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<blockquote data-quote="bigngreen" data-source="post: 1307175" data-attributes="member: 13632"><p>My 1000 yard Br rifle is a Savage with a Krieger barrel and an accutrigger and it's competitive with some of the best, I win some relays despite myself. Bolt is tuned to run with a finger, accutrigger is tuned to 2 oz and I can run it hard without tripping it, it's so light and crisp I use a weight to run the blade as the blade spring would trip it. You can tune anything almost to run well and reliable. My 28 Nosler is a Remington 700, had to move the handle so I had primary extraction, bush the firing pin hole, replace the shroud with an over size, install a Calvin elite trigger and through load development it averaged just over .5 inch groups at 300 yards. </p><p>You do have to do different work to different vintages of Savages or Rems and each needs a little different tune up but all can be servicable. The easiest to build at home is a Savage, with a little extra like a $50 barrel vice and an action wrench your easily able to do a Rem or Tikka using the same process as a Savage. The Rem still needs a little gunsmith action to correct the bolt handle issues but not a biggie. </p><p>You can also go with a Kelbly Atlas custom action, it fits all the Rem aftermarket but the trick thing is they are all timed tenons so a smith can literally chamber you a barrel fitted and timed without the action.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bigngreen, post: 1307175, member: 13632"] My 1000 yard Br rifle is a Savage with a Krieger barrel and an accutrigger and it's competitive with some of the best, I win some relays despite myself. Bolt is tuned to run with a finger, accutrigger is tuned to 2 oz and I can run it hard without tripping it, it's so light and crisp I use a weight to run the blade as the blade spring would trip it. You can tune anything almost to run well and reliable. My 28 Nosler is a Remington 700, had to move the handle so I had primary extraction, bush the firing pin hole, replace the shroud with an over size, install a Calvin elite trigger and through load development it averaged just over .5 inch groups at 300 yards. You do have to do different work to different vintages of Savages or Rems and each needs a little different tune up but all can be servicable. The easiest to build at home is a Savage, with a little extra like a $50 barrel vice and an action wrench your easily able to do a Rem or Tikka using the same process as a Savage. The Rem still needs a little gunsmith action to correct the bolt handle issues but not a biggie. You can also go with a Kelbly Atlas custom action, it fits all the Rem aftermarket but the trick thing is they are all timed tenons so a smith can literally chamber you a barrel fitted and timed without the action. [/QUOTE]
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