need4sneed
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- Jul 21, 2024
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Here's my advise after four years with an x-bolt gen 1 speed in 28 nosler:
Speed stock has bad ergonomics and needs a lot of weight added to it for a magnum caliber. Barrel channel was also very tight and I opened it up - as stated in the xbolt threads here. Very little offerings to swap speed stock out.
Trigger works, not a lot of great things to say about it after that.
weird threadings were annoying but the Recoil Hawg MB I chose to buy actually performs really well. I would Opt for traditional threading and shorter barrels and simplify all of the options available to you at muzzle.
I would choose a selection of bullets you would be happy to work with of those two calibers and pick the CHEAPEST and most readily available of the two chamberings. The more I shoot, the less any of the small differences in comparable chamberings matter to me. Building the next gun is inevitable and will be more about the fun of the next gun anyways.
My 2cents:
If you want a factory gun - go down in recoil. If you want a magnum - save your money and build one out. so much of recoil mitigation is custom to the shooter and building one is almost cost effective. Or at least pick a 700 clone so you have the options down the line. Personally, I drank the koolaid and went tikka and 6.5 - accuracy wise I'm happy as a clam (limited terminal experience but so far so good) and only going further down the rabbit hole in 0-600 open shooting.
Speed stock has bad ergonomics and needs a lot of weight added to it for a magnum caliber. Barrel channel was also very tight and I opened it up - as stated in the xbolt threads here. Very little offerings to swap speed stock out.
Trigger works, not a lot of great things to say about it after that.
weird threadings were annoying but the Recoil Hawg MB I chose to buy actually performs really well. I would Opt for traditional threading and shorter barrels and simplify all of the options available to you at muzzle.
I would choose a selection of bullets you would be happy to work with of those two calibers and pick the CHEAPEST and most readily available of the two chamberings. The more I shoot, the less any of the small differences in comparable chamberings matter to me. Building the next gun is inevitable and will be more about the fun of the next gun anyways.
My 2cents:
If you want a factory gun - go down in recoil. If you want a magnum - save your money and build one out. so much of recoil mitigation is custom to the shooter and building one is almost cost effective. Or at least pick a 700 clone so you have the options down the line. Personally, I drank the koolaid and went tikka and 6.5 - accuracy wise I'm happy as a clam (limited terminal experience but so far so good) and only going further down the rabbit hole in 0-600 open shooting.