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Doc. If that #1 is a #1V, it should shoot quite well. Mine is aa .25" gun with handloads. (26.5 gr. W-748, Winchester 55 gr. soft point, WSP primer and Winchester brass.)
That custom job I have is more of a 1.25" gun, more's the pity, but with almost $900 tied up in it, thee's no way I can come close to breaking even on that one.
I picked it up at a gun show as it looked like a neat little rifle. Someone had taken a #1 action and put a Remington .223 Rem. barrel on the gun. It was restocked with a different butt style with cheekpiece and different style forearm. Really a neat looking rifle. Well, it didn't shoot for beans, so I took it to my gunsmith to what could be done. I'd installed a Hicks accurizer, which didn't help much. Turned out the bore was shot with the throat badly eroded. There was also damage at the muzzle from improper cleaning. He had a take off Remington .223 barrel from a customer who had a Model 7 rebarreled to some .17 caliber wildcat, so I got it cheap. We put that on, and did the glass bedding routine. Did the adjusting of the Hicks and finally got it down to 1.25".
I bought the rifle to be a walkabout gun mainly for spotting and stalking coyotes and other targets of opportunity, and it does fill that role well. I'm planning to work up a cast bullet load to about 1600 FPS for the Fall turkey season, if I can draw a tag. We can only use shotguns for the Spring season, but rifles are OK in the Fall. It should also work just fine ffor javalina season as I drew a tag for this years hunt. We'll just have to see.
Paul B.
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