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Not feeling the love
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 1:58 pm
by trevort
so much anymore for my 204.
So sell it and build from scratch or modify?
One of the thoughts is that I could get the bolt face opened and a single shot follower installed and rechambered to 20 ppc.
What do you think this sort of conversion would cost and who in Victoria would you recommend?
Re: Not feeling the love
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 2:19 pm
by BP72
I'll give you 2 carton of vb and a bottle of rum for it !
Re: Not feeling the love
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 2:58 pm
by frakka
I think you're seriously understating the value of a carton of VB.
Re: Not feeling the love
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 3:57 pm
by chris.tyne
Dunno about who to get down that way but $500 should see that job done...................why does it have to be someone in Victora?
Re: Not feeling the love
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 4:21 pm
by trevort
So I dont have to post it
Re: Not feeling the love
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 4:25 pm
by chris.tyne
What is the problem with posting it?
Re: Not feeling the love
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 4:42 pm
by Ol 55
Wanna do some wheeling and dealing?
Ol 55
Re: Not feeling the love
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 5:05 pm
by trevort
I liked your rifle.
My favorite rifle is my 6/250, I think the stock has a lot to do with it. If I was to start again I would start with a PST083
But then you have a known performer. You start
Re: Not feeling the love
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 5:10 pm
by Ol 55
You have me thinking, I will even throw in a silly looking hat that was left at Yass.
Ol 55
Re: Not feeling the love
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 5:32 pm
by Rinso
Peter Van Muers has a good young bloke working for/through him now for gunsmithing. I would try there in the first instance.
Re: Not feeling the love
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 6:03 pm
by VARMTR
Rinso wrote:Peter Van Muers has a good young bloke working for/through him now for gunsmithing. I would try there in the first instance.
That is Luke Easter at
http://www.eastecengineering.com.au/Home.php
Re: Not feeling the love
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 8:23 pm
by Tackleberry
yes i have seen some of his work and then spoke on the phone he will be doing my sendero in 7mm 300 wind bag
but you will be waiting 4 or more months
Re: Not feeling the love
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 9:22 pm
by Teepee
Hi Trevort,
Can I ask why you aren't feeling the love anymore?
What make is this 204?
The reason I ask is I to haven't been happy with a 204 and have spent a bit of $'s trying to get what I did want.
In hind sight I could have spent a lot less and built what I wanted.
But that's hind sight.
What's your reasons for going for a 20ppc?
Teepee
Re: Not feeling the love
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 12:54 pm
by trevort
Teepee I had Clancy build a full custom on a Stiller predator. I wanted a big heavy beast that doesnt move under recoil so it has a mcmillan a5 and a kreiger no 9 truck axle (in 10 twist so it uses the cheap and plentiful 40vm)
In the meantime I got my JAB 20 with a 24inch light varmint barrel on a 527.
Since most of my shooting is spotlighting or driving from spot to spot for sniping over the bonnet the JAB comes out when I want 20 and the 204 has probably only fired 300 rounds in the 5 or so years I have had it.
It is awesome shooting prone, and every time I'm about to sell it I have a chance to do some prone sniping and change my mind. But that's a rarity and it spends the next 12 months in the safe.
So I shot Gary's 20ppc at the missedathon and the thinking is maybe if it was a PPC I would use it because its "differnt" enough from the JAB.
But then I think that doesnt change the fact its a big heavy beast for prone shooting and I mostly shoot from a vehicle and my head starts ticking.
I once told my wife never to let me sell it and the last couple of times I went to list it she interjected
But I use it so infrequently
Hmmm. You get the picture!!!
Re: Not feeling the love
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 3:44 pm
by Glenn
I just had my 20 PPC rebuilt.
I had the barrel reprofiled because it was just to heavy for a varmint/spotlighting gun!
Had the barrel fitted to a Siller D'back action.
The action was bedded in the original stock till I get the new one made!
Your gun would be easy to change to be 20 PPC.
Open bolt face and rechamber.
Glenn