I work at Gander Mountain in the firearms, so luckily I get first dibs on some good deals, this being one of them.
A colleague actually purchased this gun off the customer, when he blue booked it though he looked up the 700VSF which has about a $600 lower price than the VSSFII which has the HS precision stock. Long story short the gun was going on the shelf for $430 in 95+% condition which should have been $900+.
The gun was totally stock other than a homegrown camo job on the stock (which will be changed when I get a shipment of 1200 KG).
I tore it apart first thing done was the trigger job, luckily this gun is older than 2004 so it has the GOOD remington trigger, got it adjusted safely down to 1.5lbs.
Ordered a Vortex Viper 6.5-20x44 with the dead hold BDC reticle through work for $325 recieved it in 2 days (thanks vortex). This scope is incredible for the pricepoint. Obvously the only downfall is the non-matching reticle/knobs. But the beauty of the BDC reticle is vortex supplies the MOA separation of the dots (1.5, 4.5, 7.5) so it can still be used to range targets with ease.
Mounted that on Weavers new 20moa base and 6 hole picatinny rings, also extremely nice equipment for the $$, only $35 for the base and $40 for the rings through opticsplanet.com
Sprayed the whole gun with KG 2400 series Gunkote in flat dark earth, I absolutely love this stuff, you cant damage it!
Lathed up a new bolt knob at work too then took it home, chopped the old one, TIG welded this one on, not bad for about 4 total hours of work there, I was trying to semi-copy the surgeon knob. Used 3/4 stock instead of 7/8 though I wanted it a little smaller.
Now I just have to work up a load of 55gn Nosler BT's.
A colleague actually purchased this gun off the customer, when he blue booked it though he looked up the 700VSF which has about a $600 lower price than the VSSFII which has the HS precision stock. Long story short the gun was going on the shelf for $430 in 95+% condition which should have been $900+.
The gun was totally stock other than a homegrown camo job on the stock (which will be changed when I get a shipment of 1200 KG).
I tore it apart first thing done was the trigger job, luckily this gun is older than 2004 so it has the GOOD remington trigger, got it adjusted safely down to 1.5lbs.
Ordered a Vortex Viper 6.5-20x44 with the dead hold BDC reticle through work for $325 recieved it in 2 days (thanks vortex). This scope is incredible for the pricepoint. Obvously the only downfall is the non-matching reticle/knobs. But the beauty of the BDC reticle is vortex supplies the MOA separation of the dots (1.5, 4.5, 7.5) so it can still be used to range targets with ease.
Mounted that on Weavers new 20moa base and 6 hole picatinny rings, also extremely nice equipment for the $$, only $35 for the base and $40 for the rings through opticsplanet.com
Sprayed the whole gun with KG 2400 series Gunkote in flat dark earth, I absolutely love this stuff, you cant damage it!
Lathed up a new bolt knob at work too then took it home, chopped the old one, TIG welded this one on, not bad for about 4 total hours of work there, I was trying to semi-copy the surgeon knob. Used 3/4 stock instead of 7/8 though I wanted it a little smaller.
Now I just have to work up a load of 55gn Nosler BT's.
