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<blockquote data-quote="aspenbugle" data-source="post: 670191" data-attributes="member: 6481"><p>Here Here, I agree. There wasn't a lot of new ground to explore 20 years ago when the Dakota came out, and even less today with RUMs, WSMs having been added. </p><p></p><p>Components: depends what you wildcat from, they can be every bit as cheap and have as much variety as factory rounds - especially if you wildcat from a factory round. I agree on the ammo - good, well-documented point by many. You're ALWAYS safer with popular rounds. However, I think it can be overblown. Big, expensive trips you ship ammo ahead of time, and verify it arrives before you even leave. Even local CO trips for me, I usually have shells here, there and everywhere. If I don't have shells, I probably don't have boots or a coat either. Also, to be honest, whether it's elk camp 3 hours away or Africa around the world, there is another good functioning gun nearby. May not be your ideal choice, but hey I elk hunted with a used 30-06 for MANY years and still managed to kill stuff. Darn, I don't have shells. Give me something that shoots straight to 200 yards and goes boom and lets go have some fun in the woods. I bow hunt too and can embrace that mentality. I hunt'em close, hunt'em far. It's all good. I'd be bummed, but it wouldn't ruin my hunt. Your point is valid though.</p><p></p><p>Gunsmith comment - true some I guess. This hasn't really been my experience with gunsmiths, but once I finally made the leap to going the custom route, I started looking for the higher-end, benchrest quality guys, not the local corner-store hobby-shop guy. Not trying to act "high brow" - I just figure if I'm buidling a "dream gun" that I may use for 10-20 years, especially a long-range one, I want it done right (and they often don't charge much more). If you walk in and ask about just about any chambering you read about here, a good smith with know all about it, have the reamer, or have one he can get his hands on. If they just look at you like you're from Mars and go "huh", you are probably in the wrong shop (just my opinion). My experience isn't that they don't know the cartridge, they just tend to be a very opinionated group, usually for a good reason, and many have forgotten more than I can hope to know, but...they may not WANT to build the round for you because they think something is better. Most will still do it of course, but that always makes me a bit nervous. I'm sure they'd do just as good of work, but me thinks if it ever didn't shoot well, it would be easier to say "I told you, you shouldn't choose that", vs. if their "pet round" didn't shoot, they'd be more keen to exhaust all avenues solving it - but that's just my paranoid psychology of it (no proof). My personal theory has been it seems better to find a smith of like mind to how you think - and who likes building what you want (but I'm no expert, which is why I mostly read here and don't post much). I do agree, when it's "brand new" I'd hate to be the 1st or second one he has ever built, just like I hate my vehicle to be the 1st one the mechanic has worked on. I'd rather find the guy who's repaired/built 50.</p><p></p><p>Cheers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aspenbugle, post: 670191, member: 6481"] Here Here, I agree. There wasn't a lot of new ground to explore 20 years ago when the Dakota came out, and even less today with RUMs, WSMs having been added. Components: depends what you wildcat from, they can be every bit as cheap and have as much variety as factory rounds - especially if you wildcat from a factory round. I agree on the ammo - good, well-documented point by many. You're ALWAYS safer with popular rounds. However, I think it can be overblown. Big, expensive trips you ship ammo ahead of time, and verify it arrives before you even leave. Even local CO trips for me, I usually have shells here, there and everywhere. If I don't have shells, I probably don't have boots or a coat either. Also, to be honest, whether it's elk camp 3 hours away or Africa around the world, there is another good functioning gun nearby. May not be your ideal choice, but hey I elk hunted with a used 30-06 for MANY years and still managed to kill stuff. Darn, I don't have shells. Give me something that shoots straight to 200 yards and goes boom and lets go have some fun in the woods. I bow hunt too and can embrace that mentality. I hunt'em close, hunt'em far. It's all good. I'd be bummed, but it wouldn't ruin my hunt. Your point is valid though. Gunsmith comment - true some I guess. This hasn't really been my experience with gunsmiths, but once I finally made the leap to going the custom route, I started looking for the higher-end, benchrest quality guys, not the local corner-store hobby-shop guy. Not trying to act "high brow" - I just figure if I'm buidling a "dream gun" that I may use for 10-20 years, especially a long-range one, I want it done right (and they often don't charge much more). If you walk in and ask about just about any chambering you read about here, a good smith with know all about it, have the reamer, or have one he can get his hands on. If they just look at you like you're from Mars and go "huh", you are probably in the wrong shop (just my opinion). My experience isn't that they don't know the cartridge, they just tend to be a very opinionated group, usually for a good reason, and many have forgotten more than I can hope to know, but...they may not WANT to build the round for you because they think something is better. Most will still do it of course, but that always makes me a bit nervous. I'm sure they'd do just as good of work, but me thinks if it ever didn't shoot well, it would be easier to say "I told you, you shouldn't choose that", vs. if their "pet round" didn't shoot, they'd be more keen to exhaust all avenues solving it - but that's just my paranoid psychology of it (no proof). My personal theory has been it seems better to find a smith of like mind to how you think - and who likes building what you want (but I'm no expert, which is why I mostly read here and don't post much). I do agree, when it's "brand new" I'd hate to be the 1st or second one he has ever built, just like I hate my vehicle to be the 1st one the mechanic has worked on. I'd rather find the guy who's repaired/built 50. Cheers. [/QUOTE]
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