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First custom rifle questions
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<blockquote data-quote="brcfo_outdoors" data-source="post: 2697840" data-attributes="member: 113623"><p>In the era of pre-fit barrels I say eliminate the gunsmith and do it yourself. Its really not that difficult and to do, and you get a much better understanding of your rifle and what goes into it. Proof is already offering 7PRC barrels and I am sure other big names are starting to as well. Choose and action based on the availability of the barrels (personally like Zermatt/Bighorn), buy the barrel, a stock or chassis, bottom metal (if not already incorporated into chassis), and a trigger. Really the only gunsmithing required in a build like that is torqueing on the barrel and checking the headspace. If you don't have the tools to do so, you can go to a gunsmith and they will do it in about 10 minutes as opposed to having to machine and install an entire blank. Also if you decide later you don't like 7PRC, you can always sell the barrel, swap the bolt head if necessary, and go with something else. This way you avoid waiting on a backlogged gunsmith to build your gun, and the longest time delay would just be sourcing components which you would have to do anyways.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brcfo_outdoors, post: 2697840, member: 113623"] In the era of pre-fit barrels I say eliminate the gunsmith and do it yourself. Its really not that difficult and to do, and you get a much better understanding of your rifle and what goes into it. Proof is already offering 7PRC barrels and I am sure other big names are starting to as well. Choose and action based on the availability of the barrels (personally like Zermatt/Bighorn), buy the barrel, a stock or chassis, bottom metal (if not already incorporated into chassis), and a trigger. Really the only gunsmithing required in a build like that is torqueing on the barrel and checking the headspace. If you don't have the tools to do so, you can go to a gunsmith and they will do it in about 10 minutes as opposed to having to machine and install an entire blank. Also if you decide later you don't like 7PRC, you can always sell the barrel, swap the bolt head if necessary, and go with something else. This way you avoid waiting on a backlogged gunsmith to build your gun, and the longest time delay would just be sourcing components which you would have to do anyways. [/QUOTE]
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