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Rifle "Build"
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02/12/15 06:39 PM
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What do you consider a rifle "Build"?
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/12/15 06:42 PM
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I guess it depends on individual meaning. I will say that any modification outside of factory rifle is a "build". You took a factory item and changed it so it's been "built" in a way. I can see where others would say that a "build" is when you piece the entire thing together, which makes sense too.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/12/15 06:44 PM
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Custom or semi custom. Painting a factory rifle and putting a brake on it isn't a build.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/12/15 06:50 PM
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Depends on the type or rifle. An AR build to me is one assembled from parts. A bold gun build would be reworked or custom action, new barrel or re-chamber, after market stock and etc. Not just a stock and bolt knob.
Just to make sure that it is done thoroughly, I go both ways.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/12/15 06:50 PM
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Rifle built from components to your spec. Not off the shelf, or modified off the self.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
[Re: redchevy]
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02/12/15 07:29 PM
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Well, since you asked, I have been thinking about all these "custom" rifles folks talk about and I do not see the vast majority of it as anything more than changing out stuff. There is no real definition, but here is mine:
1)Swapping out actions/barrels/triggers/stocks is not a "custom rifle" or "build". It's just ordering stuff and putting it together;
2)Doing the above and/or reaming a chamber for a new caliber, do a little trigger filing, inserting a recoil reducing system of some kind, etc. can be called a "semi-custom build" I guess. But it's not much more than #1 above;
#1 and #2 can be done with just a few hours of work.
3) A true "custom build" IMO is everything made to a client's specifications from the ground up and done to exact tolerances. In other words, a BUNCH of work. Custom fitted stock, action/trigger either built or worked on a lot down to super tight tolerances, etc., etc., etc. Many, many hours of work.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/12/15 07:38 PM
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If the action isn't something you can go to Academy/Dicks/BPS or Cabelas then it's a custom build. It's that simple in my eyes. The rest is semi-custom.
But I'm an action snob.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/12/15 07:46 PM
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If the action isn't something you can go to Academy/Dicks/BPS or Cabelas then it's a custom build. It's that simple in my eyes. The rest is semi-custom.
But I'm an action snob. So if I go to academy and buy a Remington 700 sps and take it to my gunsmith and he throws everything away but the action and the bolt and builds a firearms out of those two parts its not a custom?
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/12/15 08:05 PM
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Nope that is a semi custom.
I have a Remington 700 with a one piece fluted PTG bolt with a Kreiger barrel and I consider that a semi custom.
My next rifle will be 100% custom. It will be on a Stiller action.
The best ones are the guys that build a custom off the Savage actions. Or build a "custom" AR by throwing on a few accessories.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/12/15 08:12 PM
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There are lots of gun plumbers that aren't gun smiths.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/12/15 08:23 PM
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Agree with both those posts above. NewJeep's is as close to a custom as you can get (especially with the bolt upgrade, sounds like a nice gun btw) but at the end of the day it's still a Remington semi custom gun.
BIL makes a good point too...but I still say if a plumber assembles on a custom action...it's a custom, but odds are it isn't going to shoot like a custom assembled by a true smith.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/12/15 08:24 PM
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I would consider it a "build" once the barrel leaves the action, even if the same barrel is re-installed.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/12/15 10:25 PM
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I'm with NP on the 'build' definition. I've got a few rifles with original stock and action, but with new triggers and barrels and action tune-ups. I don't consider them to be custom rifles or even a "build". They are just improved, or you can call them semi-custom. Got another one under the knife at Horizon right now. Can't wait to get it back. That's the one that I recently wanted your opinions on 223 or 223 AI. Not going AI.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/12/15 10:44 PM
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I took a Colt SP1 completely apart and put it back together just so I can call it a build.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/12/15 11:51 PM
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So if you take a Remington 700 action off of a new rifle and have it blueprinted to tolerances of .0003, square the bolt face, spiral flute the bolt, add a custom machined bolt knob. Marry that to a high grade aftermarket barrel chambered to the customers desired caliber, have the barreled action cerakoted, bed it in a quality aftermarket stock after the trigger has been tuned or replaced. It's still not a custom build because you started with a factory action?
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/13/15 12:41 AM
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So if you take a Remington 700 action off of a new rifle and have it blueprinted to tolerances of .0003, square the bolt face, spiral flute the bolt, add a custom machined bolt knob. Marry that to a high grade aftermarket barrel chambered to the customers desired caliber, have the barreled action cerakoted, bed it in a quality aftermarket stock after the trigger has been tuned or replaced. It's still not a custom build because you started with a factory action? I would call that one custom. Some might call it semi-custom. It's a continuum. A "custom" is built from scratch to the owner's specs with that owner's dimensions and desires in mind from the get-go. Some makers even machine their own proprietary actions and the owner picks his stock blank. Etc., etc... That gets into some big $$$.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/13/15 12:43 AM
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So if you take a Remington 700 action off of a new rifle and have it blueprinted to tolerances of .0003, square the bolt face, spiral flute the bolt, add a custom machined bolt knob. Marry that to a high grade aftermarket barrel chambered to the customers desired caliber, have the barreled action cerakoted, bed it in a quality aftermarket stock after the trigger has been tuned or replaced. It's still not a custom build because you started with a factory action? Yeah I don't get it either. I guess it would also be a "Semi Custom" if you bought said Remington action from brownells and slapped it together.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/13/15 12:46 AM
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So when you shoot an animal with a custom, does he die deader than one shot with a semi custom or a factory rifle?
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/13/15 12:47 AM
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So if you take a Remington 700 action off of a new rifle and have it blueprinted to tolerances of .0003, square the bolt face, spiral flute the bolt, add a custom machined bolt knob. Marry that to a high grade aftermarket barrel chambered to the customers desired caliber, have the barreled action cerakoted, bed it in a quality aftermarket stock after the trigger has been tuned or replaced. It's still not a custom build because you started with a factory action? That's a semi custom in my opinion though it will shoot as good. To me custom is a "special" action, barrel, length of pull, color, color of stock and brand, and to meet a certain weight or goal. Many ideas listed above are just rebarrels.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/13/15 01:28 AM
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So if you take a Remington 700 action off of a new rifle and have it blueprinted to tolerances of .0003, square the bolt face, spiral flute the bolt, add a custom machined bolt knob. Marry that to a high grade aftermarket barrel chambered to the customers desired caliber, have the barreled action cerakoted, bed it in a quality aftermarket stock after the trigger has been tuned or replaced. It's still not a custom build because you started with a factory action? That's a semi custom in my opinion though it will shoot as good. To me custom is a "special" action, barrel, length of pull, color, color of stock and brand, and to meet a certain weight or goal. Many ideas listed above are just rebarrels. I was referring to a rifle that I had built. It meets all the specifications that have been described above with the exception of the action. In reality 99% of all actions are built in a factory whether it be in Remingtons factory of Stillers or Surgeons or those made by anyone with the exception of a one off machined action.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/13/15 01:37 AM
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True
It seems like everybody and there dog uses the Stiller brand to call them "their" action.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/13/15 01:44 AM
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What do you consider a rifle "Build"? Partial = new stock and bottom metal, or new barrel, or barrel and bottom metal. Full = buy an action (mass produced or custom) get the caliber and contour of barrel, have it threaded chambered, cut crowned and muzzle threaded, custom stock, bottom metal. All that adds up to $$$.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/13/15 01:44 AM
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I'd call it an accurized semi-custom. Majority of customs are going to be semi-custom. There's a very fine market for true custom builds.
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/13/15 01:46 AM
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So if you take a Remington 700 action off of a new rifle and have it blueprinted to tolerances of .0003, square the bolt face, spiral flute the bolt, add a custom machined bolt knob. Marry that to a high grade aftermarket barrel chambered to the customers desired caliber, have the barreled action cerakoted, bed it in a quality aftermarket stock after the trigger has been tuned or replaced. It's still not a custom build because you started with a factory action? I would call that one custom. Some might call it semi-custom. It's a continuum. A "custom" is built from scratch to the owner's specs with that owner's dimensions and desires in mind from the get-go. Some makers even machine their own proprietary actions and the owner picks his stock blank. Etc., etc... That gets into some big $$$. Don't know why it would be a semi. The action is still made just like the clone actions. So be the definition above unless the maker made the action its a semi custom. So a clone is a semi custom. I don't know about that. Edit--mike asked same question as me
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Re: Rifle "Build"
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02/13/15 01:47 AM
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I'd call it an accurized semi-custom. Majority of customs are going to be semi-custom. There's a very fine market for true custom builds. So true custom is the builder hand made the action also?
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