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Custom gun ideas #73510 01/12/11 04:21 PM 01/12/11 04:21 PM
Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 14 D Dingo OP spike
Dingo OP spike D Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 14	I've got a Remington 700 LA just sitting in the gun cabinet that I never hunt with been getting the custom gun bug. So what could I turn that long action into? I'm a believer that bigger is better. Thinking something with a heavy barrel

Re: Custom gun ideas [Re: Dingo] #73540 01/12/11 05:13 PM 01/12/11 05:13 PM
Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 4,749 Home S Shuter II 10 point
Shuter II 10 point S Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 4,749 Home	Make yourself a switch-barrel gun. You can have as many calibers you want if they all have the same bolt face size. You could have a 6BR, .308, 243, .270, etc, & etc. with as many barrels as you can afford.

Re: Custom gun ideas [Re: Dingo] #73541 01/12/11 05:17 PM 01/12/11 05:17 PM
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Bubba J 4 point Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 448 depends on the day	a custom 25-06 is next on my list RECESSION IS WHEN YOUR NEIGHBOR LOSES HIS JOB. DEPRESSION IS WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR JOB. RECOVERY IS WHEN OBAMA LOSES HIS.

Re: Custom gun ideas [Re: Dingo] #73582 01/12/11 06:22 PM 01/12/11 06:22 PM
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Wiley Coyote Freak of Nature W Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 44,211 North Alabama	You oughta just buy my 5R in the classifieds I firmly believe that a double gallows should be constructed on the East Lawn of The White House. Politicians who willfully and shamelessly violate their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America should be swiftly tried and, upon conviction, publicly hanged at sunup the day after conviction. If multiple convicts are to be hanged they can choose with whom to share the gallows or names shall be drawn from the hangman's hat to be hanged 2 at a time. NRA Life Member

Re: Custom gun ideas [Re: Dingo] #73723 01/12/11 09:39 PM 01/12/11 09:39 PM
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Dingo OP spike D Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 14	No, no, no. You guys aren't thinking right. I'm thinking like blow a deer in half with one shot. Remember I'm obviously a bad hunter so I over compensate by using a much larger caliber than I need

Re: Custom gun ideas [Re: Dingo] #73743 01/12/11 10:18 PM 01/12/11 10:18 PM
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Out back Grumpy Old Man Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 30,910 Clanton, AL	Anyone can be a bad hunter, that's how the word "vegetarian" came about. Magnum shooters are not always bad hunters, just over achievers. BTW, my favorite hunting pistol is my S&W .500 Magnum, when I can afford to load it. Last edited by Out back; 01/12/11 10:18 PM. My opinions and comments are my own. They do not reflect the position or political opinions of Aldeer or any of the Aldeer administration.

Re: Custom gun ideas [Re: Dingo] #73780 01/13/11 05:57 AM 01/13/11 05:57 AM
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mission 8 point Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 2,222 Alabama	It's not a large caliber as you specified...but I've always admired a flat shooting .240 Weatherby magnum with a bull barrel. Kinda like this one..built on a 700 action. Check this one out: http://www.weatherby.dk/showthread.php?1315-240-Weatherby-Magnum...

Re: Custom gun ideas [Re: Dingo] #73856 01/13/11 09:26 AM 01/13/11 09:26 AM
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bama7x57 14 point Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 9,035 Jasper	338-06 or 35 Whelen Take your kids hunting instead of hunting your kids. I'd rather be LOST in the woods than FOUND in the city. Drive a hybrid, I need your gas. Your mind is your primary weapon. Never let it get rusty.

Re: Custom gun ideas [Re: bama7x57] #73878 01/13/11 10:12 AM 01/13/11 10:12 AM
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BigDalk 10 point B Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 3,633 Gardendale	257 wby Last edited by BigDalk; 01/13/11 10:15 AM. "The aggies are going to destroy bama" Burbank

Re: Custom gun ideas [Re: mission] #73882 01/13/11 10:25 AM 01/13/11 10:25 AM
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bamachem Old Mossy Horns B Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 15,142 Fairhope	Originally Posted By: mission http://www.weatherby.dk/showthread.php?1315-240-Weatherby-Magnum... WOW. And ONLY 29-lbs... MOLON LABE

Re: Custom gun ideas [Re: Dingo] #73907 01/13/11 11:11 AM 01/13/11 11:11 AM
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Forester 3 point F Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 125 North Alabama	i had a 270 turned into a 35 whelen and love it. you can get an adams and bennett barrel from midway usa for about 80 bucks and have a gunsmith chamber it. or you could go with a 280 ack improved. that's my next project for a long action.

Re: Custom gun ideas [Re: bamachem] #74061 01/13/11 04:54 PM 01/13/11 04:54 PM
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mission 8 point Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 2,222 Alabama	Originally Posted By: bamachem Originally Posted By: mission http://www.weatherby.dk/showthread.php?1315-240-Weatherby-Magnum... WOW. And ONLY 29-lbs... Yeah..I'd have to drop some wight on that baby. Geez.. lol A stock gun would be better than carrying around that amount of weight. But there again...the weight would be okay from the truck to a bench during competition shooting, I guess. lol I almost bought a stock synthetic .240 WM a few years back. I think it was $590. Ammo is expensive. I wanted a bean field deer rifle really bad. (600-plus yard shots)

Re: Custom gun ideas [Re: Dingo] #74487 01/14/11 01:42 PM 01/14/11 01:42 PM
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1bamashooter 10 point Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 3,346 Demop	My next build will be a 6mm-284 or a 6XC on a Surgeon action. Keep your booger hooker off the bang switch.

Re: Custom gun ideas [Re: bamachem] #74719 01/15/11 04:36 AM 01/15/11 04:36 AM
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300 ATLAS spike Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 49 Wayne Co. MS	Dingo, With the 700LA you can do anything that you want. The only restriction is going to be magazine length! I would recommend 3 big .30s. .300 WBY throated short, .300 WM or a .300 WSM throated to put a Berger 210 VDLs Bearing Surface/Boat Tail junction at the NK/Shoulder junction of the case. So you could use the extra magazine length and case capacity. The .300 WSM with the correct throat and a 28� barrel will run the 210s right about 2900 fps. Which is more than enough medicine to take out Whitetail at 1,000. Just sale the original bolt minus the firing mechanism for $125.00 and buy yourself a PT&G Bolt with the Magnum bolt face.

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