What to do with an obsolete junk rifle?

grfox92

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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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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.
 
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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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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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.
 
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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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?
 
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.
 
#1 if you don't want a lot of headaches, and it gone, go pawn it for cash. Maybe there is something there you want to barter for instead, ammo, optic, or you can take the money.

#2 Take it to a gun store. See if they will trade it in for something, brass, powder, primers, bullets, etc.

#3 You can always call the police and see if they will take it off your hands.

#4 Since you said that trigger is so good, maybe a cheap project:
If the barrel is that bad, I would look at the headspace on that barrel, and if chamber is cut bad, take it off, look at the thread / pitch and see if just a normal cheap new take off barrel could just be spun and headspaced in caliber you wanted. It should have a normal thread / pitch if it is a generic rifle, copy off another rifle. You can take it to a good gunsmith and ask him about it if you don't want to mess with it, and his thoughts.

People buy new rifles all the time, have their gunsmith take off a new factory barrel without even shooting it just to have a new custom barrel put on. They sell those new factory take off barrels online cheap. If you don't want to do the work, talk to a good gunsmith on aspects. A brand new spin on Shaw barrel is cheap. I've bought new factory take off stainless barrels cheap, spun them on, head spaced them, at the range 1 MOA with factory ammo, handloads 1/2 MOA.
 
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