I like 10lb rifles to. On the bench.
That gun would be sweet! You could look at the black collar arms integrally suppressed SBD in 375 raptor if you want a shorty. Its a little over 16" total barrel length so its a one stamp rifle. I just ordered one recently, they're like $3800-4200 depending on how you configure. I also talked to suppressed weapon systems and they quoted me $4850 for for a bighorn origin 300 prc, 24" total barrel length integrally suppressed sitting in an xlr magnesium folding chassis. I think actual barrel length was 18 or 20. Was very tough deciding between the 2 for me, id still the 300 prc from them someday too lol but i wanted the super short one first and i already have a 6.5 prc in an xlr for long range.
I actually did talk to suppressed weapons and pheonix was the other company. They all had 6 inches past the end of the "barrel" for the integrally suppressed. Which more or less defeats my purpose of doing an integral. I'd save a whole inch over any of my screw-on suppressors. Not worth the 3-4k.
Yep thats one of the main reasons i went with the SBD instead, its a 16" barrel total and in the demo video it was crazy quiet. SWS told me their 375 raptor would basically end up being longer, with a 20-22" finished barrel. I was torn cause with an integral you get better suppression and a more balanced rifle but not being able to use the suppressor on other guns kinda sucks. Not a big deal to me since i don't have too many rifles. You could email black collar arms about it, i know they were planning to make other calibers in the SBD and they at least talked about selling custom integrally suppressed barrels at one point. I did ask them if they were planning to make any longer barreled versions or if they would be willing to make me an SBD with a 20" overall length barrel but they said no cause the velocity gains were so minimal in 375 raptor. After looking at the numbers i found myself agreeing with them and placed an order lol
The 375 raptor just doesn't do what I needed the 338 I'm having built does. I did look at it as an option.
Oh i meant you could ask them about doing a 338 intregral barrel maybe, wasnt trying to push the raptor on ya
Ya, I did. With their min barrel length restrictions it just didn't make sense. Maybe you could do it in at 338 Fed, but that doesn't have the performance I wanted.
I was talking about asking black collar arms not SWS in my previous post lol, sorry i didn't clarify, sounds like you might have a plan in motion anyway. Good luck with the build!
I went back and forth for a long time between the 300wsm and 7saum. Have always been partial to the 30cal as well, but ultimately the saum won out for me. I'm not only building a short lightweight hunting rig but also a long range target gun. So similar ballistics with a fair bit less recoil resulted in the saum being my choice.
I think we need to spread the word to go request Starline make 7 SAUM brass. They have been great in other calibers for me and would be sweet to see them meet the demand.
ADG has ran 7 saum multiple times over the last two years. Get on some distributors lists
Ya I agree, getting saum brass honestly wasn't that hard with some planning. Sure you can't just go to a store and buy some but it's made fairly consistently. Find a good distributor that'll let you prebuy and problem solved!
