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Originally Posted by elfmdl
That gun is sick!! How much did u drop on that bad boy?
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I have about $3100.00 in the rifle without the scope. Is is a trued Remington reciever and thats about all that is Remington on this rifle. The scope was somewhat less than $3000.00. Krieger trued the reciever and barreled the action with their #9 MTU barrel, 28" long. McMillan bedded the barreled action in their A-5 stock and completed the final assembly for me. The original muzzel brake I choose, that Kreiger put on, was a untimed brake and it really sucked while shooting prone. Quite the mistake on my behalf and lesson learned the hard way. I changed it out for an Elite Iron Max Tac timed brake which was the correct way to go.
Since it was finished I've shot the first barrel out and am waiting on the second one as we speak now. The barrel lasted just a tad over 1100 rounds. I hoped I could get more time with the barrel of this 300 WM but it wasn't much less than I expected. The only caliber I can think of that is shorter lived than the 300 WM is the 243 Win. Regardless, it is relatively inexpensive to rebarrel.
Now I'm having built a 260 Rem./308 Win. switch barrel and am semi retiring the 300 WM for limited use. The 260 Rem and the 300 WM have very similar ballistic charcteristics and I'm going to use the 260 for 1000 yards now. Intend to compete with the 260. The barrel life for the 260 should be around 3000 rounds. The barrel life for the 308 Win. should be around 7000 rounds. I'll find out. The 308 Win. will be for practice and further training.
) even hammered a nail with his PR scope
Now thats tough.....
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