Hunting/Hiking with a chassis based rifle?

I have changed factory stocks to composite stocks: MacMillan, Bell & Carlson, Wildcat Composites. But that's just to improve on the factory wood, to make them more durable for severe wet weather kinda deal.

Or like an el cheapo Remington varmitter .22-250, that came with a cheesy plastic stock.

I'm just a hunter.

Now that I know what a 'chassis rifle' is, I can leave this thread to the people that are into this thing!
 
Demonical said:
I have changed factory stocks to composite stocks: MacMillan, Bell & Carlson, Wildcat Composites. But that's just to improve on the factory wood, to make them more durable for severe wet weather kinda deal.

Or like an el cheapo Remington varmitter .22-250, that came with a cheesy plastic stock.

I'm just a hunter.

Now that I know what a 'chassis rifle' is, I can leave this thread to the people that are into this thing!
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I'm just a hunter also, took me awhile to warm up to the chassis style which is next evolution beyond the custom McMillan style stocks etc. Just think of things that way, evolutions. You can go all 19th century with an old lever action, you can go all 20th century with bolt actions in normal stocks...or you can just see this stuff as the 21st century evolutions, which are ongoing. Heavier target oriented stuff is what started all this but it's being recognized as good ways to do it it for hunting too just need to drop weight and maybe add some warmer materials for some of the hand hold spots than just aluminum.

The first time I moved on a called coyote with a lightweight chassis setup on a sitting height bipod and how fast and solid and comfortable it was and planted that 200 yard shot it was quite surprising to me how well it worked and felt. Hit the hair I was aiming at. Anyway, have more time afield than that now, we have about 4 big game animals now and batting 1000 so it's really growing on us now.
 
This one was almost unplanned, I bought a Ruger Laminate Compact in 7 08 for a Grandson, He was not too interested. So I stumbled on a used chassis on the EE, it came with the pistol grip and tube. I bought a few other pieces from MDT and True North, info from MDT was the chassis may need some modifications to fit but it dropped right in, the MDT magazines required a quick touch with a dremel other than that it was a drop in fit. Still needs a sling, I don't see this replacing my other more conventional rifles but I am going to try this out next deer season. I will be keeping the laminate stock as I have a Grand Daughter that may be a hunter some day.

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