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I, too, am an avid cast boolit shooter and I plan to load some up soon in my Model 81 .300 Savage. I've been using AA5744 mostly. Cast bullets are accurate, inexpensive, easy on the barrel and a hoot to shoot. Keep us posted on your load development and thanks for the photo.

Welcome aboard, Andy! I just signed up here a couple of days ago myself. Nice looking Model 8 you have there. I'm thinking the tang sight that is on it now would serve you better than any open sight. My tang-sighted rifle has a well designed steel sight blank held in place by two screws where the ol...

A new member to the forum here and I'd appreciate some expert feedback on my Rem. 81 that I have some questions on. It is a .300 Savage and is stamped "ej" which dates it to October of 1940. It appears to be a standard grade but with optional factory checkering. The buttstock is serial num...

The wooden plugs will last just fine over the years. The Browning A-5 shotguns use the same setup, although later designed shotguns like Remington 1100's use steel plugs.

Yes, the wood is in great shape and I had just a little doubt about the checkering pattern and the 81 Standard or 81B grade question. I just now pulled the buttstock off and the serial number is stamped on the lower tang area of the buttstock, as it should be. This might just be a standard 81 rifle ...

One more try at attaching photos.

I'll try now to attach a couple of photos of my Rem. Model 81

Duckcreekdick

Hello, all Remington 8/81 admirers! A little about myself. I'm a 68 yr.old codger living up in the high plains of northeast Colorado. Semi-retired now, I've spent most of my life working with fireams, first as a gunsmithing student at Trinidad in 1965, then in the military as an armorer and winding ...