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When the "Guide Gun" and "Scout Rifle" craze was going on I was looking for a combination of both, something very quick handling, hard hitting and accurate out to 400yds, and working with limited funds one winter built this:
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It's an old model Remington 760 .30-'06 that I picked up for $150 at the local pawn shop. I shortened the stock and added a recoil pad, installed a Lyman peep sight you can't see in the pic, shortened the barrel to 20" (I was actually going to cut it shorter but the darn thing shoots sub-minute groups with both my reloads and factory ammo and I'm scared to death to touch it!!!) I installed a barrel-band type front sight that I had lying around from another project (it looks different but the sight radius is longer than the original and sight on the end of the barrel always snags on brush for me) and a older Bushnell Trophy 2x7 that's given me good service on a number of rifles. I call it my "Utility Rifle".
Guys this rifle is blazing fast, both in handling and follow-up shots, to the point I've built two other for buddies that shot it and wanted one. It's scary accurate for what it is, I've only shot it at 200yds but it was sub MOA at that range and I have no doubts in it's ability at twice that. It's pretty much my go-to deer rifle unless I'm hunting open plains and then I'll go to a bolt in the same caliber. But I want a short barreled, short range (250yds max), hard hitting lever gun that doesn't have a rainbow trajectory, peep sights only. And I'll have to be honest here...I like DIFFERENT, to a degree.
What I think I want is a '95 Winchester re-barreled to a .35 Whelen with a 20" barrel. I had a Whelen in a custom bolt gun that my first divorce seperated me from and found it to be a deadly killer on whitetail and my cousin killed a very nice elk with it with one shot. The Whelen will equal or better the old .35 Winchester round and is easy to find or make. It'll shoot flatter than a .405, with a lot less recoil, and hit harder than an '06 or .270 with a 250gr bullet.
The Browning '95s in .270 are fairly easy to find and cheap (respectively that is) and would seem to be a likely candidate for this project. Has anyone ever done or seen one of these? I'm not familiar with converting '95's, would this be a viable project or is there some problem, like the bullet guides, I'm not seeing?
Wadda think?
Rob