mohawk

[moto357]

Anyone round here have one of these fine guns?  I love mine but have noticed its hard to find parts for and I was thinking of upgrading the stock too.  Just curious if ah could find some other fellow mohawkers out there

[Thebear_78]

I have a 222 mohawk.  One of my favorite rifles.

[moto357]

I can imagine that 222 would shoot mitey good.  Ah got tha 308 and even wif dat short barrel tis a shooter. 

[smokepolehall]

Yup i have a Mohawk 600 in .243. love it had it since 68 i think. very accurate.

[dw06]

Have one in 308 which I got in the fall of 71. Great woods rifle and I've mohawked a few deer and even groundhogs.

[deltecs]

Got a 600 and wish I'd gotten the Mohawk version instead.  It too shoots extremely accurate.  I like the heavier barrel of the Mohawk.  RamLine makes a synthetic stock for it, Midway sells steel magazine floor plates, and Rem had a recall on the triggers with a replacement 700 style for these.  Nice crisp trigger release on every one I've ever picked up.  Short lock time too.  I'd like to buy a Mohawk barrel and replace it on my .243 600.  Just a desire, but don't think it will happen.  Might though find one at the right price, unless it needs it, it isn't economical or logical just to replace the barrel, if one bought an entire rifle. 

[bilmac]

I had one in 243 but the plastic floorplate was starting to warp. Probably from my habit of leaving the magazine always full. Don't have it anymore now I have a 6mm, but I empty it when I'm not hunting. I have looked at some of the after market stuff, but it seems awful high for a moderate priced gun. If someone would offer a clip feed system now that would tempt me.

[S.B.]

I think they were warped from the facory? All, that I've seen, were warped, when new?

[rich56]

bought it used. Was a scary accurate gun. I stripped off the finish and put something like Tru Oil on it. The trigger guard did warp so I made one out of aluminum in the machine shop I worked in. New metal replacements are available from Brownells. I sold it to persue target shooting rifles. You can get a different bolt rerlease also. You may find fancier rifles but none better.

[bilmac]

Actually I've had 2 of them 243 and 6mm. First thing I did with both was take a rasp to the stock to give it a more classic look rather than the 2x4 look. Trouble with that is the stamped checkering tends to unstamp over the years, so you get a ghost reverse impression unless you really get with the program. What I did with the second gun was to take enough wood off the forearm that this didn't happen, but leave the wrist untouched. The birch stocks are hard to get looking like walnut again, they just won't take enough stain. What I ended up doing was putting some walnut varnish stain from Minwax on it, then a few coats of a more durable gun finish over that.

Niether of my mowhawks are the best of shooters, good enough for hunting, but kind of dissapointing given the short stiff barrel. I wish Remington would have put a little longer slimmer barrel on them, kept the weight down but with a couple more inches worth of velocity. But then what is a mowhawk with a longer slimmer barrel? Why a model seven, but you don't buy those at mowhawk prices.

[S.B.]

I agree with bilmac, the combs on the Remington 600 series rifles are too high for me to get a good look at iron sights. This is the reason I sold my .350 Rem mag. 600?

[dw06]

Got a question for you mohawk owners,and anyone else that may know.I heard that a model seven stock can be fitted to the 600 with alittle  work.As I don't have a seven to compare, just wondered if any of you have done this?Was thinking of getting one of the synthetic stocks used and trying it.Not sure I'd like the ram-line stock or I would just buy one of those.Checked out the Bell & Carlson carbelite and under the model seven says 600 mohawk and 660 require custom inletting for proper fit.
Comes down to, just how much inletting needs to be done to make one work? Thanks for any info 

[rich56]

I think the Mowhark barrel was thicker