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<blockquote data-quote="catorres1" data-source="post: 1013517" data-attributes="member: 80699"><p>Where do you get your work done for this price, and do they offer any sort of accuracy guarantee?</p><p></p><p>My local smith was going to do a rebarrel for me, I think it would have required bedding too, I assume. He said he would get the barrel for 300, then coat it and install it for another 300. I assume, since the new barrel would have a different contour, that would have included bedding.</p><p></p><p>I think that's where things start to go sideways. Barrel is 300, but I don't want plain stainless, so it's gotta be coated or blued or whatever. Then there is bedding. And truing, and....it goes on and it appears to me that it all adds up. But I don't know for sure, and I don't want to stick my toe in the water and end up losing my leg!</p><p></p><p>Probably the best thing I can do is find a few names of who I would actually have build it, and then just ask them...out the door, what will this cost me and what will you guarantee at a minimum. But the ones I have talked to so far have all quoted me prices north of 2k. And I am trying to get in under half that amount to start, and I suspect that is very unrealistic.</p><p></p><p>But if I am wrong, please show me who to talk to, because a rem 700 in 260 or 6.5, in that weatherby B&C stock with a heavy custom barrel would be pretty awesome.</p><p></p><p>If the price was right enough....I might abandon the idea I had for the RC Weatherby 300, and have the same smith build me the matched set I really want. But I can't imagine this would be possible at my price points!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catorres1, post: 1013517, member: 80699"] Where do you get your work done for this price, and do they offer any sort of accuracy guarantee? My local smith was going to do a rebarrel for me, I think it would have required bedding too, I assume. He said he would get the barrel for 300, then coat it and install it for another 300. I assume, since the new barrel would have a different contour, that would have included bedding. I think that's where things start to go sideways. Barrel is 300, but I don't want plain stainless, so it's gotta be coated or blued or whatever. Then there is bedding. And truing, and....it goes on and it appears to me that it all adds up. But I don't know for sure, and I don't want to stick my toe in the water and end up losing my leg! Probably the best thing I can do is find a few names of who I would actually have build it, and then just ask them...out the door, what will this cost me and what will you guarantee at a minimum. But the ones I have talked to so far have all quoted me prices north of 2k. And I am trying to get in under half that amount to start, and I suspect that is very unrealistic. But if I am wrong, please show me who to talk to, because a rem 700 in 260 or 6.5, in that weatherby B&C stock with a heavy custom barrel would be pretty awesome. If the price was right enough....I might abandon the idea I had for the RC Weatherby 300, and have the same smith build me the matched set I really want. But I can't imagine this would be possible at my price points! [/QUOTE]
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