oh you are a crule lot, i think you have to remeber tho lads not everyone can afford a sako,heym or blaser or what ever floats your boats or canoe's for that matter and we have to make the best of what we could afford at the time and for me at one point it was a 710 with a s+b 8x56 which i would have rather had over a sako 75 with a hawke pro air scope ontop. all the best anyway boys i'm off to find my old 710, i think the bloke now uses it to keep his boot on his car open as the opening rams have gone
Well you obviously have not looked very hard at the markets
as for being cruel............................. Nope we have probably saved the poor soul from being sucked in my some clever marketing for a piece of crappy plastic and something resembling metal
. Now for a lot less than that piece of junk would have cost something like this is easily found:-
243 Win already threaded 1/2" UNF and just to appease the free floating crowd I notice that someone in the past has bedded the reciever and free floated the barrel. Now as I know the previous owner slightly and seen the targets he shot with it. Total cost with shipping and transfer fees .............. £185. The previous owner had a Doctor varible scope on it but his son stole it and flogged it
hence the rings are missing so will have to get some new ones once we decide which scope will be used.
Now the chap my friend got this rifle off decided to "customise it" slightly and added the fore stock tip and grip cap, added stippling panels to the chequering and did some rather neat engraving and added a recoil pad to replace the Midland butt plate. I assume it was he who did the glass bedding job which is also very neat but am not sure so will try to find out:-
In the old style he engraved the pin heads.
As only one side of the receiver ring has an engraved panel on it I can only think he did not complete the work for some reason. Ahhh and I must pull the stock off the adjust the trigger a bit as it's set at under 2lbs at present which is too light for me on a stalking rifle.
Yes it's another oldie
Oh yes and I just noticed the "R" stamped on the bolt tail
so it seems I might have a Remington manufactured bolt here. P-H altered Spingfield 03 bolts and it seems had a special receiver made to accept them as it does not look like an 03 action.