I'm in a bit of a pickle here. I keep driving everyone crazy over the precision rifle forum, asking 200 newby questions. I have this itch to have a "sniper rifle". When really all I want is a MOA or sub MOA rifle that looks cool and has a bad ass scope. That's what I want realistically. I love my black rifles, and I love my XCR. In the precision world you have the long range accuracy which gets me excited. But the guns look so damn ugly. Like no offence to those who like them but that typical TRG or MAcmillan stock look that a lot of them have to me looks brutal. The only ones I like are the guys who go ahead and use black rifle styling on the rifles, like the Barret 98, and some stock designs like Tac 21, Cadex etc.
Now here is my problem. I honestly would drop the big bucks on a Barret 98 in a heart beat. I mean it, to me its a dream rifle and $5000 well spent. But it only comes in 338 lapua. Living in Ontario that's retarded. I will never find a place to shoot 1000 yards and I don't want a afternoon of shooting to cost me $200 in ammo. All the cool out of box like barret and AI come in 50 BMG and 338 Lapua, both IMO are psychotic for casual shooting. I like to shoot a lot and like to go often to blow off some steam. I'll shoot the guns worth in ammo in no time at that rate. So I have ruled those out.
So what does everyone else do over there? They buy a Remington 700 or a Savage 12 and buy fancy stocks etc. Now every normally priced stock I don't like, everyone that reminds me of the Barret or my XCR are like $2000+ for a stock only????Not quite sure how just a stock can cost the same as my entire XCR. I would sooner take a black rifle which already has the look and feel I love so much, and upgrade it to get the long range accuracy I want.
So I guess my question is, is there a black rifle out there that can do it? give me MOA or sub at long range (300-400 yards). OR is there upgrades that we can make to a XCR, Swiss? etc? barrels?
I have two illnesses that are plaguing me and keeping me thumbing through gun magazines. I am trying to make one rifle cure both illnesses.
P.S Also let me mention I have rifles that shoot MOA, but there hunting rifles, wood stocks etc. They just don't cut it for me though.
Now here is my problem. I honestly would drop the big bucks on a Barret 98 in a heart beat. I mean it, to me its a dream rifle and $5000 well spent. But it only comes in 338 lapua. Living in Ontario that's retarded. I will never find a place to shoot 1000 yards and I don't want a afternoon of shooting to cost me $200 in ammo. All the cool out of box like barret and AI come in 50 BMG and 338 Lapua, both IMO are psychotic for casual shooting. I like to shoot a lot and like to go often to blow off some steam. I'll shoot the guns worth in ammo in no time at that rate. So I have ruled those out.
So what does everyone else do over there? They buy a Remington 700 or a Savage 12 and buy fancy stocks etc. Now every normally priced stock I don't like, everyone that reminds me of the Barret or my XCR are like $2000+ for a stock only????Not quite sure how just a stock can cost the same as my entire XCR. I would sooner take a black rifle which already has the look and feel I love so much, and upgrade it to get the long range accuracy I want.
So I guess my question is, is there a black rifle out there that can do it? give me MOA or sub at long range (300-400 yards). OR is there upgrades that we can make to a XCR, Swiss? etc? barrels?
I have two illnesses that are plaguing me and keeping me thumbing through gun magazines. I am trying to make one rifle cure both illnesses.
P.S Also let me mention I have rifles that shoot MOA, but there hunting rifles, wood stocks etc. They just don't cut it for me though.
