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mike650
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RC, I believe your right... not a McMillan, if memory serves me my old Sendero (1st gen) had a B&C stock (maybe it was a H-S). As with the current Sendero model it came with a fluted heavy barrel. Edited by mike650 - August/15/2018 at 23:23 |
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koshkin
MODERATOR Dark Lord of Optics Joined: June/15/2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 13182 |
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Yes on all counts.
Maven RS1 is a hunting scope. While it can be used for precision shooting, for your applicaiton I would look elsewhere. With GPO, they have a proper precision scope on the way, but it is not here yet. Bergara B14 is a good gun. The one I shot was quite nice (it was the HMR version) and shot well. ILya
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Sparky
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I haven't shot a Bergara yet, but several of my friends have one and they are definitely shooters.
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Bolthunter
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Thx.
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moose
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Shooters i know with Tikka rifles have good things to say about them.
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cbm
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I have had some semi customs, have a full on custom, and several nice factory rifles. It might not be the prettiest but the best all around gun I have owned by a long shot is a Tikka T3 stainless 6.5x55 with a BC medalist stock. That gun does everything well with boring regularity. It shoots as good as anything I have owned and is not picky or finicky. If I had to go down to only one rifle, I would definitely keep it over all the others! I have had fun playing around with other rifles, learning how to bed a recoil lug, sending bolts off to be fluted, etc. But I just installed the medalist to the tikka right out of the box , set the trigger to 2.5#, installed a scope and took off. That gun has never had an issue of any kind and shoots lights out with any factory ammo!
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koshkin
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I have the same experience with an old Tikka M695 chambered for 280Remington. I bought it used for $500 about twenty years ago. It shot every factory ammo I fed it into 0.5 MOA to 1.5 MOA groups and every handloaded bullet sub MOA. I finally put it into a McMillan stock, which did not make it more accurate, but made it nicer to hold and easier to shoot. I do not know what pixie dust they use when they build these, but I have always been impressed with it. Even with the barrel hot, POI does not move. Groups open up slightly, but the centroid stays put. ILya
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