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Skeet,
On the way to Tulsa we had a long serious discussion about the "classic" guns. Our group, of five long time collectors and shooters, have worked out a fairly good theory. The younger folks simply are not all that interested in the guns like the Win M-12, pre 64 M-70, etc. Some sections of the country still like the A-5 but in others it is old hat. Similar situation is the high grade wood stocks that us older guys like, while the younger guys just buy a black plastic stock and spay paint it. We are passing on, dying out, without transferring our appreciation for the fine guns we love. You go to a show around here and it is infested with black guns and buyers that consider a 10.5 inch paper plate an adequate group at 50 paces. We as a nation are loosing all the riflemen, and we, of the great gun generation are not going to be around much longer. Perhaps the writers share a bit of responsibility for all this by writing how wonderful some of this "junk" is to help sell the sponsor's new whiz bang.
Is the Kimber rifle still based on the Montana Rifle Co action? I built 3 rifles based on the MRC actions and they are fine actions, using the best of the K-98 and the M-70 actions in combination.
Ed
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