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I would be the first to say I don't need anything fancy to make deer dead.

I need to enjoy it or it will never leave the safe.
It has competition.

Everywhere I have to hunt close to home is wide open country but I have the rem mag.

It will be good test the whole rifle configuration out first before I go and re-barrel it.

So the end result was a visit to my local smith.

Rifle getting a DPT overbarrel in 6.5 fitted on the 17.5" barrel, the S&B stuck on top and I left with brass and projectiles to muck around...

.243 threads always go hard

Everyone loves the 6mm-08

Better have a go

Something completely random. Probably the only gun with the thread in NZ according to smith.

The first part is very likely

The second part is not

This will be like my old 6.5x47 Sako, but better and more beautiful.

But just sticking an ordinary can on it and using it as is will do.

For the record, because we did it successfully years ago by screwing a Tikka barrel into a Mark 1 tang safety, you can actually use a Ruger barrel as well.

I'm genuinely not fussy if it does the job it's meant to do.

I shot some factory cheap arse ammo through it on hares and they took multiple rounds. Put me off.

Very unfair on the rifle...

Instead of seeking a 6.5 barrel with the right contour right now, I might use the Sako as an anemic over bore under barreled. 243

I will buy a 6.5 suppressor and re-thread the barrel (because it...