Heavy Barrel - .308 Win

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Howard

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Which manufacturers, if any, make a heavy barreled .308?
I'd like to start with a quality rig, then have my gunsmith upgrade it (bedding, trigger, etc.) for some serious longer range shooting.
 
Howard, If your going to have your gunsmith work the gun over, I'd say the Rem 700 is the way to go... If you want a out of the box shooter, go with the savage 12fv in 308 with the accutrigger...

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Jay
 
The Rem 700 is very popular lots of goodies to upgrade to.

Tikka M55 - a discontinued rifle but very well made (Finland), complete with adjustable trigger, dovetail receiver, very stiff action due to offset single stack clip feed. Lapped factory barrel, one piece bolt........... You can usually find them for very reasonable prices..

Joe
 
Remington 700Police , Savage LE2B, Winchester Stealth ALL good choices ALL have strong and weak points ALL can shoot VERY well. The Remington has a trigger that will need to be helped and bedding will further improve accuracy, it comes with an aluminum bedding block is a HS or B&C stock, both are 1st class, lots of aftermarket goodies available. The Savage LE2B comes in a McMillan stock and has the Accutrigger system, will perform better if bedded, trigger either you love or hate, some aftermarket goodies are available. Both of these are fiberglass stocks and are very ridgid. The Winchester Stealth has a great trigger that is easy to set up, needs bedding for sure, stock is either love it or hate it, but is a plastic composite of some sort, some aftermarket goodies are available.
Pricewise The 700 and the LE2B are about the same around $1000.00 for the 700 and $1100 for the LE2B the Stealth I think is less, but not being a Winchester dealer can not say for certain :mrgreen:
 
Go to this site and take a look they will give you what you want, I have got many guns from them over the years and they where always very very good. They are Rem Dealers but also make there own actions, top notch stuff, you can just get barrel and action, or they will chamber and barrel almost any type of action, and have someone else stock and bed it there Barrels are famous world wide. www.rwhart.com good luck
 
Savage 12FV w/ accutrigger. have your gunsmith bed the action and free float that barrel NOW. I would look for 1/8" clearance around the barrel.

Work up loads with fireformed and collet neck sized Win brass. Use Fed 210M or CCI BR2 primers. Varget for a powder. Any 155gr to 175gr match bullet. I prefer the 155gr AMax. Others really like the 155gr Lapua. Then there is the 175gr MK crowd. Any will work superbly out to 1km.

You now have a LR rig...

Jerry
 
Go to this site and take a look they will give you what you want, I have got many guns from them over the years and they where always very very good. They are Rem Dealers but also make there own actions, top notch stuff, you can just get barrel and action, or they will chamber and barrel almost any type of action, and have someone else stock and bed it there Barrels are famous world wide. www.rwhart.com good luck
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This is a US based shop, have you any clue of just how much hassle it is to get a rifle into Canada????? AND is there some reason only US based gunshops can make an accurate rifle???? To bring a rifle into Canada nearly doubles the US cost
by the time the US exporter and freight gets through with it, AND there are many EXTREMELY competent gun makers north of the 49th who can meet and usually exceed the work done south of it, AND the bonus is, if there is a problem it will be dealt with in country ,as word of a problem in the country you are doing business in will spread, try dealing with a foreign maker and see what hassles you get. :mrgreen:
 
alberta tactical rifle said:
Remington 700Police , Savage LE2B, Winchester Stealth ALL good choices ALL have strong and weak points ALL can shoot VERY well. The Remington has a trigger that will need to be helped and bedding will further improve accuracy, it comes with an aluminum bedding block is a HS or B&C stock, both are 1st class, lots of aftermarket goodies available. The Savage LE2B comes in a McMillan stock and has the Accutrigger system, will perform better if bedded, trigger either you love or hate, some aftermarket goodies are available. Both of these are fiberglass stocks and are very ridgid. The Winchester Stealth has a great trigger that is easy to set up, needs bedding for sure, stock is either love it or hate it, but is a plastic composite of some sort, some aftermarket goodies are available.
Pricewise The 700 and the LE2B are about the same around $1000.00 for the 700 and $1100 for the LE2B the Stealth I think is less, but not being a Winchester dealer can not say for certain :mrgreen:
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Stealth stock is HS precision. You might be thinking of the OEM Savage plastic stock, I think it's a ramline or some other cheap crap.
 
Stealth stock is HS precision.
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I am not doubting you, but are you sure. I use a lot of HS stocks and do not remember seeing or feeling 1 like this before. The 1 and only Stealth I have worked on had some type of black and grey tupperware on it, but may have been bubba'ed before I got to work on it, Typically the Winchesters do shoot well I tweak lots of M70s for guys and they are easy to make shoot well. The OEM Savage tupperware stocks truly are CRAP you are right there for sure. :mrgreen:
 
I have to agree with Alberta Tactical Rifle on this one, although the Stealth came with a McMillan stock when it was first introduced, that changed to the HS a year later and now, according to the Winchester rep I spoke to last month, they are having the stocks made by another company for the Stealth II, as it is now called, by another firm, it looks almost exactly like and HS with the exception of the "hunting style" checkering on the grip. If you want something of really good quality, we have rifle builders in Canada that can build rifle just as good, if not better then all the "big name" builders in the US. Give Rick at Alberta Tactical Rifle a call, his work and service are second to none, as many on CGN will attest to, he is not that bad of a guy to deal with either. :wink:
 
alberta tactical rifle said:
Stealth stock is HS precision.
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I am not doubting you, but are you sure. I use a lot of HS stocks and do not remember seeing or feeling 1 like this before. The 1 and only Stealth I have worked on had some type of black and grey tupperware on it, but may have been bubba'ed before I got to work on it, Typically the Winchesters do shoot well I tweak lots of M70s for guys and they are easy to make shoot well. The OEM Savage tupperware stocks truly are CRAP you are right there for sure. :mrgreen:
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I have the Stealth and it has a solid black HS stock with no checkering (checkering looks ### on the II model), bought it 2 years ago or so. I don't know about the StealthII though, haven't handled one of those.......just seen pics.
 
Hitzy,

Yah, I have to agree, that checkering looks very stupid, nothing "Stealthy" about it at all. I had one of the original Stealths, it had a McMillan A2, but the Winchester rep I spoke to, told me they only put that on for the one year, and then switched to HS, nothing wrong with HS, I have one on my 700P custom, I love it, nice and chunky.
 
Steve David said:
Hitzy,

Yah, I have to agree, that checkering looks very stupid, nothing "Stealthy" about it at all. I had one of the original Stealths, it had a McMillan A2, but the Winchester rep I spoke to, told me they only put that on for the one year, and then switched to HS, nothing wrong with HS, I have one on my 700P custom, I love it, nice and chunky.
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Actually that's the only reason I went with the Winchester over the Remington.....I didn't like the big old palm swell on the PSS. The HS is tough enough for what I do with it.....baby it from the safe to the range..... :oops:
 
It must have been a Stealth II, as what I had to work on was DEFINITELY NOT, McMillan, and I don't ever remember HS putting checkering and a plastic like texture on a stock but was a couple of years back, and memory is not what it used to be. The HS stocks I have found to be very durable, but most I get I refinish with urethane coating after a paint job. :mrgreen:
 
I Have talked to winchester and B&C about my stealth 2 and I was told by both companies that B&C is the current manufacture. I was very impressed with the stocks fit and finish,plus i just plop the action back in the stock and start shooting and my point of impact is with in 3/8ths. B&C are going to put a rail in my forend
this winter for varminting....But I'm still getting a Crazy robertson made fore it too...oh ya the checking does look ###
 
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