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I've been laid-off and have pretty-much run out of around-the-house projects for the time being. I also had this rifle sitting in the back room for the last few years without it being sorted out. I feel bad for the Canadian folks and even for people in states where setting up such a rifle isn't an option any more, but I settled in to my task with gusto. I've decided on 168-grain Match target loads as the primary fodder (but had to sort out a variety of lesser, cheaper loads, even Russian steel stuff). I wasn't very happy with the original trigger group so I finally installed a belated Christmas gift from my brother-in-law, an Elftmann trigger pack. Quite pleased with the results. This is at 100-yards. Never figured on a semi-auto military-type of rifle being capable of such accuracy...



I'm not really drawn to these types of weapons, but with all the uncertainty in the world now I'm pleased to have it ready for whatever happens next. I'll do final zero at 200-yards and start to pile up more ammo. A good lock-down project.

Nice work, buddy. Dare I say, it could be the rifle for the North American guy who only owns one rifle?

Best,
Ted

Ted: This one's a full-on southpaw gun too, a mirror image of the standard platform which ejects to the left. I even have a 5-round magazine which (I believe) is legal to hunt with out here and in many other states. Not pretty in my eyes, but....efficient.

Yeeee Hawwww, this is as good sitting down to a hearty beef stew!!
Thank you for sharing.

On the other hand,
Lloyd, what does future employment bode?
Mike

Skeetx: I'm "job-attached" so it's basically a (rather-well) paid waiting game now. Lots of projects pending whenever we get this country back to work.

Maybe when I get old, I�ll shoot a deer. Deer hunting was one of my Dad�s passions, and, I have two deer rifles around the place, a Marlin 336 in 30-30, and a Ruger carbine in .44 magnum. I shot the Ruger one time, one round, when I was 18 or so. Never fired the Marlin.
Dad got a big deer with the Ruger. He wasn�t far from the end of his deer hunting career when Mom, my brother and I bought it for him. I would use Moms Irish Setter to hunt grouse when Dad went north.
Hope you are back to work soon Lloyd.

Best,
Ted

Ted, down South 12 gauge rifled slugs are usually the weapon of choice for deer. It would be interesting to draw a line separating the deer hunters using shotgun slugs and the deer hunters using rifles. It is a demographic and sociologic profile I dare say. I'd bet the line wanders along the Potomac River, up into W.Virginia, down along the Tennessee/Ky border and meanders south in Missouri just above the Ozarks before dipping down into coastal Texas.

There are farmers in Northern Virginia that have created a new business. They will skin, dress your deer, and make the cuts you want including deer sausage, etc. for $200. Those farmers near Leesburg are doing a thriving business during hunting season. You can't bring a dear into the suburbs of Washington DC to do that.

The drive out to the range these days. Look up the Ben Lomond Gun Club some time. Nice big lonely facility way-out on the plains of Colorado. Lots of Antelope on the way.

Alabama woods. Probably why shotgun slugs dominate.

Gene,
We do both, here.
The dividing line is Highway 95 in MN. North of it, you can use centerfire rifles, south of it, you use slugs only. I have no clue who came up with this scheme or the reason why, other than to guess Minnesota gets flatter the farther south you go out of the metro area.
Given the choice between a swamp buck out of the northern half of the state, and one of the monsters that turn up in the southern, more agricultural end of the state, I�d take the southern deer.

I do eat more than my fair share of venison every year, based on the generosity of friends. Of late, a friend native to Kentucky, hunting just over the border in Indiana, has been keeping me in very tasty deer each fall.
You know it is good if my wife will eat it.

Best,
Ted