Karma Finally!
 

The smith in OKC gave me a FULL REFUND! Because I took the target with me with all the sideways imprinted holes, when I went to visit him, his reaction was "Wow!"

So I took the money back, he even gave me back the money for the parts and machining and labor he did, and used it and $142 on my credit card and got a new Savage 10 with accutrigger in .243

I put the 3-9x VX-II on it, and got me some Federal & Remington 100 grainers for it.

I should have just done this in the first place, no more lusting old military rifles.

Aw well.......I got a deer rifle;)

jon did you hand over the rifle itself? Just wondering.

Glad you got your money back.

GoodOlBoy

Hey GOB,

If you mean did I give him the Enfield back, yes I did.

I think you did right.

I agree I think you did the right thing. If that gunsmith has any sorta skill at all he can rebarrel that enfield too.

GoodOlBoy

jon when does gun seasen open for you.

Wrenchman, we started Saturday.

Friday morning I took the Savage (.243), and a friends Mossberg ATR (.30-06), to the range.

In Germany I still have my Savage 10 in .308. I always loved Savage, I used to own quite a few, but always had to tweak them a bit, you know bed the action, replace trigger and what not.

But I visually bore sited the .243 at 25 yards, and got it on paper in the five inch bulls eye in 2 shots. Zeroed it at 100 yards with 5 shots, the first two were one shot at a time just to count clicks, next three were just a smidgen less than a quarter-sized group right in the middle of the dead center. I purchased a pack of Walmart cheapie targets, the center circle has a 1/2" green dot.

The zeroing in was with Federal Hi Shock, then I took some Core Lokt, and got the first round a bit wide ('bout an inch and a half) of the Federal holes, but no biggie it is a different brand, but the next two roudns........TWO IN THE SAME HOLE!!

I didn't have to tweak a danged thing. Savage is my favoriate basic rifle, but I never just took one out of the box and shot it (well I did clean it and check all the screws and stuff for safety sake). I didn't even fiddle with the accutrigger.

I was a little worried about the tupperware stock, but not any more.:D

And the Mossberg was sweet too! Three rounds, 1 1/4" from jump street. The trigger was pretty danged good, didn't have a way to measure pull, but it was under what I expected. This one had no travel issues, but just a slight bit of creep, but truly not enough to mention.

If all the ATR's are equal, get one, I mean it. The only reason I didn't get one was Wally World ran out when I got to the counter Friday night. But deep down I am still happier I got the Savage.