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Pseudo sort of long range practice
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<blockquote data-quote="Kevin Thomas" data-source="post: 346775" data-attributes="member: 15748"><p>Hey Mike,</p><p> </p><p>Sadly, the 40-X seems to be a project type item these days. I bought a couple through the CMP a couple years back and have built some competitive guns off those. They do apparently still have the 40-X on some sort of basis, as they just quoted me a price of an action yesterday for insurance purposes. UPS managed to destroy a shipping tube and subsequently lost a 40-X action and a Hart barrel I'd sent off to a smith to be assembled into a Hunter Class SB Silhouette rifle. Remington gave me the price to replace it and said they'd do one up for me, but it doesn't seem to be a catalog item any longer. I'm sure I can chalk this one up to just one of the perks of being "in the industry"and I truly do appreciate that. Beyond that, I think they're relegated to purely custom type status, and I couldn't find them list on their web/catalog site either. Real shame, since they're beautiful rifles and a pleasure to work with. Last time I bought a barreled action directly from them (Remington) was probably15 years ago, and that one went into my prone gun. Price at that time was somewhere around $1100-1200 or so. Since then, the CMP has had them occasionally, and I've tried to take advantage of that when I could. </p><p> </p><p>Regardless of the rifle being used, the rimfires are a great form of not only practice, but competition in their own right. I never could understand someone willing to spend big bucks on a centerfire, but then balking at spending simlar money on a rimfire. I do a great deal of centerfire shooting every year, but still expend more rounds through my rimifre guns in either practice or competition. Besides, with only one exception that I can think of, virtually every Highpower National Champion either does or did shoot Smallbore extensively; there's more than just a coincidence there. David Tubb, Nancy Tompkins, Tom Whitaker, etc., were/are ALL smallbore shooters. No better training tool, and I'll stand by that comment. </p><p> </p><p>Kevin Thomas</p><p>Lapua USA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kevin Thomas, post: 346775, member: 15748"] Hey Mike, Sadly, the 40-X seems to be a project type item these days. I bought a couple through the CMP a couple years back and have built some competitive guns off those. They do apparently still have the 40-X on some sort of basis, as they just quoted me a price of an action yesterday for insurance purposes. UPS managed to destroy a shipping tube and subsequently lost a 40-X action and a Hart barrel I'd sent off to a smith to be assembled into a Hunter Class SB Silhouette rifle. Remington gave me the price to replace it and said they'd do one up for me, but it doesn't seem to be a catalog item any longer. I'm sure I can chalk this one up to just one of the perks of being "in the industry"and I truly do appreciate that. Beyond that, I think they're relegated to purely custom type status, and I couldn't find them list on their web/catalog site either. Real shame, since they're beautiful rifles and a pleasure to work with. Last time I bought a barreled action directly from them (Remington) was probably15 years ago, and that one went into my prone gun. Price at that time was somewhere around $1100-1200 or so. Since then, the CMP has had them occasionally, and I've tried to take advantage of that when I could. Regardless of the rifle being used, the rimfires are a great form of not only practice, but competition in their own right. I never could understand someone willing to spend big bucks on a centerfire, but then balking at spending simlar money on a rimfire. I do a great deal of centerfire shooting every year, but still expend more rounds through my rimifre guns in either practice or competition. Besides, with only one exception that I can think of, virtually every Highpower National Champion either does or did shoot Smallbore extensively; there's more than just a coincidence there. David Tubb, Nancy Tompkins, Tom Whitaker, etc., were/are ALL smallbore shooters. No better training tool, and I'll stand by that comment. Kevin Thomas Lapua USA [/QUOTE]
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