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Ole 270 comes back to life!
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<blockquote data-quote="bballard" data-source="post: 1964075" data-attributes="member: 25875"><p>Congrats on your beautiful rifle. I too put a McGowen prefit 280 barrel on a remington 700 donor action that was actually a 280 & 7mm Express marked barrel, but I could not get it to shoot worth a hoot....so, I ordered the McGowen barrel in a 23 inch length to be different and had a local gunsmith screw it on the action and set the headspace. Did not blueprint or true the action. I had a custom maple stock made and had it full length bedded. Put in a timney trigger. First group that I shot with it after sight in was some Nosler 140 grain Accubond hand loads. The group looked pretty much like yours....half inch. No barrel break in, just sat down and shot it. I think McGowen has had some ups and downs over the years, but I would not hesitate having them make me another prefit barrel. I love that rifle!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bballard, post: 1964075, member: 25875"] Congrats on your beautiful rifle. I too put a McGowen prefit 280 barrel on a remington 700 donor action that was actually a 280 & 7mm Express marked barrel, but I could not get it to shoot worth a hoot....so, I ordered the McGowen barrel in a 23 inch length to be different and had a local gunsmith screw it on the action and set the headspace. Did not blueprint or true the action. I had a custom maple stock made and had it full length bedded. Put in a timney trigger. First group that I shot with it after sight in was some Nosler 140 grain Accubond hand loads. The group looked pretty much like yours....half inch. No barrel break in, just sat down and shot it. I think McGowen has had some ups and downs over the years, but I would not hesitate having them make me another prefit barrel. I love that rifle! [/QUOTE]
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