At what point does custom pay off?

[MudRunner2005]

Kinda what i wad thinking. Here is the dilema I hace. I have become accustomed to braked rifles. But I don't want to put one on this rifle until I see if it's a shooter. Therefore who knows if I would ever really find the true potential of the rifle. Who knows, maybe just sell it after I buy it and call it good. Hahaja

If it's a 700...Rebarrel it. Stick a sendero or varmint barrel on there and chamber it to what you want. Remember, as long as you have a .308 varmint barrel, you can open that chamber up to whatever .30 caliber you want...

I traded around and ended up with a new take-off 26" heavy .308 Win barrel...Then I decided I would open up the chamber to .30-06 AI and use it in a semi-custom. Works awesome. Real shooter.

Sometimes factory chambers are wide or crooked (which can be main contributing factors to inaccuracies), so you find a smaller caliber barrel like you want, find a smith that really takes his time lining up the barrel and cutting the chamber, hand-lap the bore, and you can turn a factory rifle into a shooter (including truing the action) for about 1/3 of what an aftermarket barrel blank will cost you and all the smith work to true and fit everything.

 

[RMulhern]

Hmmm.....possibly at the point in time whereby you're trying to burst golf balls at 1000-1200 yards!

 

[Lone Hunter]

I think that the payoff, which is largely based on personal preference, is not only the accuracy aspect but the ability to have a rifle built to one own tastes in various other aspects like dimensions, stock choice, finish, caliber, etc,etc. Some people value this, some don't. I own a couple of factory rifles that will shoot as well or better than my customs and kill game at long range at a fraction of the price. Even so, I still highly value my customs because of other attributes. I think the same principal can apply to many other possessions, good examples being cars and motorcycles. IMO.

Think Greyfox nailed it in my opinion.

 

[mrb1982]

Yeah that probably about sums it up. In all actuality, I could just buy a used sendero, rebarrel it with a custom barrel, brake, trigger, and cheek piece and have just as good a rifle as I would need. I did all of this with the exception of the custom barrel on my current sendero. I think the custom quality barrel is probably one of the main differences in custom vs factory mostly because of the smith that installs it. Bottom line is it comes down to how much money you want to spend.

 

[mrb1982]

Well, the buddy that was gonna sell me the gun I was going to customize decided he couldn't let it go. So no custom stuff for me right now. Might just have to rebarrel my 7RM someday, who konws. It's a good shooting gun though so I am not too concerned about it.

Might just have to buy myself a 243 or 22-250 for coyotes to get over the disappointment. lol