Walmart Bargain......

[oo_buck]

The local Walmart had a clearance on their Weatherby Vanguards......
Regular price: $388.95
Clearance : $250.00

Picked up my brand new 30-06 last night. Now all I need is a good scope, and I'm set for just about anything....

[SRA]

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I'm set for just about anything....

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that's what you think........................

[AJ]

Cool! I spoke with a Wal Mart Associate a couple weeks ago and they said when Wby was in some financial trouble, Wal Mart helped them out by selling that gun for them as long as they were the exclusive dealers for the Vanguard (since Weatherby dropped them in 1993). I don't know if the contract is over or what, but Weatherby is now selling them to their distributors and Wal Mart has dropped them. This definately works out to be our gain!

[oo_buck]

Absofrigginlutely!!
Anything you would suggest I do to this gun to make it the best it can be????

[AJ]

Do a glass bedding job and float the barrel.
Adjust or have the trigger adjusted to a crisp 3# pull.
Throw on a decent quality scope.
Do proper cleaning.
Feed it the ammo it likes.

It should do anything you ask it to, as long as you do your part.

[Colorado Bob]

That's a good deal there. Get a 3x9 VarX-II leupold.

[AJ]

They cost me about $10 in epoxy.

The most popular glass bedding epoxy is Brownells Acraglas. They offer a Glasbed Kit with complete easy to follow instructions in PDF format.

Gander Mountain charges $85 to glassbed a rifle.

[slugshooter]

I went to 3 Wal-Marts today and none of them had any of the named rifles in stock, selling them all out. On another topic, what is glass bedding and what is the benefit of it?

[AJ]

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... what is glass bedding and what is the benefit of it?

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When the stocks are inletted to hold the receiver, there is always going to be some slop. Even with CNC machined stocks wood can swell and/or shrink depending on the humidity. Synthetic stocks are typically a closer fit, but they can vary also. Glass bedding process is using epoxy to form a perfect bed of the action. The action is coated with a release agent like wax or some other type of mold release, and epoxy is mixed and placed in the inletting. The barreled action is placed in the epoxy and the screws are not tightened down, just turned in enough to make for perfect alignment. After the epoxy hardens the barreled action is removed and the stock now has a perfect molding of the rifles action. Since consistancy is the key to accuracy, this allows a rifle to be all it can be. The stock if wood, can still warp and put pressure points on the action. This is not good for accuracy.