My nephew works in a small town in over in Pacific County. He’s got a good job and enjoys the rural lifestyle.

He has been telling me about how he and his workplace buddies like to go out into the woods and shoot their pistols and revolvers. He also says that most all of his buddies enjoy deer and elk hunting. His dad was never much of a hunter so he has never owned a center fire bolt action rifle before.

He felt a little bit left out of the fun so he called and asked for my advice on what he should look at for his first deer rifle. I told him to just hold off a bit and I’ll sniff around and see if I cant't come up with some sort of a sweet deal for him.

So here’s what I did. At the December gun show in Chehalis, I figured I could just walk in and buy a used Remington 700 short action rifle with a standard bolt face for like 350.00 dollars. WRONG.

OK, so on to plan B. I have an old FFL buddy and he got me a brand new Remington 700 short action stainless steel receiver with the bolt and trigger assembly. No barrel, no stock, just the receiver, bolt, and trigger. Sweet deal.

I was lucky enough to call in a few favors from days gone buy and got an old plastic Remington stock for free. It also came with the BDL floor plate assembly, magazine box, spring, and follower. The stock did not come with a recoil pad. Three separate gluing operations later, the recoil pad was attached.







So I get the Shilen select match stainless barrel in record time and chamber it up in .308 Winchester. No need to start a guy out with some sort of hyper magnum rifle to hunt the woods of Pacific County. I told him that they kill those critters over there with bows and arrows.

I still had to wait quite awhile on the bi-pod so it gave me time to crank out a new set of scope rings to attach the Leupold Vari-X II 4x12 scope to the rifle action.
















I also got him a carry case to cart his stuff around. Then I scored big time on some ammo components from an old tournament shooter I know. 200 rounds of Federal Match nickel plated .308 brass. A box of Sierra 168 gr. Match bullets and a box of 165 Hornady SST bullets will get this young man off and running. Throw in a flashlight and a flask of wild turkey, well right there you got yourself the toys for a fun afternoon in the woods.






I can tell you that my first deer rifle was not this nice, but that was then and this is now.

Cheers ... Marv

My nephew works in a small town in over in Pacific County. He’s got a good job and enjoys the rural lifestyle.

He has been telling me about how he and his workplace buddies like to go out into the woods and shoot their pistols and revolvers. He also says that most all of his buddies enjoy deer and elk hunting. His dad was never much of a hunter so he has never owned a center fire bolt action rifle before.

He felt a little bit left out of the fun so he called and asked for my advice on what he should look at for his first deer rifle. I told him to just hold off a bit and I’ll sniff around and see if I cant't come up with some sort of a sweet deal for him.

So here’s what I did. At the December gun show in Chehalis, I figured I could just walk in and buy a used Remington 700 short action rifle with a standard bolt face for like 350.00 dollars. WRONG.

OK, so on to plan B. I have an old FFL buddy and he got me a brand new Remington 700 short action stainless steel receiver with the bolt and trigger assembly. No barrel, no stock, just the receiver, bolt, and trigger. Sweet deal.

I was lucky enough to call in a few favors from days gone buy and got an old plastic Remington stock for free. It also came with the BDL floor plate assembly, magazine box, spring, and follower. The stock did not come with a recoil pad. Three separate gluing operations later, the recoil pad was attached.







So I get the Shilen select match stainless barrel in record time and chamber it up in .308 Winchester. No need to start a guy out with some sort of hyper magnum rifle to hunt the woods of Pacific County. I told him that they kill those critters over there with bows and arrows.

I still had to wait quite awhile on the bi-pod so it gave me time to crank out a new set of scope rings to attach the Leupold Vari-X II 4x12 scope to the rifle action.
















I also got him a carry case to cart his stuff around. Then I scored big time on some ammo components from an old tournament shooter I know. 200 rounds of Federal Match nickel plated .308 brass. A box of Sierra 168 gr. Match bullets and a box of 165 Hornady SST bullets will get this young man off and running. Throw in a flashlight and a flask of wild turkey, well right there you got yourself the toys for a fun afternoon in the woods.






I can tell you that my first deer rifle was not this nice, but that was then and this is now.

Cheers ... Marv

Grandpa's Winchester 30-30. I've still got it of course. Only thing ever killed with it is the open garbage pit rats.

But that was fun

Great work, BB!

But you already knew I was a big fan of yours!

Keep it up Uncle Bart!

But, to answer the question: My Grandpa's Remington Model 700 chambered in Rem 7mm Mag.

Sat in my safe for a while and finally on a whim replaced the old wooden stock with a new McMillians composite stock, put one some Tally LP rings, a Loopy 6x42 with an M1 turret and had Jim Cloward do a trigger job on it.

(blue tape has since been replaced with red - this is an older photo)

Damn thing kicks like there's no tomorrow and is a beast of a gun to shoot. But, it does shoot well. It will remain in my collection for ever....even if I never do take it out on hunts any more.

Hell, with a .280 Ackley I could come on here and wax poetic just like BigStick.

Need to find a clown stock.

My grandfather built me a Rem 700 platform in a lefty version when I was 12 years old. 6mm Remington is the cartridge. I killed umpteen whitetail and muleys over the years with it, and just last season I shot my first Washington Blacktail.

She's never failed me, and I don't plan to leave it in the case any time soon. I turn 30 next week, so she's been mine for 18 years now.

The hope is that someday I will have a youngster of my own, or in my family who is an up and coming hunter who I will be able to pass the rifle on to. It would be hard to see it go, but hey, it was a gift to me anyway!

The 6mm Remington is a fantastic cartridge design.
Due to some marketing failures, the lesser .243 Winchester took hold.
What a shame.
Those that know 6mm Rem, seek it out regardless.

Why settle for the homely girl when you can have the pretty girl ?