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<blockquote data-quote="alcesgigas" data-source="post: 530849" data-attributes="member: 34925"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I've developed a fondness for this site; its become my "breakfast non-edible repast" and I'd like to get educated some more along the following lines:</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I have a M70 Stainless Classic in 375 H&H early nineties production. I "re-floated" the barrel, inserted an 11 ounce mercury recoil suppressor in the butt stock, adjusted the trigger to three and a half pounds and re-bedded the action using Brownell's stainless steel [epoxy] bed. For sights I put a red linear "glower" front, Leupold detachable rings & base holding a Leupold VIII 1.5-5 with Butler Creek modified snap caps over ocular and objective lenses. It has a Hunter sling on my own rings. It weighs 10.5# loaded with three cartridges and the recoil is about like that of my 270 M70. It shoots a little less than two inch groups with my hand loads (270 gr. Barnes w/IMR 4320) averaging five reloads before the case begins to split. I carry this rifle on my boat when it's not on my back excepting between October and May first or so; I live in Arctic Alaska and, yes, I've had to use it. That's why I have it. However, I carry it these days no more than seven tenths of a mile. Don't ask. </span>Its been on the Discovery Channel in<em> Alaska Most Extreme</em> concerning a bear in a cabin and yours truly. So its had its fifteen minutes as have I--whom is on the wrong side of 65.</p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I'm either going to sell this rifle or convert it to a LRH; I'm undecided. Let's get a discussion going to widen my horizons so to speak: To Sell or To Rebuild? (There <em>are</em> some fundamental rigidities so to speak: the <strong><em><u>only</u></em></strong> action I'd use is M70 CRF and if I do sell I'll be chatting with MRC about one of their largest PH in SS. Twenty pounds or so would be ideal with say a 28" heavy w/Muscle #4 brake and retaining that mercury suppressor for sure. And no belted brass--please!)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alcesgigas, post: 530849, member: 34925"] [FONT=Verdana]I've developed a fondness for this site; its become my "breakfast non-edible repast" and I'd like to get educated some more along the following lines:[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]I have a M70 Stainless Classic in 375 H&H early nineties production. I "re-floated" the barrel, inserted an 11 ounce mercury recoil suppressor in the butt stock, adjusted the trigger to three and a half pounds and re-bedded the action using Brownell's stainless steel [epoxy] bed. For sights I put a red linear "glower" front, Leupold detachable rings & base holding a Leupold VIII 1.5-5 with Butler Creek modified snap caps over ocular and objective lenses. It has a Hunter sling on my own rings. It weighs 10.5# loaded with three cartridges and the recoil is about like that of my 270 M70. It shoots a little less than two inch groups with my hand loads (270 gr. Barnes w/IMR 4320) averaging five reloads before the case begins to split. I carry this rifle on my boat when it's not on my back excepting between October and May first or so; I live in Arctic Alaska and, yes, I've had to use it. That's why I have it. However, I carry it these days no more than seven tenths of a mile. Don't ask. [/FONT]Its been on the Discovery Channel in[I] Alaska Most Extreme[/I] concerning a bear in a cabin and yours truly. So its had its fifteen minutes as have I--whom is on the wrong side of 65. [FONT=Verdana]I'm either going to sell this rifle or convert it to a LRH; I'm undecided. Let's get a discussion going to widen my horizons so to speak: To Sell or To Rebuild? (There [I]are[/I] some fundamental rigidities so to speak: the [B][I][U]only[/U][/I][/B] action I'd use is M70 CRF and if I do sell I'll be chatting with MRC about one of their largest PH in SS. Twenty pounds or so would be ideal with say a 28" heavy w/Muscle #4 brake and retaining that mercury suppressor for sure. And no belted brass--please!) [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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