dream rifle for under $6000 before tax

so i decided that i was going to build a dream rifle for under a given price ($6000 USD). this was the rifle i came up with!
11/111 Long Range Hunter (.338 lapua) 1290.00
32" stainless steel bull barrel 464.99
15-55X52 night force competition color silver $2,331.00
Boyds FEATHERWEIGHT THUMBHOLE ROYAL LAMINATE (FINISHED) $144
Harris bipod 6"-9" "s" series 106.50
butler creek flip up scope cover 7.49
52mm rifle scope sunshade 10
TITAN-SS titanium silencer 1195
fishnet bolt fluting new bolt 85.00
limb saver grind to fit large butt pad 41.99
total price before tax: 5675.97
total after tax: 6220.86024 (9.6% sales tax)
i was wondering if i missed anything tax wise or anything.
pls say what your dream rifle for under $6000 would be.

$750 Savage lightweight Creedmore w/20" barrel
$250 Custom engraved stock
$5000 hooker

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Originally Posted by Mach2

$750 Savage lightweight Creedmore w/20" barrel
$250 Custom engraved stock
$5000 hooker

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Sounds good to me.

Sent from my MB886

$750 Savage lightweight Creedmore w/20" barrel
$250 Custom engraved stock
$5000 hooker

OR 5 $1000 ones.

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Originally Posted by mattri

$750 Savage lightweight Creedmore w/20" barrel
$250 Custom engraved stock
$5000 hooker

OR 5 $1000 ones.

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MO' IS BETTAH! LOL

Well, I guess I'll play. Simple minds: I'd like a Savage Target Model in .260. I'd like it topped with a VORTEX FFP Mill-Mil. 6-24x50, with sunshade. Put that in a Cohate Stock. Harris BiPod 13-25" swivel model. AND components to load 2000 rounds of ammo. for it. I'm too tired and lazy this AM (worked all night) to look up models and prices, I'm guessing I'm under $6K.

I'll even travel up to 100 miles one way to get it!

Brian

The best bang for the buck, that even if you spent more than this, would be hard pressed to beat it.

It goes like this in round numbers.

Target action $600.00
Custom barrel $400.00
Stock $300.00
Rail & Rings $200.00
Sightron 10x50x60 $1000.00

Total $2500.00

I would take two of these for 5 grand

Dean

Yeah....you bot the factory rifle then trashed the stock & barrel when you could have just bot a Savage action & built from there. Then you plowed $$$$$ into glass that IMHO, is overkill. A good VX-3 with a 25X Max will do ya fine.

Dave.

I had one of those Sightrons 10x50x60 for about 10 days use, "a very good friend" and I tried it on 6 of my different rigs, from my smallest 223AI to my 338 Edge and everything in between, and I can't believe how it reduced the size of my groupings, It's like looking though the Hubble telescope, I am sold anyways.

Dean

Savage 110 action: $300
Match barrel-24" Varmint contour: $400
Manners T-4 with DBM bottom metal: $975
TPS Steel rings and base: $150
US OPtics or Hensholdt scope: $3,000

$1,100: More Lapua brass and Berger bullets than you can shake a stick at.

Personally I would fore go that Boyd's laminate stock for something along the lines of a B&C Medalist Tactical. The .338 Lapua is a very stout round and generates a lot of recoil. I'm not saying that the Boyd's cannot handle it but I would rather have that beast sitting in something that had an integrated full length aluminum bedding block. It should be more rigid under recoil and eliminate the need to pillar bed. It should provide better shot to shot consistency.

Target action left bolt right port or a dual port 338 edge

$600

Whidden tactical stock

$600

Vortex viper ffp scope

$1200

Vortex rings

$100

Egw heavy duty base

$100

MC gowen barrel

$400

Glades bolt handles

$60

$3060

I'll take one in the 338 edge, one in 22-250 and probably 260

The 22-250 and 260 would be DBM repeaters.

Or....find a RUM action and get a .338 Edge barrel. More performance and cheaper to build.

18 or 20 inch LaRue OBR in .308, topped with the Vortex Razor.

If I had $6,000 to blow on a rifle, you can rest assured it wouldn't be a Savage.

$6000!!??!?!?!?!!?

Ok.
$1000 for a fully loaded Savage.
$5000 for a weekend at Key West.

A long weekend.

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Originally Posted by Jamie

Or....find a RUM action and get a .338 Edge barrel. More performance and cheaper to build.

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A regular centerfeed action is a better choice for an Edge. Especially if you add an Accurate-mag DBM.

For 6k, I'd probably get something from Kirby Allen or Shawn Carlock. Maybe a LRKM topped with a Sightron 10-50.

Like this Left Hand beauty.


http://www.defensiveedge.net/media/j...rt-840x391.jpg

I would put $1300- in a 110 fcp-hs. If it needs a rebarrel then you can factor that in later. Mine shoots incredibly well. That takes care of the stock also because it is already in an H-S Precision stock. Good glass $1000- to $1500-. Decent suppressor like a YHM Phantom SS/QD 338 $851- Good rings $150- it comes with a rail. $3500- to $4000-. Then you are free to spend the other $2000- on reloading components, you will need it. .338 Lapua is not cheap to shoot. Factory ammo is astronomically expensive and reloading for it, if you factor in the cost of brass it is about $1.32 per round for me to reload it.

If it doesn't have to be a Savage, I'll do a Bighorn action built by Beanland, or a Tango51 by TacOps.

For a Savage, I'm kind of doing what I want right now, but a T&T'd .260 in a T4A or a light weight .257 Roberts in one of Manners' EH series both have a lot going for them.

All of those will leave plenty of cash for optics, and each one will ask for different glass.

http://www.predatorcustomshop.com/ht...apuamagnum.htm

http://www.lesbaer.com/boltaction.html

http://www.vandykerifles.com/m24.htm

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http://www.predatorcustomshop.com/ht...apuamagnum.htm

http://www.lesbaer.com/boltaction.html

http://www.vandykerifles.com/m24.htm

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Kinda looks like somebody's wish list....

110 Action....300-350
338 edge barrel 30".....400
McMillan A3 or A5......720
Farrel base and rings.......300
NF NXS 5.5-22x50 ZS......2000
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4120 total.

Enough left for dies, brass, bullets, primers and powder.

I can't see building a dream rifle off a savage platform period. there are so many actions that are where you need them to be....without all ofthe work. Now a workhorse get dirty and beat up rifle. Savage all the way.

The term lipstick on a pig comes to mind.LOL

Spanky

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lipstick on a pig

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Reminds me of the girls I met in New York

i didnt want to post a non savage rifle on here.

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Originally Posted by lotusboyrulz

i didnt want to post a non savage rifle on here.

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You were well indoctrinated my son.LOL

Spanky

fwg_in_fla ! .... yea buddy ! ... See You at "Teasers" ! :-) ... FW Conch

Hospitaller 6mm creedmoor. or Crusader 6mm creedmoor 3/8 MOA Guaranteed

"15-55X52 night force "

if you building a long range rig, this is a crap scope....

the adjustment sucks, and anything over 25x is going to have such a bad heat merage, you wont be able to see anything...

i shoot to a mile with a 260 with a 20x no problem...

this was my 5k savage
http://i.minus.com/jrbTh9Wd0yNbn.jpg

sold it last week...


built a rem-age

http://i.minus.com/jIPY1WSMi1xFG.jpg

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Originally Posted by Ring

this was my 5k savage
http://i.minus.com/jrbTh9Wd0yNbn.jpg

sold it last week...


built a rem-age

http://i.minus.com/jIPY1WSMi1xFG.jpg

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Just curious why the switch?

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Originally Posted by missed

Just curious why the switch?

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I have built 6 coustom savages now, for me and friends..
This one was top notch...

shillen match barrel
all nitrided
SAV1 trigger
PTG fluted bolt
TacOps bolt handel
Mcrees DBM stock /10rd mags
ERGO grip
accushot mono pod
Weaver TAC 20 moa base
American Defense 20 MOA QD mount "40moa total"
Vortex Razor 6.5x20 ebr3
YHM QD Brake
YHM Ti-Phantom QD suppressor
38spl bolt lift mod
Action Job By Sharp Shooters Supply

The savage was just as good as a shooter as my 700 I built, so I didn't need 2 I identical guns..

That said, the rem action was more reliable .. Ejection has always been hit or miss on all the savages I've owned...
That and if the trigger isn't set Just right you can get slam fires...

One less thing I need to worry about on the 700..

I got the 700 action for 150$... So I was a no brainer to build.

When savage actions were 250 to 225 build it made sense to build one to save $$$$ but with the 200 actions drying up its making less sense.. U can get a Walmart 700 for 400 and do the Remage barrel to save on gunsmithing like the savage and be in the same price ballpark

Or you can just buy your dream rifle from the factory and adjust the trigger. When I bought it new I was into this one if memory serves correctly for around $450 I had to order it through a dealer.
This one had all the bells and whistles when I bought it new. It's a 116FLCSAK in 30-06 left handed,stainless and synthetic with a fluted barrel, adjustable brake, detachable box mag, 3 screw trigger. Top it off with a Leupold scope rings and bases and except for load development you're done. I load neck sized Winchester brass with 57gr of IMR 4350, a CCI BR2 primer and a 165gr Sierra Game King hollow point boat tail touching the lands. This has given me a 10 shot group of .446 pretty much if I can see it I can hit it with this rig.

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...psf5138a4e.jpg