as I've seemed to have been there done that.
Rifle scopes? I seem to be stuck with leupold. Trying to branch out but really like what ones I have. = but I will say, I branched out to a March and am really loving in but I am very aware that the March is in a totally different class
I love tradition also with rifles and shotguns I still shot from back in the early 70's era!!I call it tradition, also, why fix what ain't broke.
I have 2 new cartridge designs, the 6.5x47 Lapua and 300RUM, but have made my own designs on a cartridge that beat them all way back in 1912…the 416 Rigby case is still a design that is tomorrow. It just works with little Improvement…can run the same pressures as modern designs and doesn't have any issues to speak of.
Cheers.
Love to be there when you do I'm an alabama resident also. great lever action rifle you got there will you be putting a scope on it.I've owned several old firearms over the years even had a nice collection of 1800's octagon barreled Winchesters. But for some reason as iconic as it is and as much as I have admired it I had never owned the Savage 99 in the classic 300 Savage. So I set out on a mission to purchase one and after 4 attempts on gunbroker I finally found the perfect rifle for me. A 1949 model in good working order has been hunted and carried but taken good care of. All original no add one, never been drilled. Perfect for me as I intend to take a whitetail deer with it this season in the Alabama woods on my property. I think we're gonna have a lot of fun together with the time God blesses me with.
Absolutely not! This old girl will stay original. I had a hard time finding one that was still intact. Open sights anything with 150yds will be in serious trouble.Love to be there when you do I'm an alabama resident also. great lever action rifle you got there will you be putting a scope on it.