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I'm indecisive. Help me choose a caliber.
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<blockquote data-quote="junkpile" data-source="post: 720536" data-attributes="member: 57489"><p>Appreciate the re-route, Buano. Although I have enjoyed the roundabout discussion, and has made me think about things a little more. </p><p> </p><p>As I stated earlier, I prefer short actions, but would be willing to consider a long action for this project. I was actually starting to think that I should build this on a long action, so I could re-barrel it to something else down the road, and not have to restrict myself to a short action round. I was also thinking that I could be selling myself short in choosing to stay with a short action on this project.</p><p> </p><p>All things together right now, I am really thinking that my caliber of choice is going to be 7mm Rem Mag. I keep thinking that something in 6 or 6.5 would be better, but I haven't had the time to research component availability on them. I've heard some on the 243, but nothing that really caught my interest.</p><p> </p><p>I really need to keep this project to about $800 if I can. Even at that budget, it will probably take me some time to put together. My layout right now looks like this:</p><p> </p><p>$200-300 donor rifle</p><p>$300-400 barrel</p><p>$100-200 mounts, trigger, and other stuff</p><p> </p><p>Planning to do my own stock work, and to sell parts off of my donor. </p><p> </p><p>Anyway, still really hoping to hear some good chatter on 6 and 6.5 mm, otherwise I think I have my mind made up on 7mm RM. (I'd do a handful of different rifles in different calibers to meet all the scenarios if I could, but I've got 2 young boys to feed and my wife can't find a job, blah blah blah. Life is getting in the way of me getting all the guns I want and need.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="junkpile, post: 720536, member: 57489"] Appreciate the re-route, Buano. Although I have enjoyed the roundabout discussion, and has made me think about things a little more. As I stated earlier, I prefer short actions, but would be willing to consider a long action for this project. I was actually starting to think that I should build this on a long action, so I could re-barrel it to something else down the road, and not have to restrict myself to a short action round. I was also thinking that I could be selling myself short in choosing to stay with a short action on this project. All things together right now, I am really thinking that my caliber of choice is going to be 7mm Rem Mag. I keep thinking that something in 6 or 6.5 would be better, but I haven't had the time to research component availability on them. I've heard some on the 243, but nothing that really caught my interest. I really need to keep this project to about $800 if I can. Even at that budget, it will probably take me some time to put together. My layout right now looks like this: $200-300 donor rifle $300-400 barrel $100-200 mounts, trigger, and other stuff Planning to do my own stock work, and to sell parts off of my donor. Anyway, still really hoping to hear some good chatter on 6 and 6.5 mm, otherwise I think I have my mind made up on 7mm RM. (I'd do a handful of different rifles in different calibers to meet all the scenarios if I could, but I've got 2 young boys to feed and my wife can't find a job, blah blah blah. Life is getting in the way of me getting all the guns I want and need.) [/QUOTE]
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