Budget Precision Hunting Rifle Build

[Go_Go_Kapow]

Well this project has been a long time coming. Finally after a couple years of hauling my Remington Sendero around from mountain to mountain during sheep season. Though almost every rifle manufacturer makes a great lightweight accurate hunting platform they also want an arm and a leg for it!
About a month ago I purchased a Remington 700 SPS in 300 Win Mag on sale for 499.00 at Cabelas. Though I would rather support local dealers this sale fit nicely into my "budget" criteria.
After reading some good reviews on Vortex optics I picked up a Viper HS 4-16x44 here in Edmonton at the Nature Valley Corner Store for $509.00. The clarity is great and I love the fine cross hair.
There are some great rings and bases our on the market today but I have never seen anything as strong and well build as the Alpha Hunter from NEAR Manufacturing. In the past I have cheaped out on mounts and suffered accuracy from it, not this time. The Alpha Hunter is a one piece CNC machined titanium alloy mount weighing in at 100 grams.
I was playing around with the idea of ordering a Bell and Carlson stock from rifle-accuracy.com but to stay true to my low budget theme decided to paint, re-pillar, and re-bed the SPS stock.
I hope to pick up my custom made aluminum pillars tonight and start the bedding process, its great to have a brother as a machinist!
This is my stock before I started the painting process.

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And all taped up.

Fresh coat of paint.

Dry enough to put back together! I like it already.

Much more to come!

 

[Kermodie]

Looks good, can't beat the price either. What paint did you use?
I would recommend that you open up the barrel channel a lot. I had over 1/16" clearance all around on my SPS before I swapped it for a BC. Bedding it with Devcon will help a lot too.

 

[ryanshaw44]

That paint looks great! Good job

 

[Mudduck]

Amazing job on the stock!

 

[Rode]

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[Go_Go_Kapow]

What paint did you use?

My original goal was to do a base coat in matte black then finish it with grey Krylon Webbing but I could not find it anywhere so I used another product from Krylon called "Make It Stone". For the first two days it was still pretty soft but is starting to harden up now. I still might put a clear coat over it if I feel it should be stronger.

NEAR quality is top shelf, infact I haven't seen anything better.

I totally agree, once a person desires quality and strives for perfection they will have a hard time passing up NEAR products.

 

[Go_Go_Kapow]

I got the pillars back from my brother last night and installed them in my stock, that Devcon stuff sets up crazy hard!
Next step, glass bed the action which might be tonight's project.
Although a bit beefy they installed nicely and are solid as a rock.

 

[Hungry]

Wonderful work. Most helpful description, too. I would love to see/hear/observe and then learn how the Devcon works with the factory SPS plastic stocks.

Cheers,
Barney