Flatbush Harry
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So I stopped by the new Cabela's 8 miles from my front door to check out the place 2 days before the official opening. Cabela's Visa Card members got an advance look.
First of all, beautiful new store...looks much like the Cabela's I go to a couple of times a year in Sidney, NE. Second, my standing on line for a while was immediately justified by my scoring 2 bricks of CCI LR primers and Hornady A-MAX and Berger VLD bullets I have not seen anywhere on the web or otherwise. Third, I found a rifle that I just had to have.
Now I have a small gap in my hunting armamentarium...I have 6.5x55 SE Ruger No. 1, a Ruger 77RSI in .270 Win, a Win 70 EW in 7mm RM and the .30s covered and a .375 H&H for the possible future Cape Buffalo hunt (I'm actually going to South Africa in Sept. '14 but have not decided whether to add a hunt to the photography safari). I have wanted to add a 7mm lite for a while...either a 7mm-08, a .280 Rem, .284 Win or something like that. Now Ruger makes a nice Sporter .280 Rem, as does Remmy with their Mountain Light SS and Browning makes an A-Bolt in that caliber. My first choice would be a Winny M70 in a 7mm lite but they don't make one...or so I thought.
As I wandered along the line, beginning to breathe hard when I saw a Sako FinnBear in 7mm RM with beautiful wood, I spied what I thought was a really nice Winny M70 with a beautiful stock, looking a lot like an upgraded SuperGrade. I asked my "outfitter" the caliber and he replied 7mm Mauser. I took a squint...and it was indeed a 7x57 Mauser Featherweight Limited Edition in Grade III wood with a matte finish barrel. Being a hand loader, and recognizing that a 7mm Mauser in a modern action can be run to almost .280 Rem specs, outdoing a 7mm-08 if I wanted to, I seized on it and it now rests in my gun safe, awaiting its scope installation tomorrow (I have some WIN 70 STD bases and rings in my parts box).
The current So.Car.-manufactured Winnies are as nice as any rifle made in the US today and in this classic caliber, I have a real treat. The 7mm Mauser can be loaded to duplicate the 7mm-08 and loaded warm to duplicate .270 Win/.280 Rem performance...they're all like peas in a pod. I bought some Prvi Partizan 139gr loads and a couple of boxes of S&B 173gr loads for the brass and barrel break-in...I'm ordering dies tonight. I've got powder, primers and bullets. I feel like I scored a surprise touchdown and have a nice collector grade rifle to boot. I only wish my son or daughter (or their spouses) liked guns. At least I've got nephews and grandnephews...
FH
First of all, beautiful new store...looks much like the Cabela's I go to a couple of times a year in Sidney, NE. Second, my standing on line for a while was immediately justified by my scoring 2 bricks of CCI LR primers and Hornady A-MAX and Berger VLD bullets I have not seen anywhere on the web or otherwise. Third, I found a rifle that I just had to have.
Now I have a small gap in my hunting armamentarium...I have 6.5x55 SE Ruger No. 1, a Ruger 77RSI in .270 Win, a Win 70 EW in 7mm RM and the .30s covered and a .375 H&H for the possible future Cape Buffalo hunt (I'm actually going to South Africa in Sept. '14 but have not decided whether to add a hunt to the photography safari). I have wanted to add a 7mm lite for a while...either a 7mm-08, a .280 Rem, .284 Win or something like that. Now Ruger makes a nice Sporter .280 Rem, as does Remmy with their Mountain Light SS and Browning makes an A-Bolt in that caliber. My first choice would be a Winny M70 in a 7mm lite but they don't make one...or so I thought.
As I wandered along the line, beginning to breathe hard when I saw a Sako FinnBear in 7mm RM with beautiful wood, I spied what I thought was a really nice Winny M70 with a beautiful stock, looking a lot like an upgraded SuperGrade. I asked my "outfitter" the caliber and he replied 7mm Mauser. I took a squint...and it was indeed a 7x57 Mauser Featherweight Limited Edition in Grade III wood with a matte finish barrel. Being a hand loader, and recognizing that a 7mm Mauser in a modern action can be run to almost .280 Rem specs, outdoing a 7mm-08 if I wanted to, I seized on it and it now rests in my gun safe, awaiting its scope installation tomorrow (I have some WIN 70 STD bases and rings in my parts box).
The current So.Car.-manufactured Winnies are as nice as any rifle made in the US today and in this classic caliber, I have a real treat. The 7mm Mauser can be loaded to duplicate the 7mm-08 and loaded warm to duplicate .270 Win/.280 Rem performance...they're all like peas in a pod. I bought some Prvi Partizan 139gr loads and a couple of boxes of S&B 173gr loads for the brass and barrel break-in...I'm ordering dies tonight. I've got powder, primers and bullets. I feel like I scored a surprise touchdown and have a nice collector grade rifle to boot. I only wish my son or daughter (or their spouses) liked guns. At least I've got nephews and grandnephews...
FH