I am looking for a long range gun that will not kick me to death and was thinking of a 300 WSM and wondering to have one built or simply off the shelf like the Savage accutriggers? Want to be able to do 500 yards with practice. Thoghts please?
Contact Jon Beanland of Ok. Have him put together something with a Big Horn action, some flavor of barrel in a #3 contour (Broughton, Bartlien, Lilja, PacNor, etc,) some kind of McMillan stock, a Shilen, Timney, Rifle Basix trigger. Top it with a good scope in quality rings. Great calibers to start with, IMO, are the 26 caliber arena; 6.5x47, 6.5 Creedmoor, 260 Rem, 6.5x55 or 58 or 284, 264 WM, etc. With quality 130-140 gr bullets you can drop any big game in NA and hardly notice the recoil.
Alan
Posts: 1719 | Location: Utah | Registered: 01 June 2004
500 yards doesn't need anything special. Get a Savage in 308 with a heavy barrel, and replace the stock. Cheaper, and leaves you with plenty of money for a good scope. 308 barrel isn't going to get shot out and with a Savage you can get a hotter cartridge for longer range just by replacing the barrel and bolt head if needed.
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Posts: 2598 | Location: Missouri | Registered: 29 March 2006
I'm with Tyler on this one. Any reasonably fast round in a rifle that will shoot 1MOA will do what you want. Save the money on a custom and spend it on optics, ammo, and range fees/instruction.
You need to be a little more specific on your use case. This for hunting, tactical competiion, or just for fun from the bench? As others have said, the .308 win is more than capable enough at 500yds for paper punching. My NRA Palma rifle in .308 will put ten shots in a 10" group @1000yds in a no wind condition (rare) from prone position with a sling and iron sights. A 6mm BR will do great as well with with an 8 twist barrel with 105's and have less recoil. You need to decide what aspects (recoil, wind drift, known distance or unknown, factory ammo or reloads, system cost, rifle weight, etc..) are most important and go from there.
