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DallanC Site Admin
Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3585 Location: Utah
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:51 am Post subject: Geeze savage makes dirty guns |
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Took me 20 min of pretty hard work to get my 17HMR barrel clean from the factory goop it came with. I hope they didnt testfire it a whole lot while it was that dirty! I couldnt believe the first patch out of it... looked like it had been used to wipe off the inside of my trucks oilpan. Anyway its pretty clean now so I can do some break-in work.
Gotta pick up some new scope rings tonight as the others were too low (forgot the barrel doesnt taper so the scope hits with low rings).
-DallanC
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Knifeboy Member
Joined: Feb 09, 2005 Posts: 165 Location: The Arizona desert
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 3:44 pm Post subject: Re: Geeze savage makes dirty guns |
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Hey DallenC,
Maybe you already answered this in another post, but what scope did you get? Also what rings are you going to mount it with?
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DallanC Site Admin
Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3585 Location: Utah
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject: Re: Geeze savage makes dirty guns |
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Well... every gun I own except for my muzzleloader wears a Leupold but I just couldnt plunk down more money for a scope than the gun cost! Expecially being such a light rimfire where recoil is irrelevant.
I looked around and went with a 3x9 Simmons. The clarity is surprising and it is pretty good quality. It seems more than solid enough to handle the HMR. For rings I settled on the new Leupold Med height rings that fit weaver bases (HMR comes with weaver bases). My .50 cal ML wears a 1x simmons scope (we are restricted to 1x scopes here) and I couldnt be happer with it.
Overall it seems rock solid so tomorrow I think I can squeeze in some shooting time and see how she does. If i win the lottery someday I'll swap it out for another 6.5x20 Leupold
-DallanC
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whittling Super Member
Joined: Apr 21, 2008 Posts: 586 Location: Texas (home state is Mass)
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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:33 am Post subject: Re: Geeze savage makes dirty guns |
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OntheLasGallinas Super Member
Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Posts: 1042 Location: South Texas
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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:44 am Post subject: Re: Geeze savage makes dirty guns |
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That reminds me of my first SKS. It was in military storage since the Viet Nam era. I cleaned it really well, except for one part. I completely forgot the gas tube. When I touched off the first round, my face was plastered with cosmoline (sp). It a good thing I was wearing my shooting glasses.
I don't recommend making that mistake. My brother thought it was the funniest thing he had ever seen.
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greywolf58 Rookie Member
Joined: Apr 21, 2008 Posts: 12
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 9:43 am Post subject: Re: Geeze savage makes dirty guns |
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i'm a great savage fan in fact most of my rifles are either savage or remington , never had one dirty yet , wonder if it may have been a "return" that someone fired a few rounds through , didn't clean, and the store resold it as new ?
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Morax Super Member
Joined: Dec 18, 2006 Posts: 618 Location: Pittsburgh Pa
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 11:25 am Post subject: Re: Geeze savage makes dirty guns |
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greywolf58 wrote: |
i'm a great savage fan in fact most of my rifles are either savage or remington , never had one dirty yet , wonder if it may have been a "return" that someone fired a few rounds through , didn't clean, and the store resold it as new ? |
if they did you would be the proud owner of a firearms store!! even if you buy a firearm walk out the store turn around and walk back in and say you changed your mine, it is still a used gun! must be sold as a used gun.
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greywolf58 Rookie Member
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 1:31 pm Post subject: Re: Geeze savage makes dirty guns |
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wow , it's sure not like that here , if like you said and bring it back here it can still be called new, so long as in original condition , and how many store clerks would actually check to see if the barrel was dirty . If they are that tough in the us then i say bully for them, wish it was like that here , plenty of times you walk into stores here to find ripped ratty boxes taped back together and you know it's been bought and returned before. i have brought stuff back to a store only to find same item back on shelf next day . And knowing that it WAS the item you returned the previous day
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Dimitri Super Member
Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5973
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject: Re: Geeze savage makes dirty guns |
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GreyWolf,
Never seen a store that didn't call a return "Like new" at least here anyways.
Kind of like a car, once it drives off the lot its not new anymore.
Dimitri
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hunterjoe21 Super Member
Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Posts: 1486 Location: Miles City, Montana
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:26 pm Post subject: Re: Geeze savage makes dirty guns |
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Morax wrote: |
greywolf58 wrote: |
i'm a great savage fan in fact most of my rifles are either savage or remington , never had one dirty yet , wonder if it may have been a "return" that someone fired a few rounds through , didn't clean, and the store resold it as new ? |
if they did you would be the proud owner of a firearms store!! even if you buy a firearm walk out the store turn around and walk back in and say you changed your mine, it is still a used gun! must be sold as a used gun. |
I believe that once a gun has been called in to the NICS system, it is considered "used". I'm sure Handloader knows more than I do.
I bought my Benelli Nova from the used gun rack at a nearby Gander Mountain after the original purchaser returned it less than 2 hours after completing the transaction. He told the sales guy he couldn't figure out how to tell his wife he bought a new gun, so he chickened out and returned it. It cost him (and saved me) $75.00.
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Morax Super Member
Joined: Dec 18, 2006 Posts: 618 Location: Pittsburgh Pa
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 6:27 pm Post subject: Re: Geeze savage makes dirty guns |
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dang hunter, i hope you got that guys name and address or follow him around waiting for him to buy something else the wife wont like!!!
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hunterjoe21 Super Member
Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Posts: 1486 Location: Miles City, Montana
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: Geeze savage makes dirty guns |
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I asked if he was considering a new truck purchase....
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greywolf58 Rookie Member
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject: Re: Geeze savage makes dirty guns |
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Dimitri wrote: |
GreyWolf,
Never seen a store that didn't call a return "Like new" at least here anyways.
Kind of like a car, once it drives off the lot its not new anymore.
Dimitri |
Here even at canadian tire , they just put it back on the shelf no $ off even , wally world same thing, wholesale sports , no way are they giving you bucks off , they just put it back in the rack and wait for the next guy to come along and buy it. I wish there was a law here so that they had to sell it as used. Manitoba seems to have the typical "buyer beware" attitude.
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Dimitri Super Member
Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5973
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 4:27 am Post subject: Re: Geeze savage makes dirty guns |
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Well Canadian Tire here stopped selling firearms long ago, and I don't think Walmart here ever did, air guns yes, firearms no. But then again they tape up nad try to resell anything without mentioning it was a return if they can, so it doesn't surprise me.
Dimitri
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