22 gun porn.

[donws2]

So, there I was minding my own business at the CMP south store and looked what followed me home.

All five of these 82G’s are “Rusty’s”. Two do have a little surface rust on the bolts. All have razor cuts of different lengths on the stocks. There were forty Rusty 82G’s on the shelf today. 18 of these had birch stocks. 22 had walnut stocks and seven of those with test group stickers in the 9’s. The five I bought show they tested at 9.98, 9.98, 9.98, 9.94 and 9.77. I left a 9.88 and 9.76. One of those had a very bad bolt feel (sticky) to it and the other had a very deep razor cut. If you want a rifle with no razor cut then the birch stock guns are GTG. Most had no cut at all. All the walnut rifles had a cut or two in the stock. All the birch stock guns I looked at were S/Ned in the 5 thousands if anyone is collecting data on these rifles.

These pictures are not so good. My good camera has bit the dust so this is the best I can do for now. Enjoy the Kimber porn, Donald

 

[R.Walters]

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very nice!

 

[Parallax]

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Don... (sigh)

Very nice... did they have any of the Redfield International rear and Olympic front sights there yet ? I need a set for my H&R M12 and have been dragging my feet.

 

[donws2]

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Yep they got the sights. Olympic and Palma rears only. Their out of the Internationals. The Palma is a better sighgt so I'd go with them. Donald

 

[SmallBoreSnipers]

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Ahhh mannn...my wife caught me watching! lol. NICE!

 

[malaga2]

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hot damn....beautiful !!!

 

[donws2]

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Acually either the 82A or 82C was a repeater. But I know what you mean. It would have been nice to buy a surplus GI 82 repeater worth 8 or 9 hundred bucks for only 400 dollars.

 

[Outsydlooknin75]

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What is the razor cut that you mention and whats the meaning behind it or an explantion of it.

 

[donws2]

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The clowns at the arsenal in Aniston, AL opened the boxes the rifles were in with box cutters. Many rifles have cuts in the wood and I'v seen some were the reciever and barrel are gouged also. The guys that follow the Kimber thing know all about it and I just forgot to explain what was what. That's a hit on me.
All of these rifles are new in the box so the damage was done in storage and not as some have said buy Army units. Most of these have never been out of a goverment warehouse since the Eighties when they were made. Just another example of how the goverment cares about our tax money by hiring careless jackasses. The only positive thing is it motivates many to refinish these rifles. The wood is Turkish Walnut and most are very nice looking if you remove the varnish that the factory used. The military must have wanted a flat finish as you can see there is no shine to these. The varnish(?) is also milky in color so it hides the true color of the wood beneath. I've refinished several of these stocks and the effect is 50 to 100% improvement in the looks of the rifle. Donald

 

[DRAM40A1]

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Morons cutting the wrapper open to inventory, record serial number!!!

 

[donws2]

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Oh, if you look you can see the cut on the first three rifles in the second picture. It starts at the pistol grip and goes towards the buttpad. Donald

 

[AlabamaShooter]

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Ok Don now youre just showing off. HA!

good lookin assortment of .22 there.

 

[exedotbat]

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Can you post pics of a finished stock, i'm curious to see the difference?

 

[donws2]

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AL Shooter you are correct, LOL.
Exe. you'll have to wait for better pictures. I've sold the other rifles and only have old pictures.

This stock was on a 150 broken Kimber I rebuilt into a SVT type.
The stock looked like a dogs ass after craping peach seeds. It was beaken to hell and there was no figure could be seen at all throughthe Kimber varnish. This is still a plain looking stock compaired to most Kimbers.

 

[donws2]

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The barrel is a Kimber or Oregon SVT stainless, fluted, no taper 18" new replacement that had never been installed or chamber finished. There's a guy on GB now that sells the left over inventory from the Oregon stuff. I got this one and several others off of ebay for less money but he does not sell there anymore. He also has the 21" taped version of this barrel forsale. Both are very good quality. Here's what a 82G with the 21" barrel looks like.

 

[donws2]

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No but good catch. The scope is laid side ways. The adjustment knob gets in the way when loading 22 ammo. UP is left, Left is UP. Donald

 

[bserebreni]

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WOW-I'm jeleous

 

[Mcoop8]

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Please explain the "test" #s I just got my Kimber in and it has a 10.10 on the sticker... What does that mean?

 

[donws2]

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When I was shooting on the GAARNG service rifle team we were issued these rifles new from Kimber in the early 90's. At the time we were told that the stickers are the test group shoot at the Kimber factory. The measurement is in Milimeters and the targets were shot are 35 Meters. Now the guys over at Rimfirecentral have desided the sticker is the weight of the rifle. I for one do not see why the Army would have the rifles test fired at the factory and no documentation but would have the factory weigh and place a sticker on them. So I'm still in the test group camp. If you believe in the test group rumor then the lower the number the better the rifle shot when tested. So that's what Test #'s mean in the long version. Donald

 

[Mcoop8]

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So at GAARNG, Did the rifles ring true to the test results on the sticker? did a 9.?? shoot a 9.same? I know there are a lot of factors that come into play, but did the small #s shoot small #s when you got them?

 

[308sako]

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deleted in protest

 

[donws2]

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That's a looker you got there. Is that one of the few built on the Anschultz 54 action?

As for the 9.xx verses 10.xx mm groups we used them to pratice off hand position in doors with white box GI Winchester T22 ammo. It has to be some of the worst ammo ever made. We thought in MOA at 200, 300 and 600 yards anyway so no one cared much about 1mm difference at 35 meters.

I did test all five rifles this last week and four of the five will shoot in the .2's and .3's with Wolf MT the other would not. That one shot in th .2's and .3's with SK Match. All groups were shot on a windless morning at 50 yards on 10 meter air rifle targets with the same scope and mounts moved from one rifle to the next to make everthing as fair as possible. Only got to shoot three with SK Match as the winds picked up before I finished and there's just no point to test 22's in the wind. All of them will be conpetetive in local matches with weighed ammo that the rifle likes. I've not had enough access to new Kimbers with either a 9.xx or 10.xx number to say wether there is a clear difference in the groups. One thing to consider is the ammo Kimber used is no longer manufactured so there would be no way to replicate their testing to start with and using another brand/type of ammo would not be a definitive test either way. My own test showed that these rifles will shoot 8 or 9 mm groups at 50 yards with the ammo I own and like. Good enough to me. Donald

 

[308sako]

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No, Just a Kimber of Oregon Model 82.

 

[donws2]

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Very nice either way. You just have to love that stock. Do you have a pic of the other side? Donald

 

[308sako]

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Don, the other side... That's a good point, I'll have to get into the silo one of these days and show it some light again... I'll snap a pic and we'll see.

 

[wksinatl]

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Great post, Don.

Every time I go over to the South Store those things tempt me.

Keith

 

[vman]

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Those are some gorgeous looking stocks !

 

[1917]

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rarely see that grade of wood. nice

 

[donws2]

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Thier great 22's and the price is better than you can expect for an entry level match rifle. If you sell the sight for two hundred you have only 200 plus 22.95 for shipping into the rifle. The sights cost Kimber over three hundred so the rumor goes when they bought them and they will work on any of the European style receivers. If I had the cash I'd buy twenty of them for rainy day projects. Thanks for feed back and keep them in the X ring. Donald

 

[308sako]

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deleted in protest

 

[LeviSS]

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That rifle is beautiful!

 

[donws2]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: LeviSS</div><div class="ubbcode-body">That rifle is beautiful! </div></div>

No kidding. You don't see wood that nice on the 2 grand and up custom guns. Nice rifle just don't cut it.
Thanks for the pictures.

Donald

 

[Tucsondave]

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Vintage Weatherby XXII

 

[donws2]

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looks like this is becoming the sex 22 thread.

btw nice one Tucsondave

 

[_DE_]

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U started it Don.

 

[AlabamaShooter]

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Here is one you might remember Don.

While its not as nice as the previous examples, she is all mine. This is after she got some new glass.