Mowgli Terry
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Back Then: My old time most successful varmint rifle is a Remington 700 VS in 222 Remington. Most of the shots here are less than two-hundred fifty yards.
The rifle is now forty years old. The scope? An even older Unertl 10x inch and an eight scope. Mounts are external. Still works and shoots well after all those years. Shot it after twenty plus years living in the gunsafe. Rifle shot very well, as usual, and had remained in zeroed.
Addendum: The old long scopes with external mounts were killed off by the receiver mounted high powered scopes. One of the gripes was that the scope was tethered to the barrel. I remember seeing a generation of heavy barreled rifles in LGS's with tape on the barrels to compensate for scope related problems. If it goes bang being trouble free is a dream. The BV-20 Unertl was a receiver mounted scope. Remington also offered a similar scope at the same time. Those long scopes had become dinosaurs.
The rifle is now forty years old. The scope? An even older Unertl 10x inch and an eight scope. Mounts are external. Still works and shoots well after all those years. Shot it after twenty plus years living in the gunsafe. Rifle shot very well, as usual, and had remained in zeroed.
Addendum: The old long scopes with external mounts were killed off by the receiver mounted high powered scopes. One of the gripes was that the scope was tethered to the barrel. I remember seeing a generation of heavy barreled rifles in LGS's with tape on the barrels to compensate for scope related problems. If it goes bang being trouble free is a dream. The BV-20 Unertl was a receiver mounted scope. Remington also offered a similar scope at the same time. Those long scopes had become dinosaurs.