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Posted: 12/22/2018 12:05:29 AM EDT
I am new to bolt action guns - haven't ever owned one. I don't have several G's to drop on nice rifle and was wondering if these guns be built a piece/part at time? I would like to start with the action. Save a bit and get a barrel then stock etc. Might start with a complete gun but I'd rather piece a gun together based on what I want and what I'm willing to spend.
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Yes you can. There are several actions that you can buy. Sorry do not recall what they are although there are the short think .556 and long thing 30-06 actions. Had a guy on here telling me about them yet that has been several months ago thus why I don't recall the manufactures of the actions.
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There are a lot of nice, relatively inexpensive bolt guns out there (RPR, Tikka, Howa, Bergara, etc.); the glass is the expensive part.
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"I'll tell you what war is about, you've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting." GEN Curtis LeMay
"Someday this war's gonna end..." LTC William Kilgore |
Yes, you can take a factory action such as a Remington 700 and send it to a gunsmith and have them square up the action assembly, then chamber and thread up a barrel and set the head space on its..then you can drop it into your stock/chassis of choice with your trigger of choice..
You can also buy certain types that you can thread a pre chambered barrel to and set your headspace yourself(savage), but you need to know what you are doing or you could blow up a rifle.. You can also buy several custom actions in many different configurations..more money, but they don't need to be squared up like a production action does... I bought this rifle new in 1999 when the cartridge was first released by Remington, I rebuilt it last year by sending the action assembly to Bartlein Barrels and having them square the action assembly before chambering/threading and fluting their barrel for it...Once back in my hands I installed a trigger tech trigger and dropped it into a MPA chassis...Spent roughly 2500 bucks for the complete rifle rebuild minus the bipod and scope... Attached File |
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Everytime I see your rifle I'm reminded that I have an unused 700 (short) action sitting around...that needs to turn into something like a 6mm CM.
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"I'll tell you what war is about, you've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting." GEN Curtis LeMay
"Someday this war's gonna end..." LTC William Kilgore |
Originally Posted By KILLERB6:
Everytime I see your rifle I'm reminded that I have an unused 700 (short) action sitting around...that needs to turn into something like a 6mm CM. View Quote |
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Is there any place that sells just the un-barreled (or barreled) standard manufacture actions - Tikka, Bergara, Savage, Remington etc? That would be my starting point. Of the non custom - and just from an unexperienced perspective my preference is Tikka and Bergara followed by Savage. As popular as the Remington 700 is - seems like they take more work that others to get set up.
At this point - and would love to hear opinions on this....my caliber selection would bee 7mm Rem mag. It does not seem to be a popular choice as I just dont see many of the long range type set ups with this caliber in the options. |
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Originally Posted By INFIDEL-X:
Is there any place that sells just the un-barreled (or barreled) standard manufacture actions?... View Quote |
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PTG has ready to go Remington actions, ready to screw a barrel on......worth a look at least...Howa also sells a barreled action, I think Brownell's or Midway sells them...
http://pacifictoolandgauge.com/834-actions-barreled-actions |
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Originally Posted By Reorx:
Brownells for one... View Quote |
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Originally Posted By AKSnowRider:
PTG has ready to go Remington actions, ready to screw a barrel on......worth a look at least...Howa also sells a barreled action, I think Brownell's or Midway sells them... http://pacifictoolandgauge.com/834-actions-barreled-actions View Quote |
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You can do custom action such as the defiant, stiller, big horn, surgeon, Kelby's, or mausingfield... View Quote |
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Stuff I learned from A-Team: 1)Always pity da fool 2)Carry wire cutters (you may need to defuse a bomb or start a car) 3)Never trust a crazy fool 4)Carry grenade launcher/machine guns in the van 5)Know how to weld 6)Love It When A Plan Comes Together
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Brownells has sales on the Howa 1500 barreled actions several times a year. Kind of ironic that you can spend more on a stock or chassis than the barreled action itself.
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You can buy any action that let's you throw on a savage prefit and go to town. I did this with an ARC nucleus and it turned out really well. Prefits are the way to go.
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Originally Posted By Jason280:
Coming from someone who has paid to have rifles built on FN and Remington actions, this is what I would do. Granted, I am not familiar with the Tikka or Bergara actions, but you will spend the same amount of money (if not more) to get a Remington 700 action right. Its more money upfront, but you know you will be right from the start. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Jason280:
You can do custom action such as the defiant, stiller, big horn, surgeon, Kelby's, or mausingfield... This also means you can order spares ahead of time. |
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Originally Posted By tomcatfan:
You can buy any action that let's you throw on a savage prefit and go to town. I did this with an ARC nucleus and it turned out really well. Prefits are the way to go. View Quote While you pay more than a regular old r700 action, your potential for accuracy will be much higher. You can get better features like controlled round feed, better extraction or ejection, built in rail, swappable bolt heads, etc. and the savage small shank means you can order barrels when you want, and swap them at home with just some head space gauges, barrel nut wrench, and action wrench. Wanna take your gun from a 24” 6.5 cm to a 16” .308 for closer range hunting? Easy to do at home. It’s not as clean as a quick change barred rifle like the DTA or AI, but it doesn’t cost the same as them either. You’ll be able to buy the rifle piece by piece when you can and assemble at home. |
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I built my precision rifle off of a Savage long action with a magnum bolt face. Bought the donor action on gunbroker for $400, it was a recently produced savage rifle in 7 mm rem mag. Got an MDT chassis as my next purchase, followed by a custom barrel for $300, put it all together with a decent scope, and I have a .5 moa 7mm rem mag. I had to buy a barrel vise, and wrench, plus head space gauges to put it together. Later, I bought an off the shelf .300 win mag barrel, it's not nearly as accurate as the barrel I had made in 7mm Rem Mag, more like 1.25 moa. You can do this on your own, for sure.
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