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The Shilen blanks come just like any other. A matte finish. After chambering and crowning, I mount the finished barrel to what's called a barrel spinner. It's basically a long piece of square tubing that has an arm on each end with plastic centers mounted to a bearing.

Simply polish the barrel up, through the various stages of grit. Start with 200 grit, then 400, then 500 and finish with white 555 to get a bright mirror finish. Mask off the muzzle and the threaded barrel tenon with some electrical tape and then slide a long piece of plastic / poly mesh over the barrel and lightly glass bead blast it. Not everyone's cup of tea, but what the hell.

Nice Paker.
There's just something fundamentally correct about a Model 700.
Love 'em.

I might have to see Uncle Bart about hotrodding a .280 into a .280 Ackley or mebbe a 28 Nosler.
There's a 1909 Argentine in .280 that I've been eye-ballin'.
Hell, with a .280 Ackley I could come on here and wax poetic just like BigStick.

Need to find a clown stock.

.280 Ackley...mmmm...yes please.

Bigstick is like Haley's comet, just when you've forgotten it... swings back by.

My grandfather built me a Rem 700 platform in a lefty version when I was 12 years old. 6mm Remington is the cartridge. I killed umpteen whitetail and muleys over the years with it, and just last season I shot my first Washington Blacktail.

She's never failed me, and I don't plan to leave it in the case any time soon. I turn 30 next week, so she's been mine for 18 years now.

The hope is that someday I will have a youngster of my own, or in my family who is an up and coming hunter who I will be able to pass the rifle on to. It would be hard to see it go, but hey, it was a gift to me anyway!

The 6mm Remington is a fantastic cartridge design.
Due to some marketing failures, the lesser .243 Winchester took hold.
What a shame.
Those that know 6mm Rem, seek it out regardless.

Why settle for the homely girl when you can have the pretty girl ?

Do I remember? And how. A used Remington model 78 Sportsman in .30-06 was my payment for a summer spent making hay and milking cows as a young man in the mid-west.

I saved a few bones and put a crappy Simmons scope on it and kilt me quite a few whitetails with it before I moved west and got lost in a big city for a while.

After more than just a few years in the closet I pulled it out to see if it still shot straight. It did.

Turns out it's not only a deer rifle but a moose rifle and a sheep rifle as well.

If it ain't broke...

Savage model 99c .308 with a 4x Redfield scope, mowed lawns all summer and bought it from a family friend for $75. Shot my first 3 deer with it.

Couldn't agree with you more. Excellent ballistics and plenty of knock down. I will probably always have a spot for 6mm in my cabinet. Not to mention it's a pea shooter, never afraid to let one fly!

Mine was a cut down .45 cal pennsylvanha kit muzzleloader for a 10 year old. Never successful with it. First deer was a borrowed .35 marlin levergun. The rest were thompson center new englanders in either .50 or .54. Also bought a rem 700 30-06 in there that took a few.

Nothing really special or memorable. I do still own the .45 and .54.

Grew up hunting the thick swamps of southern NH.
Dad bought me a Harrington and Richardson model 88 single shot 20 gauge when I completed hunters ed in 1976 - that little shotgun kicks like a mule but still have it.
First rifle was a used 1971 Remington 788 in 308, still have it and it still shoots very true after several thousand rounds down the pipe. The stock was beat to crap when I bought it so I spent better than half a school year building a new one in wood shop.
Try doing that today.

A nephew with an uncle Marv is a very fortunate lad indeed!

My first deer rifle was a long term loan from a neighbor who no longer hunted. A classic Winchester 1894 30-30, open sights. Longest shot and kill was another blacktail at 30 yards. That got me drifting toward archery for the brushy woods I lived near and hunted in.

Model 70, Pre-64, .270, Weaver 4K scope....bought in S. Dakota, 1964. at an auction.....price was $117.00. Hunted lots while going to college, in the S. Dakota Black Hills....antelope, white tail, mule deer, and wild turkey

I hunted in Grays Harbor, 1969 and 70......youngest son used it for the Hunter Ed. class......Now it just sits in a closet.

No hunting for me since 1971.....got hung up on the fishing bit.....fish, fish, and more fishing.

Remington model 700 left hand 7mm. 3x9 variable leupold scope. Still got it. Good luck,

SZ


PS, What a nice Uncle...................

Mine was my grandfathers 30-4- Crag. Wish I still had it.

My first--a borrowed (from the kid) Kimber Classic in 300WSM. First deer-1 pull of the trigger=dead deer, second deer-1 pull of the trigger=dead deer. I kinda like that gun!!