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Picked up my secondary rifle today

TurdusMerulaTurdusMerula MemberPosts: 362 Member
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I got my permission to buy a second rifle from cops on monday. Today I managed to pick it up from the store 80 miles away from our home. Savage Axis in 30-06. Put my old Leupold M8 to it and it looks like a real rifle, actually. Don't know yet if it will ever see anything but cardboard moose. Perhaps, time will tell. It's a lot lighter than my Rem 798. 2lbs lighter. That speaks for the possibility to get picked up for some moose hunting some day. Have to test shoot it first at some point.



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  • earlyearly Senior Member Thornton COPosts: 4,950 Senior Member
    #2
    Nice!

    If those views are by your house, you're living in a paradise there. At least till the snow fly's.
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  • snake284snake284 Senior Member Posts: 22,429 Senior Member
    #3
    Nice! The Rem. 799 is on a Mauser action. The Savage is a push feed action and a good bit lighter than a Mauser action. But the Savage will definitely shoot!
    Daddy, what's an enabler?
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  • Big ChiefBig Chief Senior Member Posts: 32,995 Senior Member
    #4
    Congrats. Hope you get to bust a Bullwinkle with it. :guns: :guns:
    It's only true if it's on this forum where opinions are facts and facts are opinions
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  • Diver43Diver43 Senior Member Between Ft Lauderdale and MiamiPosts: 12,560 Senior Member
    #5
    Congrats
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  • CHIRO1989CHIRO1989 Senior Member Central MNPosts: 14,662 Senior Member
    #6
    Thread derail, can you still purchase a surplus Finnish Moisin Nagant in Finland?
    I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn away from their ways and live. Eze 33:11
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  • NNNN Senior Member NCPosts: 25,221 Senior Member
    #7
    Like it
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  • TurdusMerulaTurdusMerula Member Posts: 362 Member
    #8
    CHIRO1989 wrote: »
    Thread derail, can you still purchase a surplus Finnish Moisin Nagant in Finland?

    Yes we can. Here are some examples http://www.lahdeniemi.fi/Sivut/kayt-kiv.htm
    To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour
    -William Blake-
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  • TurdusMerulaTurdusMerula Member Posts: 362 Member
    #9
    early wrote: »
    Nice!

    If those views are by your house, you're living in a paradise there. At least till the snow fly's.

    Yeah, pics are from our house. Winters aren't so bad when you know that summer will come at some point :)







    To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour
    -William Blake-
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  • earlyearly Senior Member Thornton COPosts: 4,950 Senior Member
    #10
    TurdusMerula wrote: »
    Yeah, pics are from our house. Winters aren't so bad when you know that summer will come at some point :)







    Wow!
    I'm awestruck.
    My thoughts are generally clear. My typing, not so much.
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  • CHIRO1989CHIRO1989 Senior Member Central MNPosts: 14,662 Senior Member
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    TurdusMerula wrote: »
    Yes we can. Here are some examples http://www.lahdeniemi.fi/Sivut/kayt-kiv.htm

    Then let me be the first to apply some enabling pressure to get a Finnish version of the rifle and add to your collection of meat gathering tools.
    BTW, I got my dad one when they were $89.95 US NIB, should have bought one for each of the kids.

    I love your beach, how is the fishing?
    I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn away from their ways and live. Eze 33:11
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  • RugerFanRugerFan Senior Member Eupora, MSPosts: 2,814 Senior Member
    #12
    I love picture 3. Nice place you got there!
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  • snake284snake284 Senior Member Posts: 22,429 Senior Member
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    TurdusMerula wrote: »
    Yeah, pics are from our house. Winters aren't so bad when you know that summer will come at some point :)







    Wow...Just WOW!!! Those pics look like postcards. Just totally beautiful.
    Daddy, what's an enabler?
    Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
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  • TurdusMerulaTurdusMerula Member Posts: 362 Member
    #14
    CHIRO1989 wrote: »
    Then let me be the first to apply some enabling pressure to get a Finnish version of the rifle and add to your collection of meat gathering tools.
    BTW, I got my dad one when they were $89.95 US NIB, should have bought one for each of the kids.

    I love your beach, how is the fishing?

    You know, even when I know how much our nation owes to "pystykorva" (Finnish Mosin-Nagant rifle) for it's services in wars against Soviet Union, I really don't like it at all. Don't know why but it just doesn't touch me in any way.

    Fishing? Hmmm... yeah. It's about 45 yards to water line from our house and I fish very rarely. In the spring time when ice melts from the sea I keep nets for a couple of weeks. You can get salmon (pretty rare) white fish, pike perch, pike, Baltic herring and perch. Those are the most usual fishes in these waters.
    To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour
    -William Blake-
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  • TurdusMerulaTurdusMerula Member Posts: 362 Member
    #15
    snake284 wrote: »
    Wow...Just WOW!!! Those pics look like postcards. Just totally beautiful.


    Thanks! Here are a few more from our home. Sorry they are not hunting related.









    To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour
    -William Blake-
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  • orchidmanorchidman Senior Member A true 'Southerner'. NZPosts: 8,403 Senior Member
    #16
    Congrats on the new aquisition. Love the scenery around your home.

    Just curious as to why you bought a second 30.06............not that there is anything wrong with having multiple rifles in the same calibre.
    Still enjoying the trip of a lifetime and making the best of what I have.....
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  • TurdusMerulaTurdusMerula Member Posts: 362 Member
    #17
    orchidman wrote: »
    Congrats on the new aquisition. Love the scenery around your home.

    Just curious as to why you bought a second 30.06............not that there is anything wrong with having multiple rifles in the same calibre.

    My Rem 798 has one "flaw". It throws 124gr FMJs ten inches higher than 170-180gr hunting bullets. I use light FMJs to running moose target shooting and I hated to adjust POI between hunting and practice shooting. So when there was a couple of these rifle on 50% sale I decided to buy one. This Axis probably won't see living animals but will be used to punch holes into the cardboard moose running on tracks. Depends how it shoots different weight bullets. If it throws lighter and heavier bullets to roughly same point it might see some action in to woods and fields too. If not I'll use it on range only.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C46WEtHwZ6U
    To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour
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  • orchidmanorchidman Senior Member A true 'Southerner'. NZPosts: 8,403 Senior Member
    #18
    Awesome!

    Is it a legal requirement for hunting or is it more like voluntary competition?

    I might have to look at setting something like that up at the range. It looks like fun............Serious shooting but fun at the same time.
    Still enjoying the trip of a lifetime and making the best of what I have.....
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  • TurdusMerulaTurdusMerula Member Posts: 362 Member
    #19
    orchidman wrote: »
    Awesome!

    Is it a legal requirement for hunting or is it more like voluntary competition?

    I might have to look at setting something like that up at the range. It looks like fun............Serious shooting but fun at the same time.
    We have to shoot big game shooting test every 3rd year in order to hunt moose, deer or bear. It used to have shooting to moving target too but nowadays just for the standing moose target. But we still train to shoot voluntarely to moving moose target too. Four shots to standing and six shots to moving moose target. That’s one competition round.
    Moving Moose-target:
    Gap of 23m/25 yards, moose runs it in 4.4 seconds. Distance 75m/82 yards or 100 meters. 10 ring size is 11cm/4.4 inches, biggest ring one is 65cm/25 inches.
    To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour
    -William Blake-
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  • Hondo341Hondo341 Member Sunny FloridaPosts: 448 Member
    #20
    You seem to be nicely set up for hunting and you live in paradise.
    "People are responsible to play a role in their own safety." Sheriff David Clarke 2016
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  • Big ChiefBig Chief Senior Member Posts: 32,995 Senior Member
    #21
    TurdusMerula wrote: »
    Yes we can. Here are some examples http://www.lahdeniemi.fi/Sivut/kayt-kiv.htm

    One dollar US is about 84% .84 of one Euro..............some of those prices are good, but others over 2 times or more. Some nice rifles in that lineup.
    It's only true if it's on this forum where opinions are facts and facts are opinions
    Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
    I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
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  • bullsi1911bullsi1911 Moderator Posts: 12,313 Senior Member
    #22
    I have been sorely tempted to get one of those Axis rifles just for a backup gun.

    Beautiful pictures, as well.
    To make something simple is a thousand times more difficult than to make something complex.
    -Mikhail Kalashnikov
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  • TeachTeach Senior Member Dellrose TNPosts: 18,428 Senior Member
    #23
    I'm thinking of adding a "running stag" target to the 200 yard range we use at the SE shoot, but I'm concerned that some donkeyhole will start shooting at the suspension cable!
    Jerry
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  • neosamneosam New Member Posts: 28 New Member
    #24
    Congrats on your new purchase. It seems like a good rifle.
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