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[ez bake]

Starting on the build for my oldest son.

This is basically what I got instead of an AICS for my rifle:
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Youngest son wants an AR, so that's next, but for now, this will be dubb'd the son of my long-range rifle (son of Sam perhaps?). My oldest son loved shooting my .308 and I honestly couldn't tell too much of a difference in recoil with a .308 over the .243, so I decided to forgo the Remmy .243 youth rifle and just start on a fresh build (and keep the ammo all the same as mine).

This belonged to a friend of mine who is a member here and I helped him build it up to where it is but he is working on his bad-ass fishing boat (lets all have a moment of silence for his fallen hobby)...

Once I get my bottom-metal in, I can mount her in that B/C stock.

Planning on just using the old factory barrel from my old SPS Varmint for now. I'll see if I can't raise the money to get a better blank for Baldwin before I take the whole thing up to him for fluting/chopping/threading/blueprinting, but I honestly want to see what the performance of a factory barrel is once the action is blueprinted and the chamber is re-cut - I think its going to out-shoot my boy for quite a while.

Probably going to have to steal that Timney trigger (got a good deal on it and its adjustable down to 1oz) and put it in mine and hand-me-down my old Timney to him (may do the same thing with that B&C stock - I like that cutout for the arm/beanbag that my HS doesn't have.

Here's mine again (for reference):

I'll post it in the long-range rifle pic thread when it looks better.

 

[Larry Morgan]

Looks to be a nice setup when you get it finished.

To be honest, I'd probably be inclined to go ahead a put a better barrel on it if you're going to have to change out barrels anyway. However, if you're strapped for cash or concerned about dumping alot into it (like you're afraid he'll lose interest after a few range sessions) then I bet it'd still shoot nice groups with that SPS barrel too.

Look forward to seeing the result!

 

[BigRed82]

Looking Good!

 

[Quick_Draw_McGraw]

Nice, your a good pop.

BTW what shooters mat is that in your last picture? Looks pretty cool.

 

[ez bake]

Looks to be a nice setup when you get it finished.

To be honest, I'd probably be inclined to go ahead a put a better barrel on it if you're going to have to change out barrels anyway. However, if you're strapped for cash or concerned about dumping alot into it (like you're afraid he'll lose interest after a few range sessions) then I bet it'd still shoot nice groups with that SPS barrel too.

Look forward to seeing the result!

Yeah - the more I think about it though the more I want him to put several thousand rounds through this thing and if he shoots the barrel out, then we'll upgrade him to something nicer and he'll get even better

Steve Baldwin told me that the biggest problem with my barrel was the chamber when he pulled it off my SPS. If he re-cuts that, I bet its almost as accurate as mine. We'll see soon enough I guess

Quick Draw - that's a Galati Gear shooters mat. There are about a dozen or so better than that particular range-bag/mat, but at the time I didn't know if I was going to be serious about this long-range stuff.

 

[mmchambers06]

I think you'll be fine w/ that varmint barrel, especially if the chamber is re-cut. There's no reason to let it go to waste!

How many rounds did you have through it before you had Steve pull it off?

 

[sumoj275]

I am up for adoption!

 

[Mr.357Sig]

Sweet rifle. What bipod are you using in the pictured gun?

 

[Josh-L]

Keep the factory sewer pipe for now dude. If sold my rifle I was just going to get a SPS Tactical and throw a B&C stock on it and have Steve chop/thread it and check the chamber.

 

[RedTape]

Looks nice! That would make a heck of a hunting set-up too.