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Remington 700 quality
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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 758764" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>you take a basic Remington 700 action that you find on a donor rifle for about $450, and toss the rest out it out. The action will cost you another $150 or more to true it up (it's crooked!). Rebarrel it for about $500 with a good blank. Buy a trigger that will cost you anywhere from $100 to $300, and then restock it for another $400. Your looking at $1500! Or you can order in a Savage Precision Target Rifle for about $1700 ready to shoot. Odds are better than good the Remington won't shoot with the Savage right out of the box. Or you can spend about $700 for a custom action and go thru the same deal, but probably shoot better than either of the other two. Or you can buy a Savage target action and build a rifle off that for a little less money. The stock work is gonna cost you about the same no matter which way you go. The barrel will come in about $100 dollars cheaper or maybe even slightly less. The Savage target trigger is extremely good. I'd go the custom action route and try to keep it all under $2K, but you could do the Savage for well under $1600 using one of their target actions, and maybe $1800 with a Tom Merideth stocked rifle (the best stocker around). I've seen one Precision target rifle in the flesh, and it was shipped with a .150" three shot target using off the shelf Federal 6BR ammo. Trigger was roughly 10oz. to 12oz. out of the box. You gotta spend a lot of money to shoot that well out of the box ($1725 to be exact). But the downside with them is that they only come in a short action.</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 758764, member: 25383"] you take a basic Remington 700 action that you find on a donor rifle for about $450, and toss the rest out it out. The action will cost you another $150 or more to true it up (it's crooked!). Rebarrel it for about $500 with a good blank. Buy a trigger that will cost you anywhere from $100 to $300, and then restock it for another $400. Your looking at $1500! Or you can order in a Savage Precision Target Rifle for about $1700 ready to shoot. Odds are better than good the Remington won't shoot with the Savage right out of the box. Or you can spend about $700 for a custom action and go thru the same deal, but probably shoot better than either of the other two. Or you can buy a Savage target action and build a rifle off that for a little less money. The stock work is gonna cost you about the same no matter which way you go. The barrel will come in about $100 dollars cheaper or maybe even slightly less. The Savage target trigger is extremely good. I'd go the custom action route and try to keep it all under $2K, but you could do the Savage for well under $1600 using one of their target actions, and maybe $1800 with a Tom Merideth stocked rifle (the best stocker around). I've seen one Precision target rifle in the flesh, and it was shipped with a .150" three shot target using off the shelf Federal 6BR ammo. Trigger was roughly 10oz. to 12oz. out of the box. You gotta spend a lot of money to shoot that well out of the box ($1725 to be exact). But the downside with them is that they only come in a short action. gary [/QUOTE]
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