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Lets see those hunting rifles

Finished up load development for my hunting rig. .284 win with 180 grain Bergers over h4350. I know it’s a heavy gun (19.5 lbs) but here in Texas we mostly just hunt out of stands so it’s a non issue for me. It does double duty for me with a switch barrel for PRS.
 

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Here is an old school one, just finished it.

Doing some Spring cleaning found this 1903a3 demilled receiver along with a sporter stock (appeared to have been bedded to the receiver) inside the top cabinet in my reloading room, so I decided to go ahead and tap (hate tapping these receivers) it for a pic rail. Still don't remember how I got the action and stock, it must have sat in the cabinet since 2004 when I started filling in the wall-to-wall floor-to-ceiling cabinet. One of my friends gave me an unknown commodity sporter barrel for it, decided to ahead and build it.
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Assembled the rifle, topped it off with 4x IOR Valdada. Headspace is just as good had I chambered the barrel, go is good, scotchtape, a no go.
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Surprisingly, rhe rifle is not bad. The scope threw me off, it moves like a service rifle. Clockwise to go R. After boresiting 1st shot was on paper. I cranked like any scope, not on paper, cranked again still not on paper, went back the same amount of clicks and got back on paper. Fired a few more rounds all in the same area. Adjusted for the center, fired the 3 shot group. Plenty good for short range TX WT hunting.

100 yards. Ammo is a MexMatch with 140 grain Nosler match bullets
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Bamban said:
Here is an old school one, just finished it.

Doing some Spring cleaning found this 1903a3 demilled receiver along with a sporter stock (appeared to have been bedded to the receiver) inside the top cabinet in my reloading room, so I decided to go ahead and tap (hate tapping these receivers) it for a pic rail. Still don't remember how I got the action and stock, it must have sat in the cabinet since 2004 when I sterted filling in the wall-to-wall floor-to-ceiling cabinet. One of my friends gave me an unknown commodity sporter barrel for it, decided to ahead and build it.
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Assembled the rifle, topped it off with 4x IOR Valdada. Headspace is just as good had I chambered the barrel, go is good, scotchtape, a no go. Installed a Harrels brake, drilled/reamed to .328.
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Surprisingly, the rifle is not bad. The scope threw me off, it moves like a service rifle. Clockwise to go R. After boresiting 1st shot was on paper. I cranked like any scope, not on paper, cranked again still not on paper, went back the same amount of clicks and got back on paper. Fired a few more rounds all in the same area. Adjusted for the center, fired the 3 shot group. Plenty good for short range TX WT hunting.

100 yards. Ammo is a MexMatch with 140 grain Nosler match bullets
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I was about to leave the range and started packing the 50 cal can ammo box when I saw this box of ammo at the bottom. No idea what the load is, brass are unfired with factory primers. Barrel was cold fired 2 rounds. Impact is higher, not bad.

The ammo was left over from the days I shot JC Garand match, reboxed the commercial MexMatch into a LC box

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Got home and disassembled a round. Still no idea what the original bullet was, it was years ago when I shot JC Garand matches. Brass are virgin primed FC I MexMatch with these bullets,125 flat base. Makes sense as that's all I shot in the early JC Garand matches, all shot at short range, 200 yards.

I may just zero the scope with this ammo, and harvest (inside 250 yards) TX WT with the rest.
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Any guess on the powder?
 
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Well, there are some beautiful rifles displayed in this thread, mine is not one of them. However, I don't pay much attention to pretty. This has got to be the easiest to shoot, most accurate, easily the most accurate day in and day out rifle I own. The group shown is after I swapped it out of an HS Precision ADL stock that just was not comfortable and did not fit me well. So, it shoots like this. It would have been a great 5 shot group for me if it hadn't been for the one I pulled. Why is it that you know immediately that you pulled a shot, but can't stop it before the trigger breaks? Still less than an inch, 4 into a fuzz more than half inch. I'm good with that. 6mm BR. I'm pleased with it.
 

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I love this picture. You definitely seem to adhere to the idea that "a firearm is a tool, not a show-piece."
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Very much so. Mostly receive flak (from other Blaser owners) due that. I even glued a lot of the adjustable features. It sees a lot of water and some abuse.
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Originally the rifle was painted as not to interfere with camera lightmeter and "blow out" the highlights. Here's a hunt I did
 

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Love to see the leveractions and falling blocks, very refreshing!

Here's my "oddity" addition, Blaser K95 kipplauf mountain rifle caliber 6,5x57R and the closest I get to mountain goat: The chamois (or gams)

Very lightweight rifle, singleshot, tips open like a shotgun. You can see how the scope appears in realation to the slim lines of the rifle.
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Here's the hunt on film
 
Not as fancy as some, but a successful project, rewarded by fine hunting accuracy. Target is two scope adjustments, 3 groups. Last two shots are above the diamond point. Rem Cor-Lokt 150gr PSP out of a Rem 700 30-06 stainless barreled action from PT&G that came with their bare bolt. Stocky’s stock, Shilen trigger.

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