Gun Owning Smokers

[Mangyrat]

Weather has been crap here also so no range time this week.

But i do have some days off so ill have a few good cigars waiting for the weather to improve.

[Mangyrat]

It has been a fun week

Thursday i spent at the range and sighted in the AR.
The AR preformed above my expectations, it ran flawlessly.
I would not hesitate to order from SOTA arms again, they did a fine job on the upper with only light machining marks that are hard to see unless you are looking for flaws.

I was having to much fun so i ran 20 rounds of 300 win mag "just to punish my self for having to much fun" in the Remington 770.
Then i finished up the day with the Stoeger P350 and a bunch of 00 buck to destroy what was left of my shoulder.

Spent a few days to recuperate then headed off to sandblast rally this mooring.

[Mangyrat]

Ops canceled order.

[CptnBlues63]

I finally finished the stock. Here's a couple before/after pics:

Before:


The "after" pics will be in the following post.

[CptnBlues63]

And here's the after:



The following is a picture of both my first 99C and the one I just bought last fall:



The one on the left is my first with the stock redone. You can tell from the above "before" photo it was well used. The dude I bought it off of was a guide and had used that gun for many years. The one on the right I just got in time to use last fall. The mfg date of the one on the left is 1984, the one on the right 1982. The older of the two was in brand new condition and judging by the fact that there were no marks on the stock or any other part of the gun combined with a stiff action and trigger, I'd wager it had less than 50 round through it before I got it.

[Mangyrat]

Nice reconditioning CptnBlues63.

[Eville]

It took nearly 3 months but my CMP Special in .308 finally showed up last night at my parents house. Now I just need to get home to shoot it. The AR is a Sig that my dad got last night as well.