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<blockquote data-quote="Alibiiv" data-source="post: 1716263" data-attributes="member: 69192"><p>Maybe a typo?? I'm hoping "plinking" gun!!???</p><p></p><p></p><p>Recently I bought a Ruger 77 tang safety in 30-06 to use as a donor rifle for $300 off of GunBroker; came out of a PD in Kentucky. The stock looked like it have been in a fire and then dragged behind a truck down a country road for about a mile!! I decided that I was going to play with the stock, try clean the rifle up and then send it out to have the rifle blueprinted and rebarreled. I got the stock to clean up really nice, my son then put a couple of coats of clear on it to dress stock up. I also pillar bedded the stock, glass bedded the stock and floated the barrel, then did a couple of adjustments to the trigger and put an old Leupold scope that I'd had kicking around. I had some 168gr, (Hornady??) match HPBT bullets and some SuperFormance powder and put them through the stock barrel at the range. To my surprise the rifle consistently made five shot bug holes. I know that with a better piece of glass the rifle will shoot just as well at 300 yards. And......after I wrote this entire paragraph, I realized, "if you are getting one hole groups out of any stock factory rifle at 300 yards, go buy a couple lottery tickets"; <u><em>guess the rifle isn't a stock rifle now is it???</em></u><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> But....it still shoots really well with a stock barrel; and.....there will not be a new barrel or blueprinting for this rifle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alibiiv, post: 1716263, member: 69192"] Maybe a typo?? I'm hoping "plinking" gun!!??? Recently I bought a Ruger 77 tang safety in 30-06 to use as a donor rifle for $300 off of GunBroker; came out of a PD in Kentucky. The stock looked like it have been in a fire and then dragged behind a truck down a country road for about a mile!! I decided that I was going to play with the stock, try clean the rifle up and then send it out to have the rifle blueprinted and rebarreled. I got the stock to clean up really nice, my son then put a couple of coats of clear on it to dress stock up. I also pillar bedded the stock, glass bedded the stock and floated the barrel, then did a couple of adjustments to the trigger and put an old Leupold scope that I'd had kicking around. I had some 168gr, (Hornady??) match HPBT bullets and some SuperFormance powder and put them through the stock barrel at the range. To my surprise the rifle consistently made five shot bug holes. I know that with a better piece of glass the rifle will shoot just as well at 300 yards. And......after I wrote this entire paragraph, I realized, "if you are getting one hole groups out of any stock factory rifle at 300 yards, go buy a couple lottery tickets"; [U][I]guess the rifle isn't a stock rifle now is it???[/I][/U]:rolleyes::rolleyes: But....it still shoots really well with a stock barrel; and.....there will not be a new barrel or blueprinting for this rifle. [/QUOTE]
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