I am looking at having a custom rifle in .300 WM built next year....

Does anyone have experience with McWhorter Custom Rifles? If so, can you share your experience?

http://www.mcwhorterrifles.com/

Also, can anyone recommend another quality custom builder in that price range, or lower, that uses similar materials? (McMillan stocks, Hart barrels, etc...)

Thanks guys.

A friend hunts exclusively with McWhorter rifles and is a big fan of them.

Another "accuracy" builder who produces similarly-priced rifles is Tactical Rifles (www.tacticalrifles.net). I have used roughly a dozen of their rifles over the past 5 or so years and there wasn't one of them that wouldn't shoot amazingly well.

For that money, the accuracy guarantee and the custom loaded up ammo? Man, I don't know if you can beat that, but it makes me want one. I watched their video too, at 550 yards. impressive, granted the scope was worth more than any of my rifles, but it shows what their guns are capable of.

Red

I'm a big fan of the Hill Country Rifles guys. Not only their full-up custom guns, which appear to be in the same price range as McWhorter, but also their "Harvester" line, which are accurized factory barreled actions bedded into a McMillan stock. One big plus for HCR is their accuracy guarantees are with factory ammo, not handloads. Half inch or better for the full customs and usually half to 3/4" with the Harvester rifles. Call Matt at HCR ans see what they have in the pipeline being built - maybe they have something that interests you in the Harvester line - save some money for a scope and ammo.

I have a friend from GA who has several McWhorter rifles and hunts all sorts of NA big game with them. He loves them.

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Call Matt at HCR ans see what they have in the pipeline being built - maybe they have something that interests you in the Harvester line - save some money for a scope and ammo.

If you go to their website they list the rifles ready for sale as well as those in production.

For that kind of moola.. I'd buy a Blaser, or Mauser M03...

If I had to have a custom, I'd go to someone like Tip Burns in Canyon Lake and just have him build what I wanted.

www.canyonsportingarms.com

just my 2 cents...

Ed

I know this is going a little off track Wade--but really take a hard look at this. I have Shot a Blaser since 1999, and have used Mauser M03's and a Sauer 200/202 extensive. They are fine firearms/they are just a little too expensive for a lot of the US hunters price point.

Sauer tends to be a good bargain--selling for about 60% of retail in most places. I have a Sauer 200 with a supressed .308 (YHM TI can), with also a 9.3x62 barrel--it is a fine, accurate and smooth weapon-- its a 1/2 in gun with both barrels.

Take a hard look at these-- this set has two barrels ( each barrel is about $1100 now--and the syn stock runs around $900--I know sounds stupid but it is)

http://www.gunbroker.com/Aucti....aspx?Item=261666853

This is an older 202 when Mcmillian was making stocks for them. It will be a little on the heavier than the new 202's but you could get you a 257 WBY mag barrel and mag--plus set up a EAW swing mount for your scope for what the McWhorter would cost.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Aucti....aspx?Item=262750497

Just my thoughts again.

Ed

I bought a used one about 4-5 years ago and I couldn't ask for more. It is a 338 mag with an Ed Brown action, just a wonderful gun.

It shoots just about anything well that I have put through it. Would be one of the last guns that I would part with.

Took it to Africa on a plains game hunt. The gun made me look like a much better shot than I am.

I am a lefty as is it.