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Thanks, Cliff! - This is the new budget rifle from Rem, now. Just like that 788. They made the receiver from a piece of CNC'd pipe - no kidding. It's nowhere near as involved as making a 700 receiver. Machine tube, machined out the ejection port, machined out the bottom for feeding, done. I didn't know this before, but the Varmint version here has all the options - some of the other 783s don't have a removable bolt handle, nor is it oversized. No rail, etc. MSRP is $625, I've seen it at the mid-$400s to higher $400s online. I got it from my Gun Pusher for $511. Could have got it a little cheaper online - but that doesn't support my Gun Pusher. I can't wait to shoot this thing, but I have to wait to the point that I've got it ready to shoot (scope, etc). That's crushing me... Load development is gonna be fun for this one. Can't say enough about this trigger - they finally did it right.

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It's a fillet table, right? Why do those wally-world pics show a blonde chick potting plants? Numerous times? What doesn't wally world show some pics of cutting up fish?

She bow fishes, too...

Fucker... I figured that the ass would be on the other side, in your Cry Closet...

New rifle, new caliber for me. Reminton 783 Varmint, .243 Winchester. Had to make a serious decision about this one. It's another ".308-based, .308-Parent-Cartridge" round. There's six, total, including .308 Winchester. .243 Win, .260 Rem, 7mm-08, .308 Win, .338 Fed, and .358 Win. I'm alright with the .308, .260 Rem, and .338 Fed. That's half, if I just stop there. I know, though, that if I bought this bolt gun - why stop at 4 out of 6 in the .308 Family?! This bolt gun will end up (also) costing me a 7mm-08 AR, and a .358 Win AR. Eventually... Beautiful laminated wood stock, 26" free-floated heavy barrel - this is the same exact barrel profile as my Rem 700 Long Range, the .300 Win Mag. But the bore is alot smaller... That means this barrrel is heavy as HELL!!! 4-round detachable magazine for feeding, plus 1 in the pipe. Mmmmm, okay. At least it's mag fed. Like all bolt guns should be. Comes with the 0-MOA rail already mounted on it. Detachable (threaded) oversized bolt knob. Adjustable "Crossfire" trigger system - and it WORKS! It came set at 3.5lbs pull weight, and I've already adjusted it down to a tick over 2lbs. The adjustment system really works. Remington should put this trigger in all it's 700s, too - because that X-Mark Pro "adjustable" trigger sucks so bad. This Crossfire trigger system really works. But thumbs up on that. It won't over-ride my complete disdain for the X-Mark Pro, but it's a step in the right direction, and something that you don't need to shell out your own "extra money" to fix. I'll have alot of work to do with it to get it ready for the Spring Shoot. Glass, something from Athlon will go on it. Either a 4~14 mildot or a 6~24 mildot. Warne Maxima steel rings, as low as I can go. Extra mags. Scope bubble level. V-TAC Mk1 FDE sling. MagPul bipod. Gonna be tough to make it, just 2 months out, but I'll work on it. Ran up the numbers on the oldest ammo I can find for it, that you can find almost everywhere - 100gr Remington Core-Lokt PSP. There won't be any time for dies, Lee crimp die, powder experiments and all that - prior to Spring Shoot. Gonna have to run shelf ammo. Kinda surprised at how the numbers worked out for that ammo - 2.8 mils drop at 500, 7.4 mils drop at 850, 10.3 mils drop at 1,000. It drops below 1,000 lb/ft of energy around 375 yards, so for deer hunting, it'll be limited to about 350 yards - but that's 1.5 mils of drop. Here's the initial chart on the 100gr Core-Lokt: I'll REALLY be itching to try out the Hornady 90gr ELD-X and 103gr ELD-X, once I do get to reloading for this thing...

This one has to be a record - 22 rounds of 9mm. This was beautiful, too - I don't know what this one is:

Hey man - we're not here to keep you comfortable with your 401k...

Pretty damn good - and is was your post # 666, too...

Once you try this out, and get used to shooting it - you'll convert others over. I just have that feeling...

Found another good one - this was a S&W .357 Magnum:

That's good news, man - thanks for the update. How much did that extractor run you?

Got a Holosun 507C on a G17 (RockSlide USA slide). Works very well.

The classic "Pop and No Kick." Good news on that one. Modern barrel materials can take alot of abuse, maybe the next live one would have been the last - or maybe you could have just stacked that barrel up with projectiles - like this: or this:

That's a damn good lookin' Speed Goat, brother!

Here's what my Jackass Gun Pusher sends me, to let me know that the gun got there...

Don't thank him yet - you need to cuss us alot more before you get to that point, man...

My .338 Fed AR is on the Wilson Combat 16" barrel. It's tack-driver, and - as weird as this sounds - softer shooting than the 16" .308 Win gun. They're built as twins, too, same gas system, same recoil system, same exact brake (I drilled up the same .308 Win brake to take the .338 projectile). Hard to explain. That .338 Fed shoots softer than the .308 Win does...

Kinda like a boat? B.O.A.T. Break Out Another Thousand. A boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into.

^^^ Solid logic.

Welcome aboard, man - can't wait to see it/hear about it. I'm originally from Zanesville.

It worked out perfectly, then. Well, almost perfectly - from recent discussions, it looks like you're gonna need another...

Delicate subject, so we need to work on how to pull this off. I think we did this one other time. She won't know what happened, by the end of the conversation, when she agrees that you NEED this... Let's work on it, practice it... The we fly it...

That's the one, brother - that's it. It's just sitiing there, waiting for me. He sent me a damn picture of the BOX, but not the gun!... He's probably got it hanging on the damn display rack, knowing him...

You never, ever should have admitted that to us...