stagpanther
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I am going to (reluctantly) turn over the gun to the owner's daughter this morning. I may shed a tear or two.
I offered the guy $700 on the spot--even told him the barrel would need replacing soon--no go. The extreme irony is that post 64 push feeds are now hard to find--something to think about since I've heard head spacing a Mauser claw style bolt requires that it be timed properly to a cutout in the receiver for the extractor, no simple affair from what I understand, especially since the barrel is short-shanked and has to be torqued directly to the receiver. It is otherwise one of the all-time best designs I've seen IMO. For whatever reason (did Weatherby get all proprietary about it?) finding 270 Weatherby Magnums is VERY hard outside of Mark V's--couldn't find them even in Vanguards. It's Roy's first--and probably his all-around best (though that is an endless argument among Weatherby fans)Maybe you should have your own. My motto is that if a man can only have one bolt-action centerfire, it ought to be a model 70 Winchester. Furthermore, he ought to have a pickup truck to go with it.
Magpro worked quite well with the 270WM--but I think I need something different for just the 270 win.Which powders will you be trying out with that 129 Barnes?
I've bedded some savage and ruger stocks--but they were mine so it was no pressure if I goofed. I'm not a black-belt ninja stock reworker, so when I looked at this particular stock my gut reaction was "I'm not so sure I can improve things significantly without tons of work" and so I took the easy way out. If the rifle can't do the job (and I know it can) I'll hear about it pretty fast. Maybe I should have got a wood stock instead--but we live on an island on the North Atlantic--so these guns spend time in rain and salt water environment.I like the idea of an aluminum bedding block but there's a flaw in the thinking. You get a factory stock and it is machine inletted. Leaves room in most to better bed the thing. So get rid of that wood stock and get a plastic stock with an aluminum bedding block, inletted with a machine and tell me what changes? If I were to get an aluminum bedding block stock, I would still bed the action!
I suspect that someone really good a measuring thing's can find difference's in demention's in pretty near every barreled action! Stand's to reason to me that that is why wood stock vary and generally benefit from bedding. All the bedding block will really do is keep wood under the stock screw's from getting soft over the years from cleaning fluid!
Sort of similat to pillars. All the pillar really does is support the action so even if the wood get's soft the action will still only go down to the pillar! Epoxy on the other hand fills spots that are to thin and allows you to cut out humps and fix them. Cleaning fluid can still work on the wood but I have never owned a rifle that that has happened on.