Alright guy let me start off by saying i'm pretty new to the hide, and love it so far, lots of great information and great guys.
I am currently still in college at UA (ROLL TIDE) and i have a horrible (or wonderful) addiction, GUNS GUNS GUNS, but let's stay on the main topic here. I will not be out of college for another year and a half, and therefore will not have that much income until then, so my plan is to either buy each part as $$$ becomes available or save and buy all at once when im out in the real world. Also i guess this technically isnt my "first" build, I have a rem 700 7mm rem mag that I put into a B&C a5 but that's about it.
Alright here's what I got so far on the "Christmas list" of parts:
Action: Surgeon short action
Stock: AICS 2.0 (i have seen some people that say "AICS modified for surgeon" and the such. what modifications need to be made for it to fit? from what I know the surgeon is a 700 footprint so should fit perfectly right?)
Trigger: jewell trigger
Barrel: Bartlein 6.5mm, can't decide between #6,7, and 9 contours. What do you guys think? Planning on chambering for 6.5x47 lapua. Also twist rates? Will mostly be shooting 139gr scenar and 140gr A-max. 1-8 or 1-8.5 with 5r rifling?
Lastly once I get all the parts together and I wand say GAP to put it together i send them the barrel blank, action, and trigger and ask them to chamber/install it for me and crown the muzzle will it be the $350 service (which includes truing) or the $250 (says for action already trued by GAP)? I would think the $250 because the reason im buying a surgeon action is because it is already trued, so i don't want to pay an extra $100 to true something that's already true
Thanks, Andrew
I am currently still in college at UA (ROLL TIDE) and i have a horrible (or wonderful) addiction, GUNS GUNS GUNS, but let's stay on the main topic here. I will not be out of college for another year and a half, and therefore will not have that much income until then, so my plan is to either buy each part as $$$ becomes available or save and buy all at once when im out in the real world. Also i guess this technically isnt my "first" build, I have a rem 700 7mm rem mag that I put into a B&C a5 but that's about it.
Alright here's what I got so far on the "Christmas list" of parts:
Action: Surgeon short action
Stock: AICS 2.0 (i have seen some people that say "AICS modified for surgeon" and the such. what modifications need to be made for it to fit? from what I know the surgeon is a 700 footprint so should fit perfectly right?)
Trigger: jewell trigger
Barrel: Bartlein 6.5mm, can't decide between #6,7, and 9 contours. What do you guys think? Planning on chambering for 6.5x47 lapua. Also twist rates? Will mostly be shooting 139gr scenar and 140gr A-max. 1-8 or 1-8.5 with 5r rifling?
Lastly once I get all the parts together and I wand say GAP to put it together i send them the barrel blank, action, and trigger and ask them to chamber/install it for me and crown the muzzle will it be the $350 service (which includes truing) or the $250 (says for action already trued by GAP)? I would think the $250 because the reason im buying a surgeon action is because it is already trued, so i don't want to pay an extra $100 to true something that's already true
Thanks, Andrew
