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[67rschev]

Quality , Speed , or Inexpensive

You only get to choose two of the three . These pieces are labors of love . I waited 6 months for Obermeyer to complete the barrel , then another 4 months at the gunsmith . Was worth every minute of the wait and you will be happy that you didn't shortcut the build in the end .

Plus it will give you some time to save for the optic , don't shortcut that either . They hold value , just as a firearm does . And if your dead set on 7 mag , your gonna want a good brake as shooting 50 plus rounds in a session would be rather brutal , I know I would pick up a flinch after 20 or so

[silentshooter]

The SWFA glass is a great bang for the buck, My 308 at the moment has a Premier 5-25x that cost as much as the rifle. I have been drooling over a new S&B 5-25x tan but find it hard to spend $3500+ on glass at the moment. (if they still had the Gen II reticles I would probably already own it).

If you can not get the glass you want now because of funds, I would hold off as long as possible and see if you can get what you want by the time the rifle is built. No matter how good of a rifle it is, if you can't see what you want to hit its not going to matter.

[JMBD2112]

Hopefully that one will be mine this weekend...

I bought the same optic to start. It has served me well. I'm trying to get a Schmidt by this spring....

[islandermyk]

Get a good scope first... along with the rings and mount.

shoot it and see how it performs first before doing any work on it. Just see what you can do with it along with what it has to offer you, and then tear it up and move on to improving it.

I've seen some good bone stock rifles out there that shot under 1 moa 5 shot groups at a 100 yards... maybe yours will perform better than you'll expect?

The sky is the limit on a long range rifle and you'll have a lifetime doing it. Buy once! Cry once... and you will cry once... just once....

This is far more worse than building an AR... as some would say "Welcome to the Darkside"

[Madusa]

Is this a joke?

[quickdraw]

Is this a joke?

Is this a joke?

[SA Friday]

cry once.

[islandermyk]

cry once.

only once....

[islandermyk]

Is this a joke?

what you mean?

[ColoFarmer]

Well, picked up the 700 today, tomorrow it goes to my gunsmith, we'll get the barrel ordered and hopefully the muzzle brake. Recommendations? Looked at the American Precision brakes. Going to go with a Shilen barrel, seems to be the best combination of quality/price/lead time.

On a scope, may have found a deal on a Zeiss Conquest, from reading online seems like a decent scope, anybody here have experience with them? Thinking I will go a Picatinny rail for the mounts, just because they seem to be the mount system of choice.