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Just an FYI, wear a pad on your shoulder. That rifle has a reputation for recoil that hurts.

For $118, if it shoots good, it's a good deal. If you guys saw my post in the rifles forum about my custom 03-A3, you know I'm good with Milsurp, but I like to 'improve" them to suit my taste.

That's a real nice bear and a great rug! I love that we see pics of the bear when you got it and the rug it became. That's a classic before & after photo shoot! Congrats and enjoy that rug and the meat.

NJ has got many big bear since they couldn't hunt them for years. Not uncommon to see 300 lb bear being taken during the season in that state.

I've seen them weight bear at check stations in NJ during their recent bear hunting seasons. Quite a few 300 pound field dressed bear have been checked in there in NJ. They got a couple of 800 pound bear last season if I recall correctly. Those were not field dressed weights though. The guys didn't gut them, so I doubt they were planning to eat them. I heard the record 800+ pound bear was donated to the state for it's F&W museum and will be a full body mount. They weigh deer at the check stations in NJ too. Most go 125 to 150 pounds field dressed. I saw one 10 point that was 180 lbs field dressed once. It looked like an antlered cow.

Thanks. That is the total for everything. I got the barreled action for $200 from a guy who couldn't finish the rifle. He had it barreled years ago and it sat in his safe since then. I got the trigger and floor plate at a gun show in PA for $100. I had it blued by a friend for $50, got the sights on an online gun auction for $50 and the B&C stock was $200. I supplied all of the time, elbow grease and sweat to put it all together. If you have the time and look around, you can get this stuff for old Springfields pretty cheap.

Please stop the idea that a "Balanced Budget" will fix anything. Spending needs to come down. If spending doesn't come down you can still balance a budget, BY RAISING TAXES TO BALANCE IT!! That's what happens everywhere a state has adopted the "Balancd Budget" rule. It is purely Orwellian political double speak. It's the out of control, unconstituional spending and resultant high taxes that are the problem.

There is nothing more important to politicians than controlling people, except getting re-elected that is.

I can understand the mentality behind the thinking of some gun owners that we need to appease the anti-gun crowd by agreeing to ban certain guns that are preferred by criminals, look scary, have large cap mags, etc., etc. But what those gun owners fail to realize is how giving in to such pressure allows for even more encroachment into other areas of gun rights. There is not one area of gun owenership that hasn't been attacked in the past. Semi auto, sniper, black guns, cop killer ammo, shotguns, collapsible stocks, muzzle brakes, large cap mags, bayonet lugs, you name it. You gotta realize, anti's hate guns and think they should be allowed to tell you what you can own. If it were up to them all you would have left would be single shot rifles and shotguns. Handguns would be the first things banned. If they could show any actual decrease in crime after one of these laws have been implemented, that would be one thing. But all statistics show the exact oppoisite. Ex: The more they make guns illegal, the more guns seem to be used in crimes. Conversely, the more places they have allowed lots of folks to have CCW permits, the lower the crime rates have gone. I for one, do not want to allow anyone to tell me what I cannot own. I'll allow them to tell me what I can't do with them, meaning commit crimes. But letting them curtail my 2nd Amendment RIGHT ( licensing means it's become a priveledge that can be revoked ) to own a firearm of my own choosing is a little too close to a dictatorship for me to accept. As far as uniform national gun laws go, we have the NICS sysytem now, which is uniform and national. It's not the system that is broken, it's the people who don't abide by it. Straw buyers will always be a problem, even if private sales required a NICS check. I don't like having to go through NICS every time I buy a gun. I'd rather do it once and be issued a card for life that could only be suspended if I get convicted of a crime. But that would defeat the government's money train of NICS fees collected with each firearm purchase, and that is why they want you to go through it each and every time you buy a firearm. IT"S A TAX ON GUN OWNERS, PERIOD!! How are you gonna feel when a NICS check goes to $100 each time? Don't think it will? It's already gone up 20% since it began. It could easily be used to prevent people from buying guns by raising it to a very high level. Also, the NICS system could be upgraded at any time to say, things like a drunk driving offense, FALSE arrest, or simple FALSE accusation of domestic violence, are enough to revoke your gun rights, PERMANENTLY! The point is this my friends, they want to curtail our gun ownership until it becomes only a priveledge, and there are lots of ways to do that. If they ever repeal the 2nd Amendment in the Constitution, the game is over. We need to look at every infringement with a simple question. "Is this going to decrease crime, or is it going to decrease rights?". It's our own fault if we allow our rights to slip away.

I'm going to shoot it again with 180 grain hunting loads in a couple of weeks. I'll be trying about four different brands, including some boat tail bullets in some reloads. I want to see which rounds will give the best accuracy and will stick with them from now on. I really like 180 grain boat tail soft points for hunting, so I hope they come out on top.

I have a Marlin 336 from the early 60's in .35 Rem with a 2X Leupold on it. It's a great woods gun for deer and black bear. That .35 caliber 200 grain bullet packs a lot of smack within 100 yards. It's very accurate and seems to always cycle in the action smoothly and reliably. I've never had a round hang up in the gun when using it. Leave a nice two hole blood trail too, even in a black bear.

I used to use a .243, but moved up to the 7mm-08. Same recoil IMHO, but much better for dropping deer, im my experience. The .243, using 100 grain soft points would do lots of meat damage if the shot was close and wasn't a broad side shot. It also would tend to not penetrate as well, often exploding inside the deer's shoulder or internal organs. Most often there was very little blood trail at all. The deer always died, but I wasn't happy with the performance.

The 7mm-08 is my favorite whitetail round. The .30-06 next, then the .308, .35 Rem and .30-30. Often the rifle I choose to carry that day determines what round I'll be using.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. Louis Brandeis, in Olmstead v. United States (1928)

Why do politicians (mostly Democrats) insist on gun control, when they do nothing about crime control? What they, and the anti gun crowd, doesn't get, is the concept of gun ownership for self defense vs crime. I don't understand why people don't get the idea it isn't the guns that cause crime, it's the people who use them to commit crimes that need controlling. Guns don't call out to their owners and force them to commit evil criminal acts. If they did, I'd be America's most wanted. Besides we all know if something is banned in this country, an illegal black market will immediately become very profitable and guns will still flood the ciminal under world. But all of the law abiding people will be disarmed, leaving them defenseless to criminal attack. And those atttacks become more common when criminals know everyone is disarmed. All you need do is look at England and Australia today to see that's true. You know who are the biggest advocates of gun control in America? Convicts and Felons! They don't fear the Police or Jail. They fear an armed citizen that shoots them in self defense.

Gun rights are being eroded every day, little by little. We can expect all gun rights to be eliminated very soon, if we keep allowing them to make small steps towards banning gun rights. Want to stop the gun ban from happening? Start attacking the laws that are already on the books that infringe on or rights! Unfortunately, too many gun owners in NY and the USA, don't feel the abusive gun laws we have now are unreasonable. The anti-gun lawmakers know that and count on it when they ram another gun law up our butts. They won't stop asking for more control, so we better start giving them even less. That being said, If guns are outlawed, I will become an outlaw.

I have a CZ 28 gauge SXS that is a beautiful shotgun. CZ makes an excellent quality gun.

I like full size 1" scope on my .22s. I find the better the scope on it, the better the accuracy ad durability. A good inexpensive .22 scope would be a Tasco or a Bushnell, but I'd rather spend a little more for a new Redfield Revolution scope.

+1 on what Pygmy said.

The kids are revolting!

50 yard target using M2 Military Ball Ammo. The black dot is the size of a quarter.

I have to blame the people who voted for him, and those who will vote for him again. Please don't tell me you're one of them. I don't like to hurt people.

He's a puppet for the leaders of the Left. George Soros has bought and paid for his presidency.

LIFE MEMBER AND PROUD OF IT. If you're not NRA and think they are wrong on the 2nd Amendment, you are helping the other side, even if you don't think you are.

The fact that this has not become the biggest scandal of any administration since George Washington, proves how corrupt this administration is, and how little Americans know about what is happening in their government today.