Need Help Making a Decision !!

build another one but making it even better using what you learnt doing the first one, if theres anything you wished you had done differently or better you can do it and keep that one.
 
Give the kid the rifle on the condition you can borrow it for the hunt. Rifles are meant to be used, and something that has that much thought put into it deserves to be out every season.
 
I guess for me, the 'question' has two main or possible points of focus. 1st, is it a question of you giving or passing on a specific item, that holds a lot of meaning to you? If so, acquire or make the that which has special meaning to you, and give it to him. 2nd, if it's giving him something he ideally wants, ask and find out what that 'want' is exactly and take the required steps to provide it. There may be a considerable difference between the two options, or, they may be close or the same. Dad is very experienced and knowledgeable so young son, with help and teaching from Dad, is probably considerably more knowledgeable than most of us here. As such, he's probably able to make a very good decission on his own.
 
Will he look after it as much as you would, if so, give it to him and borrow it back when you need to. If you don't have faith in how he looks after things, give him a rifle you won't worry about.
 
If it's taken this long to make the decision on this . I'm going to change my mind and now say to build him one. You have a great passion for building guns and it is hard for you to let one of your babies go. Which ever decision you make, I'm sure it will be the right one.
 
A lot here ask if he will take care of it..........I have a different philosophy about this. Once I give it to him, my attitude is that it is his to do with what he wants......no strings attached. If he chooses to take good care of it, great, but if he chooses to abuse and neglect it then so be it. He is an adult and it would be his rifle, after the change of ownership I would have no say in what he does. I firmly believe this is the correct way to do things, like a friend of mine says " Not my circus, not my monkeys"
Of course I would hope he would treat it with the respect due a $4K rifle, but he does hunt very hard and is hard on good equipment.

Nope Slimbo he's not on CGN.......2 young children and a business to run, NO time to play on computers.........He's also not a true gunnut like most of us.....he's an obsessed, possessed, very effective hunter, but really only luke warm about guns. Viewing them more as a tool to fulfill his ends. As much as I love hunting, I love guns just for themselves, for the quality of craftsmanship in the finer ones, and I have always been fascinated by internal and external ballistics. Not him, if he needs to know something about the ballistics of a cartridge, or the best powder for one........he just asks the "old man".

I have pretty much decided to give him the ultra lite 300 WSM, he will make good use of it and reap the benefits of a true sub 6 lb mountain rifle, many times over.........which is what I built it for, just too late in my life to take advantage of it.
 
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Ohhhhhhh Mr. Douglas, wuzz'int it you that admired owwies awn said shewter's as each
owch was or diggnified a partickyewlar memory?

Poor thing t'ain't gartzs ne'er a blemish awn'er.

If'n yew ain't hert'in, yew t'ain't werk'in?
 
Nope 'Looky, you have me confused with some one else..........If my wood stocked rifles get dinged, or the bluing scratched, I sit down and have a good cry.........I absolutely abhor getting marks on good wood stocks and blued steel, glass and synthetic on stainless not so much..........just a couple big crocodile tears and carry on. The glass/synthetic can easily be repaired and repainted to look like new so no big deal and the stainless can always be glass beaded to cover any sins..........but not good wood and high luster bluing, the marks are there forever to remind me of my faux pas..........It's for this reason that I have hunted for the last 35 years with glass stocked rifles, only exception is my working 375 and it is still in pristine shape after several hunts, many miles afoot and dozens of kills. I baby my rifles and protect them as though they were my first born infant son...........well that may be taking it a bit far, but you get my drift. In my opinion there is no reason to abuse a firearm regardless of how tough the hunt gets and I have been on some bad ones.........


HOWEVER...........There is another 700 Ti in the EE right now and I have Jerry @ Mystic Precision getting me a quote on a carbon wrapped barrel that should weigh about a pound less than the factory fluted barrel. Then another Brown Precision Kevlar 1 pound stock and some extra light aluminum PT&G goodies and VOILA..........a 5 lb all up c/w scope mountain rifle.........HHHMMMMMMMMMM...........for only about $5K......
 
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Nope 'Looky, you have me confused with some one else..........If my wood stocked rifles get dinged, or the bluing scratched, I sit down and have a good cry.........I absolutely abhor getting marks on good wood stocks and blued steel, glass and synthetic on stainless not so much..........just a couple big crocodile tears and carry on. The glass/synthetic can easily be repaired and repainted to look like new so no big deal and the stainless can always be glass beaded to cover any sins..........but not good wood and high luster bluing, the marks are there forever to remind me of my faux pas..........It's for this reason that I have hunted for the last 35 years with glass stocked rifles, only exception is my working 375 and it is still in pristine shape after several hunts, many miles afoot and dozens of kills. I baby my rifles and protect them as though they were my first born infant son...........well that may be taking it a bit far, but you get my drift. In my opinion there is no reason to abuse a firearm regardless of how tough the hunt gets and I have been on some bad ones.........


HOWEVER...........There is another 700 Ti in the EE right now and I have Jerry @ Mystic Precision getting me a quote on a carbon wrapped barrel that should weigh about a pound less than the factory fluted barrel. Then another Brown Precision Kevlar 1 pound stock and some extra light aluminum PT&G goodies and VOILA..........a 5 lb all up c/w scope mountain rifle.........HHHMMMMMMMMMM...........for only about $5K......
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Try a Wildcat and knock a big bit of the price out of that, plus it's Canadian, stiff as heck and only about 3 extra ounces.
 
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