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A Bolt for long range?
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<blockquote data-quote="westcliffe01" data-source="post: 807105" data-attributes="member: 35183"><p>You will probably find that there are relatively few accessories offered for your browning. It will be harder to find someone to make you a match barrel. You might find it impossible to change a part like the bolt from the factory configuration if Browning refuses to sell you parts for a caliber conversion.</p><p></p><p>Clones of the Rem 700 action are the most popular and most are very well made (Stiller, Pierce, Surgeon, BAT, Lawton and the list goes on..)</p><p></p><p>One of the problems with working with a "factory" Remington action is that by the time it has been accurised the barrel tenon is non standard and sometimes the action timing is messed up. From that point of view, a custom action should always be standardized and things like the primary extraction should be perfectly timed. The clones will have the largest number of trigger, base and stock options out there.</p><p></p><p>If you are a man who is value driven, then Savage might be your deal (a little doubtful given what you have to spend to buy a Browning). A Savage action will NEVER feel like a Browning or a Ruger or a Sako, but like an AK47, they tend to function pretty well and were designed to be cheap to make. The accutrigger and the later target accutrigger are some of the best triggers to ever be fitted to factory guns. This is the route I have gone down. </p><p></p><p>Typically one does no trueing, does not replace the trigger, buys fabulous select match barrels completely finished for $340, which you can install yourself and possibly replaces the stock. With that one easily has a rifle that will shoot 1/2 MOA. Warne and others make excellent quality one piece rails and there are custom stocks to be had, but far fewer than for a Rem 700 clone. Some of the stocks on the short action rifles are quite good from the factory and just need a bedding job (models 10 and 12). The stocks on the entry level rifles are the usual injection/roto molded cored out crap.</p><p></p><p>I live under no illusions, my Savages are not nor will they ever be Sakos, but I can afford them and perhaps if I consolidate my collection at some time in the future I can afford to go with 1 or 2 custom guns. I do not have to be ashamed about how they shoot either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="westcliffe01, post: 807105, member: 35183"] You will probably find that there are relatively few accessories offered for your browning. It will be harder to find someone to make you a match barrel. You might find it impossible to change a part like the bolt from the factory configuration if Browning refuses to sell you parts for a caliber conversion. Clones of the Rem 700 action are the most popular and most are very well made (Stiller, Pierce, Surgeon, BAT, Lawton and the list goes on..) One of the problems with working with a "factory" Remington action is that by the time it has been accurised the barrel tenon is non standard and sometimes the action timing is messed up. From that point of view, a custom action should always be standardized and things like the primary extraction should be perfectly timed. The clones will have the largest number of trigger, base and stock options out there. If you are a man who is value driven, then Savage might be your deal (a little doubtful given what you have to spend to buy a Browning). A Savage action will NEVER feel like a Browning or a Ruger or a Sako, but like an AK47, they tend to function pretty well and were designed to be cheap to make. The accutrigger and the later target accutrigger are some of the best triggers to ever be fitted to factory guns. This is the route I have gone down. Typically one does no trueing, does not replace the trigger, buys fabulous select match barrels completely finished for $340, which you can install yourself and possibly replaces the stock. With that one easily has a rifle that will shoot 1/2 MOA. Warne and others make excellent quality one piece rails and there are custom stocks to be had, but far fewer than for a Rem 700 clone. Some of the stocks on the short action rifles are quite good from the factory and just need a bedding job (models 10 and 12). The stocks on the entry level rifles are the usual injection/roto molded cored out crap. I live under no illusions, my Savages are not nor will they ever be Sakos, but I can afford them and perhaps if I consolidate my collection at some time in the future I can afford to go with 1 or 2 custom guns. I do not have to be ashamed about how they shoot either. [/QUOTE]
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