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.
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.