Truck Guns
- Thread starter Wooly ESS
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BigUglyMan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- New Scotland
I was lucky and picked up a bunch of Lee Enfields before they had to be registered. I guess people didn't want to go to the trouble of registering them. Now one of them lives in my truck for those "just in case" situations. I had to clobber a truck smacked deer on teh way to work one morning...to me that's worth having the rifle if I never use it again. Mind you my co-workers who were enroute to deal with the deer were a might surprised to find a blood stain in the middle of the road and the deer up against the guard rail. Saved them the paperwork I guess.
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
Gun-adian said:
Boomer, could you explain the "short" in your FN-49. What got shortened?
The barrel was cut to 20" - and cut poorly at that. I aquired the rifle in that condition and have not got around to fixing it up. It was one of those - here take it, I don't want it any more deals.
nelly said:Salty - I see from your signature line that you're a fellow resident of the North Shore... and you know how cantankerous those garbage raiding raccoons can be!!
"Three rounds rapid, fix bayonets, CHARGE!"
Neal
North Island - no the north shore
Still got coons though...
My Truck gun is a bubba'd P14 in 303 British, barrel has been bobbed just back of the original rear sight, and the military ears have been milled off and a one-piece Leupold base resides there. Attached to the base is a 6x36 Leupold in Leupold rings. The rifle is bedded into a Pepper laminate Boyd's [Thanks Amphibious!]and has a Timney trigger. Shoots into 1 MOA with Steve Redgwells 200 grain .313 bullet and 45 grains of 47N [2425fps] and into 1½ MOA with the Hornady 174 grain or the Sierra 180 grain bullets using Vihtavuori N540. I am experimenting with the 150 Hornady right now and will use it for vermin and lighter game if I can make it work well. Regards, Eagleye.
and into 1½ MOA with the Hornady 174 grain or the Sierra 180 grain bullets using Vihtavuori N540. I am experimenting with the 150 Hornady right now and will use it for vermin and lighter game if I can make it work well. Regards, Eagleye.
i drive a 4 door cherokee my back seats have child carseats on both sides and the very back has a bunch of junk besides the fact i have nowhere to "put out of sight" i live in ottawa so unless i am driving to the range or going hunting theres no need for me to have one in the jeep but if there was it would be my bubba'd enfield or my new 22 semi or both never hurts to have a variety
Claven2 said:
Claven, Amen to that!
In my case, my new "truck gun" has become my recently acquired Winchester M70 in .30-06, with 19" barrel and scoped. It's got plenty of wear to the finish, but does it EVER shoot. Consistent, sub 1" groups at 100 yards w/ factory loads are the norm. It's under my back seats; a newer Dodge RAM p/u with lifting seat bottoms and unmovable seatback.
Jeff/1911.
I often don't have a gun in the truck, but if I do, and it isn't because I'm actually going to the range or out to hunt something specific, the gun that would be along just in case would be my Savage 24F .223Remington/12guage which has a Weaver K2.5 on sight-thru rings, (about to be replaced by a K4)
