7PRC Chassis Rifle Build

[BrianS]

Hey everyone,

I want a lightweight chassis hunting rifle in 7PRC. I have decided on a XLR Element 4.0 chassis. What I am looking for is recommendations for a rifle to swap the stock out for the chassis. I can get the chassis for about $1100 and was looking to spent up to another $1500 on the rifle to drop into it. I have considered the Weatherby 307 Range XP, Savage 110 Ultralite, and Brownells has a Christensen Ridgeline barreled action. I’m not set on a carbon fiber barrel. I have apprehensions with the Christensen due to their quality control issues. I know the Weatherby and Savage have versions that come in a MDT chassis, but I could buy their regular versions and the XLR (or MDT for that matter) chassis for less money than they want with it already in it. I have also considered the Bergara MG Lite, but couldn’t find many reviews on it. I love my Bergara HMR Pro in .300 Win Mag, but it’s a heavy rifle. I hope to do some western hunts with this rifle. Thanks for the input!

 

[BrianS]

I have nothing against Tikka and know a bunch of people love them, but they don’t have any 7 PRC offerings at this time.

 

[Fever Buck]

I have nothing against Tikka and know a bunch of people love them, but they don’t have any 7 PRC offerings at this time.

You could do a tikka action and buy a nice carbon prefit and still stay close to your original $1500 budget. Just need a long action magnum bolt face.

 

[BrianS]

You could do a tikka action and buy a nice carbon prefit and still stay close to your original $1500 budget. Just need a long action magnum bolt face.

Any recommendations on a good place to buy the Tikka action? Also, what prefit would you recommend? I’m ok going slightly over the $1500 budget, but not much. Thanks.

 

[bpctcb]

I’d buy the Bergara as it comes with the chassis you want already.

Bergara MgLite Ultra-Lightweight Rifle Review

The Bergara MgLite Review by Travis Bertrand features the Bergara MgLite at the range and at an NRL Hunter match. Read the full article here.

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BP

 

[Fever Buck]

Any recommendations on a good place to buy the Tikka action? Also, what prefit would you recommend? I’m ok going slightly over the $1500 budget, but not much. Thanks.

I believe there’s a few places online that sell tikka actions, you can also just buy any long action magnum tikka and sell the barrel. I personally like proof carbon barrels. You can find tikka prefits pretty easy if you search online.

 

[Fever Buck]

Sharing mine as you’ll be building a very similar rig to what I did. I just went with a defiance action but tikka is totally fine as well. Also, to save money, XLR does a really good sale on Black Friday if you are okay with waiting until November.

 

[BrianS]

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Sharing mine as you’ll be building a very similar rig to what I did. I just went with a defiance action but tikka is totally fine as well. Also, to save money, XLR does a really good sale on Black Friday if you are okay with waiting until November.

Looks great! Which defiance action did you get?

 

[Fever Buck]

Looks great! Which defiance action did you get?

I did the anti. It’s lighter and cheaper than the anTi X. The benefit of the X is the rail is built into the receiver so no chance of bolts getting lose on your rail.

 

[IrkedCitizen]

Go to some local pawn shops and look for used Tikkas chambered in 7RM/300WM/270WSM/300WSM.

You can also buy new blued T3X lite in 7RM or 300WM for $750 or the stainless model for $850 from most FFL.

Otherwise American Rifle Co makes their Coup De Grace action that is $899 then you buy a trigger and a prefit barrel from PVA. You can likely get all of it direct from PVA.

 

[BrianS]

Go to some local pawn shops and look for used Tikkas chambered in 7RM/300WM/270WSM/300WSM.

You can also buy new blued T3X lite in 7RM or 300WM for $750 or the stainless model for $850 from most FFL.

Otherwise American Rifle Co makes their Coup De Grace action that is $899 then you buy a trigger and a prefit barrel from PVA. You can likely get all of it direct from PVA.

What’s PVA? Thanks for the info.

 

[SloppyJ]

What’s PVA? Thanks for the info.

Patriot Valley Arms. I've never shot one of their barrels but they seem to be well received.

I'd recommend picking up a custom action for around 900. A Zermatt Origin, ARC coup de grace or any others with a swappable bolt head. That's a key point in value, at least to me.

I bet you could save the extra few hundred bucks on finding a used chassis or waiting for a sale.

Going this route will set you up to be as future proof as possible. With the swappable bolt head, for a couple hundred bucks and a new barrel, you can run whatever cartridge you want.

 

[IrkedCitizen]

What’s PVA? Thanks for the info.

As said above, Patriot Valley Arms. Josh builds a nice rifle. I had a 300prc that he built with a Rock Creek barrel and I have since rebarreled to 7prc with his Osprey Barrel Works barrels.

 

[Tweber]

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Sharing mine as you’ll be building a very similar rig to what I did. I just went with a defiance action but tikka is totally fine as well. Also, to save money, XLR does a really good sale on Black Friday if you are okay with waiting until November.

What barrel did you use. I have Defiance anti and sm going to biuld very similar rifle

 

[Fever Buck]

What barrel did you use. I have Defiance anti and sm going to biuld very similar rifle

I went with a proof Sendero 22”. You can find pre-fits from Stocky’s in the 22-24” range. Anything shorter you’ll generally have to buy a blank and have someone chamber it for you.

 

[bojangles808]

Double check on which magazines you can use for which chassis you choose, for example iirc the Tikka la hnt 26 for 7mag you can only use a 7oz metal mag which sucks for a long action lightweight build. You can use a 1 oz polymer mag on tikka short action builds and I think 700 builds you can use lighter weight magazines so just something to take a look at before you commit

 

[Article 4]

All good recommendations - keep in mind if you intend on making any changes to that set up, like perhaps a lighter carbon stock later on etc...for actions like the Tikka and a few others, since they are not designed on the Remington footprint, finding Tikka specific components and things can sometimes be a challenge.