Am I the only guy who has started a build and then not had time for awhile and eventually just lost interest in a build without even firing the thing??
I have an older Blued 700 Sendero in a Bell and Carlson A5, with a 30" pacnor 6.5RUM barrel, spec'd slow for 100-130 grn pills, 1:12" and I have never fired it. It needs to be headspaced since prefits can be tempermental in a normal 700 and needs to have a badger knob installed. That's it. It's been 2 years getting it here, the brass is sized, the dies are here, I have 2 boxs of 100 grn Nosler BT's, 2 boxs of 120 grn BT's and about 500 130 grn Accubonds just sitting there and no time to play. Oh yeah, got a keg of WC 860 and WC 868 too, this thing should sizzle, but no time and frankly, not really into it.
Took too long and now, just seems to be a monument of a long frusterating wait to get the stock into country rfom when the state dept was being real and then the first barrel didn't make QC at Pacnor and became scrap and now I have just been working 16 hrs a day.
The stuff's has been here for like 6 months and still not headspaced, still unfired. I really need to pull my Mark 4 of the EE and just start playing. The barrel will likely not need all the bullets I have to burn out anyway, but I am just not really into it. Not sure what the heck is up, but I sold off a pile of guns and stuff to pay off a CC, and now and just feeling something like consumer guilt, thinking: "dam, that was an expensive build". Between custom reamer, hs guages, dies, barrel and stock, it is alot to just sit there.
Kinda disgusted with myself for turning into such a fudd. Bought a 7 rem off the EE to replace my 270 wby and 338 LM because I can get shells at Cambodian tire and it is adequate for lots of things, geez.
Not really sure what to think of this, I used to dispise popular calibers because they were boring, now it's like, whatever works and is easy to get shells for. I still have a few nice irons, but am still sorta looking at them and wondering if I need all of them and I'm down to 5 centerfire including this 6.5 rum, from a dozen. Maybe its working to much and not enough time with my kids, couldn't say for sure, but it is strange. Its almost as if the fun was planning it and putting it all togather and now thats done, so its boring.
I would like to see how fast it would go, but it just seems like alot of time and more bs to get it finsihed and finally see exactly how fast it will go.
I have an older Blued 700 Sendero in a Bell and Carlson A5, with a 30" pacnor 6.5RUM barrel, spec'd slow for 100-130 grn pills, 1:12" and I have never fired it. It needs to be headspaced since prefits can be tempermental in a normal 700 and needs to have a badger knob installed. That's it. It's been 2 years getting it here, the brass is sized, the dies are here, I have 2 boxs of 100 grn Nosler BT's, 2 boxs of 120 grn BT's and about 500 130 grn Accubonds just sitting there and no time to play. Oh yeah, got a keg of WC 860 and WC 868 too, this thing should sizzle, but no time and frankly, not really into it.
Took too long and now, just seems to be a monument of a long frusterating wait to get the stock into country rfom when the state dept was being real and then the first barrel didn't make QC at Pacnor and became scrap and now I have just been working 16 hrs a day.
The stuff's has been here for like 6 months and still not headspaced, still unfired. I really need to pull my Mark 4 of the EE and just start playing. The barrel will likely not need all the bullets I have to burn out anyway, but I am just not really into it. Not sure what the heck is up, but I sold off a pile of guns and stuff to pay off a CC, and now and just feeling something like consumer guilt, thinking: "dam, that was an expensive build". Between custom reamer, hs guages, dies, barrel and stock, it is alot to just sit there.
Kinda disgusted with myself for turning into such a fudd. Bought a 7 rem off the EE to replace my 270 wby and 338 LM because I can get shells at Cambodian tire and it is adequate for lots of things, geez.
Not really sure what to think of this, I used to dispise popular calibers because they were boring, now it's like, whatever works and is easy to get shells for. I still have a few nice irons, but am still sorta looking at them and wondering if I need all of them and I'm down to 5 centerfire including this 6.5 rum, from a dozen. Maybe its working to much and not enough time with my kids, couldn't say for sure, but it is strange. Its almost as if the fun was planning it and putting it all togather and now thats done, so its boring.
I would like to see how fast it would go, but it just seems like alot of time and more bs to get it finsihed and finally see exactly how fast it will go.
