Configurations You Won’t Ever Change (Probably)

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Do you have anything set up and like how it works so well you can’t ever see changing it?

I have a Marlin 60 from 1979 set up with a UTG one piece scope mount and a Nikon Prostaff Rimfire II. It’s zeroed for 50 yards with CCI Standard Velocity ammo. The BDC is really close, within what I can hold. I don’t see ever changing the scope/ammo/rifle combo. I might change the zero to match my shooting mood, but the BDC is so close I don’t really want to mess with it unless I start regularly shooting past 100 yards, which is a possibility.
 
Most everything I own fits this. I will buy a firearm then customize it as needed to fit a particular use, find ammo or load it likes best, then use it enough to prove reliable function. Then it goes into the safe or into use as I see fit.
Usually when I get something it is taken apart and gone over to clean up factory crap I ultimately find. Smooth the slide or improve the trigger pull. Polish things out and generally make it a custom gun. Like blueprinting an engine. Why not make the best it can be when you get it rather than wait for problems and then fix them. Only had a couple that were junk before I got them that could not be salvaged. They soon went down the road with full disclosure.
 
My r92 357. I slicked up the action and dropped the trigger pull to 3.5 pounds. Then I drilled and tapped it for a receiver sight.
After that I reworked the lifter and feed ramp to make it feed a 180 WFN at 360 DW overall length.
It's handles well on horseback and is quick in the brush.
 
Even if I really have a gun optimized for the use I intend, I will upgrade the optic after enough time passes, even if nothing else changes. For example. when I got back into shooting (jumped in with both feet), I got a refinished and refurbished mixmaster M1 carbine. I've probably put 5k rounds through it. It is a hoot to shoot. I made mine tacticool, added an Ultimak front rail, synthetic stock with pistol grip, and a forward-mounted red dot = good to go!

But...8 years later, the Vortex SPARC red dot was looking tired, bulky, bluish-tinged, and small in terms of viewing area. Held zero and rock-solid, but I recently replaced with a Holosun red dot. Slicker, bigger, better glass and reticle, etc. Same set-up, but with upgraded optic. I doubt I'll do anything to it for years, unless I sell it.
 
bannockburn said:
Never change...that would be my Ruger 10/22. Got the sight mounted right the first time and it has needed no other adjustments.
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Man my 10/22 is like that good old ax, it's on its second head and third handle but it's been a good old ax.

Just about the time a particular setup has been used long enough to think I will never change, things change.
 
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I am a serial scope changer. I'm embarrassed about it, but pretty much every rifle in my safe - at least those amenable to scope mounting- is regularly subjected to my abuse. I guess just about every scope I have has been mounted to just about every rifle in the collection. And yes, it is kind of rare for all my rifles to be sighted in at the same time.

I'm a lot more sensible about revolvers, though. Nearly all of them get a trigger job, a proper sighting, and fire lapping and/or throat adjustment to match my "pet load" for the chambering, and then are left alone as "perfected".

I strongly suspect that this all correlates with my decent ability as a handgunner and my near-total incompetence as a rifleman. If only I can figure the right combination with a rifle, it will finally start hitting for me...
 
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My winchester 52C.
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I found an old Ted Williams Sears and Roebuck fixed 4x scope in a box of "junk" somebody dropped off at my grams yard sale and told her she was welcome to have it. I rifled throught the box and found the neat lil scope that would have likely been tossed and put it atop my 10/22 and have had it on there for about a decade.

It isn't anything special but it works and works well. I don't think I'll ever change the configuration of that 10/22 w/ 4x scope. IMG_20211006_050159.jpg IMG_20200101_184636.jpg
 
Ruger M77 270W bought new at 15 in '81. Got enough additional scratch together in '83 to put a Leupold Vari-X II 3-9 on it. Spent every year since with it in my hands during deer season. The gun has never missed one. On the other hand I have. There is a lot of space around a buck. The bigger the buck, the more space.
 
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