Long range, handy bolt`lil truck gun!!!

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In the market for something very handy (truck gun?) with a shorter OAL? That`s ideal for brush, woods hunting, that is fast, very accurate, highly manuverable and is great carrying? Yet is powerful enough to deliver 1800+ ft lbs of downrange energy at 500 yards in the event you find a long range shot necessary on say a big bull elk in wide open country while on the same hunt?

Here ya go.......Rare to see this NIB chambering. Usually available in the less powerful cartridges. Have this exact one myself. What great fun!

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =199610574

 

[Desert Fox]

Sounds like the Encore is what you're looking for. My friend just built one with Bullberry 260 Remington. Really handy and very accurate. It's going to be his truck gun also.

http://www.bullberry.com/encore.html

 

[FOTIS]

Thought you had a stubby one Squeeze? No?

 

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Sounds like the Encore is what you're looking for. My friend just built one with Bullberry 260 Remington. Really handy and very accurate. It's going to be his truck gun also.

http://www.bullberry.com/encore.html

................Nope!........Ooops! I think there is a word you didn`t see in the headline,,,,"bolt.".....That leaves out the Encore, which also leaves out the faster repeatability of a bolt action.

 

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Thought you had a stubby one Squeeze? No?

................Yep! I do..... Mine is just like the one that is for sale on the Gunbroker site, which is why I gave the link in my 1st post. These little Ruger powerhouses, especially one NIB, are rare.

 

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Sounds like the Encore is what you're looking for. My friend just built one with Bullberry 260 Remington. Really handy and very accurate. It's going to be his truck gun also.

http://www.bullberry.com/encore.html

....................As a follow up, you may have mis-read my 1st post. I`m not the one in the market. I posted that for anyone else, who might be in the market for a very handy bolt powerhouse.

I already have that same Ruger and that chambering, which is the same one for sale on Gunbroker.

 

[FOTIS]

I do not know man. The only stubbies I ever liked were levers and Mannlichers in standard short chamberings.

Maybe you got something there.

 

[cloverleaf]

Just reading an article on the Savage edge. Dont know haw short they are but they qualify on most oother counts as what you are looking for. What model Remington has the "dog leg bolt". They are usually a short barreled number. Still, the edge has a box mag. which I like in a truck gun. Have a good smith cut and crown the barrel any length you want. My .02 CL

 

[Elkman]

I am thinking that its going to take a lot more than a 260 to generate 1800 at 500 yards, I will go looking but I bet a 7mm Mag or better as a minimum? Looked it up a 7mm mag, 180 gr bullet, at 2900, generates 1600 lbs at 500 yards. 06 won't get close.

 

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I am thinking that its going to take a lot more than a 260 to generate 1800 at 500 yards, I will go looking but I bet a 7mm Mag or better as a minimum? Looked it up a 7mm mag, 180 gr bullet, at 2900, generates 1600 lbs at 500 yards. 06 won't get close.

........................You`re right! It will take more than a 260 chambered in a compact rifle to generate 1800 ft lbs at 500 yards. However, a 300 WSM chambered in a Frontier compact like the one I already have (which is the same one now for sale on Gunbroker; see the link in my 1st post), can easily generate 1800 ft lbs and better at 500 yards with the help of RL17 at very near max loadings.

A 200 Nosler AB @ 2825 fps MV, (I can still go a bit more), will retain 2084 fps and 1928 ft lbs at 500 yards. Also with some RL17, a 190 gr hunting VLD moves at 2890 fps from the muzzle. I successfullly used that VLD loading on my last bull elk hunt. Using the same loadings in charge weights, powders, bullets etc, velocities from a 16.5" barreled 300 WSM, only run 4.5% to 5% behind the 24" tubed 300 WSMs as my chrony findings have shown.

So if someone else other than me (as I already have one), is in the market for a shorter lengthed, handier, and extremely powerful bolt carbine, the NIB 300 WSM Ruger Frontier now for sale on Gunbroker (very rare) that I saw, will surely meet that need. The purpose for this thread, was to inform potential buyers.

This Frontier carbine, is NOT for those more sensative to recoil and/or noise. And, it is not for the yuuuuts either. There are compromises and tradeoffs to be gained and some to be lost (recoil and noise) in owning such a very potent shorty.

 

[nodak7mm]

Whats a "yuuuuts?

Rod

 

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Whats a "yuuuuts?

Rod

.................................Another expression for,,,,,,,,,youths.

 

[FOTIS]

My cousin Vinny~ :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

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My cousin Vinny~ :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

...............................Yep!...............Lil Joe Peschi........Yuuuuuts,,,in My cousin Vinny and,,,,,, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok in the Lethal Weapon series..........He`s a crack up!

 

[BK]

Can't watch the Univ. of Utah play without thinking of that movie. Marisa Tomei... yummy!

 

[FOTIS]

"my biological clock it ticking like this........._"

 

[Elkman]

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I was right then, the 7mm mags won't get it there. My 260 comment was referring to DF's comment. . Which Ballistic Calculator are you using? my favorite is "Big Game Info" , pretty simple to input, and my rifles match the outputs. I know what you mean about noise and muzzle blast, I have a 350 rem with the 18" barrel and in addition to the above it kicks like a mule. The only rifle I have which has cut me more than once.!!! :grin:

 

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I was right then, the 7mm mags won't get it there. My 260 comment was referring to DF's comment. . Which Ballistic Calculator are you using? my favorite is "Big Game Info" , pretty simple to input, and my rifles match the outputs. I know what you mean about noise and muzzle blast, I have a 350 rem with the 18" barrel and in addition to the above it kicks like a mule. The only rifle I have which has cut me more than once.!!! :grin:

.....................The Hornady "external" ballistics calculator on the Hornady site.

 

[SJB358]

That 300WSM shorty is a nice rifle. Probably make a great truck rifle for someone that spent alot of time in one while hunting. I can't imagine that little beast off the bench though, probably pretty exciting! Scotty

 

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That 300WSM shorty is a nice rifle. Probably make a great truck rifle for someone that spent alot of time in one while hunting. I can't imagine that little beast off the bench though, probably pretty exciting! Scotty

.......................On the bench, it is quite fun. When it goes off, you certainly know you`re behind something and hear it as well. My guess is that its recoil would be about the same as any 300 WSM rifle weighing 7lbs 10 oz, which is my compact`s weight w/scope.

Don`t hunt from a truck hardly at all, but a 35.5" long rifle, is wonderful to stalk with and to carry on hunts.