Just for fun, build me a custom rifle.
- Thread starter pharaoh2
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BigUglyMan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- New Scotland
What size bolt face?
I'll be checking back in a few minutes.
I'll be checking back in a few minutes.
gunrunner8
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Kamloops, B.C.
Get the longer magazine to use long action more effciently. 35 Whelen is never a mistake.
BigUglyMan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- New Scotland
Well, that sucks. You say it's a long-action but with short-action guts (mag box/follower etc)?
If you don't mind getting new guts I'd swap for long-action internals and go with a 280 AI with a 26" tube. Set it up with a heavier barrel the way Sako used to (magnum contour for the 30-06 family) and finish it with a good synthetic (hunting) stock. Cerakote the works and away you go.
If you're stuck on a short action case, build it into a 308 with a 24" heavy barrel and a McMillan M40 stock. This is what our ERT Snipers use and they do a damned fine job.
Either of those grab you?
If you don't mind getting new guts I'd swap for long-action internals and go with a 280 AI with a 26" tube. Set it up with a heavier barrel the way Sako used to (magnum contour for the 30-06 family) and finish it with a good synthetic (hunting) stock. Cerakote the works and away you go.
If you're stuck on a short action case, build it into a 308 with a 24" heavy barrel and a McMillan M40 stock. This is what our ERT Snipers use and they do a damned fine job.
Either of those grab you?
This one is in the dreaming/parts collecting stage and would work with your action too-
-Tweaked LH M70 Classic w/ Williams extractor (just have the factory bang switch worked down to 3 poundsish, the old M70 trigger can't be beat on a hunting rig IMO)
-22" 30-06 chambered SS Featherweight contour (Pacnor?)
-Brown Compact McMillan Edge w/ blind mag
-VX3 2.5-8 in Talley LW lows
Should be around 7 pounds ready to hunt...
-Tweaked LH M70 Classic w/ Williams extractor (just have the factory bang switch worked down to 3 poundsish, the old M70 trigger can't be beat on a hunting rig IMO)
-22" 30-06 chambered SS Featherweight contour (Pacnor?)
-Brown Compact McMillan Edge w/ blind mag
-VX3 2.5-8 in Talley LW lows
Should be around 7 pounds ready to hunt...
Short action would be .284win, .338Fed, or .358win. .284 would get a 24" stainless barrel, the other two would be 22". McMillan M70 Featherweight.
Long action would be the same barrel, stock, but in .280 or .338-06...
Long action would be the same barrel, stock, but in .280 or .338-06...
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- Location
- marmora ontario
Jeez!! Start with a mauser 98 action and forget push feed!! JITC
Um, why?
shortaction
CGN Regular
- Location
- Manitoulin Island, Ontario
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It's funny. I've owned push feed and controlled feed rifles of many flavours: Mauser, Winchester, Remington, Ruger, Tikka and probably several others I cannot remember. I have never had a cartridge fail to chamber or eject. I've never had a bolt action rifle bind or jam. I've cycled a 700 upside down just to see if I could. I will never understand where this whole argument over PF vs CF comes from. I swear the majority of people arguing one type over the other has never tried anything else. CF and PF, both good in my books. 
It's funny. I've owned push feed and controlled feed rifles of many flavours: Mauser, Winchester, Remington, Ruger, Tikka and probably several others I cannot remember. I have never had a cartridge fail to chamber or eject. I've never had a bolt action rifle bind or jam. I've cycled a 700 upside down just to see if I could. I will never understand where this whole argument over PF vs CF comes from. I swear the majority of people arguing one type over the other has never tried anything else. CF and PF, both good in my books.
I agree I just wonder why Winchester went back to controlled feed again
