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Holy Grail of long range rigs? What custom gun/caliber to get
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<blockquote data-quote="Shoalwater" data-source="post: 1173559" data-attributes="member: 65420"><p>Nothing work with a semi custom on a Savage platform like you currently have. I have built countless semi customs on Savage actions because I could do it myself for cheap. Below is a picture of one I did on a Savage Axis action in 284, it's an absolute hammer out to a 1000. Haven't had a chance to take it further than that yet. I built the gun to be a kind of do all hunting rifle out to a grand and have not been disappointed with it at all. I sent the action to Fred at SSS to true everything up, added one of his stocks, rifle basix trigger, mcgowen barrel, vortex hst scope, Ken Farrell rings and base, and rolled my own ammo. The gun with scope ready to hunt to hunt is 9 lbs 14 oz and the 284 is very mild recoil. All in I have less than $2500 with glass and everything. That being said I get the full custom thing, I am currently in the process building a 6.5 GAP 4S on one Chase and Joel's new Vector actions, in a manners stock, with a Bartlein barrel, etc, etc and will have well over 6 grand in it with glass. I just wanted you to hear the other side that you can build absolutely great rifle on a Savage platform for a fraction of the cost. If you built on your current Savage rifle you could build two identical guns, one in a 6.5 to practice with and then a 300 or 338 to hunt with. Just my 2 pennies. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://s1289.photobucket.com/user/Shoalwater10/media/Mobile%20Uploads/EE53C0D4-F1FC-43F0-A214-FC55328B6E38_zps0ly32jny.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b504/Shoalwater10/Mobile%20Uploads/EE53C0D4-F1FC-43F0-A214-FC55328B6E38_zps0ly32jny.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shoalwater, post: 1173559, member: 65420"] Nothing work with a semi custom on a Savage platform like you currently have. I have built countless semi customs on Savage actions because I could do it myself for cheap. Below is a picture of one I did on a Savage Axis action in 284, it's an absolute hammer out to a 1000. Haven't had a chance to take it further than that yet. I built the gun to be a kind of do all hunting rifle out to a grand and have not been disappointed with it at all. I sent the action to Fred at SSS to true everything up, added one of his stocks, rifle basix trigger, mcgowen barrel, vortex hst scope, Ken Farrell rings and base, and rolled my own ammo. The gun with scope ready to hunt to hunt is 9 lbs 14 oz and the 284 is very mild recoil. All in I have less than $2500 with glass and everything. That being said I get the full custom thing, I am currently in the process building a 6.5 GAP 4S on one Chase and Joel's new Vector actions, in a manners stock, with a Bartlein barrel, etc, etc and will have well over 6 grand in it with glass. I just wanted you to hear the other side that you can build absolutely great rifle on a Savage platform for a fraction of the cost. If you built on your current Savage rifle you could build two identical guns, one in a 6.5 to practice with and then a 300 or 338 to hunt with. Just my 2 pennies. [URL=http://s1289.photobucket.com/user/Shoalwater10/media/Mobile%20Uploads/EE53C0D4-F1FC-43F0-A214-FC55328B6E38_zps0ly32jny.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b504/Shoalwater10/Mobile%20Uploads/EE53C0D4-F1FC-43F0-A214-FC55328B6E38_zps0ly32jny.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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