Jsunkler
Lil-Rokslider
I would agree. But this is no ordinary rifle - I joined the army with my best friend back in 2005 - his family was like my own and treated me the same. His dad taught me how to deer and squirrel hunt as a matter of fact. Just before we joined, my buddy’s dad bought the then “new” Browning BAR and that got all of us talking about our favorite rifles and what we would buy if money were no object. My friend tragically died in a car accident at the age of 20 just before deploying to some secret hell hole in the Middle East. About a year later my friends dad gives me a gift certificate to cabelas and tells me they’re holding a browning a-bolt white gold medallion and he had bought me a leupold vx3 to go with. All stainless and matching everything. Best looking rifle I own. It’s a 6.5lb 300wsm that kicks like a mule and won’t group less than 1.5” with everything I’ve shot out of it, which is about 10 different types of ammo. So you see, it’s not something I can just send down the road. It will stay in my safe and hopefully my children’s safes and so on. It looks good in the safe though, promise you that
If the rifle has that much sentimental value, I would take it to a gunsmith to be accurized. While having the rifle as a safequeen is great, I would counter argue that having rifle along with you in the outdoors while providing many more memories of your buddy (him and his family hunting along your side) is infinity more valuable. This especially rings true if you hope to pass this rifle down to your children.
I would have the gunsmith thread the barrel and get a muzzlebreak to lessen the mulekick. Between accurizing and a muzzlebreak, the rifle should be more pleasurable to shoot and hopefully more accurate.