Ok, so I just built myself (ie modified an existing rifle) my "new" go to hunting rifle. Purpose is to go after everything from white tail to elk.
Right now, it is a 24" Tikka in 7 Rem Mag with a threaded barrel running a can. And unfortunately it is sitting in a KRG Echo stock (in retrospect, I should have simply gone for the MDT Oryx chassis instead (which I run on another gun and love for a budget stock / chassis).
I'm really fighting with myself to have my smith cut the barrel down to 18" or even less. I mean, it is a hunting rifle. 7 Rem Mag, even through a 16.5 or 18" barrel is more than sufficient to ethically kill an Elk at 500 yards, and I don't really see myself shooting past that from an ethical perspective. And the fact that it will be light and maneuverable and easy to ruck with (even with a relatively short titanium can on the end) just makes it awesomer. Yes, I invented that word, but I shouldn't have needed to. I also figure the can will help temper the fireball that erupts out of the front when I shoot.
Besides heresy, what good reasons are there to not do this (based on the conditions I said above)?
Cheers!
Right now, it is a 24" Tikka in 7 Rem Mag with a threaded barrel running a can. And unfortunately it is sitting in a KRG Echo stock (in retrospect, I should have simply gone for the MDT Oryx chassis instead (which I run on another gun and love for a budget stock / chassis).
I'm really fighting with myself to have my smith cut the barrel down to 18" or even less. I mean, it is a hunting rifle. 7 Rem Mag, even through a 16.5 or 18" barrel is more than sufficient to ethically kill an Elk at 500 yards, and I don't really see myself shooting past that from an ethical perspective. And the fact that it will be light and maneuverable and easy to ruck with (even with a relatively short titanium can on the end) just makes it awesomer. Yes, I invented that word, but I shouldn't have needed to. I also figure the can will help temper the fireball that erupts out of the front when I shoot.
Besides heresy, what good reasons are there to not do this (based on the conditions I said above)?
Cheers!
