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szihn
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Re: .375 poll
13/05/10 01:43 AM

Mauser in 375 H&H.
A well done Enfield 1917, Winchester controlled feed m-70 or maybe even a Ruger Mk2 action would all be ok too.
All would be gunsmithed the right way, for 100% reliability.

Remington makes a good varmint and target action, but I have replaced WAY too many bolt handles and extractors on them to trust them with my life. I have been doing gunsmithing now for 39 years, so I know something about this.

When I was in the USMC we had some problems with our 700s Which were called the M-40 ( and as you can see by looking it up) The Marine Corps does NOT use the M-700 as it come from Remington, but beefs everything up. it's not good enough by a long shot as Remington sells them.

The USMC doesn't NOT use the m-700 "because it's the best" but only because it was the only real choice they had in 1965 when Winchester dropped the old M-70 from production leaving the USMC with a situation it had to address within a very short time. Viet Nam would not wait.

Now the M-700 is entrenched in the supply system, so it's not a simple matter of changing to something better. When the military changes a rifle, the rifles are the easiest part of the change. It's the supply and maintenance part of the equation that is the big burden to bear.

So the idea that "because the Army of USMC uses it it's the best is simply not true.

If it were true, the Spec/Ops units of the Marines, Navy and Army would not be trying to improve on what is the standard issue. The M-16 A2 (or A-1 for that matter) and the Beretta M-9 would just be used and trusted 100%.
But they are not.

Sure, they work, but they are NOT "the best"
Neither is the M-700.

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.375 poll	bonanza	12/05/10 04:52 AM
Re: .375 poll	SharpsNitro	12/05/10 10:58 AM
Re: .375 poll	bonanza	12/05/10 11:48 AM
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Re: .375 poll	szihn	13/05/10 07:11 AM
Re: .375 poll	CptCurl	13/05/10 07:27 AM
Re: .375 poll	mauserand9mm	13/05/10 05:13 PM
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