compact hunting rifle: Browning Micro Midas VS Ruger hawkeye compact
- Thread starter dukecrab
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I have a micro in hornet, it is very accurate. The first time I handled a Ruger compact (260?), it felt and shouldered great. I have many Rugers, all game accurate and some sub MOA. I think I would go ruger.
pete dobinson
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- Courtenay BC.
Both rifles will work well here on Van Isl. I've hunted with a browning A bolt micro medallion for years. Its chambered in 284 win. Im also short, only 5'7" and find the browning fits me well. You left out one other advantage, the browning has a 60 degree bolt throw, which is also a nice feature. You cant go wrong with either rifle, good luck with your decision. cheers pete.
yeah, painted wood stock, very sloppy/notchy bolt, poor quality machining, very loose mag even when locked up (actually fell out just handling the rifle) If you insert the mag on an open bolt it goes in to deep, and overly heavy for how compact it is.
Ha, yeah, just realized it was you who PM'ed me on HBC. The recoil pad in the photo is the grind-to-fit limbsaver, the factory pad was about 1/2" thick including the backer, so under 3/8" of fairly stiff rubber, while the limbsaver is 1" overall.
Interesting. I'm aware that altering a barrel of a bolt action rifle to be less than 18" makes it a prohibited weapon, but you're saying that if buy a new barrel, the only length that matters is that the OAL remains over 26"? Where is the last place the barrel length can be altered? Before the smith installs it into the action, or before it leaves the factory, or what? I honestly never thought of that angle before, the #1 reason for choosing the M77 Compact was it's 16.5" barrel, where all other options were 18"+
Whoever manufactures it decides the length, so If your smith is making the barrel from a blank that would be the guy.
Just look at all the short barrels you can buy and swap on to your shotgun keeping it NR but if you were to cut the factory one down to the same length, it would not retain the status. A prime example of this is Dlask arms who makes a Remington 870 with their own 8.5" barrel and it is non restricted because the new barrel was manufactured that length.
Well, learned something new every day - I hadn't ever put 2 and 2 together on that one. Thanks for the info, and sorry to Dukecrab for the hijack. I might have gone a different route had I known this before, but as it is, I'm still impressed with the little Ruger and have no regrets.
An 18.5" bbl is plenty short for a rifle without sacrificing handling too much. Cut the LOP and you're GTG overall for a compact rifle for a smaller person. I would not want a rifle with a bbl shorter than that.
I want a 16" barrel on a 308, Currently waiting for someone to get the rifle that I want so I can get it re barreled. My RFB put the muzzle closer to the shooter than any conventional rifle I own and I had no issue with it.
The problem I found with factory 16" rifles like the rem 700 and mossberg MVP is the bull barrels they slap on them, It makes them handle horribly and the quality is just not there. I want a high quality light profile fluted and threaded barrel on my short rifle.
