youngtrout
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Well, I have a remington 700 SA I put together, gunsmith mounted barrel, When the barrel was more like 24 inches the gun shot well.
Don't ask me why but I had the barrel shortened to 20 inches,,,, now I can't get the thing to shoot, heavy-light bullets, freefloat no free float (it does shoot better with tip pressure) Cold bore-hot,,,,,it does okay at 100 but something like 2-3 inches, and with my other rifles, I can do much better than that, at 300 its a shotgun,,,,,mounts tight, tried different scopes, factory ammo, reloads
But all in all the gun just is not preforming to my expectations, shame to, its a shilen barrel, and nice components. Kind of lost faith in it, and you all know how that goes.
Looking to just rebarrel the thing and start over, its a 7-08 on a rem 700 short action. I was leaning towards a 300wsm with brake, still want a pretty light gun.
Would this be a decent builer action for one, I know I would either need a new bolt or have the one opened up, dont know on the follower.
Thoughts, or other 30's to look at, I live in AK so really leaning towards a light (as in gun weight) 30 caliber, no, bears are not around everyconer but even the game tends to be bigger up here and I have lots of 30 cal reloading supplies
Thanks
Don't ask me why but I had the barrel shortened to 20 inches,,,, now I can't get the thing to shoot, heavy-light bullets, freefloat no free float (it does shoot better with tip pressure) Cold bore-hot,,,,,it does okay at 100 but something like 2-3 inches, and with my other rifles, I can do much better than that, at 300 its a shotgun,,,,,mounts tight, tried different scopes, factory ammo, reloads
But all in all the gun just is not preforming to my expectations, shame to, its a shilen barrel, and nice components. Kind of lost faith in it, and you all know how that goes.
Looking to just rebarrel the thing and start over, its a 7-08 on a rem 700 short action. I was leaning towards a 300wsm with brake, still want a pretty light gun.
Would this be a decent builer action for one, I know I would either need a new bolt or have the one opened up, dont know on the follower.
Thoughts, or other 30's to look at, I live in AK so really leaning towards a light (as in gun weight) 30 caliber, no, bears are not around everyconer but even the game tends to be bigger up here and I have lots of 30 cal reloading supplies
Thanks