With all of the hardware and stock work completed, a little clean up of handling marks was required, before getting a scope mounted and range testing the 16 lb 6 oz featherweight. One of the things I don’t like about composite stocks is that they are easy to abrade on […]

The last time I read a claim of malfeasance regarding Remington’s Integrated Security System, “BigVernShakeandBake473” indicated that, if not removed, the “J” Lock would eventually morph into a giant spore and affix itself to a gun owner’s brain stem for some undefined, but clearly malicious purposes. Several other message board […]

The project hardware, as assembled throughout Parts I-IV, is in the form of a heavy barreled Remington Model 700 short action, all stainless, and chambered for the .22-250 Remington. The action was trued, the barrel was installed and its chambered was cut without the use of a lathe or other […]

OK, this is the part of the Remington Unplugged project where a rifle is bored, chamber and barrel threaded using only a rusty cork screw and a tablespoon of Skippy peanut butter. Actually, this is the part where a barrel is installed on the Remington Model 700 short action and […]

About hundred years ago, when cars had a maximum speed of twenty miles per hour and teenagers had to share the road with horse drawn produce wagons, people drag raced street driven hot rods for neighborhood pride and maybe a few bucks. I remember a black 1961 Chevy Bel Air […]

The .264 Winchester Magnum was introduced in 1958. The first production rifle chambered specifically for this cartridge was the Winchester Model 70 Westerner, with one of the initial production pieces gifted to General Curtis LeMay1. I would have thought the Model 70 African, chambered for the 458 Winchester Magnum, would […]

Psychological transference occurs when some common element bridges a current event with a past event, causing emotions associated with the past event to be carried over to the current event. Usually this applies to people; you see someone and visual cues cause you to instantly like them or dislike them […]

Firearm design is artistic expression, particularly when a gun’s form follows function and when simplicity, rather than excess, is at the heart of a design. A designer has to not only meet product reliability, longevity, performance, and cost goals, he also has to package all of the pieces so that […]

OK. I would like to revise my assessment of the 338 Remington Ultra Mag’s recoil from “mild” to… “assertively brisk”. Hey, anytime 110 grains of powder and 275 grains of lead get together, there are bound to be some consequences. Coming out of this segment of the Remington Model 700 […]

I’m preparing for a major vole hunt this afternoon. I believe we all know that anything can happen when in the pursuit of dangerous game, so I thought it best to complete this assignment before hand. I’ve written about the Remington Model 700 XCR II and other Ultra Mags previously, […]