Al finally replaced his jungle carbine , with a nearly new 7600 remington slide action in caliber 270 win, he got a great deal on at a local pawn shop ($430)
as he got invited to hunt out west by some relative of his!
we went to the local range yesterday at 8AM and to his (and MY) amazement he could regularly hit the black at 50 yards with his new rifle, so hes happy as hell !
( I can,t help grin at the idea, wait until he finds out that the ranges will EXCEED 50 yards out west)
he was forced to abandon the 303 carbine as he could not find a surplus replacement barrel, and having contacted a custom barrel maker he was quoted over $400 for a replacement barrel installed
two days ago, AL went back to the PAWN SHOP, where he bought the rifle, looking for a scope and found this used Leopold scope available for $400, it looks new but its used,
I thought he would choke but after looking up the new price he offered the guy $250 and bought the scope ,
we installed in and he went to the range this morning, and came back smiling, that load of 56 grains of imr 4831 under a 150grain speer bullets we hand loaded produced 1" hundred yard 3 shot groups for him
http://ads.midwayusa.com/product/325418 ... icle-matte
btw for the few guys who don,t hunt, its not at all uncommon to pay $200-$600 for a decent scope!
nikon and leopold are brands I trust
yes you tend to get what you pay for in optic quality,
and trust me a truly decent quality scope that costs less than about $200 is hard to find,
not nearly impossible but certainly at less than $200 theres a good deal of semi junk compared to at $200 and up
and a scope costing more than $600 is very common once you demand good quality optics
Id suggested this scope, but he was set on a Leopold
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/10...10x-42mm-matte