Like new Setup has 20 rounds of factory ammo on it. Put it together and broke barrel in per Proof recommendations then never shot it again. Wanted to use it for a bolt action thermal gun but find I prefer my gas guns over bolt with a thermal. Factory hornady 62 ELD-vt was coming out the muzzle at a bit over 3100 per my magneto speed…will prob speed up a bit after more use.
Would make a great short predator rifle.

Price includes:

- Proof sendero carbon 18” TL3 , 1:7, 1/2-28 muzzle threads
- TL3 ARC bolt head (bolt head only, bolt body and action not included)
- PTG ARC go and no-go gauges
- Hawkins Hunter ARC/Grendel Magazine

Just add your TL3 action and you are gtg…
Don’t want to separate, not looking for trades at this time

$sold shipped for all of the above

I know most people here generally tend toward actions with integrated picatinny rails because they either intend or can envision likely scenarios where they want to move scopes around to different rifles or try different scopes while maintaining a rough return to zero... but... is there any downside to an action that is only tapped for rings vs action with integral rail, all else being equal, if one fully intends to mount one particular scope to it and not move it around? I have to imagine there's some, maybe small, level of weight savings and compactness advantage to simply having rings directly attached through the tapped holes of an action without integral rails, and probably a fair bit of cost advantage too (yes, I violated my own "all else being equal" rule there), but I admit I am not confident enough to say that I have considered every little aspect of this choice.

Is there something I am overlooking beyond the idea that this prospective rifle will not have the scope moved around? Maybe something to do with eye box/eye relief adjustment range? Anything?

To be clear, I am unconcerned both with what the cool guys at the range might think about such a choice or with some mythical ideas regarding resale value at some indeterminate time point in some indeterminate future might be, I'm wondering if there's something mechanical/tangible/meaningful to the function of such an action choice given the premise that there's no intention of moving/swapping the scope (unless I have to because it broke or something, but that can happen regardless of rail vs direct threaded rings). Through much error/experience I have learned that sharing things like optics/suppressors/other parts among different guns is both annoying and suboptimal, it's worth the price to just keep each gun a complete system, well that's my opinion on it anyway, and like I said, it was formed through a few decades of trying the opposite.