Santa has been coming early for a bunch of people on this website so I figured he should make an early pit stop by my house as well.

This past friday I became the proud new owner of another rifle. My father gave me his Rem 700 BDL 30-06 to hunt with and i really love the rifle, but seeing how it was my fathers and I dont want to tear it up in the brush and all that good stuff, I decided to purchase a Rem 700 SPS Stainless 30-06 for myself. Now we can go hunt together (whichwe've never done because we only had that one rifle)with the old and the new. I know my fathers rifle is old but im not quite sure how old, does anybody know how to tell. The stamping on the barrel is 6274987. Merry CHRISTmas to everybody!