What to do with an obsolete junk rifle?

[grfox92]

15 years ago I bought a 3 guns from a gun shop in CT. The guys gave me a "good deal" on a brand new .270 from a defunct rifle company called Raptor Arms. $200.

So I grabbed it and it sat in my safe for 2 years before I ever tried shooting it. Heavy bolt lift, blown out brass, extractor marks on the brass. Bad chamber.

It was too late for me to bring the gun back to where I bought it, they changed ownership.

So its been sitting with my other guns all this time and I have no use for it.

My question is, does anyone know anything about it? Based off pics below, is it an R700 platform?

Is there anything worth saving off this rifle parts wise?

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[Kyguy]

That gun eventually became the Mossberg Patriot. Raptor was sold to Charter Arms, then Charter sold the design to Mossberg, if I remember correctly. So..... You could build off it if you wanted to. Or..... Call the police and turn it in to them for disposal if you don't want to chop saw it into little pieces.

 

[grfox92]

That gun eventually became the Mossberg Patriot. Raptor was sold to Charter Arms, then Charter sold the design to Mossberg, if I remember correctly. So..... You could build off it if you wanted to. Or..... Call the police and turn it in to them for disposal if you don't want to chop saw it into little pieces.

Im curious if it would fit in a Mossberg stock. If it did, it would be nice if it had a .223 bolt face to turn into a trainer.

But this thing is truly junk you can open the bolt and wobble it 3/4 of an inch 360 degrees.

The trigger is actually great, its almost too light but breaks beautifully.

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[grfox92]

That gun eventually became the Mossberg Patriot. Raptor was sold to Charter Arms, then Charter sold the design to Mossberg, if I remember correctly. So..... You could build off it if you wanted to. Or..... Call the police and turn it in to them for disposal if you don't want to chop saw it into little pieces.

Im curious if it would fit in a Mossberg stock. If it did, it would be nice if it had a .223 bolt face to turn into a trainer.

But this thing is truly junk you can open the bolt and wobble it 3/4 of an inch 360 degrees.

The trigger is actually great, its almost too light but breaks beautifully.

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[wind gypsy]

Give to one of us in a blue state so we can sell in a gun buy back..

 

[grfox92]

Give to one of us in a blue state so we can sell in a gun buy back..

Do you have a trip planned to Wyoming anytime soon? Its yours if you do.

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[TaperPin]

I’d just sell it. Someone will love the rifle. Most folks don’t care about ejector marks or fat chambers. Every round of factory ammo out of a number of rifles I’ve had produce nice bright ejector marks. Older chambers were often loosy goosey with big fat expansion in front of the case web like pistol brass, and necks way larger than even maximum SAAMI.

 

[grfox92]

I’d just sell it. Someone will love the rifle. Most folks don’t care about ejector marks or fat chambers. Every round of factory ammo out of a number of rifles I’ve had produce nice bright ejector marks. Older chambers were often loosy goosey with big fat expansion in front of the case web like pistol brass, and necks way larger than even maximum SAAMI.

Yea this is more than that. You have to beat the bolt back open after firing

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[TaperPin]

I’d still sell it as an action. Someone will give you $150 - $200 for it.

 

[2ski]

So probably not a kid gun? I mean truly someone would probably love the gun. Onset adult hunters? Contact your fish and wildlife service and see if a hunter ed class could use it for a demo gun or something?

 

[Deere_Man]

Rebarrel it and turn it into a 7x57. Nice little conversation piece. Send it to Hart and they will fix it up. https://hartbarrels.com/

I think Timney makes a Mossberg Patriot trigger.

 

[baz77]

Someone will give you 100-150$ for no doubt lots of gun hoarders out there that will buy it cause it’s cheap and put in the safe to add to their count.

 

[wind gypsy]

Do you have a trip planned to Wyoming anytime soon? Its yours if you do.

Haha i was joking. That was just the first thing that came to mind because I've got a couple junk guns that would get that treatment if the clowns running this state were dumb enough to do a buy back.