Cost of a Custom Rifle with Glass

Barehandlineman11 said:
I've seen many people be ****ed off over a factory gun. All makes. Ive never seen a mad man at a pierce/lane Precision or ts cusroms gun just sayn
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Custom or factory, it's a matter of money spent and expectations. Most factory rifles shoot well enough for general hunting purposes. The more money spent, the higher the expectations and they are not always met.
 
Coyote Shadow Tracker said:
What would you spend or have spent?

What is your budget (costs) for a complete custom rifle with glass if you were having someone build for you or you building?
Since today I finally finished our Taxes and had a lot of receipts to go over.

I was tabulating some costs of our rifles from last year with glass including purchase price shipping & taxes. We have (5) builds like this.
$1,500 - Stock with inlet & bedding or Chassis
$500.00 to $2,000.00 for BiPod or Front Rest
$1,500 - $2,000.00 - Action
$550.00 for SS Barrel
$800.00 for CF Barrel
Buy (2) Same Barrels at the same time. First barrel to Dial in and or Fire Form and Second for having an accurate rifle.
$300.00 to 400.00 Trigger
$300.00 - $400.00 for Scope Mount
$200.00- Brake
$3,000.00 to $4,000.00 + for Glass
$300.00 ++++ for Gunsmith to Chamber Fit & Finish
$300.00 - $400.00 for Dies - Only component for reloading, all the other reloading components $$$$.

Glass is the most expensive component.

$8,500.00+ mid range cost.
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We have built two custom rifles using Sako 75 actions a 6mm CM and a 280AI excluding optics for US$2,400 each. Both shoot very well I don't think you need to go overboard here?
 
Len your stock price seems a little high but everything else looks about right. I absolutely refuse to spend more than $200 on a bipod because I rarely get the chance to use the cheapo's that i already own. Spending more money doesn't give you a fast pass to the top..... but it usually doesn't hurt.

I think 4k for a custom rifle is average w/o glass.
I think that if you want to spend $8k on a full custom rifle then have at it! I think that for 90% of the shooting public the nuances of a fine tuned rifle would be lost on them, much like feeding 20yo scotch to a college kid. I think that out of 50 firearm owners at the big box store gun counter 2 might be 1/4 MOA shooters with a 1/4 MOA rifle. I think that a rifle no matter the cost can only live up to the accuracy potential of the ammunition it's being fed! I've personally made cheap rifles shoot well above their price range with handloads. I've seen custom rifles from Alamo precision and the like eat garbage ammo and spit it out into tiny groups also. I've seen guys with great vision see things with cheap Bushnell spotting scopes that more experienced hunters with bad eyesight have missed with $5k spotting scopes. Guys who don't shoot over 200yds who spend more than a grand on optics are comical to me.

The most expensive component to any rifle is bullets! Not optics or powder or actions or stocks. Say your rifle has a barrel life of 2,500 rounds and those yellow box berger's cost $.75 each. It will cost you $1,875 to burn out that $800 barrel which could be set back and technically reused whereas the bullets are 1 time use.

I've seen a guy at a range in Dallas YEARS ago throw a "custom" rifle like a spear because his buddies $300 savage was shooting 1 hole groups and his rifle would barely hold half MOA. The adult temper tantrum was hilarious. The thrower also pulled up in a yellow corvette and white sunglasses just to add some context.
 
DUCKMAN11 said:
Len your stock price seems a little high but everything else looks about right. I absolutely refuse to spend more than $200 on a bipod because I rarely get the chance to use the cheapo's that i already own. Spending more money doesn't give you a fast pass to the top..... but it usually doesn't hurt.

I think 4k for a custom rifle is average w/o glass.
I think that if you want to spend $8k on a full custom rifle then have at it! I think that for 90% of the shooting public the nuances of a fine tuned rifle would be lost on them, much like feeding 20yo scotch to a college kid. I think that out of 50 firearm owners at the big box store gun counter 2 might be 1/4 MOA shooters with a 1/4 MOA rifle. I think that a rifle no matter the cost can only live up to the accuracy potential of the ammunition it's being fed! I've personally made cheap rifles shoot well above their price range with handloads. I've seen custom rifles from Alamo precision and the like eat garbage ammo and spit it out into tiny groups also. I've seen guys with great vision see things with cheap Bushnell spotting scopes that more experienced hunters with bad eyesight have missed with $5k spotting scopes. Guys who don't shoot over 200yds who spend more than a grand on optics are comical to me.

The most expensive component to any rifle is bullets! Not optics or powder or actions or stocks. Say your rifle has a barrel life of 2,500 rounds and those yellow box berger's cost $.75 each. It will cost you $1,875 to burn out that $800 barrel which could be set back and technically reused whereas the bullets are 1 time use.

I've seen a guy at a range in Dallas YEARS ago throw a "custom" rifle like a spear because his buddies $300 savage was shooting 1 hole groups and his rifle would barely hold half MOA. The adult temper tantrum was hilarious. The thrower also pulled up in a yellow corvette and white sunglasses just to add some context.
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Duckman11
Thanks for the response.
The guy throwing his rifle must be a Golfer that breaks his club every time he squirrels a shot.

The prices I put up were at midrange.
As far a Stocks go you can spend $150 up to $2,000 depending on the material and works done.
A MPA Matrix Pro Chassis is $1,500.00
We have several McMillan XIT Stocks at $1,100.00 then Inlet and Pillers $500+
Bipods could run $200-$1,000.
We have a custom made Front Rest made by the "Viper" and could go $2K+
We just started the post to see what some hunters/shooters are investing in a firearm.
Thanks
Len & Jill
 
Here's one I built myself. 6 dasher
Bartlein blank 400 (threaded & chambered by me)
Reamer 170
Go gauge 30
Mpa chassis 1500
Impact 737 1500
Mag 80
Trigger tech diamond 270
Cortina tuner brake 200
Vx5hd 7-35 2000
6150 with reamer
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Forgot scope mounts 200
6350 with reamer
 
I built my own out of bits and pieces. Started with a 116 Savage, a Boyd's heavy thumbhole varmint stock that I reworked to fit me (lop and grip to trigger) bedded (JBWeld high density, threadded lamp tubing for pillars), new recoilpad to lop. Polished and adjusted Rem oem trigger, a 31.5 in Green River 5r barrel (used from net) Gentry break, barrel re-thread barrel cut custom wildcat chamber (7mmValkyrie magnum, PT&G chamber reamer and guages), mod 300 wm
brass necked to 7mm with other changes) mount break (alll barrel work done by a guy that I met on a forum, great workmanship), new bottom metal with a 3.85 mag that I stretched slightly, can't remember brand of scope mounts, 6x24x56 Ao Swift scope. There may be more but it's been a few years since I did it. Didn't get to finish the testing due to health, but was shooting 1 hole groups at 100 yds. Shot 1 med size deer at +/- 300 yards. Extensive damage to back of left shoulder exiting base of neck on right side. Looking forward to hopefully getting back to testing maybe end of summer. Custom 3 die set. Ultimately wanting 1k plus yards with high bc bullets. That's all that I can remember right now. Waited 4 plus months for reamer, they sent the br valkyrie instead of mag. dies, but they got that straight in another month. The reamer and guages worked very well, nicely finished. Weighs almost 19 lbs. I think that total I have about $2500-3000 invested total and enjoyed the build greatly.
 

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