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The rifle has a very nice piece of Claro walnut with lots of figure in the buttstock. It's glass and pillar bedded, 24" stainless straight taper fluted heavy sporter barrel with a 'match chamber'. I had the Leupold factory build me a custom VX-III 4.5-14X M1 LR scope with the Varmint Hunter Reticle. The objective bell clears the barrel with the low 30mm Leupold rings by about .050"....nice. I'm intending this to be my small caliber walkabout rifle for ground squirrels, PD's, badgers, bunnies, coyotes, and any other worthy varmint critter type target, and compliment my two other two HB .204 bench guns.
Here's an early picture:
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Nice short 'pre-'64 Winchester' type action with claw extractor for controlled round feeding (some bunnies ARE dangerous).
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I hope I don't goon up such a nice piece of walnut in the field:
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I use RL-10X in my other two 204's, usually with SBK's, so this time around I'm working on Benchmark and 35gr Bergers with Fed 205M's in WW prepped cases. As our good New York buddy Hawkeye set a new precident this year with the 35 Berger's and Benchmark, I thought I'd give his load a try in the new Kimber.
As soon as I'm healed up after my "fix me" surgery next week, I'll get out and test "Lil Kim" as she's known here at the ranch. This will be a long two months.
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Captqc: I couldn't let you be the only one with a new rifle in the varmint patch next time out.
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