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Post by wlewisiii on Oct 26, 2018 22:01:14 GMT
Ok, perhaps not literally but the metaphor is pretty close. I’ve been wanting a good bolt action hunting rifle for awhile. One that’s good enough for white tail, black bear, perhaps feral hogs in the right place. I had to make a payment at the pawn shop today so I was perusing the rifles. I struck gold. A Weatherby Vanguard, .30-06, synthetic stock and a 3-9 power variable scope. New this runs 750 ~ 1000. Gunbroker used is still 500 ~ 600. $349.95. 25% down and three more payments and I’ll have a much finer hunting rifle than my budget expected. Boyd’s makes nice, fairly inexpensive walnut stocks for them & I have a Weaver K-4 scope to swap out for that no-name variable too. This is essentially the Howa 1500 made for them since around 1970 so the bugs are worked out and it’s a very solid rifle that Weatherby guarantees the accuracy of it to be 1 minute of angle or better with high quality ammo. As long as it does minute of deer with Remington 150 gr Core-Lokt, I’ll be happy.
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Post by William Swiger on Oct 26, 2018 22:03:04 GMT
Good buy. Congrats!
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Post by tonystark on Oct 27, 2018 0:02:27 GMT
Good rifle, great caliber, awesome price!
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Post by wlewisiii on Oct 27, 2018 14:12:59 GMT
Yeah, I saw it last week and was twitching about it till payday hoping no one would get it out from under me. Looking forward to chasing bambi's with it.
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Post by tonystark on Oct 29, 2018 3:50:38 GMT
Well Bambi’s mother doesn’t stand a chance! lol
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Post by reynolds on Oct 29, 2018 19:38:47 GMT
if all you want is minute of deer, why not a remington 748 auto and have rapidfire in case the critter moves and you gut-hit it? Sometimes, if you're really fast, you can hit two of them. packs of coyotes or wild hog herds often allow rapidfire fun, especially with tracers (easier to find such ammo in 308, tho). Might need to fight with it one day, too.
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