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The Basics, Starting Out
How hard is it to build a rifle by yourself??
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<blockquote data-quote="Jjviperzar1" data-source="post: 1592137" data-attributes="member: 107889"><p>I was kinda in the OP's shoes a year or so ago. Go custom or build off something I already have. Like has been mentioned he could buy a couple go/no-go gauges $60 and remage barrel and nut $350. A barrel vise and an action wrench $200 and he could change barrels. I got a great deal on Black Friday on a triggertech for a $125 but usually a trigger is $175 to $200. A Boyd's at one with bedding material roughly $250. So he could semi custom his rifle for about $1000 to $1200 with his own hands. The only negative is the good possibility the factory 700 action you start with is out of square, then it may not shoot all that well even with better barrel. That's the advantage to building off a savage in this style of home built rifle is the floating bolt head design. By the way I had one built because I like the 700 and didn't want to have the out of square thing happen and end up taking it to a smith and trueing it all up after the fact.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jjviperzar1, post: 1592137, member: 107889"] I was kinda in the OP’s shoes a year or so ago. Go custom or build off something I already have. Like has been mentioned he could buy a couple go/no-go gauges $60 and remage barrel and nut $350. A barrel vise and an action wrench $200 and he could change barrels. I got a great deal on Black Friday on a triggertech for a $125 but usually a trigger is $175 to $200. A Boyd’s at one with bedding material roughly $250. So he could semi custom his rifle for about $1000 to $1200 with his own hands. The only negative is the good possibility the factory 700 action you start with is out of square, then it may not shoot all that well even with better barrel. That’s the advantage to building off a savage in this style of home built rifle is the floating bolt head design. By the way I had one built because I like the 700 and didn’t want to have the out of square thing happen and end up taking it to a smith and trueing it all up after the fact. [/QUOTE]
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