losthope
09-19-2011, 04:49 PM
I wrote this a little over 2 years ago for a different forum. Im new to the brotherhood so i thought this might be a good place to share it. im sure it will be moved but it is a Savage 110 so ill start here. I still use the rifle alot it is shooting small groups and is a joy to shoot.
I’m not sure how I should start this so I’m going to just jump right in. This is more of a story then something to really talk about. Last year my nephew JD wanted a new deer rifle for Christmas so being the good uncle I am went looking. I called a friend of mine at a local pawn shop and asked what he had. Being that I have been out of work for a year cheap was the only way he was going to get it. The shop had a nice Savage in 30-06 that was priced right. I went and picked it up for JD and to make sure it was going to shoot good I took it out to my range and ran 10 rounds through it. Not a tack driver but it put 5 rounds of cheap ammo into a inch and a half at 100yards. Christmas came and it was time to head over to my brothers house for the gift giving. I didn’t tell my brother what I did cause he was trying to get the money to do the same by working overtime and football games, my brother has been a cop for 20 years and has 4 kids so Christmas is a hard time for him. We were sitting in the living room when my brother got a call and had to go out so we stopped the gift giving for the time being. When Kelly came back in from his call he had a box with Remington on it. It was a new Remington 700 in 30-06 that he had saved up for and got for JD. Well what was I going to do I got the Savage out for him and told him that I knew that he wanted a new rifle so I would take this one home and build what ever he wanted out of it. About a month later JD sent me a picture of what he wanted. It was a heavy barreled 30-06 that he found on a web site. I set off to build it for him I got all the parts in around the first of August this year and got to it. The goal was to get it built and a load for deer season in Texas. It’s a 26” E.R. Shaw barrel with a 1in 10, a Stockade Woodchuck stock and a Sharp Shooter Supply trigger. I got the metal sprayed with some Wheeler Cerama-Coat and then it was baked. All was going good I was bedding the action into the stock when my phone started ringing. It was Kelly picked up the phone without looking at the time it was 4:30 in the morning and the person on the phone was crying it was brother Kelly. My nephew JD was walking with a friend down the highway and was hit from behind by a woman in a large SUV. She drove down the road half a mile a then turned around and came back. The whole time she kept saying that she looked up and he was their. The Vidor police sent her on her way and have yet to charge her with anything. JD was 17 years old and would have been leaving for the Army in January. I still have the Savage that I built for him I am going to use it for deer season this year. I put a W.O. Tac 4-14x50 scope on it and worked up a load for it that put 5 rounds into a group of .192 center to center. JD will be missed very much this year in the deer stand.
http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd498/losthope1978/IMG_0001.jpg
I’m not sure how I should start this so I’m going to just jump right in. This is more of a story then something to really talk about. Last year my nephew JD wanted a new deer rifle for Christmas so being the good uncle I am went looking. I called a friend of mine at a local pawn shop and asked what he had. Being that I have been out of work for a year cheap was the only way he was going to get it. The shop had a nice Savage in 30-06 that was priced right. I went and picked it up for JD and to make sure it was going to shoot good I took it out to my range and ran 10 rounds through it. Not a tack driver but it put 5 rounds of cheap ammo into a inch and a half at 100yards. Christmas came and it was time to head over to my brothers house for the gift giving. I didn’t tell my brother what I did cause he was trying to get the money to do the same by working overtime and football games, my brother has been a cop for 20 years and has 4 kids so Christmas is a hard time for him. We were sitting in the living room when my brother got a call and had to go out so we stopped the gift giving for the time being. When Kelly came back in from his call he had a box with Remington on it. It was a new Remington 700 in 30-06 that he had saved up for and got for JD. Well what was I going to do I got the Savage out for him and told him that I knew that he wanted a new rifle so I would take this one home and build what ever he wanted out of it. About a month later JD sent me a picture of what he wanted. It was a heavy barreled 30-06 that he found on a web site. I set off to build it for him I got all the parts in around the first of August this year and got to it. The goal was to get it built and a load for deer season in Texas. It’s a 26” E.R. Shaw barrel with a 1in 10, a Stockade Woodchuck stock and a Sharp Shooter Supply trigger. I got the metal sprayed with some Wheeler Cerama-Coat and then it was baked. All was going good I was bedding the action into the stock when my phone started ringing. It was Kelly picked up the phone without looking at the time it was 4:30 in the morning and the person on the phone was crying it was brother Kelly. My nephew JD was walking with a friend down the highway and was hit from behind by a woman in a large SUV. She drove down the road half a mile a then turned around and came back. The whole time she kept saying that she looked up and he was their. The Vidor police sent her on her way and have yet to charge her with anything. JD was 17 years old and would have been leaving for the Army in January. I still have the Savage that I built for him I am going to use it for deer season this year. I put a W.O. Tac 4-14x50 scope on it and worked up a load for it that put 5 rounds into a group of .192 center to center. JD will be missed very much this year in the deer stand.
http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd498/losthope1978/IMG_0001.jpg