Has anyone else seen one of these!

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martin zuck

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Some time ago I came by a neat old L.V. bench gun. The stock appears to be an early Brown glass stock. Action is a sleeved XP100 by Paul and Clyde Hart and this is where it becomes interesting. The sleeve continues an additional 4-5 inches past the front of the reciever with only 180 degrees on the bottom. The entire sleeved area is nicely inletted and glued into the stock so with the stock painted you have to look a second time to notice it. Talk about a large glue area! I figured it was either a .222 or 6X47 but turns out its 6ppc. I think the fluted bolt is made by Time Precision made specifically for the ppc case. The bolt is also coned with panda style extractor. To make weight I've had to recontour the barrels to around 4.5 lbs. to finish at 22 inches. A few years back my daughter shot a .186 agg. (100 yds.) down at Kane,Pa. so I guess it's still competitive.
 
My first benchrest rifle was built on a Remington 700 with a sleeve installed by Hart Rifle Barrels. The sleeve went past the tang slightly and was about 3 or 4 inches in front of the receiver face. They had modified my bolt to use a M-16 extractor with a PPC bolt face. I liked the Hart sleeve better than the Davidson sleeve as it covered the complete trigger area and had plenty of bedding area from the tang to the front of the sleeve. Of course, at the time, I hadn't ever seen either the Hart or Davidson sleeve. The Hart barrel was chambered for the .22 PPC .246" neck. I glued it into a Gale McMillan stock. I shot it in the HV and UL class at Midland at the '83 NBRSA nationals. Of course, couldn't shoot it in Sporter because of the caliber. It was a good shooter for the few years that I shot it before having a rifle built on a Meyer custom action that I had bought from Jeff Fowler when he lived in the Midland area. The Meyer was chambered for the 6 PPC. I sold my sleeved Remington probably 20 years ago.
 
Back when this rifle was built, a lot of guys were running those long scopes with long mounting area required..
 
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