the word "custom"
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This is one of those "custom underwater guns". Snorkel for the win.
I never really considered true match rifles to be "custom" or "customized", but "modified " if anything was done to them other than how they came from the factory or Smith.
I only have one hunting rifle I consider a custom built rifle , and the only thing left factory is the receiver itself.The wood was special ordered, trigger, springs, cocking lever were all either changed or modified
The barrel has three leaf express sights and the quarter rib machined right into it , the barrel itself is half round/ half octagon
Cat
I only have one hunting rifle I consider a custom built rifle , and the only thing left factory is the receiver itself.The wood was special ordered, trigger, springs, cocking lever were all either changed or modified
The barrel has three leaf express sights and the quarter rib machined right into it , the barrel itself is half round/ half octagon
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Custom. Professionally done to a customers unique requirement. Could be bodywork, a set of goalie pads, guitar, a suit, etc.
Take goalie pads. You can go to Lefebvre in Montreal, and they will make a set unique to you including size, flex, straps, etc. They come with the customers name embroidered on them. Thats custom. Going to Sportchek, buying off the shelf pads and sewing a new strap on is not custom. It's just modified.
Custom stuff doesn't necessarily mean more valuable. Want a Pontiac Sunfire stretched into a limo? Great, and a custom fabricator can build it for you for $$$. But good luck trying to sell it.
Take goalie pads. You can go to Lefebvre in Montreal, and they will make a set unique to you including size, flex, straps, etc. They come with the customers name embroidered on them. Thats custom. Going to Sportchek, buying off the shelf pads and sewing a new strap on is not custom. It's just modified.
Custom stuff doesn't necessarily mean more valuable. Want a Pontiac Sunfire stretched into a limo? Great, and a custom fabricator can build it for you for $$$. But good luck trying to sell it.
But if you buy a set of goalie pads and change the buckles they are not really "custom" are they?
Cat
I had a set of pro custom warrior pads made for me a few years ago. I asked them not embroider my name in them because I'm not a pro and it would be easier to sell them afterwards (my name would add no value to the pads). Not having my name on them didn't mean they weren't custom made though... Someone could also have a shop embroider their name on their off the shelf pads and it wouldn't make them custom either though...
And here is a question, if someone is good enough to build and assemble their own rifle (prs rifles for example), as in, the Smith does the chambering and install of a custom made barrel into a custom action for you, but you install it in a chassis and install and adjust your own trigger in there, does it then make it a non custom anymore?
And here is a question, if someone is good enough to build and assemble their own rifle (prs rifles for example), as in, the Smith does the chambering and install of a custom made barrel into a custom action for you, but you install it in a chassis and install and adjust your own trigger in there, does it then make it a non custom anymore?
There would be Nothing factory about that rifle , it would be a custom job I would imagine.
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I think any rifle that was built as a one off, and not mass produced to a specific design on a factory assembly line is a "custom" rifle. Remington for example, has/had a custom shop that built unique or very small run rifle builds. Not sure if Remington is still in business? Springfield Armory also has a custom shop that does unique mods and builds to customer specifications.
Seeing as whatever mfgr you deal with will have a basic action they use, and barrels are available in various configurations, the custom part, to me, is customizing the gun for the person ordering it, by way of what type of stock, what grade of wood or style of forearm or buttstock on it, sight options. The K gun SxS I bought, was a basic action style for non-DG cartridges, I changed the style of stock from the Euro hogsback to the Big 5 DG gun style, which requires a wood upgrade, added a custom length of pull, added a Recknagel swing mount for the scope, asked for a specially made 3 leaf iron sight, but, didn't get, had to settle for single leaf rear sight, as it won't work with the swing mount, and had it regulated for a 180gr load in the 30RBlaser. All of that has to be built into and for that gun, can't easily change that afterwards. Then there are things like engraving and case hardening.
A customized gun is a purchased one like my Rem 700 BDL, that I sent out for teflon coating, changed to stock to a McMillan Fibregrain and eventually put in a Triggertech.
There was nothing truly custom about my Rem 700 from the Custom Shop, it was just a production gun that I bought off the shelf, and never changed anything on. It was a catalogued gun, but only supplied from the Custom shop, not regular production. Same idea, as a I think, it is a Howa or a Bergara, where you get the same action and barrel, with the option of 3 different stocks in the catalogue, a Hogue, an HS precision or the mfgr's PRS/Tactical stock.
To my way of thinking, an AR that a "gunsmith" changes a bunch of bolt on parts on, from various mfgrs, is a customized gun, not a real custom mfgr ordered gun..
Taking a 1943 K98 and building it into a sporter by way of bending the bolt handle, modding/refinishing the action and magazine mods, barrel change, sight additions and stock change, be it a bolt-on wood or syn stock, or a hand-built wood stock, is a custom gun.
A customized gun is a purchased one like my Rem 700 BDL, that I sent out for teflon coating, changed to stock to a McMillan Fibregrain and eventually put in a Triggertech.
There was nothing truly custom about my Rem 700 from the Custom Shop, it was just a production gun that I bought off the shelf, and never changed anything on. It was a catalogued gun, but only supplied from the Custom shop, not regular production. Same idea, as a I think, it is a Howa or a Bergara, where you get the same action and barrel, with the option of 3 different stocks in the catalogue, a Hogue, an HS precision or the mfgr's PRS/Tactical stock.
To my way of thinking, an AR that a "gunsmith" changes a bunch of bolt on parts on, from various mfgrs, is a customized gun, not a real custom mfgr ordered gun..
Taking a 1943 K98 and building it into a sporter by way of bending the bolt handle, modding/refinishing the action and magazine mods, barrel change, sight additions and stock change, be it a bolt-on wood or syn stock, or a hand-built wood stock, is a custom gun.
