my original post indicated that i would only rebarrel if i cant get it to shoot well. i will be spending time , with different bullet/powder combos to find what she likes. no offense to anyone here, but if she wont shoot i dont have any qualms about rebarreling, if it can be done. i dont really worry about keeping something factory original, if it can be improved on. im having turnbull take a very worn original model 86 and build a beautiful 475 . ypu are not the first, nor will u be the last to express the same sentiment. i do understand it, its just not how i feel unless this was a really pristine example as is.
winchester model 88, 284 winchester loads
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will definitely lay out the stock for proper grain through the wrist, and after your comment probably add a couple of kevlar rods through the wrist. would like a nice palm swell, cheekpiece for proper scope/eye alignment, and a nice butt pad. possibly a schnabel forend like winchester mod 70 lightweights .
i found the link, and my guns year of manufacture. 1966. again, thank you.
if i get 1in or smaller i would absolutely shoot it a lot as is and leave it as is.
for hunting i use premium bullets always.
im a big barnes fan. this will be a combo i will check out. i will probably try heavier too, just for fun.
I thought the same thing... I was always looking for the .284 Win and the .358 Win in that rifle model, I understand they also made a .243 Win as well... For a short time, I had the Mod 88 and the Mod 100 both in .308 Win. Well, good luck.
I've got an 88 in 308...its my 4th, and last, as it was my Pop's. He bought it in 58, or 59, and spent the entire Winter of 59/60 hand whittling a stock for it. I was born in 60, but my older sister remembers him working on it. He got the trigger to break very nicely, tho the pressure to do so is high. I've done two other trigger clean up on my previous 88's and it IS a job!! Can be done, tho. I found one for my son, and was working in the trigger and broke it. Thought it was fubared, but I found a replacement on line. Anyway, apologize for the length here, hope you love it. If not, lemme know! I'll give it a good home
I took one of my M88's for an experiment and used a match barrel I had shot then set back and wore enough on the second set back I couldnt reach the riflings so I turned the outside diameter paralell 6 inches from the new breach [ I cut 3 inches off the breach to get good rifling] to create 2 rings on the bottom side of the barrel about 3 inches apart and set these in a block of aluminum in the forend then drilled from the bottom of the forend to set two bolts into these rings and thus bed the barrel into the stock . The rifle shoots consistently minute of angle so I think my bedding system works because I don't think the factory system is very good. I hope I presented this so you could understand it because if you restock it might be something to consider. Hopefully it will shoot good enough so you don't have to do extra work
Difficult to change barrels, not impossible though finding one maybe. A good Smith that knows the 88 can improve the trigger. Those Smiths that really know it well are endangered species. Jim Green, of GunWorks in Harrington, ME is one. He has a few videos of the 88/100 on YouTube. To clean them real good you'll need slave pins to get it back together. I bought a set of pins from Numrich.
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Mine isn't. It's light and sweet, breaks like glass.
Slave Pins required or at least make it a lot easier. I take mine down at the end of the season and clean it.
I believe that mine (early 1957) was one that cracked and why it was restocked with Fancy (Extra Fancy?) American Walnut for strength. It has a Weaver Tip Off Mount and 4X. The stock isn't like what you described but I like it. I just use a Limb Saver on mine, the 88s are Beautiful but Stout. It makes the LOP better, for me I anyways. Not the boys, all three are 6' 4" or more.
Anyways here is one with a custom stock.
