After hours of research on 308's within my price range here in the uk, I have found an
excellant bunch of chaps that offer full/semi custom builds on various rifles, reasonably local to me, and I am going to visit them on Friday to talk to them and hopefully place a deposit on my first 308.
It will basically be a remmy 700 action and barrel, dropped into an AI version 1.5 stock/chassis system.
My question is.. Within my price range I think I have 2 options of barrel.. A rem 700 sps (26")
or for a little extra money the VSF barrel..
The rifle will be used predominantly for targets, mostly out to about 500yrds on our homemade range, with occasional 800yrd shooting when weather allows me on different location.
What are your opinions on the 2 different barrels, and which would you choose?
Both will be re-crowned, muzzle threaded for moderator, and generally 'fettled' as the chap says, so won't be exactly 'out the box'.
I will be using handloads, but which do you think would offer best accuracy?
I currently shoot sub .5 MOA (average) out to 500yrds with my factory sako 22-250.. So want to better that if possible!!
Thanks, giles.
excellant bunch of chaps that offer full/semi custom builds on various rifles, reasonably local to me, and I am going to visit them on Friday to talk to them and hopefully place a deposit on my first 308.
It will basically be a remmy 700 action and barrel, dropped into an AI version 1.5 stock/chassis system.
My question is.. Within my price range I think I have 2 options of barrel.. A rem 700 sps (26")
or for a little extra money the VSF barrel..
The rifle will be used predominantly for targets, mostly out to about 500yrds on our homemade range, with occasional 800yrd shooting when weather allows me on different location.
What are your opinions on the 2 different barrels, and which would you choose?
Both will be re-crowned, muzzle threaded for moderator, and generally 'fettled' as the chap says, so won't be exactly 'out the box'.
I will be using handloads, but which do you think would offer best accuracy?
I currently shoot sub .5 MOA (average) out to 500yrds with my factory sako 22-250.. So want to better that if possible!!
Thanks, giles.