Hopefully it will be my Newly acquired McWhorters 300 PRC if I can get a load worked up before the season starts. If not the old standby 7LRM from Gunwerks with the 180 Hybrids will be the ticket for this year again.
What rifles are you planning to use in the 23/24 deer seaon?
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marksman1941
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It does. Or they don't know what they are looking at either.
When I bought that browning safari I stumbled on one of those too good to be true deals. A kind older gentleman was moving into a nursing home and they wouldn't let him keep his guns so he was selling them.
He had 4 on his table, each for $700. A little Marlin .22, a Browning Safari .243 in good shape (no salt wood), a perfect, basically new Steyr bull barrel .308, and a m1 garand. Someone snagged the garand before I got there but I got the browning and the Steyr. After I paid him, he said "oh wait, these go with" and drug out 3 ammo crates full of factory federal .243 and .308 ammo. I sold the ammo and nearly paid off the rifles!
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"Salt wood"???
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Browning had a period from 66-71 where they imported a ton of stock wood, some extremely high grade (Olympic grade shotguns, etc) and they cured it by stacking it in piles and dumping a ton of salt on it. The top layers cured fine but the lower layers basically became imbued with a salty brine. Then they used this wood for 5 years to make rifles and shotguns, and many guns were arriving to the showrooms already rusty. You couldn't tell unless you took the gun apart to see if the metal contacting the wood was surface rusting yet or not, but those stocks killed thousands and thousands of shotguns and rifles. Browning had a blanket recall for a long time if you came across a salt wood rifle, but that's long since past. So buying brownings from that era require a thorough inspection and disassembly to make sure it's not a salty boy. And finding an original stocked browning from that era is fairly rare because of this.
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Great information.
Another great day on LRH
Another great day on LRH
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Thanks! Here's a better write up of it if you want more details https://shotgunreport.com/2013/05/22/browning-salt-wood-explained/
I,ll be after them with .22 Creedmoor, 70 grain Barnes Bullets.
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I'm running my benchmark built 300 win mag this year. Built on a mid 90's rem 700 action, 22" benchmark carbon sendero barrel/brake, carbon fiber benchmark stock topped with a leupold vx-6hd 4-24x52 tmoa. I added a hatch bipod since the photo and a quick cuff style sling a fellow by me makes in his shop. It's an absolute hammer with factory federal ammo. Laid down a 3" 5 shot group @ 600 with it. Spits 185 bergers out @ 2952 avg. I retired my old rem 700 classic after many faithful years of service.
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Not for deer specific. Checked the cold bore, followed up with 2 more, 500 yards. Mirage R-L.
300WM, 215 Hybrids, virgin Peterson L. 2338 fps terminal velocity at 500, plenty of killing power. On the rest is the 7RM.
300WM, 215 Hybrids, virgin Peterson L. 2338 fps terminal velocity at 500, plenty of killing power. On the rest is the 7RM.
You are the man. Send some of them skills my way, sir.
The other rifle. 7 RM, virgin Peterson L, 175 Elite Hunter, N568, 74.5. Centered at 500. 2326, 2320
Unionsparky46
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Good grief Bamban! Wow! I'm hoping after hunting season I have a chance to work up a load for my new 300wm. I need a little more trigger time too. I want to use the 185 Berger VLD for deer and 215's for elk. Any tips on the 215's would be greatly appreciated!
