I bought this rifle at Big 5 for $199 and a 5-20 Bushnell Banner for $69 from Prairie Shooting Supply in Valentine Nebraska ~ 1980. We shot it pretty much the way I got it for a few years and it was good for about half inch groups with the Sierra #1365 55 grain HPBT bullets. I floated the barrel and shot it and since it shot so well I never messed with the bedding. Back then, when bench shooting I pinched the trigger and rear of the trigger guard between my thumb and trigger finger. Even though I cut a couple coils off the trigger/sear spring, it was still kind of heavy.
IIRC, the first upgrade was a Canjar trigger. Then, a better scope and next for whatever reason, I wanted a fiberglass stock on it and sent it down to MPI and had it restocked. It didn’t shoot any better, but I really liked showing it off. My recollection is that we shot it for about seven years with the original barrel before it quit me. I had Steve Kostanich put a 1:14 26 inch Lilja stainless barrel in factory taper on it. It’s on its second Lilja. The original barrel is in my bucket of barrels in my garage. We pushed a patch through it and looked in it with a video bore scope the other day and it looks like an alligator for the first six or eight inches. It shot very well until the day it quit though.
The scope is a 6-24 Burris with duplex crosshairs in it. I sent it to Burris and had them put a single Target Elevation Knob on it. These days it prefers the Sierra #1310 55 grain SPBT. It is a fabulous shooting rifle that is all but indestructible. It’s seen more of the country than a lot of people.
It seems that as time goes by it gets more attention from other people. I like it quite well, but recently have been shooting more longer range chucks from the bench with our Winchester Model 70 SA Heavy Varmint in 243. My buddy who spots for me is 83 years old and can see the 87 grain Ballistic Tips much better.
07-07-2022, 02:55 AM
My custom Remington 788 22-250
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