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building a new rifle but need some input
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<blockquote data-quote="Guest" data-source="post: 87357"><p>DanC</p><p></p><p>Here's some advice from one whose been "around a while"! Find you a "used" M70 long action rifle...trash the barrel and get you something like a Premium Grade Douglas #5 contour barrel and chamber it for .338 Win Mag topped off with a Leupold scope maybe of 4.5x14x50MM with target knobs! Use Marine-Tex to bed the stock/relieve the barrel so it's not riding wood and you'll have something that will work real well! No...it ain't gonna be as hot as some of the other "hot rods" but if you learn to use it right....it will work real well and you won't be ordering a new tube every 800 rouds or less! This will make a fine elk/moose rifle and will "whack" any mulies/whitetails you want to dispose of with it! If you're recoil sensitive...it won't be too ruff on you and you can always have a brake put on up front! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guest, post: 87357"] DanC Here's some advice from one whose been "around a while"! Find you a "used" M70 long action rifle...trash the barrel and get you something like a Premium Grade Douglas #5 contour barrel and chamber it for .338 Win Mag topped off with a Leupold scope maybe of 4.5x14x50MM with target knobs! Use Marine-Tex to bed the stock/relieve the barrel so it's not riding wood and you'll have something that will work real well! No...it ain't gonna be as hot as some of the other "hot rods" but if you learn to use it right....it will work real well and you won't be ordering a new tube every 800 rouds or less! This will make a fine elk/moose rifle and will "whack" any mulies/whitetails you want to dispose of with it! If you're recoil sensitive...it won't be too ruff on you and you can always have a brake put on up front! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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