What are my options for a LH 338 Lapua?
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Rick should be able to set you up for all of the above depending on your budget.
I'm debating between Leupold and NF for the scope, but will definitely be turning to Rick for the remainder of my needs haha. I was kinda looking at the Leupold Mark 4 8.5-25... but we'll see I guess, either way its gonna be a 1800 + expense
What else did you expect? Only the solid gold bullets and titanium cases are accurate.
Oh yeah, and if you don't #### money, you can't be a part of the club...lol.
Haha... well i definitely don't "s**t money" but appear to have no problems dropping significant amounts into my hobby and what I love doing
There is no way I can blame you for that. I went to a gun show with $1100 in my pocket and came home oweing my step brother $300.
Before you get too far into it, start pricing out all the stuff you want to do to the Remington and then price out a left hand custom. I think you may be surprised at how close the costs can be. I had the same plan as you until I started looking into it closer and actually put the Remington in my hands.
I wanted to do the following to the Remington to make it fit me and my wants better:
1. Needs a longer barrel to make use of all the powder this round burns.
2. Blue printing action should be done if changing the barrel.
3. New stock. Factory does not fit in my hands at all.
4. New trigger. Has to be light and crisp to avoid pulling.
5. New muzzle brake. Factory one is not conducive to prone shooting.
So after making all these changes I was so close to have a full custom rifle that all I was really missing was the left handed action. In my mind, being that close, it was ridiculous not to go all the way.
Now I'm not saying you have to do what I did, I'm just trying to point out the things that I found while I was at the same point as you are now. No matter what you decide I'm sure you'll have alot of fun with it!
I wanted to do the following to the Remington to make it fit me and my wants better:
1. Needs a longer barrel to make use of all the powder this round burns.
2. Blue printing action should be done if changing the barrel.
3. New stock. Factory does not fit in my hands at all.
4. New trigger. Has to be light and crisp to avoid pulling.
5. New muzzle brake. Factory one is not conducive to prone shooting.
So after making all these changes I was so close to have a full custom rifle that all I was really missing was the left handed action. In my mind, being that close, it was ridiculous not to go all the way.
Now I'm not saying you have to do what I did, I'm just trying to point out the things that I found while I was at the same point as you are now. No matter what you decide I'm sure you'll have alot of fun with it!
I will hopefully be able to build a complete custom rifle one day... but definitely not until I am done school, and get back on my feet from the financial a** reaming a university degree causes haha. The Remington will give me a rifle in hand to play with, and something to tweak and modify along the way
Remington = Fun now without the "requirement" of dropping LARGE lump sum right now
Remington = Fun now without the "requirement" of dropping LARGE lump sum right now
I run a Sightron on my Savage BA 110 338 Lapua and love it so far, DMAY in the cold never shooting the gun before did some 1/2 MOA 200 Yards groups with it
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We stuck 1 on a 50 and it had no problems, so 338 will NOT be an issue.
