cooltouch
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Welp, first of all, I'd like to say that I'm glad to be here. I discovered this forum while doing a search on "243 AI vs 6mm Creedmoor" and interestingly enough, I got a lot of hits, most of which were forum threads. I've learned quite a bit so far and it's gonna provide me with a lot of food for thought.
I consider myself to be a pretty fair shot with long guns at a bench. I have a few favorite bolt guns that are sub-MOA, one of which is about 0.5 MOA (a .22-250 I bought probably 25 years ago, built from a military Mauser 98 action, a heavy barrel with no name, and a composite stock).
One of my bolt guns is an old Remington Model 700 with a factory bull barrel, chambered in .243. I dunno how much it was shot before I bought it, but the bore is shiny and as far as I can tell, the throat is still in good shape. I've been seriously thinking about getting it rechambered to .243 AI, which is what caused me to do the aforementioned search.
My other favorite bolt gun is a Fabrique Nationale commercial Mauser sporter chambered in .308. I bought it from a pawn shop, and once I got it home, I bedded the action and floated the barrel. Apart from those tweaks, I'm not doing anything else to that gun. The gun is so tight that I suspect the previous owner never shot it, or if he did, he shot it seldom. It's a solid sub-MOA shooter and, being that it's chambered in .308, is suitable for any North American game.
Back during the early to mid-90s I had an FFL and I did my share of buying and selling firearms. I got my FFL mostly because I was taking a correspondence gunsmithing course (this was before the Internet, folks), and I learned that any proper gunsmith is gonna have to have an FFL. So I got one. Later, I can recall running across an ad in Shotgun News for 1909 Argentine Mauser actions. I knew that, for many years, the Argentine '98 action was highly prized by custom builders, mostly because it has a hinged floor plate. So, I bought four of them, but in all the subsequent years, I've never done anything with them. More recently, though, I've been thinking seriously about getting off my duff and doing something with at least a couple of them. I've been wanting to build a custom rifle in 7x57 Mauser for a long time, so I've earmarked one of the actions for that caliber. But with all the recent interest in the Creedmoor calibers, I've pretty much decided that one of the other actions will be built on a Creedmoor design, but I haven't made my mind up whether to go for the original, the 6.5mm, or the newest upstart, the 6mm. But then there's also the relatively new Hornady 6.5 PRC and, in the .22 realm, the new 22 Nosler. But if I do anything with the latter, I'll most likely put together an upper for my AR-15 that will be chambered for it.
So as you can see, I have a few projects to work on. And I do go on, don't I? Sorry for the length of this post. I think I'll wind things up now.
I consider myself to be a pretty fair shot with long guns at a bench. I have a few favorite bolt guns that are sub-MOA, one of which is about 0.5 MOA (a .22-250 I bought probably 25 years ago, built from a military Mauser 98 action, a heavy barrel with no name, and a composite stock).
One of my bolt guns is an old Remington Model 700 with a factory bull barrel, chambered in .243. I dunno how much it was shot before I bought it, but the bore is shiny and as far as I can tell, the throat is still in good shape. I've been seriously thinking about getting it rechambered to .243 AI, which is what caused me to do the aforementioned search.
My other favorite bolt gun is a Fabrique Nationale commercial Mauser sporter chambered in .308. I bought it from a pawn shop, and once I got it home, I bedded the action and floated the barrel. Apart from those tweaks, I'm not doing anything else to that gun. The gun is so tight that I suspect the previous owner never shot it, or if he did, he shot it seldom. It's a solid sub-MOA shooter and, being that it's chambered in .308, is suitable for any North American game.
Back during the early to mid-90s I had an FFL and I did my share of buying and selling firearms. I got my FFL mostly because I was taking a correspondence gunsmithing course (this was before the Internet, folks), and I learned that any proper gunsmith is gonna have to have an FFL. So I got one. Later, I can recall running across an ad in Shotgun News for 1909 Argentine Mauser actions. I knew that, for many years, the Argentine '98 action was highly prized by custom builders, mostly because it has a hinged floor plate. So, I bought four of them, but in all the subsequent years, I've never done anything with them. More recently, though, I've been thinking seriously about getting off my duff and doing something with at least a couple of them. I've been wanting to build a custom rifle in 7x57 Mauser for a long time, so I've earmarked one of the actions for that caliber. But with all the recent interest in the Creedmoor calibers, I've pretty much decided that one of the other actions will be built on a Creedmoor design, but I haven't made my mind up whether to go for the original, the 6.5mm, or the newest upstart, the 6mm. But then there's also the relatively new Hornady 6.5 PRC and, in the .22 realm, the new 22 Nosler. But if I do anything with the latter, I'll most likely put together an upper for my AR-15 that will be chambered for it.
So as you can see, I have a few projects to work on. And I do go on, don't I? Sorry for the length of this post. I think I'll wind things up now.
