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The CSC RX4<\/h2>\n
I’m stopping by CSC Motorcycles tomorrow to get a photo of the RX4<\/a> I’ll be riding in the SCMA Three Flags Classic.\u00a0 Good buddy Steve asked how I wanted the bike configured and I told him what he already knew:\u00a0 Spotlights, the big Tourfella luggage, a phone mount, and I’m good to go.\u00a0 This is going to be one hell of a ride.\u00a0 Mexico to Canada on a CSC RX4.\u00a0 I’ll be the first to do this.\u00a0 More good times.\u00a0 I’m pumped and I’m eager to get on the road.<\/p>\n Nope, it’s not a car and it’s not a US Army truck.\u00a0 I’m talking about my .222 Remington Savage 340, a used rifle I picked up on the consignment gun rack at a local store 2 1\/2 years ago for the whopping sum of $180.\u00a0 The Triple Deuce (as the .222 Remington cartridge is known) is one of those inherently accurate cartridges that just groups great without a lot of work (three others are the .308 Winchester, the .375 H&H, and the relatively new 6.5 Creedmoor). \u00a0 These are rounds that are just flat accurate.\u00a0 My .222 certainly groups way better than any $180 rifle has a right to do.\u00a0 I’m having a lot of fun with it.<\/p>\n Good times straight ahead, folks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yep, just like that song, we’re back in the saddle again.\u00a0 We’ve got the email thing on the road to being fully squared away, and we’ve had a bunch of new folks sign up in the last day. \u00a0 Things are looking good. Automatic Email Notifications If you haven’t heard the word already, we’re having … Continue reading “Back in the saddle again…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[654,96,374,369],"tags":[830],"class_list":["post-5531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure-motorcycle-books","category-feel-good-stuff","category-rx4","category-zongshen","tag-scma-3fc19"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5541,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions\/5541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/20181024_7458-650.jpg\")
It’s going to be hot on the southern part of the ride, as the temps will be above 110 degrees.\u00a0 But as they say, it’s a dry heat. I’ve ridden in that kind of heat before, and I have a few strategies for dealing with it.\u00a0 I’ll be blogging the entire ride, so be sure to follow us right here on ExhaustNotes!\u00a0 And hey, if there are questions you want me to answer or things you want my opinion on related to the RX4, please post your questions here in the blog’s comments section.<\/p>\nThe Triple Deuce<\/h2>\n
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I had the Savage out this past Sunday and it was shooting sub-minute-of-angle at 100 yards, and that’s close enough for government work.\u00a0 The stock has a few surface finish scratches (but no gouges that reach into the wood) and I’m going to refinish it.\u00a0 Before any of you get your shorts in a knot, the rifle is not an uber-collectible piece (so I’m not destroying its value with a refinish).\u00a0 I’m going to do my TruOil-to-perfection number on it.\u00a0 I may add a little stain to darken the walnut a bit.\u00a0 Or not.\u00a0 We’ll see.\u00a0 All the metal work on this rifle is perfect and I want the lumber to match. I’ll be posting the step-by-step project here on the ExhaustNotes blog, and you’ll be able to follow along as this labor of love progresses. \u00a0\u00a0 And hey, if you want to read our other gun stories, take a look at our Tales of the Gun<\/em><\/a> page!<\/p>\n