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Offline Bigeasy

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Eye Candy - New Kimber 84L - Post a pic of your favorite rifles
« on: October 10, 2010, 01:59:58 PM »
First trip to the range for my 84L.  Solid 1 inch 5 shot groups with my 150 grain NP handloads, slightly under 1 inch with factory Federal 180's.  Makes the #70 Featherweight seem portly.


Kimber 84M in .308
Kimber 84L in 30-06
Winchester pre-64 #70 featherweight in .308
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Re: Eye Candy - New Kimber 84L
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2010, 08:28:45 PM »
That 84L is a nice looking rifle!
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Re: Eye Candy - New Kimber 84L
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2010, 09:57:15 AM »
All three are nice looking and apparently good shooting rifles.
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Re: Eye Candy - New Kimber 84L
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2010, 04:40:26 PM »
very nice rifles. i would hate to get them scratched up in the woods but i'd be proud to own one
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Re: Eye Candy - New Kimber 84L
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2010, 07:36:20 PM »
What a lovely trio of rifles. 
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Re: Eye Candy - New Kimber 84L
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2010, 04:59:47 AM »
Eye candy it is!!!!  Congrats!!
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Re: Eye Candy - New Kimber 84L
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2010, 08:09:27 AM »
There was a time I used to leave the "nice stuff" in the safe come hunting season.  Now days, I take them out in the woods, and don't worry to much about it.  Whats the point of having a nice rifle if you don't hunt with it?  A scratch here, or a ding there is part of the rifles history, and tells a story, like the TC Custom Shop .50 Hawken that I droped out of a tree stand.  You can hardly see where I epoxied that beautiful XXX walnut stock back together... :'(

If anyone has any favorite rifles they want to post a pic of, please do.

Here is a couple more:

Weatherby .22

CZ .204 Ruger

Kimber .22

Ruger 7mm/08


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Re: Eye Candy - New Kimber 84L - Post a pic of your favorite rifles
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2010, 08:38:20 AM »
My most recent favorite rifle

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Re: Eye Candy - New Kimber 84L - Post a pic of your favorite rifles
« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2010, 08:42:50 AM »
Oldshooter-

Nice.  What make is that stock?

Larry
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Re: Eye Candy - New Kimber 84L - Post a pic of your favorite rifles
« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2010, 01:59:06 PM »
Here's favorite of mine...please ignore the fat guy with the hog.  It's small ring (i think) 98 mauser from a Venezualen milsurp that's been sporterized with a Fajen Mannlicher stock in 7x57 by a smith named E.L. Landrey of Lakeville MA.  Light, slim, handy and sweet.  When I bought it, it wasn'r drilled and tapped and I needed to scope it (aging eyes).  I had Mike LaRocca at LaRocca Gun Works Worcester MA do this.  It was never used as a hunter by the previous owner and by its condition, not used much at all. 

Anyway....it's a favorite.

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Re: Eye Candy - New Kimber 84L - Post a pic of your favorite rifles
« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2010, 05:36:53 PM »
Quote from: Bigeasy on October 12, 2010, 08:42:50 AM
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Nice.  What make is that stock?

Larry

Its a Remington, not "your Daddy's Remington", but a Remington 798 mauser made overseas. Stock too I suppose  ::)
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Re: Eye Candy - New Kimber 84L - Post a pic of your favorite rifles
« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2010, 12:16:25 AM »
My "local" gunshop has just got an agency for the Kimbers and Colin was proudly showing me a Classic lightweight, one of the 5lbs jobbies in S/S and synthetic stock, now I know Kimber have a good reputation but I am sorry it felt horrible  :( the action felt rough like it missed the final polish of the bolt rails and the stock  :o felt cheap and hollow.

OK I don't like plastic stocks one whit.

I have no doubt they will sell even at the prices here but when I compare the action to the old BSA Majestic I just picked up well there is just no comparison for me anyway.

Would have liked to see and felt the wood and blued ones to compare and see if it was just the stainless action? Hmmm perhaps next time I am over there.

Now your Wood and Blued steel one do look nice I have to admit  :)
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