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<blockquote data-quote="Timnterra" data-source="post: 1572417" data-attributes="member: 55944"><p>There is something fun about putting together a budget rig and beating the guys who spend thousands on theirs thinking that the more they spend the better they will shoot. Don't get me wrong I have spent a small fortune on high end custom rifles and great optics. But the gun in my safe I'm most excited to shoot, when the weather clears up, is the cheap savage 6.5 creedmoor that I've thrown together of used parts from various classified sites. It has a used bell and Carlson stock, factory accu-trigger, factory take-off barrel, blemished PTG bottom metal, Warne eBay 20moa base, used TPS rings and a used SWFA 10-42 and a used Harris bipod. I've spent a total of $940 on it with a Magpul aics mag and box of Hornady ammo. I'm sure I'll have no problem shooting out to a 1000 and beyond. Two years ago I bought one of the Cabelas special savage 12fv for $240 and put a bushnell 10-42 on it and was hitting 8" steel at 850 yds with the 7rd out of the barrel for a total investment of $450 ammo included. I took a new shooter out gave him some instruction and amazed him with what you could do for so little money. He was so excited that I just gave him the set up, and passed along the shooting infection to another family. Now his wife hunts and his kids will too. That would not have been possible if I'd taken him out to shoot some $8,000 custom rig. He would have gone home defeated thinking he could never do what I had done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Timnterra, post: 1572417, member: 55944"] There is something fun about putting together a budget rig and beating the guys who spend thousands on theirs thinking that the more they spend the better they will shoot. Don’t get me wrong I have spent a small fortune on high end custom rifles and great optics. But the gun in my safe I’m most excited to shoot, when the weather clears up, is the cheap savage 6.5 creedmoor that I’ve thrown together of used parts from various classified sites. It has a used bell and Carlson stock, factory accu-trigger, factory take-off barrel, blemished PTG bottom metal, Warne eBay 20moa base, used TPS rings and a used SWFA 10-42 and a used Harris bipod. I’ve spent a total of $940 on it with a Magpul aics mag and box of Hornady ammo. I’m sure I’ll have no problem shooting out to a 1000 and beyond. Two years ago I bought one of the Cabelas special savage 12fv for $240 and put a bushnell 10-42 on it and was hitting 8” steel at 850 yds with the 7rd out of the barrel for a total investment of $450 ammo included. I took a new shooter out gave him some instruction and amazed him with what you could do for so little money. He was so excited that I just gave him the set up, and passed along the shooting infection to another family. Now his wife hunts and his kids will too. That would not have been possible if I’d taken him out to shoot some $8,000 custom rig. He would have gone home defeated thinking he could never do what I had done. [/QUOTE]
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