Hey All, looking for some insight from others who may have gone down this path. They say there is no such thing as too many guns, but when you run out of room they kind of become a burden, especially if you're not attached to them.
I've decided it's time to consolidate rifles. I have a lot of furniture (wood stocked rifles) sitting around that have had no more than a box of ammo through them, but I like the calibers. I've mainly moved them to the back of the safe where they just take up room and now when I dig them out I think it's just time to start parting with some of them.
I've converted a handful of 700 ADL rifles to remage barrels and so far have been please with the outcomes on those projects, especially for hunting rifles that I don't have to baby. I've accumulated more of those over the years and several of them are fully set up for either hunting or just shooting targets. In the end, I look at what I have and just see a bunch of redundancy. Multiple scopes, stocks, chassis, similar calibers, etc. While it's all fun and I have a blast doing it, it's time to take a little more minimalist approach.
Enter the idea floating around in my brain that I've half started - and why this is in the bolt actions section. A couple of years back I purchased and ARC Nucleus short action gen 2 that I decided would become a switch barrel rifle. 2 stocks, 1 trigger, 2 scopes, 5 barrels. That would replace 4 guns in my safe and add a caliber I don't have. The ones to be replaced are rifles I like, 1 of which I actually hunt with and the others that haven't been shot in a few years which would be better served in the hands of people who would appreciate them
For the frequency that I would switch barrels, I have plenty of time to set up at the bench, swap the barrel, go to the range and get sighted in for whatever I'm hunting. I'm considering doing the same setup in a long action which would replace another 2 rifles but open the door for a couple more calibers to have fun with.
Anybody else ever go down this path of building a switch barrel setup mainly for hunting and/or punching paper?
I've decided it's time to consolidate rifles. I have a lot of furniture (wood stocked rifles) sitting around that have had no more than a box of ammo through them, but I like the calibers. I've mainly moved them to the back of the safe where they just take up room and now when I dig them out I think it's just time to start parting with some of them.
I've converted a handful of 700 ADL rifles to remage barrels and so far have been please with the outcomes on those projects, especially for hunting rifles that I don't have to baby. I've accumulated more of those over the years and several of them are fully set up for either hunting or just shooting targets. In the end, I look at what I have and just see a bunch of redundancy. Multiple scopes, stocks, chassis, similar calibers, etc. While it's all fun and I have a blast doing it, it's time to take a little more minimalist approach.
Enter the idea floating around in my brain that I've half started - and why this is in the bolt actions section. A couple of years back I purchased and ARC Nucleus short action gen 2 that I decided would become a switch barrel rifle. 2 stocks, 1 trigger, 2 scopes, 5 barrels. That would replace 4 guns in my safe and add a caliber I don't have. The ones to be replaced are rifles I like, 1 of which I actually hunt with and the others that haven't been shot in a few years which would be better served in the hands of people who would appreciate them
For the frequency that I would switch barrels, I have plenty of time to set up at the bench, swap the barrel, go to the range and get sighted in for whatever I'm hunting. I'm considering doing the same setup in a long action which would replace another 2 rifles but open the door for a couple more calibers to have fun with.
Anybody else ever go down this path of building a switch barrel setup mainly for hunting and/or punching paper?
