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This poor action has to feel used and abused. After all - it's mine. It wasn't the first custom action I'd ever owned, but it was the first one that got much use. I traded a Manner's stocked long action Defiance with a 6.5-284 Bartlein for this Butch's white labeled Stiller, to retire a Remington 700 when I got serious about shooting PRS. Barrels came and went, and bullets disappeared in the general direction of all the AR500 steel I could lay eyes on. For the last few years a #3 Bartlein in 6mm …

Weekends are for shooting and having fun. They’re not for working. Yeah! Right! Saturday I drug out an Eliseo Competition Machine I’d left uncleaned and neglected in the corner for the last four years. It had poked a few targets for me at a PRS one day match in 2022, then was unceremoniously overlooked for a few seasons. I’ve taken up shooting these Dakota 600 matches lately and I thought the 6mmBR barrel on the tube gun would do really well, mostly because of the bipod Gary ma …

It’s not a dog. Doesn’t look like one. Doesn’t shoot like one. But it followed me to work today like a dog. A lot of youngsters, mid-sters and old-sters, too, shy away when there’s work to be done. Not this rifle, though. Last shooter at a meatball stage? Let’s go! First in the squad to shoot into the rising sun? Do it! Why combine these parts into one unit? Funny you should ask . . . A couple of years ago Kent - badly - wanted the action I was using, so I swapped h …