40x

[g n brezinski]

if you use a 40x for a groundhog hunting rifle in 6 mm br and keep weight at 10.5 lbs with a scope what do you need to do to the action and average cast for the action work.
gary

 

[vtmarmot]

You mean cost?

I have a 40XBR in 6x47 Remington that would do nicely for groundhogs if coyotes hadn't eaten the last of them. There were never that many in New Hampshire anyway. Soil is too gravely and rocky. Vermont was covered with them when I was a kid, but then forests and corn fields displaced the hay fields and the coyotes moved in.

Now the chucks like to burrow right next to a house or barn, not out in the fields were you can see them.

Sorry to hijack your thread, but I miss the 'chucks. I wouldn't shoot one today even if I could. I see quite a few when I go to PA however.

 

[GeneT]

if you use a 40x for a groundhog hunting rifle in 6 mm br and keep weight at 10.5 lbs with a scope what do you need to do to the action and average cast for the action work.
gary

I can't tell you costs (I do my own work) but after improving or replacing the trigger and bedding the stock, I'd go shoot it and see how it goes. After that, follow what the rifle is telling you in terms of what to 'fix' next. At worst you could buy a premium barrel and do a complete blueprint of the action for only a little more than a new rifle built on a current, custom action. At best you might find out that a little trigger tuning and some glue yields a fine-shooting rifle for varmints.

GsT

 

[Greyfox]

If your purpose is groudhog hunting I don't know why you would spend anything at all. Of course if the barrel is shot out that's another issue. Load it up and go shooting.

Rick

 

[g n brezinski]

6mm br

looking to buy a used rifle in 6mm cal. that rifle is prefered tobe a lv type.a 6mmbr if i find one if not a 6 mm ppc.my shooting ranges for said rifle will be under 400 yards.we are getting built up around here.
gary