Buckrub
10-22-2013, 06:10 PM
Waited almost a year for this one. Long, long story. Bid on an old Remington 700 ML and won the dang bid. Figures! Not much spent. So I get a guy in Ohio to redo it for me........into a .45 cal Zoomer of a ML. He's done a lot of 'em (as have several others). Stock was no problem, but Pac-Nor took almost a year to get the barrel made. Then they got bad batch of steel, yada yada........finally got it yesterday.
The action was blued, and rusted and pitted and awful. My guy worked months on it, and then had it nickel plated.
Here she is. I have not named her yet. With a Harvester blue sabot and a Barnes Expander 195g, pushed by 60 grains of Vitavourhi Oy N120 powder, she should smoke anything out to 300 yards.
My new scope of choice, the Leupold VXr, this one in 4-12X50 sits on her.
I will waste precious hunting hours Thursday sighting her in at camp, I'm sure. But I can't wait to shoot her. I may have to back up against a tree to do it!!! Good thing it's a bull barrel. Heavy....which is good.
I now have gone ape doo doo crazy and bought two guns this year.......and I'm done. I'd like a .223 but don't need one.
Anyway, I need to think up a good name. She's a beaut.
Yes, Big Sky will puke when he sees it, but that's why they make chocolate and vanilla. Life is too short to dance with ugly wimmin.
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk131/Buck7088/Hunting%20Album/45MLa_zpsacd2119d.jpg (http://s279.photobucket.com/user/Buck7088/media/Hunting%20Album/45MLa_zpsacd2119d.jpg.html)
The action was blued, and rusted and pitted and awful. My guy worked months on it, and then had it nickel plated.
Here she is. I have not named her yet. With a Harvester blue sabot and a Barnes Expander 195g, pushed by 60 grains of Vitavourhi Oy N120 powder, she should smoke anything out to 300 yards.
My new scope of choice, the Leupold VXr, this one in 4-12X50 sits on her.
I will waste precious hunting hours Thursday sighting her in at camp, I'm sure. But I can't wait to shoot her. I may have to back up against a tree to do it!!! Good thing it's a bull barrel. Heavy....which is good.
I now have gone ape doo doo crazy and bought two guns this year.......and I'm done. I'd like a .223 but don't need one.
Anyway, I need to think up a good name. She's a beaut.
Yes, Big Sky will puke when he sees it, but that's why they make chocolate and vanilla. Life is too short to dance with ugly wimmin.
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk131/Buck7088/Hunting%20Album/45MLa_zpsacd2119d.jpg (http://s279.photobucket.com/user/Buck7088/media/Hunting%20Album/45MLa_zpsacd2119d.jpg.html)