Good morning guys, i have been debating selling or rebarreling my R700 chambered in 7RM. nothing fancy factory action, HS precision stock, trigger tech trigger. I live in the Midwest and really only hunt whitetails and coyotes with rifles and have other rifles to use and never really use the 7RM. I don't really enjoy just getting it out and target shooting with it as i would rather do that with other rifles due to component cost and recoil and so on. I was thinking about rebarreling it to a 6.5 PRC. i know it can be done on a short action but has mag length issues, so figure I saw enough people building them on true long actions that i could go that route. So really all i need would be a barrel as I would do a remage.
Now my other option that I'm considering is selling the R700 and just buying another tikka in whatever and building off it in the future. probably would just shoot it as is for awhile then rebarrel it later on to idk what.. I'm not stuck to any caliber at the moment. I don't even know what caliber I would buy the tikka in as idk what I would build in the future yet I'm not stuck on 6.5 PRC. It was just easy for my R700 to be converted to that since bolt face and action length are right. I don't really know what I'm asking just wanted some opinions I guess lol.
This would be the last R700 I have in the stable, feels weird to not have one.
Thanks guys
Now my other option that I'm considering is selling the R700 and just buying another tikka in whatever and building off it in the future. probably would just shoot it as is for awhile then rebarrel it later on to idk what.. I'm not stuck to any caliber at the moment. I don't even know what caliber I would buy the tikka in as idk what I would build in the future yet I'm not stuck on 6.5 PRC. It was just easy for my R700 to be converted to that since bolt face and action length are right. I don't really know what I'm asking just wanted some opinions I guess lol.
This would be the last R700 I have in the stable, feels weird to not have one.
Thanks guys