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Is Your Rifle Ready? By Darrell Holland
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<blockquote data-quote="1100 Remington Man" data-source="post: 738628" data-attributes="member: 29824"><p>Well I will tell you I'm 52 and never had a problem with my rifles till this year had a nice deer come out in a snow storm in Montana. I watched it for about 5 minutes even got prone for the shot, but it was the first night of our week out west for hunting & I wanted a Big Mule deer it was bigger than last year but, I did take the gun off safe and stared it down then decided not to shoot put gun on safety and hiked out at dark. Then to my surprise when unloading it felt as if my safety was broken and the bolt would not open Win. Model 70 XTR safety moved back and forth bolt would not open. I emptied the magazine and pulled trigger did not want to ride in truck with a rifle I did not know if it was on safe or not, well it fired fine but the bolt would not open. I thought I was screwed 800 miles from the gun safe and I brought one rifle. Went to camp had dinner put rifle in tent and within 5 minutes rifle was working perfect and did for rest of trip a drop of water in the wrong place froze. I have hunted Coyotes my whole life from -20F in Iowa and in snow and never had this happen and I am a Ex-Marine and keep my guns clean and dry but this was a first. Just FYI I also put wax on Exterior of metal even though it has Cerakote on it. What did I learn even perfect Maintenance S*** Happens & never go with West without a backup rifle in the group.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1100 Remington Man, post: 738628, member: 29824"] Well I will tell you I'm 52 and never had a problem with my rifles till this year had a nice deer come out in a snow storm in Montana. I watched it for about 5 minutes even got prone for the shot, but it was the first night of our week out west for hunting & I wanted a Big Mule deer it was bigger than last year but, I did take the gun off safe and stared it down then decided not to shoot put gun on safety and hiked out at dark. Then to my surprise when unloading it felt as if my safety was broken and the bolt would not open Win. Model 70 XTR safety moved back and forth bolt would not open. I emptied the magazine and pulled trigger did not want to ride in truck with a rifle I did not know if it was on safe or not, well it fired fine but the bolt would not open. I thought I was screwed 800 miles from the gun safe and I brought one rifle. Went to camp had dinner put rifle in tent and within 5 minutes rifle was working perfect and did for rest of trip a drop of water in the wrong place froze. I have hunted Coyotes my whole life from -20F in Iowa and in snow and never had this happen and I am a Ex-Marine and keep my guns clean and dry but this was a first. Just FYI I also put wax on Exterior of metal even though it has Cerakote on it. What did I learn even perfect Maintenance S*** Happens & never go with West without a backup rifle in the group. [/QUOTE]
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