I'm open to other options if you got some.Curious why just these two options if you are looking to change stock, barrel etc. anyway?
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I'm open to other options if you got some.Curious why just these two options if you are looking to change stock, barrel etc. anyway?
Remington had some embarrassing fails in the past. They can be absolutely reliable if properly built, but the average is not very good.
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Wrong question on Rokslide… I prefer my Rem platform short actions over Tikka, but it is not the popular choice.
Rokslide is extreme for durability and reliability, and the Tikka fits with that ethos. Can’t argue, Tikka is solid and I am enjoying the ones I have built. Cost less to get into as well.
Just because “all custom actions” are based on a REM 700 doesn’t automatically mean that it is the “best” starting point for a bolt action rifle.
Like @hereinaz said, Rokslide users are backcountry hunters who take not just their guns to limit, but all of their gear. Lots of users here are in the mountains shooting year round not just a couple days/weeks out of the year on hunts. Think using the gun 4+ days a week, every week.
When you take any REM 700 based action and put it up against a Tikka in year round field use, it’s really not even close unfortunately. The Tikka is like a Toyota Hilux Diesel pickup if you understand that analogy.
I seriously doubt you will have to rebarrel it right away. I have heard of some that won’t shoot well, but never encountered one that would not shoot well.
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Who makes them? I’m toying with doing a barrel swap with a short action cartridge next year.Ph2 is 7-300 prc but I found someone who makes custom mags for them so you can shoot short action cartridges in the long action.
Who makes them? I’m toying with doing a barrel swap with a short action cartridge next year.
I’m a big fan of your posts and the info/experience you bring to this site but I’m not too sure on the post above. The number of people who have the time/money to shoot 4+ days a week is very, very small. To do that you are either retired or work in the shooting business.Like @hereinaz said, Rokslide users are backcountry hunters who take not just their guns to limit, but all of their gear. Lots of users here are in the mountains shooting year round not just a couple days/weeks out of the year on hunts. Think using the gun 4+ days a
Or you prioritize it over other hobbies, sleeping in, scrolling apps etc. I agree that the amount of folks who shoot often enough are rare. I do think though, if folks were more proactive and had a stronger passion for it, they would find ways to shoot more.I’m a big fan of your posts and the info/experience you bring to this site but I’m not too sure on the post above. The number of people who have the time/money to shoot 4+ days a week is very, very small. To do that you are either retired or work in the shooting business.
I think, at least in the members I’ve met and shot with here on Rokslide, folks here are way above average on overall gear use as far as hunters go.As far as a lot of people on this site taking their gear to the limit, once again, very small amount of the people on this site are in that group.
This is true. Like I always say on here, certain gear works great until it doesn’t. Leupolds, Vortex’s, and Rem 700 rifles probably kill more animals than all other combinations combined each year. Luckily for most hunters, its shots from heated deer stands at thin skinned whitetails in a farm field under 200 yards.Everyone likes to have good gear, stuff that is dependable because we don’t want our stuff failing in the field when we’ve been waiting/anticipating and looking forward to our hunts since the last one.
If there was a huge percentage of this site that was out shooting all the time, taking their gear to the limits, etc we wouldn’t have the type of questions that get posted here constantly.
Ummmm, do you know what the M40 rifle is? Or the M24?There are plenty of threads but the bottom line is, They fail constantly when used as they should be, triggers are absolute trash due to the required long sear, no military in the world (last time I looked) allows a 700 or clone to be used, they will slam fire. Like someone else said on here, there is a reason EVERY comp shooter carries a spare trigger in the truck...
How's the Seekins trigger for reliability? I definitely had the Remmy tigger issues with my bighorn and trigger tech that Form talks about. That Montana hi line moon dust would get in there and I'd get a click. Happened several times on a hunt.
Ummmm, do you know what the M40 rifle is? Or the M24?
You mean the rifles where it was SOP that you could never have the rifle loaded and move- for exactly the trigger issues stated? Or where the SOP was to carry a can of lighter fluid to flush the trigger group out every day? Or the school house SOP of having rubber bands on the rifle and scope to wrap around the bolt handle to never let it close, and in front of the safety to keep it on- and either one of those happening (bolt closing or safety off) were grounds for dismissing the students? All precisely because of triggers failing.
Eh. Maybe it’s all made up.
My favorite M40A1 story is when the sniper team on one of our ranges climbed up a mountain without the bolt because the unit SOP was to leave the bolt out of the rifle until it was loaded. When they got ready to engage their targets, they discovered that the bolt was still in the gun bag at the company assembly area. It resulted in one of the funniest exchanges I heard over the radio as a combat instructor.
“Corridor, 72B here.”
“72B, go for Corridor.”
“Corridor, Snipers denied 7.62.”
“Copy that, 72B. State reason for denial.”
“Umm, improper equipment, sir.”
“72B, please clarify nature of improper equipment.”
“Umm, sir, they left their bolt in the gun bag in the assembly area at the bottom of the mountain. I was trying not to embarrass them on the net, but since you asked and I am going to sit up here and watch them hold their dicks all day, **** ‘em. 72B out.”
“Copy.”
I wouldn’t have taken anything to be in that STA platoon that day or night. I am reasonably certain that every officer in that unit wanted to die of shame and scrupulously avoided seeing how the platoon sergeant handled that matter.
Parker Hale was cooler and better in every way, fight me.Ha.
The M40A1 and M24 are two of the best field, stalking sniper rifles ever issued- and it would be hard to find someone with more affinity of both than I- especially the M24. But, they did, and do have issues.