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<blockquote data-quote="SBruce" data-source="post: 415952" data-attributes="member: 21068"><p>IMO, the barrel should probably come first.</p><p> </p><p>There is an old saying among benchrest shooters......"a good barrel will usually shoot just about any decent bullet well." A poor barrel will be more picky about what bullet it will shoot well.</p><p> </p><p>If this is true, then getting a good barrel first would save alot of time and expense in loading/testing ammo for accuracy. Most Re-Barreling that I've heard of includes action truing..........two birds one stone. Some factory rifles/barrels are very accurate. I've owed a few, and eventually shot the barrels out of a couple.......Granted, a couple required bedding/freefloating jobs before they would shoot decent. One only needed a trigger job and scope.</p><p> </p><p>2nd most important thing, again IMO; is to get quality optics and mounting hardware.......a scope with 14X or higher, that has very crisp clear glass and rugged enough that your POI will never change under normal use. </p><p> </p><p>Perhaps some of the Custom Gunsmiths on this site can better answer the question, because these are just one man's opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SBruce, post: 415952, member: 21068"] IMO, the barrel should probably come first. There is an old saying among benchrest shooters......"a good barrel will usually shoot just about any decent bullet well." A poor barrel will be more picky about what bullet it will shoot well. If this is true, then getting a good barrel first would save alot of time and expense in loading/testing ammo for accuracy. Most Re-Barreling that I've heard of includes action truing..........two birds one stone. Some factory rifles/barrels are very accurate. I've owed a few, and eventually shot the barrels out of a couple.......Granted, a couple required bedding/freefloating jobs before they would shoot decent. One only needed a trigger job and scope. 2nd most important thing, again IMO; is to get quality optics and mounting hardware.......a scope with 14X or higher, that has very crisp clear glass and rugged enough that your POI will never change under normal use. Perhaps some of the Custom Gunsmiths on this site can better answer the question, because these are just one man's opinion. [/QUOTE]
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