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Gibbs Quest II Extreme

new guynew guy Member Posts: 51 ✭✭
edited April 2003 in General Discussion
I was thinking about buying a Gibbs QuestII Extreme chambered in 308. Did anybody have more information about this carbine. any good or bad pointers. Thanks
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,167 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Gibbs company has a fairly good reputation. The quest series are supposed to be completely reconditioned. Safety wise they should be fine. Performance may be variable as they are rehab military rifles. Accuracy may be fine for the use they were disigned for (carrying in the pickup or tractor for an occasional coyote or skunk).

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  • new guynew guy Member Posts: 51 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks. I was thinking of it as more of a deer rifle for heavy brush. I figured it must not be very accurate being a refinished mil rifle. Would you know where to get a scope mount for it?
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  • nelchrisnelchris Member Posts: 557 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If I may put my 2 cents in
    You would be much better off with a semi auto for thick brush
    look at remington or browning
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  • new guynew guy Member Posts: 51 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thank you for your 2 cents, I guess it would make sense in a way.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Seems to me these guns are a pretty good value, as long as you understand what you're getting. As it was told to me, these were re-bored for the more popular .308 from the original British .303, and refinished with a plating process, which covers whatever original flaws the surface may have shown. I like the look of these, and I think that for a bolt action carbine, which will obviously be carried more than it is shot, it should be fine. The bonus is they are attractive guns and they are inexpensive. If you want an original "jungle carbine," I believe SOG now has a supply of them in more original, used condition in .303 caliber, without the shiny plating.

    Some people do object to the Quests because they have supposedly been refurbed, re-bored, and plated for cosmetic reasons to spruce them up -- they also worry that there might be some slight degree of weakness due to the caliber change. But I am not one of them. I would consider them more of a fun plinker than a serious hunting gun, but they do have undeniable appeal.

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  • new guynew guy Member Posts: 51 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks for all of your input. I put in my order for the 308 today hopfuly I'll see it in 10 days or so.
    My gunsmith was trying to talk me out of it but I really liked the looks more than anything else.[:)]
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  • brier-49brier-49 Member Posts: 7,105 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i am new here bear with me please. the biggest flaw of the gibbs is that you should not shoot ammo that produces more pressure than a 303,the action is just that, a303 brit,from an earlier era when we did not have the steel we have now.
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  • new guynew guy Member Posts: 51 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Brier-49: That is a good point. Gibbs claims that the action is based on the 308 not a 303 I am foggy on the numbers but apparently the produced the enfiels chambered in 303 and 308 and they just adapted the later, cut it down, nickel plated it and made the quest out of it.

    I think I better speak to them at this point and confirm some of this information and to ask about the safe load to use with those rifles.
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  • drobsdrobs Member Posts: 22,620 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    To force a best friend of mine into the shooting sports, I gave him my Enfield 308 jungle carbine. I bought it off another friend for $75. The thing kicks like a mule! The 303 round is much more gentle in comparison. I'm not sure my friend has shot this rifle yet being he is in California & the rifle is still here in IL. When he does I think he is gonna hate me. I figure he could always trade it in on something else.

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  • new guynew guy Member Posts: 51 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I heard that with the ported version, it tames the recoil from a 308 a great deal. The 308 is a much hotter round than the 303. I hope your friend won't hate you for it.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I love long guns that kick. I can shoot my 18" 12-ga. with a buddy and he'll be screaming about the recoil on his shoulder, and I'm just hammering away, grinning like the Cheshire cat. Don't ask me why, but I'm glad it works out that way.... Say, do you suppose my taking off the buttpad and replacing it with a thin, shorter one has something to do with his problem?

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  • dazinyumadazinyuma Member Posts: 1 ✭
    https://www.gunbroker.com/Item/888996971

    https://www.gunbroker.com/Item/888996971

    Just picked this one. No shiny parts. Just clean repurposed rifle. Looking forward to shooting it.

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  • TRAP55TRAP55 Member Posts: 8,292 ✭✭✭

    I think this might be the deadest necrothread I've seen here, 18years ago?

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  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11246579#Comment_11246579

    I recall having a zombie thread revived last year in ATE which was about 15 years old. So yes, this may be the record, or at least within recent memory.

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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,266 ******

    Congrats on your new gun, and welcome to the forums.

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  • Toolman286Toolman286 Member Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭✭

    Gibbs Tifle Co. was started by Val Forgetts son as Navy Arms was moving out of NJ. I thought the Quest was made up from a .308 Ishapore 2A1.

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