01-25-2012, 11:18 PM
vfrdrvr Wrote:Sounds like my gun. It's an early 60s model (5 digit serial number) that my Dad gave me 45 years ago when I was 14 to go deer hunting. Like yours, the barrel is pitted about 5 inches from the muzzle. I've talked with a couple of folks about rebarreling. Darryl Holland told me has a lights out 6.5-06 reamer. I may do that this year and wait and see what happens with the Gren/.264 offerings next year.
Sorry for the hijack.
A .264 Win Mag would also be nice, but since you already have the bolt face for an 06, the 6.5-06 sounds like a good choice. You can also have the barrel melonited for at least 30% more accuracy life, since that is a throat torcher, but for hunting volume of shooting, it doesn't matter until few generations down. You can definitely get some impressive velocities with that case and powders like H4831, H4350, RL19, RL22, N-165 and the 129-140gr pills.