Rifle Recommendation Wanted: Off the beaten path

7mm-08

6.5X55 Swede on a Winchester Mod 70 action, McMillan barrel.

It gives you:
1. Bolt action rifle
2. Close in bullet weight/recoil to the .270
3. Not your "everyday" cartridge.
4 .Ballistically superior to the .270 (IMO).
5. Easy to do on your budget.

P.R.

Nice older sporterized Arisaka in 7.7 JAP will fill the bill. Rifle won't cost an arm and the ammo can be made or bought. Decent performance and there are some real beauties out there. Rock solid action and there are aftermarket triggers still available. The bullet itself is anything for the 303. The casings are makable.

I shoot two with store bought ammo while I save up the empty brass. When I have 50 or so pieces, I'll be entering the reloading game for the first time. Really a fun rifle and round

I really thought about picking up a lever action Henry yesterday. Beautiful rifle that comes in many different calibers.

taliv said:

get an Etronx in 220swift

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You wouldn't happen to be trying to sell one would you?

Custom Remington in 6mmBR. Great for varmints and long range target shooting. Very comfortable to shoot as well. I shot this cartridge once and would love to have a custom rifle built in 6mmBR. The website makes the case far better than I can.

www.6mmbr.com

6.5x55 SE in a Tikka T3 or CZ 550 American.

Arisaka Type 99 is a very historically significant piece. It is a 7.7x58mm round. I have a couple never fired- my grandfather brought one home as spoils of war when the Navy disarmed the Japanese in Korea- and when I posted about them on here a while back someone mentioned early examples -before they started slapping anything together in a last ditch effort- are considered by some to be the strongest bolt action ever designed.
If I were going to go for an oddball cartridge just for the novelty of it I'd want something that was historically significant at least.

If you have $2000 and you want something really nice that's different, I'd suggest buying a Yugo Mauser from Samco. Then get you a Boyd's stock for it, and send it to ER Shaw with instructions to bend the bolt, Drill and tap for scope, install a Timney Trigger, and a Beuler Safety, and rebarrel it with a Stainless barrel in the caliber of your choice. If it's me it would be a 7x57, a 6.5x57, or a .257 Roberts. How's that for different? Anyway, now you'll have about $1,000 in it and this leaves you plenty of money to buy good glass and mounts of your choice. OR, you can also beat the bushes of the LGSs and pawn shops for a good used doner rifle in like a Howa 1500, a Remington 700, or a Savage of your choice preferrably with accutrigger. Then you can send that off to Shaw and most of the work's already done, like trigger, safety, bolt and drilled and tapped. Then it will probably come with a stock too. I'd go with the Mauser, but that's just me, I love em.

308 marlin

You're talking about Bigfoot Wallace, my custom '03 Springfield in .35 Brown-Whelen.

This rifle was built by CW Fitch in Phoenix in the late '60s or early '70s. It has the original barrel (you can see the Ordnance flaming bomb stamp near the muzzle) which was reamed out, re-rifled and re-chambered. It was re-stocked to minimize recoil (forward sloping cheek pad, thick, soft butt pad) and has a Mashburn trigger.

The .35 Brown-Whelen is the .35 Whelen with the taper removed from the case, the shoulder moved forward and sharpened drastically. This rifle will drive a 225 grain Nosler Partition Jacket to 2,800 fps.

Want different? Find A marlin 336SC in .219 Zipper.

CZ 550 FS in 9.3x62 or 6.5x55. A Ruger #1 in 9.3x74.

458 socom

You might be able to find used a Lever Gun in 375 Winchester. Brass is still avaiable as are dies. Its like a super 30-30. I have a Marlin model 375 and its a real hoot to shoot

what about a bolt action 45-110?(if they make such a thing)