Outlaw99
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The other 3 all have the stock metal butt plates. The 300wm is the only one I own that came factory with a rubber recoil pad. It’s the westerner model. They are all bone stock users.
How many of you have had or wanted a Gorgeous Vintage Rifle
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noharleyyet
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Thou shalt not use the name of the 700 in vain...it is known.
Mustangs Rule
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You're not my supervisor.
noharleyyet
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But I know the 700 decider well boss...
I've done that. New ones leave a blue streak on the snow when you wipe out. Levis to be clear. mtmuley
I always figured you more for Lee jeans.
Do people wear those? Levi 501 since junior high. mtmuley
I'd like to just take a moment here to recognize that you prefer classic, vintage jeans.
So put that in your 700 & pull the (hopefully updated) trigger.
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Funny story, I went to NWT abut 10 years ago on a sheep, moose and caribou hunt. Took my go to rifle, a Rem 700 BDL in 300 RUM. Have been using this same rifle for almost all my hunts sine i purchased it somewhere around 1999. After all the hunters get situated one of guides tells us to grab our rifles and few rounds and we will head to range to check zero. The guide looks to be about 18 yrs old. As we are walking down to the range the guide asks me what my rifle is. I tell him a Rem 700 in 300 RUM. He say "No, what is it made of?. I tell him that its walnut. He kind of shrugs his shoulders and says, "I think my dad has a gun made of that."
After I saw all the other hunters' rifles, I started to figure out why he was confused by a walnut stocked Rem 700 topped with a Leupold scope. All others were custom rifles with German glass. I was the only one that only needed 1 round to verify zero. But they were some awful nice rifles those folks had.
noharleyyet
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Still safehouse a slew of 700's, none in their birthday clothes. Leupold eyeballs all...capable platforms.
Had a wizard of a gunsmith touch my Remington triggers. Ain't skeered of them. Leave my jeans out of this. mtmuley
Singature worthy.
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Jerry Fisher custom 25 Durham. Sako L579 action milled and lightened, rifle weighs 5 pounds 14 ounces…
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The most important thing for to bring hunting with me is patience. Same before I was retired. Bringing patience to work with me, I always found it to be cheaper in the long run than bringing "rush" with me,,, hunting, working, or doing anything anywhere.
I have quite a few hammers, needed them. My favorites are a matched pair of 13 ounce "Stanley Master" hammers. One I bought at a tag sale in 1977. It came in a Stanley Box that said "but War Bonds" it is that WW2 old. Upon close examination it has features that are missing on newer hammers that same size. Ther bell on the front is really true. The claw ends are forged fine not thick and clumsy. The inner edges of the claws are forged sharp. Each one of these features provides a service and these hammers have wood handles with very defined swells at their ends.
I have a box of various hand planes, one being my fathers. Each one comes from an era when tools were graceful. Using them enhances my patience as patience was used in making them.
I like hunting with rifles that required patience to make them.
Beauty is important too. Before he died my gunsmith and close friend of over thirty years, gave me his knife, which his dad gave him when he was 12, and he also gave me his dad's knife.
It is a pre-WW2 Remington Bullet knife, very collectible, a folding knife with two blades. It is worth easily over a $1,000. The backs of the blades are rounded. The jigged bone handles are perfectly fitted and the springs are so strong.
He did work for me for over three decades. He made me a Custom 35 Whelen. I passed it on to a young friend.
Jimmy was my gunsmiths name, He also made stocks out of beautiful wood, the kind with so much grain one can get lost or found looking into their patterns.
On one rifle, which I will never part with, he fully Fiber Glass bedded action and barrel to stabilize the stock for weather changes. He replaced the red plastic safety dot with a solid gold bead. Nice touch. The stock shows lots use but no abuse. He put African Safari iron sights on it and very early Talley removal scope mounts that re-zero to within a 1/4 inch.
The milling on those early Talley mounts with levers was so graceful, like my two hammers. Later ones look clumsy almost unfinished.
On rainy days I hunt with my Sako SS Finn light, that is just fine, but most of the time I hunt with one of two really well-made rifles in which art and function got married.
On either rifle a gentle scraping where my hands have held, it would test positive for my DNA. My Safari grade Browning bolt action 30-06 with a French Walnut stock, I bought used 54 years ago. Still has the same fixed 4X scope on it. Took my desert Ram with it at 125 yards.
I bought my deep pre-64 Model 70 in 270 used 45 years ago. 54 plus 45 = 99 years.
Every hunter should have at least one rifle that has stories to tell him, that inspire patience, brings a smile to his face and be a reminder that the hunting experience goes so far beyond merely killing an animal.
MR
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Thanks for showing us your rifle, Work of art,
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I collect 1st gen Ruger M77 rifles. Only rifles I keep, only rifles i hunt with. I hunt the mountains of wyoming with them. Last year i traded off a few thousand rounds of 223 Vmax loads and acquired a 1980 m77 in 270 win. The stock has been refinished with oil. It is way better wood than ever seen on an m77. My theory is they ran low on m77 stock wood and cut one out of the better wood they use for ruger #1 falling block rifles. It is on par with the stock of my grade 4 browning citori. This rifle is faily low round count, but was certainly someones main hunting rifle for a generation or two. The wood is gently worn where it was held, where the cheek contacted, the bluing worn off of the bolt handle where it was grabbed, the finish worn off of the face of the trigger. I love gentle wear details like that. it does something for me. To understand this rifle was cherished AND used and beloved by someone who harvested decades worth of elk with it. That does something for me. I have the money for fancy guns, but dropping 3k on a christensen arms rifle to worry about scratches in cerakote or plastic stocks does nothing for me. my first centerfire rifle I ever bought was a first gen m77 in 300 win mag. Back of a small gun shop for $300. Gun shop owner had had it for years and no one would buy it. This was in a no rifle hunting state. That one was nearly unshot and looked pristine. The original owner died, and with it i received 5 boxes of ammunition that were handloads from 1991 and 1992 with his load data and dates. Unfortunately that ammunition lived in a wet basement and all of the powder had decayed to the point the nitric acid ate through the casings. I pulled the bullets, tumbled them clean and tossed the powder and brass. The boxes with the hand written load data have been over my loading bench for almost 15 years. Still hunt with that rifle. Just put a lower mag scope on it this year for it to be more usable for shooting walking elk at 80 yards. In addition to triggers being smooth as glass on well used rifles, the first gen m77 offers set screw adjustment of length of pull, over travel, and trigger weight. The triggers on these feel better than any new rifles I have handled. 
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