I'm building a light rifle on a Pierce Titanium receiver in long action. What would you recommend for a follower for a 280AI? The Pierce is a Remington clone.

Just food for thought I guess. It's pretty tacky, but there are a lot of plastic followers that have been made over the years that weight exactly 2 tenths of fawk all. Savage of course comes to mind, but I disremember exact models.

Remington also made those lovely stamped metal followers for a while in the ADL BDL series back in the nasty 70s. You might snag one of those, Swiss cheese the ever living snot out of it with a 1/8th drill and then polish it with a matchless wheel until it rounds out the holes a bit and shines like a hounds tooth. Come up with some sort of zingy name for it and people will think it's some sort of new fangled, rocket science, 2000 mile per hour, CNC jet follower from hell.

If you can't dazzle em with brilliance, baffle the bastards with BS !

Rod,
Haven't thought of the plastic ones. Heard about them a long time ago. Maybe somebody here might sell me one.

Butch - brownells sells them .. i think all the savage follwers are plastic

OH MY Butch !
I sort of thought that you would get all puffed up and give me a double windup, under handed, open handed peepee slap for even suggesting the plastic follower.

Personally I like the Swiss cheese suggestion better as it would probably weigh the same as plastic and look REALLY COOL !

But the plastic is just as functional in the end and a lot less work.

Calahan or Gun Runners aluminum follower. They can be drilled to reduce weight.

Jeremy

How about a Titianium follower??

I forgot about you. Ship me one please!

The weight loss of a follower is really going the whole route! like grams not ounces maybe??

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
The weight loss of a follower is really going the whole route! like grams not ounces maybe??

O.M.G. Ray ! ! Get with the program.

We don't chop up perfectly good guns and spend thousands of dollars on them to loose a couple of ounces !
We do it because it LOOKS and SOUNDS really cool. Don't go pulling that feminine logic crap on us because we're not having any of it.

I guess I told him what's for and the why's for ! You owe me big time for protecting your virtue this time Lambert. he he he he

A good guess Ray. Why make efforts to loose weight and not be worried about the small items? If the process is to lighten the rifle, why bypass anything?

280 Ackley...I've always wanted to try that round.