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Deleted_User_2665 Super Member
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:03 pm Post subject: "New" Bambi/Yogi Thumper........... |
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Dimitri Super Member
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:45 pm Post subject: Re: "New" Bambi/Yogi Thumper........... |
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wildswalker,
Looks good, How is the southpaw action verses the right handed ones for you ??
My brother is a Southpaw and I'm thinking once he gets his firearms license I'm going to get him a southpaw rifle.
Dimitri
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yotebuster Member
Joined: Oct 16, 2005 Posts: 216 Location: Georgia
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:49 pm Post subject: Re: "New" Bambi/Yogi Thumper........... |
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Details, I want more details. Caliber, bullets, reloads? More on the gun.
YB
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DallanC Site Admin
Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject: Re: "New" Bambi/Yogi Thumper........... |
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Oooooh nice! Is it 30-06? I'm a lefty, its hard to find nice rifles in it at times.
My 2 favorite lefty rifles is my M70 7STW and a *mint* Rem700BDL in 243 (rare caliber to find it in).
Very nice looking gun, really nice groups!
-DallanC
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george20042007 Super Member
Joined: Jan 27, 2006 Posts: 568 Location: Arizona
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 7:47 pm Post subject: Re: "New" Bambi/Yogi Thumper........... |
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Oooooooooh, someone is going to get into trouble for sticking that table Nice gun, great caliber.
Keep it coming...
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Deleted_User_2665 Super Member
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:57 am Post subject: Re: "New" Bambi/Yogi Thumper........... |
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Dimitri...
I do "suffer" from the southpaw affliction and can't much like driving a right handed rifle....
A lefty bolt is just as natural for me as a right hand bolt is for a right hand person.
I drive hunting rifles as a rule and it's either a single shot or a lefty bolt that coddles my senses.......
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Deleted_User_2665 Super Member
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:28 am Post subject: Re: "New" Bambi/Yogi Thumper........... |
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Yote buster...Dallan....
This one started life back in '86 as a plain jane 700 BDL chambered in .270 Win.
I de-BDL'd it many years ago with an oiled stock finish, cut checkering to replace the pressed in junk, de-whitelined it, installed a pachmayer pad, installed a metal grip cap, installed bedding pillars/full free float, had the recessed crown cut and installed a plumb brown metal finish...at that time it wore a fixed 12X Leupy.......
A plentitude of shootin' over the years had left me with fouling issues and the need/want for a new tube...and of course a new chambering/makeover.
Since that rifle was bought on compromise back then (I was intending on buying a 30-06 at the time, settled for the .270)...and since this is the 100 year aniversary for the '06, I went that route. Some say it is a boring caliber, I say it's just right.
A good friend of mine installed the new Douglas 1:10 kinda #1ish contour barrel cut at 24 inches...same recessed crown configuration, he's a pro.
I then sent the BBl'd action out to Fit4Duty Inc. in Kansas to a feller named Doug Burche, he applied the baked on Cerakote finish in Sniper Gray and coated all the screw heads in Titanium Gray. All with a matte finish from a goodly bead blasting.
He then applied Micro Slik to the bore...more out of my own curiosity than anything else. Supposedly all I'll ever need to do with this rifle to clean it is run a couple wet patches thru it.....that remains to be verified.
That group is a five round group fired off the bags at 100 yards from a cold barrel each shot and after th initial bore sight/sight in yada yada...
Thinkin' it done good and I'm diggin' the 2X7 Nikon glass for deer/bear/elk/moose duty.
The group was fired with Federal Power Shock 180's as I've found that flavor of Federals to be some darn good factory fodder for the money when reloading issues arise...at present I'm just gonna use factory this year and start reloading for it after the season is over.
There may be a McMillan stock in it's future too.......................
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Deleted_User_2665 Super Member
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:34 am Post subject: Re: "New" Bambi/Yogi Thumper........... |
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George...
That "table" is my shooting bench....it's attached to my Shooting Shack...which houses my reloading room.
Which, sits in my back yard and is attached to a 200 yard range.......
Spoilin' myself.....(grins)
Here's my boy shootin' his brand new .243 recently.......
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sniper Super Member
Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Posts: 735 Location: Utah
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:24 am Post subject: Re: "New" Bambi/Yogi Thumper........... |
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O.K! HOW'D ya DO that? I can read the printing on the scope and the rest, but the riifle is all bassackwards! The bolt is on the wrong side! Computer wizardry, no doubt?
That is one fine looking shootin' machine! Nice!
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DallanC Site Admin
Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:01 pm Post subject: Re: "New" Bambi/Yogi Thumper........... |
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Very nice shooting / reloading shack! Man I just gotta move out of the city...
-DallanC
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rrogacki Member
Joined: Apr 22, 2006 Posts: 135 Location: Pennsylvania
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:42 pm Post subject: Re: "New" Bambi/Yogi Thumper........... |
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Man, I want a shooting shack like that and the rifle isn't too bad either.
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Arizona Hunter Member
Joined: Jul 22, 2006 Posts: 275
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject: Re: "New" Bambi/Yogi Thumper........... |
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Looks real sweet, what caliber is it? Wish I could have a shooting shack...someday..........
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Deleted_User_2665 Super Member
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject: Re: "New" Bambi/Yogi Thumper........... |
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Thirty Ought Six............
Shootin' Shacks is easy if the neighbors don't mind......(grin)
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Shipster Member
Joined: Dec 15, 2006 Posts: 26 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:17 pm Post subject: Re: "New" Bambi/Yogi Thumper........... |
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Yote buster...Dallan....
He then applied Micro Slik to the bore...more out of my own curiosity than anything else. Supposedly all I'll ever need to do with this rifle to clean it is run a couple wet patches thru it.....that remains to be verified.
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wildswalker what is Micro Slik? I Googled it and came up with nothing.
_________________ Shipster
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glockman55 Super Member
Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 831 Location: Michigan
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:10 pm Post subject: Re: "New" Bambi/Yogi Thumper........... |
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Good job on the rifle, I have a range out back, my wife won't let me shoot out the patio doors though. LOL. I gotta build me another room. Nice set up. I like that Cerakote finish, man that looks great. Can that be applied to stainless? I want to do something with my Bright stainless rifle.
Glock
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