Coyote Hunter
Single-Sixer
Posted this on another site but thought folks here might appreciate it more:
Daughter #1 has been using my M77 .257 Roberts for antelope but is moving back to Colorado and wants to hunt elk this fall. Although I had a Ruger Hawkeye All-Weather .280 Rem I thought she would use, she decided she liked my Ruger Scout .308 instead.
I decided it was time for her to have a proper lefty rifle of her own and convinced her to get a Ruger Hawkeye in .308 Win. Ruger has dropped these from their line-up but we found one on Gunbroker. It arrived at the LGS Tuesday afternoon and I picked it up on my way home. Daughter #1 took an immediate liking to it but didn't get to spend much time with it as she had a flight back home the next morning.
Yesterday I tuned the trigger (which was already pretty good for a factory rifle), free-floated the barrel and resealed the barrel channel. All the trigger required was a mirror polish on the trigger and sear mating surfaces, breaking the sharp corner on the trigger and a tiny dab of Teflon grease when it was reassembled. It came out very, very nice.
Here's a slightly blurry cell phone photo taken after I mounted a Burris Fullfield II 3-9x with Ballistic Plex reticle that was laying unused on an ammo shelf:
While I have two Hawkeye rifles (a .308 Scout and an All-Weather .280 Rem), neither has the standard walnut stock and I don't have a .308 with a standard length barrel. I like Daughter's walnut Hawkeye .308 so much I'm thinking about getting one for myself - but in a right-hand configuration.
Daughter #1 has been using my M77 .257 Roberts for antelope but is moving back to Colorado and wants to hunt elk this fall. Although I had a Ruger Hawkeye All-Weather .280 Rem I thought she would use, she decided she liked my Ruger Scout .308 instead.
I decided it was time for her to have a proper lefty rifle of her own and convinced her to get a Ruger Hawkeye in .308 Win. Ruger has dropped these from their line-up but we found one on Gunbroker. It arrived at the LGS Tuesday afternoon and I picked it up on my way home. Daughter #1 took an immediate liking to it but didn't get to spend much time with it as she had a flight back home the next morning.
Yesterday I tuned the trigger (which was already pretty good for a factory rifle), free-floated the barrel and resealed the barrel channel. All the trigger required was a mirror polish on the trigger and sear mating surfaces, breaking the sharp corner on the trigger and a tiny dab of Teflon grease when it was reassembled. It came out very, very nice.
Here's a slightly blurry cell phone photo taken after I mounted a Burris Fullfield II 3-9x with Ballistic Plex reticle that was laying unused on an ammo shelf:
While I have two Hawkeye rifles (a .308 Scout and an All-Weather .280 Rem), neither has the standard walnut stock and I don't have a .308 with a standard length barrel. I like Daughter's walnut Hawkeye .308 so much I'm thinking about getting one for myself - but in a right-hand configuration.