Author Topic: Thanks MARV!!! (Read 491 times)

MSP Ret · « **on:** January 08, 2005, 10:31:48 AM »

Hey guys just to let you know, Marv is one great guy!!! I just got my long looked for 30-30 barrel but the sights had been removed by foxcaller prior to the sale. It was no surprise, foxcaller had told me it had no sights. As a matter of fact, foxcaller, the true gentleman; he is, had sent those sights to another on this site for free, for a 45-70 barrel if I remember correctly. Well, I mentioned in a post that I needed some iron sights and asked if anyone out there had an sight for a Handi (30-30) barrel. To the rescue comes another fine gentleman and member of this forum. Marv immediately came to my rescue and advised he would be sending me some sights. Well I just got them in the mail today, and lo and behold there were 2 sets!!! A set of Handi iron sights WITH a front blade and a set of Williams receiver sights with aperture and a H&R .22 Hornet front sight blade!!! Marv you are quite a guy, Thanks!!! One set will go on the 30-30 barrel and the other will go on my H&R 19".280 Thunderboomer!!! It was like CHRISTmas all over again...Thanks Marv, this one's for you,...SALUTE

!!!!....<><.... :grin:

Brett · « **Reply #1 on:** January 08, 2005, 11:57:22 AM »

MSP if your plans change for the williams aperture sites I sure would like to be first in line for them. I got a little Rossi 410/22 matched pair for my daughter and my old eyes can't deal with the square notch open sites on the .22 barrel. Especially with the youth stock, the rear site looks like it's right at the end of my nose. :cry:

Big Blue · « **Reply #2 on:** January 08, 2005, 12:01:49 PM »

MSP Ret,
19" .280 Thunderboomer? What's with that? Fill me in, it sounds real interesting.
Don

MSP Ret · « **Reply #3 on:** January 08, 2005, 03:24:44 PM »

My "Thunderboomer" is a H&R Ultra barrel in .280 Remington which has been shortened to 19" that I got from lik2hunt. It earned it's name from the rather LOUD noise that came from it the first time I fired it at the range. It was a BIT loud at the range what with the overhead to keep the rain off the shooters and the fact that there is now a back to the overhead as well as one side boarded in. If my memory serves me right when I posted about the rather LOUD report from the abbreviated barrel (obtained to make a light, short, powerful woods rifle) lik2hunt responded with the fact that it was even louder when fired over the bed of his pick up!!, what with the echo and all just bouncing back and forth in the truck bed!!! I am not even sure who nicknamed it "Thunderboomer" but like all good names, it fit well and has stuck. The barrel shoots great, it makes a perfect woods gun and is due for a recrown as soon as I can get it to my gunsmith....<><.... :grin:
(Brett, your #1 in line but for now I LOVE the sight!!!! - Thanks again Marv!!!)

lik2hunt · « **Reply #4 on:** January 09, 2005, 12:54:03 AM »

All the Handis are loud in my estimation but I never notice it in a hunting situation and always wear ear plugs at the "range" (or the "gravel pit" as we call it here). The few times that I have range fired any of the Handis I have owned or now own without ear protection, have caused my ears to ring for a long time afterwards. Been standing beside some that were fired by others too and that's even worse. The pick-up bed scenario just intesifies the noise too. The low pressure round barrels aren't quite as bad tho.

Can't wait to hear how that little boomer shoots tho after the recrown and the installation of those sights. Have ya worked up a good close range/low recoil load for the woods yet?

Big Blue · « **Reply #5 on:** January 09, 2005, 01:29:59 AM »

I wonder how that shortened .280 works out ballistically? I'm a big fan of 7mm's and just recently got a Ruger M77 in .280. While short, the 19" shouldn't be too short to make good use of the right powder. I'd been thinking of trying out a shortened 18" .308 barrel, for the same reasons. A short barreled, woods rifle. A 34" rifle with a standard stock, 32 1/2" with a survivor stock, and for a real shorty, a 31" rifle in a youth stock. How's the accuracy on that "Thunderboomer"?
Don

MSP Ret · « **Reply #6 on:** January 09, 2005, 02:32:16 AM »

It's acceptable now for a Maine woods hunting gun at about 3" or a little less at 100 yards from a rest with a scope (with no load tweaking yet lik2hunt). My gunsmith was surprised at that from the looks of the crown (lik2hunt did not do it guys, he bought it that way). It should tighten up the groups a bit after being recrowned, fine for hunting the "greengrowth" where you are lucky to see 50 yards!!. I do want to set it up with iron sights though, for a light carry gun. So it goes, fun, fun, fun!!!....<><.... :grin: