Reply With QuoteGonna get a sako extractor milled into the bolt while you are at it? I know you had a failure with the rem style. Can't wait to see it all put together.
i picked up a coax that only loaded 200 308 for $220 bucks plus I don't think Wilson makes a 6mm creedmoor die plus I don't use the Wilson/arbor much...mostly to take out when doing load development.Originally Posted by rbp75503
from OTM tactical...southern precision has them as well.
Gonna get a sako extractor milled into the bolt while you are at it? I know you had a failure with the rem style. Can't wait to see it all put together.
no...everyone ive talked to seems to think thats a bad idea and that the extractor may have been bad to start with...ill run it as is for awhile and see how it goes.
Accuracy One always has Bartlein barrels in stock. John Hoover is a heck of a nice guy too.
Longrange-6 creed will serve you well. Most guys I know run the 105 hybrids around 3000-3050 even though you can go faster. Almost made the switch this year but I had so many 140s and an extra Hawk Hill blank in 6.5 sitting around so I couldn't justify it. Will probably do a 6 creed or 6x47. Depends on how many firings I have on my creed brass at the time which will probably be close to 10x. Or maybe a 6 Dasher.
To the original topic....I calculated I spent around $3500-4000 last year shooting PRS and similar local/regional matches. Travel from PA to WV 3x, TN and CO as well as probably 7 other local matches within 3 hours adds up quick.
With the prizes I won I actually made money but that was only because I won a $4k rifle at the one match. Luck of the draw on the rifle, sure didn't win any big matches lol but I usually cover my entry fee. It's not cheap. Labor of love I guess. This year I took a step back and am doing about half due to work and lack of practice time. Hope to get back into it next year again.
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it's not the destination, it's the journey. LOL
Lolol
very happy with the 6CM...and im pretty sure ive spent that much and then some this year and have only traveled 40mins to local matches LOL!!
Generally we're kidding ourselves if we expect to get our money back - a lucky few might.
I'm a recent convert to FTR shooting and the costs aren't unreasonable compared to other sports (such as motorcycle racing) that I used to be involved in. Motorcycle circuit racers spend hundreds on tyres for a single weekend. Makes target shooting seem inexpensive.
I'm just assembling a second specialist 308 rifle for FTR identical to the first (same action, stock, barrel, scope). This confuses my dear wife as she isn't sure what she's looking at. She only recently realised that there are rifles in the gun safe, not just one rifle.
I had to total up the cost of rifles and reloading equipment for insurance purposes. The final total amazed and scared me too.
In the past 2 weeks, I've depleted my "mad" money by the amount of close to 2K just in reloading components. From powders to primers to pills. I should be good to go for a while, least that's what them crazy voices in my head say, who knows...............
Life is tuff.....its even tuffer when your stupid
{John Wayne}
I have a coworker who likes to fish tournaments. A $50k boat, $10k to out fit it, God only knows how much fuel. He does good to make a grand in prizes (not in money) but its what he likes to. He said its cheaper than golf and I said it's cheaper than cars.
Yep, I am not shooting competition, may never do it.
6 years ago I got to experience a ruptured disk, that took a whole lot of things off the table and no more than 25 lbs lifting for the rest of my life (or I pay for it via going into a wheel chair and that would be the end for me)
So its my recreation now. I won't claim to be good at it but I enjoy it. No cheap, but if I got a ribbon I would be tickled.
Well my brother gulfs and bought a new vet. hmmmm
Pretty much the same. I don't want to get caught out without powder, primers and pills like the last shortage.
I call it my strategic reserve. It only gets depleted so far and then refilled.
I have sifted down through powders and buy it in 8 lb jugs now. I don't want to but......... I have 3 main powders and then some play around ones.
Action, barrel, scope, mounts, stock mucho dollars. Precision gunsmithing even more dollars, Getting it all together months. Developing the perfect load more time and money. Winning a match, PRICELESS.
Blue ribbons baby. nobody cares what you spent when you are rocking blue ribbons. Sure I could buy 1000 of them for the money I have in my gun but getting comfortable and competing with the big dogs is what it's all about.
Spend your money at the range, practice as much as you can. When you start out shooting your equipment you know you are doing something right. That's when you justify spending your mad money on a new rifle, barrel, scope and pounds of powder. Then it's down the rabbit hole. Nobody can help you once it gets to that point. It becomes a bit of an obsession and all you can do is try to stay within your means. (I've got thousands of dollars worth of stuff I want but can't afford)
I am pretty new to competitive shooting, just over a year under my belt, but competition feels good. I can't wrestle anymore, I definitely can't hit a fastball, but I can lay in the dirt and shoot all day.
He must be a bass fisherman, because 50k (might) buy the engines for an offshore tournament boat.
150/200 gallons of fuel for a day of offshore trolling would be an easy thing to do.
Check out the charter cost for say a 35' center console for a full day trip.
Just like when in my MISSPENT YOUTH, when i worked in the speed shop and worked on hemi engines " It's not what you brung BUT how much you spent too get too the strip}
So Balljoint, you remember the Langhorne speed shop, and the Andalusia speed shop no doubt?
How about the garage in Penndel run by the Old's wizard Jack Culp?
Yea I wrestled high school and intramural in collage one year. I miss that. Sure not doing any of it after ruptured disk surgery.I am pretty new to competitive shooting, just over a year under my belt, but competition feels good. I can't wrestle anymore, I definitely can't hit a fastball, but I can lay in the dirt and shoot all day.
Never could throw anything worth a hoot.
I can ride a bike and do, saving grace that got me back into some semblance of decent functioning.
I don't lie in the dirt, just bench rest. But I like it and its fairly low cost entertainment. I don't have a smart phone, at the rates up here I can go shooting!
i got a ribbons hanging on the wall from the first 1000 yard match i shot people were telling me i didnt have a chance since the farthest i can practice is 300 yards i just relied on my gun and data from chrono'ing and took it from there.
another is placing in the money and told they will mail you the check and it never comes latest is from a match i shot july 16th was told i should get it in 3 weeks still no show . needless to say i wont shoot it again
I don't know about you guys, but the cost of my builds seems to get more expensive as the years go on. My first custom with glass set me back $2300. My next one set me back $2800. My latest one cost a measly $3500. I'm already looking at building a 338LM off a Mausingfield once I get my student loans paid off. I'll budget around $7000 for it, including glass.
Why do I do it? That comforting sound bullet meeting steel at long range, or the swinging of bowling pins upon contact. Got to enjoy the little things haha lol
They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
What? Match shooting and sport drinking are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they compliment each other quite well.
Where else are you gonna' go to brag about your latest victory where you crushed all the High Masters and humiliated several ex world champions if you don't go to a bar?
got paid on one 44.00 for 3rd place
Interesting comments... The only time I shoot paper is sighting in. After that, I shoot for the freezer and the wall.
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