A Remington Mountain Rifle
- Thread starter Buckmastr
- Start date
Very nice. Well done, sir.
john-brennan
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Vancouver Island B.C.
Nice job, great caliber
leveractionjunkie
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Kamloops, BC
Looks great man. Nice work.
Thanks guys.
The 6.5 RM's I've built have all shot well. When I had the 24x scope on the first one, I was shooting some nice 300 yrd groups with the 120ttsx. The loads developed on the first rifle have worked well on the last two as well. Same reamer, same barrels, same bullets, makes sense. 143 eldx and 120 Prohunters are good shooters as well.
I've only just broke in this mountain rifle and it likes the same loads so far. Half to three quarter inch three shot groups at 100 yrds.
I eventually will try another powder besides RL 22 but I have a pile of it and it seems to work.
I have no more .264 barrels so I'm done now. Finally. Thanks for listening!
And I agree, it's almost as good as a 270 Win.
The 6.5 RM's I've built have all shot well. When I had the 24x scope on the first one, I was shooting some nice 300 yrd groups with the 120ttsx. The loads developed on the first rifle have worked well on the last two as well. Same reamer, same barrels, same bullets, makes sense. 143 eldx and 120 Prohunters are good shooters as well.
I've only just broke in this mountain rifle and it likes the same loads so far. Half to three quarter inch three shot groups at 100 yrds.
I eventually will try another powder besides RL 22 but I have a pile of it and it seems to work.
I have no more .264 barrels so I'm done now. Finally. Thanks for listening!
And I agree, it's almost as good as a 270 Win.
This stock was the same as yours, marked up finish but not too much actual wood damage.
I removed the recoil pad, wore rubber gloves, painted on the certistrip, layed on some water wet rags over top, waited an hour, used the edge of a putty knife and scraped the pealing finish off. The checkering on this stock was checkered after the original finish was applied so it didn't need scrubbing with a toothbrush to remove anything.
I then washed the stock with water and re-did the job where there was remaining finish I missed. Then sanded with 320 and then finer until it was clean and smooth. I have done the same with a BDL stock, but the gloss finish is stubborn and requires several reapplies and scrapes. Not as easy as the finish on the mountain rifle to remove.
Then I took it over to my fathers. He's a retired carpenter/cabinet maker. He stained it with a walnut oil stain, then finished it with a few coats of danish oil.
It is my go-to bullet in my 260 Rem AI. Killed handfuls of WT deer with it. Under 250 yrds, at 3050 muzzle velocity. Haven't killed anything with it in a 6.5 RM. I was unaware that it had changed. How?
I do not have a single 120 PH bullet that I recovered. Most exited. The rest I never dug around for or found I guess.
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