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To D&T barrel or not...?
Mar 19th, 2022 at 4:08pm
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I bought the Miller prize rifle Jim Feren won at Coors.  It has not been drilled and tapped for scope blocks on the octagon barrel.

I would like to shoot it.  Should I go ahead and do it so that I can stick my big Unertl on it and shoot at least one match?  Or do I just leave it alone and enjoy looking at it?

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Reply #1 - Mar 19th, 2022 at 5:37pm
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It's  a tough decision....I am also trying to decide on drilling and tapping for scope blocks to mount a full length MVA scope on my old Hepburn Creedmoor....The rifle has been rebored from 44-100 to 45-100 and altered a bit over the last hundred and some years so she's no collector's piece but still...It's hard to think of altering it further.But I really want to see how it shoots with my aging eyes.

That Coors gun is probably gonna be a serious shooter....I'd be tempted to do it just to see what she'll do....Fat lot of help I am, eh?
  
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Reply #2 - Mar 19th, 2022 at 6:21pm
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If the builders thought that although made as a prize, there was a chance the rifle would be shot with any real seriousness, you'd have thought they'd have drilled and tapped it themselves.

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Reply #3 - Mar 19th, 2022 at 7:18pm
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MrTipUp wrote on Mar 19th, 2022 at 6:21pm:
If the builders thought that although made as a prize, there was a chance the rifle would be shot with any real seriousness, you'd have thought they'd have drilled and tapped it themselves.

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Reply #4 - Mar 19th, 2022 at 7:40pm
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Yes, preserving it has merit.  Ron Long built it, so it has some value as one of his best.

Need more time to think this over.

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Reply #5 - Mar 19th, 2022 at 7:41pm
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I own way too many rifles, maybe I am weird, but I don’t care to own a rifle I can’t shoot, life is too short for that.
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Reply #6 - Mar 19th, 2022 at 7:50pm
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That's fine, yamoon; but you're not the present caretaker of the Ron-Long-built prize rifle.

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Reply #7 - Mar 19th, 2022 at 8:11pm
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yamoon wrote on Mar 19th, 2022 at 7:41pm:
I own way too many rifles, maybe I am weird, but I don’t care to own a rifle I can’t shoot, life is too short for that.
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Reply #8 - Mar 19th, 2022 at 8:40pm
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My 2 cents on this it's Not a nice Ballard #7 or a nice old sharps . If Jim walked into Ron's shop and asked Ron to D&T after he won it I am sure Ron would have said what spacing do you want and that will be a week or two Ken
  
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Reply #9 - Mar 19th, 2022 at 8:59pm
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What Ken said.

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Reply #10 - Mar 19th, 2022 at 9:09pm
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Cbashooter wrote on Mar 19th, 2022 at 8:11pm:
yamoon wrote on Mar 19th, 2022 at 7:41pm:
I own way too many rifles, maybe I am weird, but I don’t care to own a rifle I can’t shoot, life is too short for that.
Mike


Agree. It's like marrying a virgin and keeping her that way...


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Reply #11 - Mar 19th, 2022 at 10:08pm
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I have always sold every gun I've had that was to collectable to shoot. I agree with Yomoon enjoy it. That said I think its a small group that would want it to collect and being D&T and shot won't matter enough to offset the pleasure of shooting it and the conversations it will bring. Also I think that there was a second rifle like that that was Max Goodwin's. Clark Ehlers owned it and then sold it at Rock Island Auction a few years ago. He shot it and I assume Max did to.
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Reply #12 - Mar 19th, 2022 at 10:40pm
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Another Coors prize rifle was for sale a couple of years ago just a 40 minute drive away, I will admit I gave it some thought, but decided against it. It was a Ruger #1. 
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Reply #13 - Mar 20th, 2022 at 1:20am
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On the other hand, maybe Ron didn't want D&T it with holes on a spacing that the winner couldn't use and was waiting to be told what was wanted. Of course, ISS, you have so many new rifles right now to shoot that it may be a while before you actually get around to this one so maybe you should just wait until you do to decide;-)
  
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Reply #14 - Mar 20th, 2022 at 2:16am
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I am going to hold off for now.

I also own one handgun I have not shot.  It is one of the Elmer Keith commemoratives S&W made.  29-3.  I need to sell it and buy a 29 I will shoot.  Any takers...?

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