Anyone have experience with the Nosler 48 semi custom rifle?

A few months ago or maybe a year one of the gun rags did a comparison test of several of these type rifles. The new Shilen rifle won the competition. http://www.shilen.com/productsCompleteRifles.html
Butch

One of my hunting buds,bought one when they came out.Very inconsistant and has a couple tight spots in the bore.Been sent back twice,can't sell it and now sits in the back of his safe. He says it was a lesson learned,still shakes his head from a company the makes the best hunting bullet in the world.....

That Shilen rifle looks good. All the right parts to make it smokin accurate.

At a cost lots cheaper than others.
I might have to look into them a little more

I have one and I love it. I am thinking of getting another. Mine is a .338 Federal that I did not need but had cash in my hand in the proshop, had wanted to play with the cartrige for awhile and it was on sale! This was a bad combination for me and I got the rifle and a new Leo to go on top. The thing shot 1/2" with cheap Federal ammo and 3/4" with Federal Premiums loaded with 185gr X bullets(don't tell the Nosler guys I used Barnes in their gun )

I have yet to load for it but just got two new bags of brass from Midway and a few boxes of 210gr partitions to try out. If all goes well I will shoot a pig with it in August.

Sorry others have had bad experiences, I love mine. It is in the top 10 rifles I own.

Matthew

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Originally posted by butchlambert:
A few months ago or maybe a year one of the gun rags did a comparison test of several of these type rifles. The new Shilen rifle won the competition. http://www.shilen.com/productsCompleteRifles.html
Butch

Rather Savage-like that Shilen is.

The only Savage like thing is the bolt nose that is changeable and the barrel attachment. It has the Remington footprint and a Remington type trigger system and bottom metal and mag box.
Butch

A Christmas present to myself. Nosler was offering an $800 NRA discount. I couldn't resist. There has beentoo much going on, so I haven't had a chance to bloody it yet. Spring turkey season is on. I'll probably go to my lease soon. Should be able to whack a couple porkers with it while I'm there.
I'm a gunwhore so any praise I lavish has to be taken with a grain of salt. I like the rifle, the way it handles, the micro-slick coating makes cycling the bolt smooth. The trigger breaks clean, however I'm going to adjust down just a touch. Its warm here most of the year, I don't have to wear gloves and I like a two pound pull or lighter. I'm shooting a mild load of w760 to start with.


Nosler Model 48 Custom Sporter, 325 WSM, Leupold 3.5 x 10 Vari X III, with illuminated Reticle

Hadn't wrung it out yet. Kinda breakin' it in.


But I think it's going to be a shooter.
GWB

gee what a beautiful stock just look at the wonderful graining in that piece of plastic the picture perfect inletting, the perfection in the checkering pattern, why it has all the beauty that a checkbook at a tupperware party can buy

Opinions vary,

as do form and function,

glad ya like it.

GWB

Geez butchloc, what did he do to deserve that?
Peter.

Peter, its ok. Opinions vary, I was simply responding to the OP's question. Since there was no disclaimer concerning their Custom, Legacy or Trophy grade rifle I figured showing my Custom Sporter would not be sacrilegious. Or perhaps I don't have the bona fides to post in this forum. I consider myself a blue steel and wood guy, but I do own laminate as well as synthetic stocked rifles. I hunt from time to time in inclement weather. I also hunt the Texas hill country where everything bites pricks or scratches. Cactus, rocks, dust and black dirt that clings like Gumbo. I ride a four wheeler and carry a rifle on a sling. One outing, if I'm not careful can really put the hurt on both an acrylic or oil finish. For example, if I'm climbing up a mountain side through a juniper thicket on my hands and knees, in a downpour, I tend to take synthetic stocked stainless rifles. Having said that, none of the rifles in my collection are safe queens. For example.......


mannlicher stocked mauser 98, double set trigger, 35 whelen, smithed by Wayne Barnett, Pasadena, Texas

And FWIW, here is another one that Mr. B probably won't care for, but I do believe this forum is Custom Rifles so........
a little something about which I posted in the recent past.


Being a junk man at heart, I am always pickin' through other folks used items. Can't help it.
I picked up this action about 10 years ago. Never done any thing with it. The price was right and ya never can tell!




Sako S491 action

A couple years later a fellow had a used Richards Microfit thumbhole stock for sale. Turns out it just happened to be glass bedded for a Sako S491 action. Couldn't resist.

Fast forward to earlier this year. I got the hankerin' for a small caliber chambering with a fast twist barrel. Turns out a friend had a 1 in 8" twist Shilen Select Match stainless barrel layin' around his shop. Even had a 223 AI reamer and a Vais brake
Well, a few dollars traded hands, I pulled out an old scope I'd basically gotten free from another deal and tossed them into a feed barrel and rolled it down a hill at the lease. When I pulled the lid, dang if a Spare Parts Rifle didn't pop out.






Sako S491 action, Richards laminate thumbhole stock. Twenty-six inch Shilen Select Match Barrel, Vais Brake, chambered for 223 AI, Burris 8 x 32 Signature Scope.

Hadn't wrung it out yet but here are a few groups.




Sixty grain partition or even a 70 gr. TSX might just shine. Only problem, is finding used bullets in good condition. I may have to break down an go with some new ones.

GWB

Hit the damn bottle top already!

Geebubya,
is that a Denver Redfield on that mannlicher, looks classic!

cutiger,
Yes it it a redfield. Two x 7 power Whether a "Denver" Redfield, I do not know.
It was on the rifle when I purchased it. The gentleman who built this rifle has left the field. His name was Wayne Barnett. He billed himself as a master gunsmith. From what I understand he worked at Glen Slades in the sixties. I can remember as a boy going down the Gulf Freeway in Houston and see the giant polar bear atop the building with the sign "Glenn Slade's in humongous letters. It was pretty impressive to a 10 year old. Wayne had a shop in Pasadena, Texas in seventies on Harris at Witter St. That is when I think he built this rifle. I happened onto it without a dollar in my pocket and talked the dealer at the gunshow into holding onto it until I could get back with the cash. Rifles come and go, but my kids will probably have to sell this one if they don't want it.

Best
GWB