If you take the barrelled action out of the stock and keep it below 1 metre in length you don’t get dinged the $25 oversized fee.
Compact Rifle Thread
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If you take the barrelled action out of the stock and keep it below 1 metre in length you don’t get dinged the $25 oversized fee.
I've been looking at options for a sub-40" rifle as a modern "truck gun", the current nominee for that duty is a Stevens 325-A which has remained un-scoped and will remain so.
I generally dislike the Accutrigger and whatever Ruger calls their variant, but both they and Savage have some neat stuff in that size. Generally, to hit my "perfect ten" it would need to be 20" in a short-action cartridge. For a .243 I would prefer Ruger or Remington for the faster twist barrel. 6mm/6.5mm Creedmoor both good. .260/7mm-08 also fine, but .308 Win probably about perfect. Stock-wise I probably could get away with regular LOP/recoil pad but a youth size would be nice as well, my boy likes to shoot but he's still pretty small, just over 5 foot and a buck twenty at 13.
A good old fashioned Remington m700 short action would be about perfect, 20" sporter barrel, .308 with AICS-compatible bottom metal and a Triggertech Primary. LPVO in a 0 MOA rail. Threaded is a bonus but I don't much care. The Vanguard Compact also crossed my mind, I have a regular Vanguard I'm fond of and taking 4 inches off the barrel and another inch off the stock plus it being a short action would get into the right size category, and Legacy has DBM kits for them as well.
Or, as stated, just chop down a T3x - ATRS would make quick and fine work of that and they could send it back with a rail and set of their rings, too.
I generally dislike the Accutrigger and whatever Ruger calls their variant, but both they and Savage have some neat stuff in that size. Generally, to hit my "perfect ten" it would need to be 20" in a short-action cartridge. For a .243 I would prefer Ruger or Remington for the faster twist barrel. 6mm/6.5mm Creedmoor both good. .260/7mm-08 also fine, but .308 Win probably about perfect. Stock-wise I probably could get away with regular LOP/recoil pad but a youth size would be nice as well, my boy likes to shoot but he's still pretty small, just over 5 foot and a buck twenty at 13.
A good old fashioned Remington m700 short action would be about perfect, 20" sporter barrel, .308 with AICS-compatible bottom metal and a Triggertech Primary. LPVO in a 0 MOA rail. Threaded is a bonus but I don't much care. The Vanguard Compact also crossed my mind, I have a regular Vanguard I'm fond of and taking 4 inches off the barrel and another inch off the stock plus it being a short action would get into the right size category, and Legacy has DBM kits for them as well.
Or, as stated, just chop down a T3x - ATRS would make quick and fine work of that and they could send it back with a rail and set of their rings, too.
So...new model 7s are out there still along with a good supply of used ones. Have a few irons in the fire on these. I'd like the hs Precision version though
Almost pulled the pin on an xpr but raised my budget. I have a few ss 700 actions and a 7mm08 ss takeoff bbl but I'd like to go 16" so may buy a reamer and blank....too many choices. Have to check my reamers as I've sold off some but should have 338 federal 308 243 and 260. Missing the 7-08
Almost pulled the pin on an xpr but raised my budget. I have a few ss 700 actions and a 7mm08 ss takeoff bbl but I'd like to go 16" so may buy a reamer and blank....too many choices. Have to check my reamers as I've sold off some but should have 338 federal 308 243 and 260. Missing the 7-08
I have a pair of Ruger M77 Mark II Frontier rifles in 7-08 & .358... these come with 16.5" barrels. I dropped the pair into factory original Laminate stocks with the "big boy" LOP... the short stocks did not work for me at 6'4". The 7-08 almost never gets out as it gets bypassed by my 7X57 and 7X64 when push comes to shove. On the other hand, the .358 is in the field regularly and often.
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Either that or the Ruger American Hunter. Both would be less than $1000.
Pulled the trigger on a model 7 6.5 cm ss hs Precision AND a model 7 7-08 ss synthetic. Also reached out to ibi to see if they can cut a long prechamber on a shouldered 16 inch sporter for a rem 700. Did some reading on wildcat stocks and may go that route.
Found about 1/2 dozen new ones. Searching by product code brought up retailers I'd never have checked or even known of for that matter. All from Quebec. They are dwindling though. I'm pretty stoked about grabbing a ss hs precision model
Have a couple of the 700 SPS in 16.5" heavy barrel, put them both in magpul stocks, the Hogue stocks are kind of light but crappy for balance and don't do anything for accuracy.
They are not heavy guns, but not lightweight type either. They both shoot really well and nice with aics mags.
They are not heavy guns, but not lightweight type either. They both shoot really well and nice with aics mags.
Sweet, hopefully it's trouble free, as there is no warranty
