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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ex-MA Hole on May 23, 2012, 06:31:50 PM
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I'm strongly considering getting "back into" benchrest shooting. By "back into", I mean my previous experience was with a .22LR at 50 yards. Show up on a Sunday morning with coffee and a cigar and shoot 50 or 100 rounds. Stupidly sold that gun. It was a Savage with Acutrigger. Loved it, my interests changed and it sat.
I'm strictly in the "compulsive obsessing" stage at this time.
I'm looking for something I can afford to shoot. I was thinking a Savage in 223 because brass is plentiful and I can roll my own. By "accurate" I mean all of them touching/ some in one hole at 100 yards (obviously if I do my job). I have zero desire to get into something like F-Class.
If I move, my new range may have a 300 yard range.
I have zero desire to use this for hunting.
I have a bad back, so the lower recoil of the 223 also had appeal...
I'd trade something, like my 686 for this...
What say all 2,000 of our resident experts?
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Price range? (I don't know what a 686 goes for) Glass?
I can get that accuracy out of my Model 1 Sales varmiter, which is pretty fun. If you want a bolt, I've shot a friends Savage Model 12 w/accutrigger, and it was pretty dang sweet.
Then there's the ever present used Winchester 70, Remington 700 or Ruger 77. Look for a heavy barrel varient.
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I'd like to be in the 500-700 range. Glass will be an entry level Leupold, that will be additional.
Price range? (I don't know what a 686 goes for) Glass?
I can get that accuracy out of my Model 1 Sales varmiter, which is pretty fun. If you want a bolt, I've shot a friends Savage Model 12 w/accutrigger, and it was pretty dang sweet.
Then there's the ever present used Winchester 70, Remington 700 or Ruger 77. Look for a heavy barrel varient.
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Don't overlook a used Remington in .222.
If I was buying new I would look at a Savage or a Stevens with a little work done to it.
jim
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My "all holes touching" rig is a Remington 700VS in .308. I think an LTR in .223 fits your bill. Components are much cheaper. The Savage has a cult following, and I'd like to have a .223 with a 1/7 twist, so Savage is about the only game in town, unless I have my 788 rebarreled. Let us hear what you decide.
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I'd trade something, like my 686 for this...
What say all 2,000 of our resident experts?
I dunno ... I sure hate ever letting go of a gun =|
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I dunno ... I sure hate ever letting go of a gun =|
Please don't discourage folk from selling their guns. It makes it harder to find second-hand ones.
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I'd trade something, like my 686 for this...
What say all 2,000 of our resident experts?
I suspect you'd eventually regret that.
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Please don't discourage folk from selling their guns. It makes it harder to find second-hand ones.
This.....+1.....