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Trying to decide between a Winchester Featherweight and a Ruger Hawkeye? Which has a better trigger? Which tends to be more accurate? I will be ordering it most likely on line so going to the store and handling it won't happen? Any Suggestions. Thanks | ||
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The Winchester Featherweight methinks.  | |||
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I have two Winchester Featherweights, a .257 Bob and a 7x57 Mauser. Nuff said? I like the style and the feel of those rifles. So much so that I chased down a Fwatheweight stock for a long action to put on my 1968 issue M70 in .243. Paul B. | |||
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Winchester. Not many people have to ask how to get my Winchester to shoot well....can't say the same for Ruger. | |||
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Winchester, hands down. | |||
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WINCHESTER!!! No problemo!! Bear in Fairbanks Unless you're the lead dog, the scenery never changes. I never thought that I'd live to see a President worse than Jimmy Carter. Well, I have. Gun control means using two hands. | |||
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Esox: How about a Ruger Compact Magnum with a nice little 20 inch barrel in .300 or .338 RCM? Dave DRSS Chapuis 9.3X74 Chapuis "Jungle" .375 FL Krieghoff 500/.416 NE Krieghoff 500 NE "Git as close as y can laddie an then git ten yards closer" "If the biggest, baddest animals on the planet are on the menu, and you'd rather pay a taxidermist than a mortician, consider the 500 NE as the last word in life insurance." Hornady Handbook of Cartridge Reloading (8th Edition). | |||
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Savage or Tikka , HANDS DOWN !!!. http://www.savagearms.com/firearms/models/ http://www.tikkaprecision.com/ http://www.berettausa.com/shop...e-hunter/guns/tikka/ http://www.berettausa.com/shop...me-hunter/guns/sako/ http://www.browning.com/produc...ly.asp?webflag_=023B   | |||
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Well I checked with the online sight and they don't offer the winchester in the 7mm-08, I think I'm going to end up buying a Tikka T3 lite in 7mm-08. Thanks for the help guys. | |||
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Winchester offers the 7-08 iin several different models. Go to their web sight. I know it is avaliable in the Featherwight and Extreme Weather versions. "I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. To front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived"- Thoreau | |||
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I just checked and you are right.  | |||
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Wife has Win Fwtwt in 7/08 with Leupold 2.5 - 8. Hard to beat and pretty to look at. You can borrow money but you can not borrow time. Go hunting with your family. | |||
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The wife or the gun?  Have gun- Will travel The value of a trophy is computed directly in terms of personal investment in its acquisition. Robert Ruark | |||
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The question is at what price? I will check though, Thankyou. | |||
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Winchester! Trigger is easy to adjust once you get the melted plastic out of the adjustment screw head. .243, .257 Roberts, .260, 7mm-08, or .308 great calibers for the FW. | |||
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Would sure like to see Winchester make the Featherwight in 257 Roberts and 7X57 again. Two of my favorite rounds. Right up there with my 30-06 and 270. "I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. To front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived"- Thoreau | |||
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I wholeheartedly second that! I have been considering the idea of buying a new featherweight 22-250 and having it rebored and chambered to 257Bob by Dan Pedersen at Classic Barrel and Gunworks. Matt FISH!! Heed the words of Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." | |||
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I have a M-70 FWT in .260 Remington.....merely rebarreled a .243! If I wanted a .257 Roberts, I'd start with a long action and block the magazine to allow for longer seated 120 grain bullets. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill | |||
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Depends on the calibre. Winchester doesn't make a 375 Ruger or a 416 Ruger. But they should. In the meantime, most of those who have the 375 Ruger Alaskan have been impressed with its shooting right out of the box. +-+-+-+-+-+-+ "A well-rounded hunting battery might include: 500 AccRel Nyati, 416 Rigby or 416 Ruger, 375Ruger or 338WM, 308 or 270, 243, 223" -- Conserving creation, hunting the harvest. | |||
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Not trying to get into a pissing match, but it has been proven time and again that the long loaded 257 Rob doesn't get a significant improvement over the short action version. I you want to shoot 120's at velocities that might make a difference, I would go with the 25-06 or 257 Weatherby. I like the short action Bob just fine. Matt FISH!! Heed the words of Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." | |||
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