Re: picking up 540x monday a couple of questions
Picked it up today. Its a shooter. The original owner said he only put 400 rds through it(35 years) and the guy I bought it from said he only put a few hundred through it.. Kinda skeptical but one thing for sure is they never cleaned it. Ran ten patches down it before it cam clean. Barrel looks great. He said he never had the action off the stock.(seriously) I took it straight to the range ofcourse, and put three different types of 40gr solids through it. Wolf extra match, federal 510 and a rem target. It shot dam impressive for no rear bag off a carpeted block at 100yards. It came with a BSA platinum 8x34 which also needed a serious lens cleaning and may soon be on the neighbor kids rifle. The bolt is kinda odd and kinda tricky to re-install other than that its quite a interesting gun. My ten year old should have a riot with this.