Ranch Dog wrote:It sounds like the purchase will work out. Sorry to hear about the screws. Bummer.
It's no big deal.
With all the fuss about defective Remlins I want my gunsmith to thoroughly inspect the gun butt to crown before I risk my eyes and fingers shooting it as some of the ammo I'll be shooting in it is pretty zippy.
I'll get him to do a trigger job on it to get the pull down to from where it is now around 5 pounds to around 3 pounds. The trigger is crisp but too heavy for my liking.
I had a couple more tricks I've used to get stripped screws out before like applying heat to break the Loctite bond and installing a scope base using the good screw holes to use as a drill guide to drill the stripped screw out but since the gunsmith is going to inspect the gun before I fire live ammo in it I'll leave that aggravation to him.
I have a Leupold Rifleman scope (2-7x33mm) I took off a gun I sold recently that I will install on the Guide Gun with the Warne QD rings.
I picked up a NIB Savage Alaskan Brush Gun (
bolt action - I know its sacrilege on this board but I thought I'd mention it anyway
) in .375 Ruger that has an 18" barrel the other day cause I really liked the looks and feel of it. I set it up with a 30mm tube diameter 1.5-6x40mm Bushnell Trophy scope (absolutely beautiful optics & sight picture clarity) again using the Warne QD rings as the rifle has the best iron sights I've ever seen on a gun. I had the scope and rings mounted on this gun dead on plumb and bore sighted with my Bushnell Boresighter in less than 30 minutes so I know that I'm not a Klutz.