mehulkamdar
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Loc: State of Ill-Annoy USA.
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Link on Remington website
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500Nitro
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Loc: Victoria, Australia
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Doesn't say much about availability !!!
And being at the ass end of the world, we'll probably
get allocated 10 !!!
Edited by 500Nitro (30/01/07 07:31 AM)
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Marrakai
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Loc: Darwin, Top End of Australia
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Ten from Remington will be plenty to satisfy the brand-name zealots. Then we can get a thousand or two direct from Baikal to satisfy the rest of the market, at half the price!
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Pilgrim
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Loc: Washington State, USA
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Near as I could see, Remington had exactly ZERO of them in their booth at the SCI convention last week. I looked and looked, but nary a gun with two rifled barrels was in sight. Pilgrim
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Bloodnativ
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Loc: South Carolina, USA
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And there's still that 28,000 PSI/28,000 CUP warning on there. I wonder how much of that is factual and how much is pussing out to the lawyers.
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450_Ackley
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Loc: Darling Downs, Qld Australia
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Had my local gunshop look into it last week, the Australian Remington distributors told him not to hold our breath for a 45-70, either Remington or Baikal, rumour has it, 2 were made initially, 1 displayed at the shot show last year and the other one was blown up due to someone in the U.S putting something like Cor-Bon loads in it. Not sure exactly how much of this would be true, just repeating what Morgan told my gun dealer.
Having said that, I recently looked at a 30-06 SxS Baikal in a shop, really nice and it retailed for $1250-00 AUD.
I think the problem will be barrel wall thickness in the 45-70's, as the action Baikal used for the 30-06 is really nice and trim, looks like a 410 size action, and consequently barrel wall thickness would be limited to what looks OK on the action. Comb was a bit high for open sight use on the 30-06, but for $1250-00, you wouldn't mind taking a bit off it. Nice little quarter rib on it and a very nice hidden regulating screw in front of the forend, hidden in the lower rib.
Looks like it might be very interesting, still thinking about buying the 30-06 I saw, just to play with one.
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