Calvin45
Well-Known Member
@Muddyboots…earlier I mentioned in passing that I might replace my old 270 with a .257 weatherby…and the thing is, you were right! BLASPHEMY!!!! And I can't bring myself to part with old reliable.
It's not a special rifle on the outside. It's ugly, it's cheap, an old pre accutrigger savage 111 package gun with a Simmons scope. 400 bucks back in high school. It's also accounted for most of my deer so far. It was my first rifle that was mine and not borrowed, my parents helped me buy it when i was 14
It has a stock that I took a utility knife to to make it truly free floating
. It lost the detent ball that sits on the spring behind the extractor within the bolt face during an ill advised disassembly in my youth: I replaced it with an individual #2 steel shot pellet and it
Hasn't hiccuped once. It has never shot a cloverleaf group. It has also only ever found 2 loads out of dozens it couldn't do an honest 1.5 inches with.
I can't part with it dang it!!!!
But I'm still getting the .257 weatherby hahahaha!!!!!!
It's not a special rifle on the outside. It's ugly, it's cheap, an old pre accutrigger savage 111 package gun with a Simmons scope. 400 bucks back in high school. It's also accounted for most of my deer so far. It was my first rifle that was mine and not borrowed, my parents helped me buy it when i was 14
It has a stock that I took a utility knife to to make it truly free floating
. It lost the detent ball that sits on the spring behind the extractor within the bolt face during an ill advised disassembly in my youth: I replaced it with an individual #2 steel shot pellet and itHasn't hiccuped once
. It has never shot a cloverleaf group. It has also only ever found 2 loads out of dozens it couldn't do an honest 1.5 inches with. I can't part with it dang it!!!!
But I'm still getting the .257 weatherby hahahaha!!!!!!
