My BF and I shot our first longe range match recently. The match director helped us get our rifles sighted in and data entered into the ballistics app and refined on the range the day before the match. With the match director making the wind calls for us, I was pinging the 800 yard target with my precision AR, and my BF was doing the same with his .308 varmint rifle. We were both using vortex Viper gen2 scopes. Of course, we didn’t do so well making our own wind calls at the match, but neither of us finished last, so that’s something.
I’ve already ordered a custom rifle with high quality options such as a 6mm creedmoor barreled surgeon action, trigger tech special, mpa chassis, and Schmidt ultra short 3-20. My BF is taking a much more frugal route with the ruger precision rifle in 6mm creedmoor and he will put the vortex scope on it for now.
I was trying to get on here to see if he could buy some hand me down used gear that would be better, but I just learned he already paid for the ruger.
The price of the ruger seems alarmingly low to me. Just replacing the barrel on my rifle will cost more than his rifle. Has he made s bad decision? Should he view the ruger as a disposable rifle to be discarded when the barrel needs to be replaced? He has an atlas bipod for it and he will be getting a suppressor once the paperwork clears. Should he avoid upgrading it, or are there some upgrades that could be transferred over to a custom rifle later? Scope obviously. What about trigger? I don’t know if triggers can be easily moved from one rifle to another. Anything else? Thanks.
I’ve already ordered a custom rifle with high quality options such as a 6mm creedmoor barreled surgeon action, trigger tech special, mpa chassis, and Schmidt ultra short 3-20. My BF is taking a much more frugal route with the ruger precision rifle in 6mm creedmoor and he will put the vortex scope on it for now.
I was trying to get on here to see if he could buy some hand me down used gear that would be better, but I just learned he already paid for the ruger.
The price of the ruger seems alarmingly low to me. Just replacing the barrel on my rifle will cost more than his rifle. Has he made s bad decision? Should he view the ruger as a disposable rifle to be discarded when the barrel needs to be replaced? He has an atlas bipod for it and he will be getting a suppressor once the paperwork clears. Should he avoid upgrading it, or are there some upgrades that could be transferred over to a custom rifle later? Scope obviously. What about trigger? I don’t know if triggers can be easily moved from one rifle to another. Anything else? Thanks.
