Palmetto barrel vs factory stag .308win what's the deal?

If it is a PSA barrel, it will say Polmetto on it. I have one of the builder kits from IRG, and the barrel is marked. There is nothing wrong with that barrel, except that the retailer did not tell you the truth about the gun.
 
Not sure if this is important to you or not, but I asked Stag if I keep the lifetime warranty if I swap the barrel and they said no.
I presume the kit guns don't have a manufacturers warranty. That being said, sounds like you got exactly what you need.
QD mounts aside, you got a lighter rifle, likely with equal or better accuracy than stock Stag 10. Since the finishing on the handguard isn't that great,
you won't mind leaning it up on a tree or trekking through the brush with it.

In short, I got the opposite issue...
Great shooting stock Stag, that is heavy and unbalanced for shooting and carrying.
It's so purdy, I bring the old 308 bolt gun for the rough terrain hunting.

If warranty is important, I would bring it back.
But before you do that, I suggest holding a stock Stag and going for a 10 minute walk around the store.

If Stag made the lighter front ends on a special edition, I'd be out another 3k.
 
Big JD-From the hills said:
Sounds like it has a brownells bolt, you should post some pics of what you have.

Buying a new rifle and going hunting with it the next morning is a bit of a disaster waiting to happen.... anyone else kinda get a weird vibe after reading that?
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lol.

I paid for a custom barrel to be made for one of these a month ago. It was my starting point. I was going to piece the rifle together with exactly the parts I wanted, but I made a spontaneous decision to just pick up a compete rifle and swap parts later. I'd have brought along one of my backup rifles in case this one gave me issues. I never go on a trip with just one rifle so no imminent disaster and no reason for a weird vibe. Lol.
 
walks with loud stick said:
lol.

I paid for a custom barrel to be made for one of these a month ago. It was my starting point. I was going to piece the rifle together with exactly the parts I wanted, but I made a spontaneous decision to just pick up a compete rifle and swap parts later. I'd have brought along one of my backup rifles in case this one gave me issues. I never go on a trip with just one rifle so no imminent disaster and no reason for a weird vibe. Lol.
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What custom barrel did you order?
Are you selling the shotgun( lol) barrel that’s on it now?
 
commandac said:
Not sure if this is important to you or not, but I asked Stag if I keep the lifetime warranty if I swap the barrel and they said no.
I presume the kit guns don't have a manufacturers warranty. That being said, sounds like you got exactly what you need.
QD mounts aside, you got a lighter rifle, likely with equal or better accuracy than stock Stag 10. Since the finishing on the handguard isn't that great,
you won't mind leaning it up on a tree or trekking through the brush with it.

In short, I got the opposite issue...
Great shooting stock Stag, that is heavy and unbalanced for shooting and carrying.
It's so purdy, I bring the old 308 bolt gun for the rough terrain hunting.

If warranty is important, I would bring it back.
But before you do that, I suggest holding a stock Stag and going for a 10 minute walk around the store.

If Stag made the lighter front ends on a special edition, I'd be out another 3k.
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I'm not too concerned about a lifetime warranty. Little of the original rifle will be retained. But I do intend to swap back and fourth from 375 to 308 so I don't want a poor 308 barrel to start with.

I don't care about the finish on it. It's going to get beat up regardless. Most would be sickened at the appearance of my guns. I don't buy anything to look at.

As for weight, I do want light. There is definitely light weight carbon fibre components in its future. It's already a lot lighter than some of the rifles I hump around and tied with my xcr, which is my main carry. My stag is right at about 10lbs with scope best I can measure. My 300win mag is 16lbs, my xcr with atn xsight and auxiliary battery is about 15lbs.
 
SSG69 said:
If it is a PSA barrel, it will say Polmetto on it. I have one of the builder kits from IRG, and the barrel is marked. There is nothing wrong with that barrel, except that the retailer did not tell you the truth about the gun.
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I can't see any markings other than the calibre. I see faxon has markings up near the shank. I'll pull the handguard off tonight and see if there's anything I can't see with it on.
 
Brianma65 said:
I just recently sold a stag 10, CFW barrel,.308 just under 8 lbs.

I’m starting on another now.
.308
How much are the Jury.
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I'm not exactly sure what the barrel price is all said and done. I paid $1000 so far for barrel and reloading die set which includes expander die.

Iirc the barrel blank was $500, threading the muzzle, reciever end, profiling and chambering is $350 which includes setting headspace.

I'm not exactly sure what we are waiting on before an exact total can be calculated.

As of last week the blank had still not been received. I'm probably going to add some fluting and ofcourse send my bolt to them for head spacing.... provided it's a decent bolt!
 
Barrel update... I pulled the handguard. I can see enough to know it is in fact a faxon barrel.

I gather this decent enough to satisfy me.

I still wish I knew what bolt though.

I'm aware the MP stands for magnetic particle inspection.
Is there any way to identify it though? Any give always other than it looks like a palmetto?

Edit... buffer tube is for sure palmetto.
 
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How do you buy a rifle then take it hunting the next morning?

You just going to bore-sight it and hope for the best?
How do you know if it's even going to feed the ammo you've chosen?

And how the heck did your XCR end up at 15 pounds? My ACR is only just over 10 pounds with a 3-9 scope and it's a heavier rifle than a quad rail XCR. Hell, my Modern Hunter is only 11.4 pounds with a 3-16x42 scope and a chunky Burris PEPR. That ATN sight must be heavy or is the aux battery a 700CCA car battery? :p
 
scourge18a said:
For groundhogs, not a hunt.
To each their own I guess.
Maybe I'm just used to the prairies and longer shots...
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I’ve never hunted groundhogs, I just thought that OP , using a .308 , would be hunting bigger game, than groundhogs.

A .308 sighed in at an 1 1/2 at 100 yards only has about a 7 inch drop at 300 yards.
Pretty easy to work with that on larger game.
 
Oh man. Yea, I was just gonna pop a scope on it and shoot at an animal. Where's the face palm emoji?

Maybe, juuuuust maybe I was planning to sight in in the morning, run a few rounds through the chrono and use my ballistic app to create my dope chart.

And if it didn't feed the ammunition I brought, I'd take one of my many other rifles on the hunt, as I always bring a back up. This is not my only rifle.


defiantly way left field thinking.....
 
cr5 said:
How do you buy a rifle then take it hunting the next morning?

You just going to bore-sight it and hope for the best?
How do you know if it's even going to feed the ammo you've chosen?

And how the heck did your XCR end up at 15 pounds? My ACR is only just over 10 pounds with a 3-9 scope and it's a heavier rifle than a quad rail XCR. Hell, my Modern Hunter is only 11.4 pounds with a 3-16x42 scope and a chunky Burris PEPR. That ATN sight must be heavy or is the aux battery a 700CCA car battery? :p
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Have you seen or felt these x-sights? The scope is 2.5lbs, plus the battery pack 1.5 lbs, plus the rail riser, plus internal batteries, plus a full mag, plus the sling, plus the laser/light, plus their batteries.

I'm not sure what the rifle weighs bare. It does not have the pencil barrel.
 
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