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Long Range Rifle Shooting on a budget ...
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NEMTHunter
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Leatherwood/Hi-lux The scope has good reviews to.
DartonJager
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What do you guys think of a chassis rifle like the Gen1 Ruger Precision Rifle as a person's 1st choice in a long range target rifle?
If you shop around they can be had at a hair under $1k.
Granted there a cheaper rifles nut after you start adding upgrades like new stocks you get close to $1k pretty quickly.
If you shop around they can be had at a hair under $1k.
Granted there a cheaper rifles nut after you start adding upgrades like new stocks you get close to $1k pretty quickly.
It's a good rifle. Not one I'd want to carry around hunting for any length of time. Good range rifle. I am partial to the Savages with the newer (2018+) Accustocks, which you can adjust cheek weld and LOP, plus it's aluminum bedded, and substantial, but not overly heavy. The Predator and Tactical 110's are great.
As mentioned 1000x, I vote put more into the optic than rifle to start with, as long as the rifle line is known to have a good rep for sub-MOA accuracy. I would rather have so-so glass with perfecting turret tracking than the opposite *on a long range precision rifle*. Not necessarily on a point blank zero, set it and forget it, under 300 yd rifle.
in my very novice world and experience...
I am doing this on school teacher(me) and LPN Nurse (wife) and a small child. so I think i would be in the world of budget build.
I first bought a rifle at a pawn shop, I and my father loves browsing threw them looking for a diamond in the ruff so to speak. my rifle is a 300 weatherby Mark V delux (wood stock) cost was $875 with Leupold Rings/Mounts. I have since set to a gun smith for a muzzle break, new trigger, and cerakote ($400) I have then purchased a Leupold VX5HD 3-15x56mm with 30mm tube (75moa adjustment, which should give me aprox 35-32 up adjustment). scope cost $1300 after taxes
so atm I have
Phase 1 (doing Now)
Gun: $875
Gunsmith work: $400
Scope: $1300
Running Total 1: $2575 atm invested
Phase 2 work: (doing this summer)
Aluminum Pillar/glass bed action:$250-300(guessing) I know the pillars will be 150 installed.
Running Total 2:$2825-$2875
Phase 3 (by next year this time or summer)
Hart Barrel: $510(for the one i want)
GunSmith work to barrel: $150
True Up action: ? not 100% sure atm of cost
Running Total 3: $3435-$3485
this will put me at $3435-$3485 investment and doesn't include
-Action Turing
-bi-pod
-stock work that i will be doing myself (striping, Refinishing)
None of this is what I would Call High End, and I figure I will be easy over $4k but this is how I am doing it to space out cost so its not all up front. As soon as i get it back and scope on it I will post some pics LOL, so i will have some before and after shots of the stock.
SO IMO this is a budget of getting into this sport/hobby, now with all this being said, I will mostly be hunting with this rig and doing some LR comps that are locally, just some ole pumpkin pullers.
I am doing this on school teacher(me) and LPN Nurse (wife) and a small child. so I think i would be in the world of budget build.
I first bought a rifle at a pawn shop, I and my father loves browsing threw them looking for a diamond in the ruff so to speak. my rifle is a 300 weatherby Mark V delux (wood stock) cost was $875 with Leupold Rings/Mounts. I have since set to a gun smith for a muzzle break, new trigger, and cerakote ($400) I have then purchased a Leupold VX5HD 3-15x56mm with 30mm tube (75moa adjustment, which should give me aprox 35-32 up adjustment). scope cost $1300 after taxes
so atm I have
Phase 1 (doing Now)
Gun: $875
Gunsmith work: $400
Scope: $1300
Running Total 1: $2575 atm invested
Phase 2 work: (doing this summer)
Aluminum Pillar/glass bed action:$250-300(guessing) I know the pillars will be 150 installed.
Running Total 2:$2825-$2875
Phase 3 (by next year this time or summer)
Hart Barrel: $510(for the one i want)
GunSmith work to barrel: $150
True Up action: ? not 100% sure atm of cost
Running Total 3: $3435-$3485
this will put me at $3435-$3485 investment and doesn't include
-Action Turing
-bi-pod
-stock work that i will be doing myself (striping, Refinishing)
None of this is what I would Call High End, and I figure I will be easy over $4k but this is how I am doing it to space out cost so its not all up front. As soon as i get it back and scope on it I will post some pics LOL, so i will have some before and after shots of the stock.
SO IMO this is a budget of getting into this sport/hobby, now with all this being said, I will mostly be hunting with this rig and doing some LR comps that are locally, just some ole pumpkin pullers.
DartonJager
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Not trying to be a SA or disrespectful to any measurable degree when I say if I were in your situation which I am more or less and I had a rifle and optics budget $4-$4.5k may I ask why you didn't consider one of the many fine used custom or semi-custom rifles rifles offered for sale here?
I have more than once passed on some great deals (dies, brass, bullets and load data included no less) on equally great semi-custom rifles for sale here in common OTS calibers hat would keep a persons ammunition costs be they factory or reloads to a mimimum.
I would never begrudge or critisize how any man chooses to spend their hard earned cash, but just wondering if my thought process is in need of enlightenment
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One can get into this sport WAY cheaper than that. There are plenty of new factory rifles (Savage, Ruger, Tika) that are under $800 and will allow folks to shoot out past 1000 without a custom barrel. And although I am a fan of not cheaping out on glass, there are lots of good scopes in the $600-1000 range, like the Vortex PST line, that will track well and get someone in the game.
I am a lefty....I wanted a left handed bolt, and just so happen found that one and by doing it this way i do not have to drop 4k+ at once, it can be spaced out over say 12-18 months. I also will be keeping the rifle in a 300 roy to keep the weatherby round with the action, i at times am a traditionalist, lol, and I can find the ammunition very easy here in north west LA, east central Miss areas if i had to, i will be shooting Hammer Copper bullets and reloading my ammunition. The main reason i will be getting a custom barrel is the twist, my rifle is a 1:10 and I want a 1:9 for the long for cal bullets I plan on shooting.
If I had the cash to spend in hand, and found a LH bolt rifle in the caliber I wanted, then yes, i would be all in, thought I had once but was not the cal i wanted and thinking it was like $4k for rifle only and no optics, I also would have bought a scope from the classified but I had already purchased mine when one similar popped up for $900-$950. I have told my father about several on here that he would be interested in, he is a righty, and my son(2.5yrs old, LOL never to early) i will probably by one of the used semi or fully custom when that time comes because i believe he will be a righty, the first deer i ever harvested was with an old remington m700 in a 25-06, this will be my sons first rifle but as he grows i expect i will be purchasing one of the semi/full custom rigs.
And I for one believe there are many ways to skin a cat...and yes I want ppl to question me in the appropriate way(which you did very much so, ty) this way ppl may ask the questions i haven't even thought of or the questions i didn't want to ask because the "i want and don't want to see the negative of my decision" lol
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I agree that the optics is not where you want to cut corners, I also agree, you can get in this for much less but for what I was looking to build this is where I am at, and I am a fan of rems or sako(one of my favs) but I am living out kinda a long held fantasy/dream of mine and just so happen it was a weatherby mark v that i found and I am a huge fan of the 300 roy. I also believe that if you don't build what you want then you will spend a lot more money in the longer run and still may not have what you want if you had just spent a lil more(if you can) and got what you wanted and this is what i have done in my mind.....now i understand its a long dark rabbit hole with frustration and joy..but its part of the sport/hobby that i enjoy.
reasons i picked up the rifle is due to the fact that its what I found and its a left handed rifle and its a round that I like and will hunt/shoot with through out the process
reason for the scope is because i have always shot leupolds and they have always performed well, now i have always shot a vx3 3.5-1x50 or 4.5-14x50, so i am in my mind steeping up a lil from that.
300 Weatherby is a good hunting round, but so is the 300 WM. I would consider rechambering to 300 WM for the Hart barrel. Think you will get better barrel life and brass would be cheaper as well making it more economical to shoot.
Don A Parsons
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I have a fair chunk of change into my F Class rig,,, it will see another up-grade in a few years when my shooting hobbies change.
My frugal SPS will get a new after market stock and a trigger swap from one rifle to this unit,,, I have the options of choosing 1 of the many optics since I own a draw full of them,,, most likely a 3x9 since they allow me to shoot further than my needs.
I could buy a all in pricey rifle if I wanted to,,, but I'd rather build what I need & want at a frugal price.
This works for me since my good friend builds what I need at a fair cost,,, if this wasn't the case,,, then I'd go the other route.
My Remmy LR came in at $900 all in 5 years ago,,, its seen a few up grades that put it closer to the $1600,,, it will need a new pipe next year since I like to shoot alot,,, there's no costs to good times in my books.
I don't drink or puff,,, so those lost funds go towards a hobby and sport that I benefit from.
The healthy part of life that keeps me active,,, the mental part of critter acquisition,,, the skills to pull it off,,, and a freezer full of food to share with others as we all reap the rewards.
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What's in your wallet.
My frugal SPS will get a new after market stock and a trigger swap from one rifle to this unit,,, I have the options of choosing 1 of the many optics since I own a draw full of them,,, most likely a 3x9 since they allow me to shoot further than my needs.
I could buy a all in pricey rifle if I wanted to,,, but I'd rather build what I need & want at a frugal price.
This works for me since my good friend builds what I need at a fair cost,,, if this wasn't the case,,, then I'd go the other route.
My Remmy LR came in at $900 all in 5 years ago,,, its seen a few up grades that put it closer to the $1600,,, it will need a new pipe next year since I like to shoot alot,,, there's no costs to good times in my books.
I don't drink or puff,,, so those lost funds go towards a hobby and sport that I benefit from.
The healthy part of life that keeps me active,,, the mental part of critter acquisition,,, the skills to pull it off,,, and a freezer full of food to share with others as we all reap the rewards.
Paid in full / no changes applied. LOL
What's in your wallet.
