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What does a custom build rig really get you???
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<blockquote data-quote="FatOldMIHunter" data-source="post: 1799904" data-attributes="member: 104844"><p>I haven't read through all of the previous responses and I have never built nor had a custom gun built. So maybe I can offer a unique perspective. I want to know if the reason I'm shooting poorly is something beyond my control or not. I want to be able to say whether a particular failure was my fault because of poor shooting or because my gun was not up to the task. The only way that I can do that is to take away variables one by one. How would I feel if I spent thousands on an allegedly great gun, scope, and ammo combination and I still shot poorly? Not very good, I imagine. I wouldn't know what to blame my poor shooting on. Maybe I got sold a lemon. I would have to get that checked by other people.</p><p></p><p>But if I take a factory gun that has a reasonably good reputation and work on it, and adjust my ammo choice, and with my own eyes try different optics setups and make my preferred scope choice, and if I satisfy myself every step of the way that I have eliminated the choice of equipment as the cause of any poor shooting, then in the process of doing that I'll have gotten the range time required to actually know the limits of each of those choices and to improve my form and to shoot my factory gun at the limit of its ability. In the end will I have spent less? Probably. Would I have enjoyed shooting a more expensive gun more accurately, instead? Not necessarily. I am enjoying the detailed work of exploring the gun's and my limits. I'm currently doing that with three different guns. For the first time, I took two shots at an 8" gong with an unmodified Howa 1500 the other day and hit it both times using the Nikko-Sterling scope that came with it. I could be wrong, but that seems like an accomplishment to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FatOldMIHunter, post: 1799904, member: 104844"] I haven't read through all of the previous responses and I have never built nor had a custom gun built. So maybe I can offer a unique perspective. I want to know if the reason I'm shooting poorly is something beyond my control or not. I want to be able to say whether a particular failure was my fault because of poor shooting or because my gun was not up to the task. The only way that I can do that is to take away variables one by one. How would I feel if I spent thousands on an allegedly great gun, scope, and ammo combination and I still shot poorly? Not very good, I imagine. I wouldn't know what to blame my poor shooting on. Maybe I got sold a lemon. I would have to get that checked by other people. But if I take a factory gun that has a reasonably good reputation and work on it, and adjust my ammo choice, and with my own eyes try different optics setups and make my preferred scope choice, and if I satisfy myself every step of the way that I have eliminated the choice of equipment as the cause of any poor shooting, then in the process of doing that I'll have gotten the range time required to actually know the limits of each of those choices and to improve my form and to shoot my factory gun at the limit of its ability. In the end will I have spent less? Probably. Would I have enjoyed shooting a more expensive gun more accurately, instead? Not necessarily. I am enjoying the detailed work of exploring the gun's and my limits. I'm currently doing that with three different guns. For the first time, I took two shots at an 8" gong with an unmodified Howa 1500 the other day and hit it both times using the Nikko-Sterling scope that came with it. I could be wrong, but that seems like an accomplishment to me. [/QUOTE]
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