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Already got it. Actually, bought it back in 1960(?). Winchester Mod. 70 Featherweight in .270 Win, Redfield Widefield 2-7 scope (recently refurbished), Redfield rings and base, and a Ram-Line Syntech Stock, which I glass bedded. It's had several thousand rounds put through it, but it soldiers on. It shoots right at 1 MOA with several loads, and the only negative about it is the stock . . . which is hollow and if it's tapped (say with a swivel) it makes noise . . . I was an enthusiastic fan of Jack O'Connor (no relation, AFIK), and I was tremendously influenced by his writings. I cut lawns to get the money for this rifle — sans glass and mounts — (at the time, $119 at Don Harder's Sporting Goods in Hayward, CA), and I love it to death. | |||
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Cheapest/lightest 300H&H I can find????? | |||
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333-OKH, last year I put together a 1950 actioned M70 300H&H, using a lilja #2 @24.5", put it into a Echols legend stock with edge fill...topped it with talley lwts and a sawro av 3-10x42 it goes 7 lbs 10oz. Shoots and handles great. | |||
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I've got an 'umble plastic Tikka Ultra-lite 270WSM with Nikon 4-16x42 BDC for NZ tahr - but that is just what I was willing to spend on the project. Now you mention it, though, 333_OKH, my dream mountain rifle would be Elmer Keith's tiger-striped Mauser in your favourite calibre. It could be heavy and the weird-mounted scope inadequate by today's standards, but I still dream about it. | |||
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This one tips the scales at 9 pounds and is just a 6.5X55, but it has a 25.5 inch heavy barrel pattern from a Westley Richards 375H&H and a 15 inch length of pull.  | |||
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I would love to find a Remington 700 Classic in 300H&H....For a reasonable price... | |||
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My best for sheep and goat has been a Rifles, Inc. Strata in .300 Win Mag built by Lex Webernick. Very well balanced and 0.5 MOA. It's been through soaking rains, sleet, and a couple of blizzards and has always come through better than me! | |||
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Dream backpacking rifle? Of course, as lightweight as possible for sufficient cartridge. Packable (collapsable or foldable stock preferred). Proven cold barrel accuracy. That's it! | |||
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Ghastly, those are an example of what socialism and "multiculti" have done to German culture....and, it is even worse in the UK. The older stalking rifle on a Mauser, possibly a .275 Rigby, now, THAT is a backpacking rifle and very much suited to mountain hunting, anywhere. | |||
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Blaser K 95 Stutzen in 308. Zeiss 1" 3x9. Light weight and very accurate. DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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+2 on the K95. I can't belive I still don't have one especially since Gerhard Blink first introduced me to the K77 at the shot show back in 85. DRSS NRA life AK Master Guide 124 | |||
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BTW is the k77 the first of the blazer single shot lineage or is there a predecessor to the k77. ? | |||
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Back in the '80s, they produced a FINE falling block and these came in 7x65R, among other chamberings. They were just a superb rifle and evidently were too costly to produce for what the retail market at the time would bear. I missed one by mere hours on a net gun forum here in "Canader, eh wot" and was saddened by that as it would have been an ideal sheep and goat rifle. It was, IIRC, around 1800 quid and WELL WORTH IT. | |||
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I have a Remington 600 with leupold 2x8x33 in 308 winchester that is plenty light and real accurate. | |||
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Dewey - The Blaser Blockbuchse was a very nice rifle but it had an all steel reciever and the finished rifle was much heavier than the kipplaufbuchse. Yes the k77 preceeded the k95 with only minor changes. I don't know if the k77 had a predicesser, my guess is no. DRSS NRA life AK Master Guide 124 | |||
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Defiance Model 7 clone receiver, McMillan edge stock, 21" stainless #3 contour tube and chambered for 300 RCM fitted with a Zeiss 3-9x36 scope in Talleys would have to be darn near perfect. Near or far, pretty big to pretty small - it would a go to rifle that would be hard to beat. | |||
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Hello Folks Down here in NZ our "default" hunting style is what you North Americans call "backpack hunting".. After 30 years or so of carrying a BSA Hunter in 7x57 I'm having a "dream rifle built. Its a Mauser "kurz" Model B action, calibre is 250 Savage, Krieger cut-rifled barrel in the original profile and 21 3/4 long, artisan style saddle mounts for Talley rings, scope will be either a Leupold 2.5-8, or a Zeiss Davari 4x. Stock is a Slee "Rigby" pattern in a very plain piece of NZ walnut. Rust Blued I live at the end of NZ where our Elk herd is located, and will also hunt Tahr with this rifle. After 10 years of carry it will have a "patina" that will speak to me and others in gentle whisper, and still look better than anything SS or painted. Cheers - Foster | |||
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MG Arms .300 Win Mag, ultra light with a Leopold 3.5x-10x, Boone and Crocket reticle. | |||
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As I feel one is better served by spending $$ while actually hunting VS on hunting equipment that is less than usefull unless being used while actually hunting, I would spend around $2000 (or slightly more) combined on one of the fallowing rifles toped with a Huskmaw scope: Tikka T-3 lite in 300WSM Savage new ultra-lite in 30-06 Sakko A-7 in 300WSM Remington M7 Mountain rifle in 300WSM The remaing $2000 would easly finance 90% or more of my hunting trip. This is the point of view of a hunter who represents the vast, vast majority of hunters who are most likely a bit hesitent to spend $4000 on one rifle and that is without optics. I would also add if I were to spend $4000 on any piece of hunting equipment that is IMHO a pure luxery item of want and not need, I would personaly be better served buying a good used quad. | |||
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Forgive me, but, I really must ask, what a "quad" has to do with backpack hunting?????? Hunters who backpack have some equipment needs that differ from the "road warriors" who ride "quads" and roar up and down logging/mining roads as though they were attempting to re-create the "D-Day Invasion" and among these is a rifle really suited for backpacking, which the models you mention really are not. YMMV, but, with many years of backpack hunting, I kinda think that you are indulging in "reverse snobbery" and have little experience/interest in backpack hunting. | |||
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Custom Remington 700 ADL in 308 win, 22" fluted bbl, skeleton bolt handl, fluted bolt, Lone Wolf Stock, Leupy 2.5x8, 6.66 lbs rifle, scope, sling, and 4 rounds Alas she was stolen...   Mike  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Well, Dewey if that is his dream then let it. I know that I probably wouldn't put a scope that weighs close to two pounds on a fly weight or near flyweight rifle. Quads don't belong in backpacking forum lines but they are useful for staging adventures. I could use a Quad to go about 30 miles in country from the nearest road and then go another 15-20 miles on foot from there. Packing a caribou 50 miles is out of the question without worrying about meat spoilage. Dream backpacking rifles should be light and they should be top tier. I know that I would lean towards Mel Forbes NULA rifles with a decent scope(probably a light 6X Leupold from the custom shop). Right now I am going to take a SC Model 70 Deluxe 08 edition FWT 06 in Talley ultralights and a Leupold 4X that has a leupold 2 moa dot over fine crosshairs. The gun weighs 7lbs 6 oz all up. I hope to fly in on a cub charter for one of my hunts(GOAT) but I still have more than 40 miles of backpacking on a glacier that is mean as hell. People might also think that I am nuts to take a blued, walnut stocked rifle in there but you only live once. My other planned trip involves a solo dall sheep hunt into a backpack management area with 30 miles of off trail hunting. This one will be fast and light. Sincerely, Thomas Thomas Kennedy | |||
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WEAVER RIFLES Got mine two years ago in 300 WSM, built on a Borden Alpine action, with a 24" Rock Creek #1, in a Hi-Tech Sheep Hunter Stock. With a Leupold VXIII 2.5X8 in Talley Lightweight Aluminum rings. It weighs in under 6# and will shoot under .5 MOA. Kevin builds the finest light weight hunting rifles in America for much less than $4,000. WEAVER RIFLES 16850 SAGECREEK ROAD PEYTON, COLO. 80831 719-683-3024 | |||
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From the sublime to the ridiculous ... If you want a silent rifle, beware of the Tikka. The spare mag on my 270WSM rattles when loaded and, being plastic, that makes a fair noise. I even heard rattles from within the loaded rifle at one stage. | |||
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In the early 90s I did a couple of summers on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, and hiked many of the trails, and a lot of cross-country off trail. At first I carried one of the Japanese mil-surps with the chamber reamed out to 30-06. It wasn't very accurate because of the .311 bore, but it carried well. It was a loaner from the gunsmith who was building a 35 Whelen on a 98 Mauser mil-surp for me. By the second summer he had it finished. 19" light weight barrel, Remington sights, no scope, Butler Creek synthetic stock, original flag three-position safety. The bolt handle was turned down, and later I did convert it for scope use. But carrying that rifle on the trail worked out well. KB ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ | |||
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Mine is a Satterlee titanium M98 in 6.5/284 with a Leupold Alaskan 6X | |||
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My pet is a Rocky Mountain Rifle in 270WSM topped with a Zeiss Conquest with Rapid z 800.   | |||
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TCR 83 DST in 30-06 with a 3-9X Leupold with AO. Partially because it is sitting in my safe corner now... Rich | |||
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Rich What is a TCR 83 DST ? thanks Jim I tend to use more than enough gun | |||
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