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Stock action vs blueprinted vs custom ?
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<blockquote data-quote="toliver" data-source="post: 1234963" data-attributes="member: 74698"><p>Great thread! I just had this conversation with a gunsmith who was by trade a very accomplished tool maker. I got to shoot a prototype of one of his latest projects last night a smokeless muzzle loader that was built completely in house aside from a timney trigger in it. 4 inch group at 500, I think could have been better but I wasnt a fan of the recoil, anyway. It came up when I was talking about putting a barrel on a factory gun. It was a factory gun, and I was looking to change the barrel to change caliber. So I asked about about blue printing etc thinking about what my bill would be. He asked how it shoots now, and I said great. His belief is that unless your logging huge numbers of shots for bench rest competitions you'd probably be wasting your money having me true it gain if any would be seriously minimal. He said the factories generally turn out true rifles. Of course there is the exception when one is bad for whatever reason. If they did it correctly it should be true it just wont appear all fancy and shiny. That being said, he further went on, I can do it and make it all nice and shiny looking, but if it shoots well now the most important thing is a high quality barrel that was properly chambered as concentric as possible, properly bedded, and high quality hand loads, and you will see a significant improvement. Most importantly the rifle will shoot well within the high standards your seeking. He closed the conversation with blue printing seems to have more of a positive psychological effect than a real life increase in performance, and there is always that slight chance it wont hit the same hole twice ever again.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toliver, post: 1234963, member: 74698"] Great thread! I just had this conversation with a gunsmith who was by trade a very accomplished tool maker. I got to shoot a prototype of one of his latest projects last night a smokeless muzzle loader that was built completely in house aside from a timney trigger in it. 4 inch group at 500, I think could have been better but I wasnt a fan of the recoil, anyway. It came up when I was talking about putting a barrel on a factory gun. It was a factory gun, and I was looking to change the barrel to change caliber. So I asked about about blue printing etc thinking about what my bill would be. He asked how it shoots now, and I said great. His belief is that unless your logging huge numbers of shots for bench rest competitions you'd probably be wasting your money having me true it gain if any would be seriously minimal. He said the factories generally turn out true rifles. Of course there is the exception when one is bad for whatever reason. If they did it correctly it should be true it just wont appear all fancy and shiny. That being said, he further went on, I can do it and make it all nice and shiny looking, but if it shoots well now the most important thing is a high quality barrel that was properly chambered as concentric as possible, properly bedded, and high quality hand loads, and you will see a significant improvement. Most importantly the rifle will shoot well within the high standards your seeking. He closed the conversation with blue printing seems to have more of a positive psychological effect than a real life increase in performance, and there is always that slight chance it wont hit the same hole twice ever again.:D [/QUOTE]
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