ndthwacker
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Help with Lightweight 6.5 build
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Litehiker
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I agree, nice looking and great components, most of which would be my choice as well.
BUT... at 7 lbs. bare rifle it ain't lightweight, just medium weight. I think lightweight begins around 6 pounds for a bare rifle. That's why I bought a 6 lb. 1 oz. 6.5 CM Browning X-Bolt Pro instead of doing the much more expensive build I was starting to plan.
That rifle has everything I wanted because Browning made it their "semi custom" rifle with many extras not available even on the upgraded Hell's Canyon rifles.
Eric B.
BUT... at 7 lbs. bare rifle it ain't lightweight, just medium weight. I think lightweight begins around 6 pounds for a bare rifle. That's why I bought a 6 lb. 1 oz. 6.5 CM Browning X-Bolt Pro instead of doing the much more expensive build I was starting to plan.
That rifle has everything I wanted because Browning made it their "semi custom" rifle with many extras not available even on the upgraded Hell's Canyon rifles.
Eric B.
alf
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FYI, I didn't claim it to be a lightweight rifle, hence the "Just for reference" heading....
It was to show that there wasn't any big trick to build a bare gun to 7 pounds. BTW, I topped it with a 2.5-10x42 Nightforce with Seekins rings and rail, adding 1 lb 12 ozs to the total.
My "mountain" gun is a 7-08 at 6-12 scoped......
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alf
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Probably not the choice if ultimate LW was your goal, but I do for ultimate reliability.
I totally get the barrel life concern Luckily I got load development done pretty quickly. 26 nos is something I wanted to play with and see what kind of performance I could get out of it and when the barrel is gone probably going to a 338 edge.
ndthwacker
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Does anyone know when seekins is gunna start shipping there new percision rifle dbm? I cant decide between the h.s or seekins dbm. Also what mags are most running wsm&saum mags?
My 300 wsm is a HS precision DBM and their magazine limited me from being able to seat 190 Berger's to my lands. Luckily the 185 classic hunters shot well off the lands. May check into the overall length of the HS mag and see if it will work for u. I would personally recommend going with something that will accept AI mags.
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Well this is what i ended up with.
25" proof sendero 1-8twist
ADG composite stock
Defiance deviant hunter
Accurate mag
Trigger tech trigger.
I have 100 rounds fireformed and 15 rounds loaded up with 147 eldm and 59gr of h1000 to test tom for seating depth.
Also i have a cherry bomb on it cuz my trash panda should be here soon..
25" proof sendero 1-8twist
ADG composite stock
Defiance deviant hunter
Accurate mag
Trigger tech trigger.
I have 100 rounds fireformed and 15 rounds loaded up with 147 eldm and 59gr of h1000 to test tom for seating depth.
Also i have a cherry bomb on it cuz my trash panda should be here soon..
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Litehiker
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Thwacker, Now that is a great custom rifle. All the right components. (IMHO)
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Michael O'Connor
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No, actually it is based off of the better engineered and stronger SAUM case.
ndthwacker
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Yes thank you.. i think somone corrected me on the 8th post.. i will go edit my post to prevent misinformation.. should have done that rogjt away
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Oh sorry, I didn't see that.
