Does anybody still think the 40x is special?

[Twicepop]

I think they are very special, mostly because I don't have one.

 

[george]

yes love them had many still have one....there may be some bad one's out there but ive not seen one....few bad owners though lol.

 

[Liven The Dream]

I had one , way back no biggie at the time .
Have some fine New SS Single Shots Tuned well .
I think they are Gems thinking of the price .
That said they ant know Barnard …

 

[Desert Fox]

I have a 70 vintage 40X chambered for 222 Remington Magnum. I painted the original stock. Not sure how many thousand round the original barrel had but it still shoot quarter inch.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

I have a 70 vintage 40X chambered for 222 Remington Magnum. I painted the original stock. Not sure how many thousand round the original barrel had but it still shoot quarter inch.View attachment 1315065

Thats a rimfire stock. I like the paint job

 

[Adam in WI]

Thats a rimfire stock. I like the paint job

How'd you know? Inquiring minds, and whatnot...

 

[STS]

That stock has the barrel contact points at the forend. Those holes have tensioning screws in them to add a tunable pressure point to the barrel. The Winchester 52's of the same era had a similar feature in their stocks.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

How'd you know? Inquiring minds, and whatnot...

Yea what he said ^^

 

[snert]

How about a 1975 Rem 40X rimfire sporter? Not the best grade, but up one from the basic? There is one in a safe very nearby and the only wear is a little bluing missing from the end of the bore. It is flat out pure sexy.

 

[Tommie]

 

[toma63]

I had one way back, they are special.

 

[george]

How about a 1975 Rem 40X rimfire sporter? Not the best grade, but up one from the basic? There is one in a safe very nearby and the only wear is a little bluing missing from the end of the bore. It is flat out pure sexy.

they are freeking awesome ! and very expensive !

 

[group therapy]

Came across this jewell tonite. 70’s manufacture “trued” and custom shop hand pick. View attachment 1312350View attachment 1312351

I think I'm kinda special, does that count for anything?

 

[john 800]

I have never owned a 40x so I really don’t have an opinion. But I do have a question: When you say “special”, do you mean really super duper cool special? Or short bus special? There is s big difference…

 

[1911nut]

I like 40XBR’s in 222 with 2 oz triggers

A 1/4” gun


Another 1/4” gun

 

[Liven The Dream]

I know a Gentleman Robert Lungrin from Rockford ,Illinois.
Going back 40 years of Shooting NRA Cross the Course Matches , His 40X Rifles in 7.08 did well .
If you go to Camp Perry in the Trophy Hall Robert’s name is on a number to Trophies more than once .
He also set many 3&4 Poisson Small Bore Records .
Robert is a big Fan of the 40X .

 

[Tommie]

Special? Heck yes. Those old 40X guns would keep up shot-for-shot with the $100 788’s. Awesome.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Special? Heck yes. Those old 40X guns would keep up shot-for-shot with the $100 788’s. Awesome.

Sometimes

 

[butchlambert]

All those 1/4" guns mentioned above. How do you determine that?

 

[Will Henry]

My 40X's were never 1/4 minute rifles in stock form. My 6x47 was a 3/8 agg shooter on good days. It would, of course, produce the occasional sub 1/4 group. This was stock, except for bedding. Later on, restocked and re-barreled, it would agg in the low 2's under match conditions. On calm days, in practice, I could stay in the ones. In the late seventies, this wasn't bad shooting.
One of my better 40X's was a 10 1/2 pound 308. I could never agg under 1/4 with it but I did come close and once had a low-2's agg going then blew it with one shot in the last group. The recoil always got to me sooner or later with this one.
When I bought my first 40X, it cost me about 400 bucks which, at that time, was about ten days pay for a sawmill worker. About 2800 of todays dollars, I reckon. The new 24 Leupold scope was 125.00. WH