My Model 70 308Win.

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My Model 70 308Win.

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This rifle started off life as my uncle's 22-250 he gave it to me, I replaced the barrel with a 308win barrel and Andrew recently offered to refinish my stock and it is now my deer hunting rifle.
As you can see it looked a lot uglier in its stock standard configuration
This is what it use to look like:
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Here it is now:
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Thank's so much Andrew, you did a brilliant job and I really appreciate it mate, it will not be forgotten!
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Been wondering what happened with that one mate, looks like the big falla's magic is still strong. It certainly has made a difference to the look of it. Does it shoot any better. :twisted:
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Camel wrote:Been wondering what happened with that one mate, looks like the big falla's magic is still strong. It certainly has made a difference to the look of it. Does it shoot any better. :twisted:
Haven't shot it yet haha. It is a huge difference in looks though. I'm over the moon with it.
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Just noticed, new scope and mounts, should have kept the full bridge, looks a lot better with the fore sight gone as well. :D
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Yep, looking good. Didn't look too bad before, but the clean barrel and Missed stock do improve it. I wouldn't mind a model 70 in .243 or 7mm-08.

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Camel wrote:Just noticed, new scope and mounts, should have kept the full bridge, looks a lot better with the fore sight gone as well. :D
It's a loaner scope, I actually am not sure what to put on it. If I wasn't getting the 300Win Mag I'd put on a 2-10x42 Zeiss Conquest HD5 on it but its just a bit to much with the 300Win project.
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Go cheap and nasty mate, get ya self a Leupold. :twisted:
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Camel wrote:Go cheap and nasty mate, get ya self a Leupold. :twisted:
haha. yeah ok. lmao.
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Camel wrote:Go cheap and nasty mate, get ya self a Leupold. :twisted:
Mark that made me laugh!

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Good stuff, glad to brighten someones day for them. After all I'm here to help. :twisted:
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Beautiful rifle mate. Some fool over here just put a tactical scope and rail, muzzle break and had the stock inletted to take a stupid 10 round detachable mag. Totally ruined a nice hunting gun.
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Love the before and after pics and can see why you're so happy with it.

Missed you have yet again done a superb job of bringing out the true timber characters.
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lovely looking rifle
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a swaro z3 3-9x36 or 3.5-10x42 would be nice on top, but leupies do suit winnies, take a look at a vx6 2-12x42 8)
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or what about a ziess terra 2-7x32 or even the good ole 3-10x40 leupy vx3 would be good on a deer rifle?
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