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Want to bulid my first gun
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<blockquote data-quote="diriel" data-source="post: 547852" data-attributes="member: 26983"><p>Welcome to LRH!,</p><p></p><p>Ok so you want to start shooting long-ish range. I will say that it is a lot of fun! I will also say that unless you are wealthy it would be exceedingly difficult to really learn to shoot Long Range unless you reload as well.</p><p></p><p>Your choice of 7mag is truly a fine choice to get started. You can buy very high quality ammo for it if you look around, but as said above it will be too expensive to enjoy shooting. That is true for most any full size centerfire. Another truly fine choice is the 7 SAUM by remington. For that one, you may wish to reload as ammo for it can be kinda hard to find at times. Not saying it is a dead round, but most walmarts or kmarts I have been to have 243, 308, 30-06, 7mmRM, 300WM, Oh and sometimes 260 and/or 7-08. Of course you can go looking for a dedicated gun shop... </p><p></p><p>Stevens / Savage = You can buy the basic hand tools and gages to swap out pre-fit barrels yourself. This saves both TIME at the Smith, and Money for a *GOOD* smith. Buy once on the tools and cry once. The bad news here is that once you buy a pre-fit barrel you are truly at the mercy of that barrel maker and how well he does his job. You could have the smoothest, best bore ever!!, but if the chamber is cut poorly you can forget about anything like real accuracy. This is the downside to DYI.</p><p></p><p>Remington, You would need to send it to a smith. Period. The good news is, a *GOOD* smith will do the job right the first time.</p><p></p><p>Only you can decide your budget, but $1000 for a for sure accurate rifle? ********. Buy a Savage Long Range Hunter, or a Remington Sendaro LR setup. I personally don't trust Remington anymore, but here VERY recently some folks I trust have told me they bought a brand new remmy and they have been good out of the box. I however, will wait a while. They burned me twice, **** on them. Of course I am not the most patient man on earth, but over 3 months of back and forth and them trying to make me pay shipping... no thank. Bought a Savage and it was accurate out of the box. Maybe I just got lucky, who knows. </p><p></p><p>Now there are some smiths on here who are known good, and reputable. Perhaps 1 or 2 of them will chime in on $1000 for an accurate build, heck I may be mistaken.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Have a good one sir,</p><p>Gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="diriel, post: 547852, member: 26983"] Welcome to LRH!, Ok so you want to start shooting long-ish range. I will say that it is a lot of fun! I will also say that unless you are wealthy it would be exceedingly difficult to really learn to shoot Long Range unless you reload as well. Your choice of 7mag is truly a fine choice to get started. You can buy very high quality ammo for it if you look around, but as said above it will be too expensive to enjoy shooting. That is true for most any full size centerfire. Another truly fine choice is the 7 SAUM by remington. For that one, you may wish to reload as ammo for it can be kinda hard to find at times. Not saying it is a dead round, but most walmarts or kmarts I have been to have 243, 308, 30-06, 7mmRM, 300WM, Oh and sometimes 260 and/or 7-08. Of course you can go looking for a dedicated gun shop... Stevens / Savage = You can buy the basic hand tools and gages to swap out pre-fit barrels yourself. This saves both TIME at the Smith, and Money for a *GOOD* smith. Buy once on the tools and cry once. The bad news here is that once you buy a pre-fit barrel you are truly at the mercy of that barrel maker and how well he does his job. You could have the smoothest, best bore ever!!, but if the chamber is cut poorly you can forget about anything like real accuracy. This is the downside to DYI. Remington, You would need to send it to a smith. Period. The good news is, a *GOOD* smith will do the job right the first time. Only you can decide your budget, but $1000 for a for sure accurate rifle? ********. Buy a Savage Long Range Hunter, or a Remington Sendaro LR setup. I personally don't trust Remington anymore, but here VERY recently some folks I trust have told me they bought a brand new remmy and they have been good out of the box. I however, will wait a while. They burned me twice, **** on them. Of course I am not the most patient man on earth, but over 3 months of back and forth and them trying to make me pay shipping... no thank. Bought a Savage and it was accurate out of the box. Maybe I just got lucky, who knows. Now there are some smiths on here who are known good, and reputable. Perhaps 1 or 2 of them will chime in on $1000 for an accurate build, heck I may be mistaken. Have a good one sir, Gary [/QUOTE]
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