Pronghorn rig fit for action.

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Cooper M52 Excaliber in .25-06. Since falling off the deep end for Coopers, I have always been intrigued by a Cooper repeater. I had an opportunity recently to grab one in the Excalibur version. It has a few upgrades that are no longer an option. This includes the silver, stainless, fluted barrel. I also love the spriral fluted bolt.

I am planning on an October pronghorn hunt in Wyoming. I know that it can be cold and wet so I figured I didn't want a beautiful wood stock exposed to the elements.

I spent yesterday lapping a set of low Leupold rings and mounting a Leupold VX-III 4.5-14x40mm Long Range scope with a fine duplex reticle to the rifle. The low rings are perfect....great cheek weld...perfect eye relief.

Next up is barrel break-in....then work up a load that will hopefully shoot a 100 gr Barnes TSX bullet.

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Very nice rig, looks like it will do the job. I like all the fluted Bolt and Barrel also. :thumbup:
 
Nice set up! I use a .270 WSM, I have never hunted WY but the proghorn hunting here in Colorado is pretty good. Now you just need some INFI skinners to complete the package! I have never seen a .25-06. Rifle is that a wildcat handload? Do you make your shell casings?
 
25-06 is actually a pretty common load here in Missouri for deer. It's a 30-06 necked down to 25 caliber. Very nice looking rifle. Lunde has posted some beautiful Cooper rifles he and his father own. Is that webbing in the stock pink?!?
 
I have the same rifle, but chambered in .30-06 and with an unfluted (but still stainless) barrel. I may use it for the same antelope hunt. I am looking forward to October.
 
Nice one! Although, you should've thrown in a few cartridges too. I mean in the scene ;)
 
I should point out the unique aspect of this rifle's configuration. If one were to order an M52 Excalibur today, the barrel will come only one way: fluted and blued. When my dad and I ordered ours, about a year ago, I specified a stainless unfluted barrel, and my dad specified a stainless fluted one (his is chambered in .338-06, and took a 6x6 bull elk on 10/15/2008). Once Cooper Arms settled on the final configuration, they allowed the barrel to be specified as ordered only for those orders that had come in. I am not sure what the cut-off date was, but am guessing sometime late last Summer, when production began. The dealer who ordered BOS' rifle specified a stainless fluted barrel, and obviously ordered it before the specs were final. His rifle actually came from the same dealer who ordered the rifles for my dad and for me.

The spiral fluting of the bolt is standard on the Excalibur.
 
Nice rifle. I would switch out the stock for a different color. Other than that.
 
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