[BigTom85]

Lets all send him a Christmas card! Anybody have his contact info? He has to have a P.O box of some sort to accept all of his donations from the MoveOn and Soros types of the world...

On a side note.. any feed back would be good. Im thinking about buying a new rifle within the next few weeks. I have the choice between a Remington 700 BDL in 30-06 (wood) or a Winchester Model 70 in 30-06. I believe the winchester is in wood also. What does everyone think??

[Sender]

Remington 700 or Winchester 70? Only you can answer that question. Hold them both, work the bolt, grok them. Use the force, Luke. Either way, you win.

[AZ_Cowboy]

I've always been a fan of the Remington 700, myself. The Winchester is a fine rifle, too, however.

[RunningWolf]

Side note; either Winchester or Remington 30-06 is very good, forget the wood, replace the wood $ with the best sights, add scope if you want.

Wolf

[RunningWolf]

Stick with the best Oem products like the 30-06, and anything else the Oem makes that fits your needs and inclination. Then 308 is also very strong, and a .22-250 or .243 are very good at the light end.

There are reasons for those OEM products. I saw guys hand load their own .22-250 for 4000' per/sec and erode their barrels, ruining the rifle.

Other guys would show up at the range with pumped up 44 mags, and not hit a dam thing with them, where I was hitting the target with a stock 357mag.

A scope is good, not necessarily to make sure you hit your target, but to make sure your target is what you think it is, and not hit anything else.

I have not owned a lot of hardware, nor shot anything in several years. But I have shot a lot of different hardware. All I have right now is a Russian model SKS thats been in its case for several years.

I was expert M16, but that was 30 years ago.

Wolf