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New Rifle: What do you think about this?
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<blockquote data-quote="Fiftydriver" data-source="post: 277422" data-attributes="member: 10"><p>Iam in no way trying to offend anyone but I personally would never fit a $300 match grade barrel to a Rem 700 receiver that has not been accurized. It may shoot better then the factory rifle, it may not, pretty high risk for the money.</p><p> </p><p>Personally, I get this type of question alot and my comment is always the same, if your buying a new rifle, as already mentioned a couple times, shoot it, do a bit of load development and see what it will do. In many cases, it will serve you very well for what you want to do. I assume that since you want a lighter weight sporter rifle design, this rifle will not be used for shooting much past 700 yards if that.</p><p> </p><p>As such, give it a good barrel break in and see how it shoots.</p><p> </p><p>"IF" it does not shoot well, there are some minor things you can so to possibly improve performance. Those being:</p><p> </p><p>-Trigger job(often a big help with a factory rifle)</p><p>-Lap lugs into better contact without getting to carried away.</p><p>-Recrown the factory barrel(better be done when you have the MB installed)</p><p> </p><p>Those are the simple, least expensive things that MAY get you noticable results. After that, you get into more serious surgery such as restocking with quality bedding and then serious rebuilding and rebarreling.</p><p> </p><p>Again, I have a hard time putting an expensive barrel on an out of box receiver. Just call it the rifle builder in me and not wanting to waste someones money. Not saying it would be a waste but it may not shoot any better then the barrel you took off. If the receiver is the problem for the poor accuracy and consistancy, you will see that again if that problem is not corrected.</p><p> </p><p>Just an opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fiftydriver, post: 277422, member: 10"] Iam in no way trying to offend anyone but I personally would never fit a $300 match grade barrel to a Rem 700 receiver that has not been accurized. It may shoot better then the factory rifle, it may not, pretty high risk for the money. Personally, I get this type of question alot and my comment is always the same, if your buying a new rifle, as already mentioned a couple times, shoot it, do a bit of load development and see what it will do. In many cases, it will serve you very well for what you want to do. I assume that since you want a lighter weight sporter rifle design, this rifle will not be used for shooting much past 700 yards if that. As such, give it a good barrel break in and see how it shoots. "IF" it does not shoot well, there are some minor things you can so to possibly improve performance. Those being: -Trigger job(often a big help with a factory rifle) -Lap lugs into better contact without getting to carried away. -Recrown the factory barrel(better be done when you have the MB installed) Those are the simple, least expensive things that MAY get you noticable results. After that, you get into more serious surgery such as restocking with quality bedding and then serious rebuilding and rebarreling. Again, I have a hard time putting an expensive barrel on an out of box receiver. Just call it the rifle builder in me and not wanting to waste someones money. Not saying it would be a waste but it may not shoot any better then the barrel you took off. If the receiver is the problem for the poor accuracy and consistancy, you will see that again if that problem is not corrected. Just an opinion. [/QUOTE]
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