I would highly recommend reaching out to Harley Greene (Insite Arms) on Facebook if you can. He is very responsive and personable on this platform.
Who’s still builds quality custom precision rifles ?
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Yup! Shane / Steve at Em Precision makes great rifles. EM Precision also gives back to the sport that we all care so much about. They sponsor a lot of matches out there.
The personal smith I use and would recommend is Badlands Precision. Shawn is more of an underdog in the industry but he chambers some absolute hammers! Proof is in the pudding…
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I have heard less than complimentary reports about them…a guy at work had one of their rifles with several issues and customer service was less than stellar. This was about 4 years ago though…maybe things have improved?
Hit up insite for sure, I've used 5 different smith's in ab for this kinda build and insite is at the top of the list. Harley is a good dude and puts out quality work with good communication. Haven't used ks arms but a few buddies of mine have nothing but good stuff to say about them. Check out pr precision too while you're at it...
Dennis Lair with Go Balliatic Gunsmithing is not in Southern Alberta. He is near Star City, Saskatchewan. He does excellent work and is a competitive shooter as well.
I had him recently build me my first full custom build this year. It’s a 6mm BR on a KS 2 lug action. Shoots amazing.
I had him recently build me my first full custom build this year. It’s a 6mm BR on a KS 2 lug action. Shoots amazing.
You’re correct and I will adjust my first post. Made that first one to quickly and screwed up a bunch of great smith locations. XD
Thank you for providing the proper information.
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If you don't mind the shipping it to Manitoba, Larry Brice is building match winning rifles for many on the Canadian Fclass team.
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If you go with a quick change setup Terminus Zeus you dont even need the torque wrench (hand tighten only with 2 allen bolts to hold in place). I really like my Zeus.
I also have an Impact that came from Insite (barrel too) and it is the most accurate gun I own.
If I were building another I would look KS Arms for sure.
Ken at Accuracy Development Solutions is top notch. Located near Aylmer.
If you are even a with a little bit of aptitude you can put together your own at home! If you want to anyways.
Most of the top actions now a days are all prefit capable, and most manufacturers sell prefit barrels for these actions.
I went this route with a 6.5 CM a few years back. Had a rem 700 short action chassis already, bought a barrel when I ran across one on sale, then 4 months later bought the action that I had the barrel spun up for. Yea with a barrel nut, but they really don't take away anything from the ability of the rifle to perform.
In fact I set my own headspace a tad tighter so I did not have to pre-shoot my new brass to fit the chamber. Just used the new brass with a loaded dummy to set the headspace. Yes I still checked with a no go gauge and all was good. Was able to load up with new brass and had problems with it and didn't have to worry about shooting it all in my chamber before hand.
Once you have the action, barrel, slap it in the chassis, and slap on your scope of choice and go to the range.
I even scribed my barrel nut and barrel to the action so when I wanted to remove the barrel for deep cleaning I could put things back to how I had them and had very little re zeroing of the scope after wards.
Really not as hard as it seems as the smith sets the barrel up already to the action. I truly am surprised that not many are using this route yet.
You pay about $500-$600 extra for a smith to spin up a barrel for the action if you go the smith route, and that works out to a bit of consumables for shooting with. Plus most smith's prefer you buy the action and barrel from them, or they charge a crazy extra fee, if they even choose to go that route, as some won't even entertain that for you. Lets you buy the parts as you can if you have to save up over a few months.
Most of the top actions now a days are all prefit capable, and most manufacturers sell prefit barrels for these actions.
I went this route with a 6.5 CM a few years back. Had a rem 700 short action chassis already, bought a barrel when I ran across one on sale, then 4 months later bought the action that I had the barrel spun up for. Yea with a barrel nut, but they really don't take away anything from the ability of the rifle to perform.
In fact I set my own headspace a tad tighter so I did not have to pre-shoot my new brass to fit the chamber. Just used the new brass with a loaded dummy to set the headspace. Yes I still checked with a no go gauge and all was good. Was able to load up with new brass and had problems with it and didn't have to worry about shooting it all in my chamber before hand.
Once you have the action, barrel, slap it in the chassis, and slap on your scope of choice and go to the range.
I even scribed my barrel nut and barrel to the action so when I wanted to remove the barrel for deep cleaning I could put things back to how I had them and had very little re zeroing of the scope after wards.
Really not as hard as it seems as the smith sets the barrel up already to the action. I truly am surprised that not many are using this route yet.
You pay about $500-$600 extra for a smith to spin up a barrel for the action if you go the smith route, and that works out to a bit of consumables for shooting with. Plus most smith's prefer you buy the action and barrel from them, or they charge a crazy extra fee, if they even choose to go that route, as some won't even entertain that for you. Lets you buy the parts as you can if you have to save up over a few months.
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Shoot me a PM with the details. I'm curious to hear about this.
