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How many bolt action rifles have you built in the last year?

Clark

Gunny Sergeant
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Can you remember?
308
260
243
270
6.5 Vostok
280AI
 

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3 so far, 1 for me. Not hard when I can spin on a prefit and screw it into a chassis, haha.
 
Just 2 new barrels for my AI. And a new chassis for it. But that's it lol
 
If LRI would hurry up it will be three

Mack bros .308, krg bravo, 20" bartlein 1/10 twist Heavy Palma, area 419 2 port, Triggertech special
Howa 1500 in 6.5, 22" preferred barrels Howage, 1/8 twist, Jard trigger, 3 port Area 419,

In process Mausingfield .338 norma Improved w/ PTG bore rider throat, 28" K&P MTU barrel, Diamond Trigger, MDT ACC chassis, and Area 419 Magnum brake
 
Some bolts, mags and barrels for the AXMC if that counts
 
not nearly as many as I would have hoped I would have . only 1 this year but with ammo and supplies being so hard to get in the quantities I would like to have I get why I have not had more built .
 
three, sort of. i bought all the components (tl3 & proof carbon prefit & krg bravo) from one place and they did the assembly (6.5 prc). 2nd i bought a tikka t3x lite and sent it and the proof carbon prefitbarrel out to have that installed (6.5 creed). third i finally did it all myself, bought another tikka and swapped the barrel out with a proof carbon prefit (300wsm).

the whole prefit thing is a total gamechanger. making bolt guns pretty much as easy and fun as AR's to assemble and swap stuff around.
 
None……waiting what feels like an eternity for ATX with 2 barrels and a vudoo over here in Australia. WTF!!!! Over it!!
 
5.

T1x for NRL22
Tikka T3 in 6 XC
Tikka T3 in 6.5 Timberwolf (6.5 Dasher)
Lone Peak Fuzion in 6 GT (replaced the XC)
My GAP Tempest comes in in the next few weeks
 
Can it really be considered that you "built" a rifle-- when you just screw a few parts together?
 
Wasn't trying to be a dick.... just my opinion that assembling doesn't equal building. My table was delivered without the legs on so that it could fit through the door- and each had to be bolted on- so now I'm a carpenter?

In any case- my goal for this year is to shoot the ones I have more, and not acquire another one to go in the back of the safe.
 
Wasn't trying to be a dick.... just my opinion that assembling doesn't equal building. My table was delivered without the legs on so that it could fit through the door- and each had to be bolted on- so now I'm a carpenter?

In any case- my goal for this year is to shoot the ones I have more, and not acquire another one to go in the back of the safe In my opinion assemble sounds like something someone would say if they put the bare minimum

I built 2 rifles , built 2 houses also .

Built is the correct word , fact over opinion for the win.
 
Working on my first right now, slowly getting the pieces.
 
People are still using bolt action rifles? Is that the thing you have to fiddle with every time you want to make your gun go boom again?

Must be a nostalgia thing.
 
I would consider it build if I just collected parts and screwed them together.

By the time I cut threads, cut chamber, headspace, make pillars, and glass bed.... I have taken it apart and put it together 50 times.
 
I am half way through this month's build.
 

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Finished two more:
1938 Turk Mauser Pac Nor 280ai
1903 Turk Mauser Hart 243
 

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started another one.....6.5-06 Mauser
 

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