mooshoo
.30 Stingray
same as before except retired
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Post by mooshoo on Jan 30, 2014 15:02:20 GMT -5
just picked this one up for a good price, redid the stock and mounted a scope with warne quick release rings, in 6mm remington  this is what she looked like when I picked her up  luv to see your's |
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Post by seancass on Jan 30, 2014 15:58:01 GMT -5
That looks great! What did you do with the stock? I like the way it looks much better than factory! (I don't have a 600)
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mooshoo
.30 Stingray
same as before except retired
Posts: 181
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Post by mooshoo on Jan 30, 2014 16:39:26 GMT -5
took off old finish and sprayed on a satin finish
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groo
.327 Meteor
I yet live!!!!
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Post by groo on Jan 30, 2014 17:50:00 GMT -5
Groo here
The 600 and 660 were super sleepers.
The barrels are short but heavy, they have verry short lock times [ Target guys love them]
I have one in 350 rem mag and it is a thumper in a small package.
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jsh
.327 Meteor
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Post by jsh on Jan 30, 2014 21:55:31 GMT -5
Have several XP 's but no 600 or 660 yet.
However I was about ......... That close to having one that was a custom in 458 American. Saw it in the shop on a Friday and went back on Saturday. Gun dies and ammo is what the tag said. I was ready to pay tag price and tax no swapping insults. I asked to see the dies and ammo. Guy was an azz and said the tag meant you could get them. I layed a stack of $100 bills on the counter and said I came to buy and not bs. He swore it was a 458 wm. they happened to have a box but refused to load it. Convinced him to take the bolt out and just drop a round in it. Of course it didn't full chamber and then he informed me that the bolt had to push it in. I grabbed a pencil and pushed and said see. He kept on with his bolt idea. I picked up my cash and walked out.
I have always kind of kicked myself over losing my patience with the clown.
This was prior to the 450 marlin which I have been told dies for it will work fine with the American.
Jeff
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Post by ermont0825 on Jan 31, 2014 8:06:27 GMT -5
Great refinish job. Looks better than new.
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Post by danindayton on Jan 31, 2014 10:30:14 GMT -5
The first one I owned was .222 and was my first sub 3/8 in rifle, from the factory, using my handloads. The next one was a .308 that consistantly put 5 shots into less than 1/2". Like a lot of other firearms that I have owned I wish that I still had them. I learned a lot from both those rifles.
danindayton
ilurkalot
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Post by jordanb on Jan 31, 2014 10:52:19 GMT -5
They are sleepers for sure! I am wanting to send mine out to make a scout rifle, with a Ching sling... Love mine!
OP, great looking rifle!
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Post by lscg on Feb 5, 2014 1:06:14 GMT -5
I love the model 600!
when I was 10 my Dad gave me a Mohawk 600 in 222Rem and it's one of the most accurate rifles I own, 25 grains of Varget under a 50 Grain soft point will give me 3 shots in the same hole at 100 Yards! I also have his Mohawk 600 in 308, another tack driver.
great work on the stock OP!
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Post by oldschool on Feb 5, 2014 16:27:07 GMT -5
Good looking 600! You did a nice job with the stock. I wanted one for years, so when my BiL said he found one in .243Win in a pawn shop that looked "just like new" for only $125, I bought it sight unseen. Unfortunately, my BiL has a different idea of what "just like new" means. In this case someone had removed the rib and built a Mannlicher full length stock for it. Or rather, they had roughed out a stock...from 2 pieces of walnut that was glued together right up the center of the bbl channel. The forearm tip was made from a piece of hogged-out aluminum, as was the grip cap and trigger guard. The design was actually decent, but the execution was a big fail.
I spent a couple of months reshaping the stock, forearm tip, pistol grip cap, and trigger guard. Put a high polish on those aluminum pieces and glass-bedded the action and bbl channel, and finally put about 6 coats of Tru-Oil on the result. I wish I'd taken pictures, as it really looked good when I finished. However, the "laminated" stock bugged me and I sold it for a lot more than I had in it at the next gunshow I attended. I had folks following me around all day because it was so unusual. The dealer was one I despised and I let him chase me all over the show until I finally relented and sold it to him right before I left.
I'd still like to score one in 6.5 Rem Mag....
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mooshoo
.30 Stingray
same as before except retired
Posts: 181
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Post by mooshoo on Feb 7, 2014 21:47:19 GMT -5
would love to find a 222 rem and 6.5 rem mag way cool!!!!
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Post by riorider on Feb 9, 2014 7:35:19 GMT -5
Tommorrow is a new day and we get to start over again!
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Post by riorider on Feb 9, 2014 7:37:41 GMT -5
Got one in 308 one in 35 rem and several xp 100's now on to the 788's ?
Tommorrow is a new day and we get to start over again!
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Post by zeus on Feb 11, 2014 14:34:12 GMT -5
Looks great! I much prefer the after pics on the stock refinish. What caliber is it in? I always thought that gun in the 350 would be a nice one to stash away. Never have run across one though...I know they are out there, but I haven't looked very hard either  |
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Post by wildwillalaska on Feb 28, 2014 20:07:19 GMT -5
Can I send a few your way for the same treatment. Huge 600 and 660 fan, typically lean away from the vent rib which is super cool, just outside my taste. Big fan of the 6mm Rem as well.
I parted with a couple NIB 600's and one 660 when I went through a downsizing and moved to Alaska--wish I still had them (along with several other hard to find items). Good news is folks don't seem to seek them out up here the way they did in Texas so some easy pickins.
I have one in 243 that will be my 2 y/o's first game rifle. I upgraded with a metal floorplate and will have stock shortened sometime here in the future. Gun was in great shape, but the plastic floorplate had actually started to crack. Seen most that bend or warp over time from the follower spring, but this was the first I had seen crack.
Would love to find another in .222 someday.
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