Went out to the lease last weekend, shot a coon and a rattlesnake. But those are stories for another time.

Among all the work that needed to get done, I needed to sight in some rifles. Showed up with 4 rifles, nothing zeroed! How's that for prepared....

I gave my dad an old mauser action a while back. It was a Yugo rebuild. Probably cost me $100 or so and I think I sold the stock for almost that much.... so, basically, free. Barrel was lousy so we tossed it. He got a deal on a barrel / stock combo from Midway and had a .25 cal barrel laying around. Amid the combination of reamers, headspace gages, and reloading dies we could come up with, the .250 Savage ended up the winner. Cut the stock off as short as I could for my son and put a recoil pad back on it, easy job.

Anyway, with the military trigger, and a 4x Leupold scope, put 3 Hornady 87gr. softpoints into a group you can cover with a dime at 100 yards. Not too bad for a free gun! It's still in the white, mostly, with remnants of bluing left on the receiver. Need to find some sort of bake-on coating.

A number of years back, I found an old Rem 511 on consignment in a gunshop. Near perfect wood, but the top of the receiver had been badly drilled / tapped. Not more than two of the holes were in line with each other, and none of them pointed up out of the receiver at the same angle. Had my dad solder in some plug screws, and redrill / tap on his mill. Then contour a Weaver base to the receiver.

With a 4x Leupold compact scope, and using a sleeping bag for a rest on a folding table, put 6 rounds of cheap bulk Winchester hollow points in another group you could cover with a dime, at maybe 21 or 22 yards.

Not bad for some cheap guns!

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MikeG

Both seem to be shooters and thats what counts. Sometimes those "Pieces of Work" end up to be more valuable than some fancy sporter. I would a lot rather have a rifle I can use and not worry about dinging up than a high priced rifle that looks to good to hunt with. Sounds like you and pop had fun building that mauser. That make it no longer a CHEAP rifle.

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I just got back from the range today with my rebuilt yugo Mauser. Got a 35 Whelen Adams & Bennett barrel from Midway and a Boyd's stock from somewhere for about $90 each. The rifle itself was a beat up M48 I got for less than $100. Rented a reamer from 4D. It looks like a good shooter. It's an open sight using a Williams peep on the receiver bridge and a NECG universal front, (most expensive part). I used Wheeler Cerama-Coat for the finish. Midway was having a sale. I'd guess I put in under $400 for this rifle. Pleased with the results. I will have to see how the Cerama-coat holds up. Will try Dura-coat next time.

I've told my story about my winchester model 12 for $20 dollars,
http://shootersforum.com/showthread....ighlight=model

But I've always been lucky with getting guns on the cheap.

I recently picked up a Marlin 99, which is similar in appearance and function to the model 60, for a mere $60 dollars. Shoots like a charm, and will cycle longs and long rifle.

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Chris in NH.

"some days, I wish my dogs could talk"

with guns you can just forget the ,you get what you pay for sayin...
accessories mabe but the cheap guns i have ,,i wouldn trade for the most expensive guns...not if i knew i had to use them...now i don t get to set an dream about the possibilities of my new $4500. rifle an just dream about how the deer just gonna fall over when they see it...but i have a few times got to look at her as i cleaned her an remembered outshooting everybody at the range that day..

Good shooting.

sounds impressive.

Nice, Mike! I'd like to go classic car shopping with you!

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I wish I had the Rem 511 I had as a kid,very accurate for a run of the mill .22.
'cheap' guns shoot very well most of the time unless very badly abused by someone,and it's sure to make ya when they do.

The 250 Savage ,in my experience, is one of those underrated cartridges that perform on game and targets out to medium range. It appears to be tolerant of most projectile types and weight. Good results with a minimum of load development.

Another favourite is the 7x57 and it along with the 250 Savage they box out of their division.
The Nosler Partition 160gr .284 Spitzer is my all round favourite.

Both cartridges are the hunters friend.

At last a mention of an off the shoulder hunting power scope.

I have only been lucky enough to find one deal. A Marlin 336 in 35 Remington. It was beat to **** but shot clover leafs with hot 200 grn handloads. I refinished the wood and kryloned the rifle and found out that you can polish turds.

im gonna have to remember that ...you can polish turds..
next time i see my ex soninlaw all dooded up ..i may just use that phrase..
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he cleans up good but,,a right imature, irrresponcible,39 yr. old boy..
kept hoping he would grow up an be a dad to my grand daughter..slim