View attachment 952490 A rifle I really can't leave home: my Ruger M77 Hawkeye stainless 270.
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The stock looks like it had been shortened.Here is the old Monkey Ward '06. There wasn't much of a choice for background.
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This is the only rifle that has ever given me scope eye. I forgot one other thing that I did to it. I jeweled the bolt.
Here is the old Monkey Ward '06. There wasn't much of a choice for background.
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This is the only rifle that has ever given me scope eye. I forgot one other thing that I did to it. I jeweled the bolt.
.270's make a good hunting rifle but they don't have a good reputation as a target round. The .308 family is way better for precision or a round designed for competition like the 6.5. It is the last round I would pick for that job. It's been tried many times with little success.I'm looking at a Bergara Premier barreled action for drop into an Oryx chassis to be used as a long-range precision target rifle. It has a 1:10 twist rate. Just love those Bergara bolts ... gotta have one. Was originally thinking 6.5 Creedmoor, but it looks like the .270 Win gives similar ballistics, has a heavier bullet, and is cheaper per round (I'm not a hand loader). Not to mention for resale, if it ever comes to that, would be more attractive as a hunting rifle, no?
I had a 50's era Mauser Sporter .270 Win built on a "Standard Modell" 98 action.
Some manufactures 150gr loadings did not fit into the magazine.
When the Norwegians coverted ex-Nazi K98s to 30-06, they had to grind or mill a rounded notch into the back of the receiver ring to make enough room for stripper clip loading:
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Thanks, I'm pretty much decided to go with a short action. Brownell's still has in-stock status on Howa 6.5 CM barrelled actions and Oryx chasses for same, so that's my top candidate at the moment. Though I'd really rather have a Bergara or a Tikka.If you don't have a long-action, you'll need an "action stretcher", (which, to my knowledge, doesn't exist).
Sorry, I don't buy used guns from Cabelas anymore. They won't let me take off the trigger lock to test the action. No exceptions.Right now, Cabelas has a few new Bergara Woodsman rifles in their "Used Guns" section online.
My personal feeling on the 1-10 the .270 and the .25s carry is that (this is gonna be pretty irrational) I feel like I'm leaving performance on the table.
I had the same issue with my 6-284.
Its like, I got all this powder, I should be able to stuff a long slippery bullet out front and put it to use.
Don't NEED any of it, I do just fine on steel and squish, with a .450ish bc bullet at 2850fps.....but i WANTS IT!
So take anything I say on the matter with grain of salt, and that in mind......
Pretty much everything with my .270 lol, it wouldn't stabilize the 150ablrs properly.What can't you kill w/ that?
GR
In Maine, they let me test several triggers on handguns last year and I bought a Rem 1911 R1S...(Best trigger on any 1911 I've ever tried. It's even better than the Colt National Match .45 that was passed down to me.)Sorry, I don't buy used guns from Cabelas anymore. They won't let me take off the trigger lock to test the action. No exceptions.