Recent content by punter

Yeah, the Coban on the scope rings is a little ghetto, but I swapped the scope and rings out a few months back... some day they'll get duracoated to match.

Thanks Ray! That's not nearly as expensive as I had expected it to be ...about $267USD after all is said and sone... A new set of Forster Dies is $150USD. That's pretty reasonable for a set of dies perfectly matched to your chamber.

Fair enough. As I said before... I DO appreciate your comments and advice. So, if no offense was intended, none is taken. Thank You

Whatever dude... You can try to attack my character all you want... my last response was completely appropriate to the attitude you were throwing out in your last couple posts. I'm all for debate when it comes to the intricacies and technical aspects of ballistics and marksmanship. I like...

Beautiful rifle! The idea of having a set of custom dies cut when the barrel gets chambered had occurred to me, but I dismissed it thinking that it would be ungodly expensive. Suppose I should have looked further into it. Roughly what did that run you, if you don't mind my asking (the blank...

Sweet, I should have the action and DBM in the next week or so. It'll be a while until I can start the build though... stock and barrel are on order, so it'll be a good four-six months until I see them. Gonna be a long six months looking at that stripped action sitting in the safe.

Nice! Thats really close to what I think I'm going to end up with. What do you think about the Stiller Tac30? ...that's the same action I ordered. I've heard good things about it, but I've got no personal experience with it.

Well, I apologize for subjecting you to such tedium. ...oh, wait, that's right... I didn't subject you to anything. You subjected yourself to it. Please forgive me if I don't bow down and hail praise to the almighty word of Diver160651. Clearly, no one can possibly match the superior...

JT, I appreciate your input and your points are well taken. That said, and I don't want to appear argumentative, but your arguments go both ways... You have experienced a loss of 100fps between these four barrel lengths, while using the same action. OK, my question is, "how well did you...

I actually did give it a lot of thought. Initially, I was up between the .260 and the .270. Its a great round, but I ended up leaning toward the .270 (oddly enough, for reasons that I ended up throwing out when I started considering the .280AI). To be honest, I can see why there is so much...

I've been doing a lot of reading on barrel length and long range accuracy. While the common belief is that you need 24-26" for good long range performance, the research just doesn't support it. There are a lot of guys out there running 20" and even 18" barrels on their .308 Winchester rifles...

Well, after a whole lot of internal debate and online research... I decided that I'm going to follow hondo's advice and stick with .308 Winchester for this build. Ultimately, I recognize that both the .270 and .280ai have something to offer over the .308, but the .308 will give me satisfactory...

Sounds like you want this rifle to do double-duty ...both competition and hunting. Here is one place where you are going to have to decide where you are going to compromise. You are saying that you want to have a heavy/thick bull barrel... which will lend itself nicely to the benchrest shooting...

If you're not looking to go cheap, Robar offers some nice metal finishing options (NP3, etc.). It might be worth hopping on their site and checking out what they offer.

Cool... I'll keep poking around. Thanks!