Not funny. Don't be giving him any ideers...
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Not funny. Don't be giving him any ideers...
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Yeah......no.Originally Posted by JABIII
Yeah......no.
We cool.
So if anybody was going to work on mine, it would be John Lewis at CPR in Jackson. He is the standard when it comes to getting No1's to shoot reliably. As I understand it, most of the issue with them is the screw in the forend and how it attaches at an angle. Pretty sure it puts the barrel in a bit of a bind and he works that over to take that away. That being said, I'm lucky that my dad's .270 No.1 shoots handloads just fine and I can't bring myself to jack with it for potentially marginal accuracy improvements.
John did some work to my wood stocked m77 MarkII 25-06 and it shoots better than I can. I put a Timney in it and floated the barrel myself and it's a dream to shoot with both factory and handloads.
I don't need my name in the marquee lights....
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Is he still around?
"Only accurate rifles are interesting " - Col. Townsend Whelen
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I just bought a Weatherby so I wouldn’t have to worry about fixing it so I could hit a target.
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168 grains of assistance from a distance
Last I heard he had moved to NC to teach gunsmithing in some college. His brother ran the CPR business for a while but I think that it has closed shop. I hunt behind his old shop and his sign is down. Hope he is doing ok. Haven’t seen him in a long time.
If it ain\'t accurate at long distance, then the fact that it is flat shooting is meaningless.
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