Modacity shooters' thread

Dad's is from the 70s, but the action is absolutely glorious. The bolt is the smoothest piece of moving metal I have ever come across in my life, the trigger is great, and the rifle itself handles beautifully. It's so much fun to shoot, but he only reloads so much of his precious ammo at a time so I can't blast all day :smith:

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Originally Posted by rossmum

The bolt is the smoothest piece of moving metal I have ever come across in my life

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You should try some of those $7,000+ (USD) Weatherby bolts. Moving those bolts is orgasmic for the hands.

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Originally Posted by rossmum

Dad's is from the 70s, but the action is absolutely glorious. The bolt is the smoothest piece of moving metal I have ever come across in my life, the trigger is great, and the rifle itself handles beautifully. It's so much fun to shoot, but he only reloads so much of his precious ammo at a time so I can't blast all day :smith:

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Yeah, thats a push feed though. Controlled feed>push feed in every way. Pre 64 .300 is probably worth about 3000 USD, and even then the buyer is probably going to scrap everything but the action for a custom rifle. Hunting rifles are a totally different biz than military guns.

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Originally Posted by TVTyrant

Hunting rifles are a totally different biz than military guns.

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Well duh, when you're hunting you want to have the most accurate single-shot possible. The only thing in the military world that compares are the custom-modified sniper rifles used by special forces and the like.

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Originally Posted by Cortexian

Well duh, when you're hunting you want to have the most accurate single-shot possible. The only thing in the military world that compares are the custom-modified sniper rifles used by special forces and the like.

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It has to be fast too, which most of those are not lol.

What has to be fast? Loading? Bullet velocity? Aiming?

What?!

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Originally Posted by Cortexian

What has to be fast? Loading? Bullet velocity? Aiming?

What?!

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Lol aiming of course. But then again maybe not in Alberta. Here in Oregon its all jump shooting (on the coastal side).

Where we hunt is pretty heavily forested and getting a kill really comes down to you detecting the animal before it detects you. Once a deer/elk/moose runs through this forest you're pretty much done with that animal. Not a lot of prairie unless you go East/South-East.

Even our East side is pretty vertical. Thats the thing is, we only have a small patch of land thats flat and its mostly owned by selfish people.

Well, immediately West of here is foothills. As a matter of fact, they actually start on the edge of the city and go for about an hour. An hour past that and you're in the Rocky Mountains.

And East is not where we hunt, we find that hunting in farmers fields is boring an unproductive.

Mountainous landscaped untouched by anyone except the occasional hunter and oil crew are the best to hunt in IMO.