Anyone have a Red Hawk rifle or Nosler rifle? Any other brands you have experience with? Just don't want to spend 4 or 5 grand or more on a custom rifle. This would be solely a hunting rifle, deer, hogs etc ..... probably go back with a 300 Win mag and I don't reload. I do know that these are not true customs but more like "customized". Thanks for the help.

Buy a $550 Tikka and upgrade the stock.

Work it like a rented mule.

Oh, and spend some of the budget hiring Chad to work up a custom load for the rifle.

After all that it'll shoot tighter than you expected.

What stock? Arthritis dictates either something to soak up recoil or a brake .... or both. Love the 300 WM though.

More aftermarket bolt on type stuff for the Remington 700. Then grab yourself some spray cans or an airbrush and paint it however you would like.

Pricey, but Mcmillan or Manners is quality. For a hunting stock I ordered and recieved a Manners MCS-EH1 for a friend's .300 Win Mag. Crazy light, narrow forearm that is just wide enough for a bipod, and the all important vertical grip.

There is plenty of aftermarket support for Tikkas, every modification you could ever want.

Send Derrick at horizon a remington action and a manners stock. Give him about some money and you Candace a solid semi custom.

Should be less than 2k

Add Cooper to the list. I've shot all three. All have pluses and minuses IMO. The Cooper and RedHawk where top accuracy with the nosler a few tenths behind but all three where different calibers. Liked the Nosler action better then Cooper, but Cooper shot better. RedHawk is just a re barreled and trued Remington. He use to be a steal for what you got but he has gotten up there in price.

I have a trued remington revarrled rifle that Derrick@ horizon built me and its hell of a gun

All good advice guys, thanks. Given me something to think on.

Boom.

Drop it in a B&C stock for around $250.

Work up a load for it and go play.

Hey fireman do you know any stocks being made for the tikka CTR yet

Same action as the T-3, right?

Then the big boys have the programs built into the mills, just tell them barrel contour.

Whiskey X-ray etc is drop in I believe.

I would recommend cooper at around 2500, that gives money for scope and load work-up. Before deer season I shot a quick three shot group with hornaday sst box ammo out of my cooper and it was 1/2 moa, and when I mean quick it was shoot as quick as it could be loaded and no cool down or anything. With a load build up by chad I bet that would cut in half again, at a minimum. With all the factory ammo I tried I was moa or sub moa with the gun, but the hornaday sst seemed to be the best.

Although would be fun to have a custom build, but those seem to be a little more money in the end.

Having the budget you have gives some flexibility

What do you expect to gain from a custom rifle over a factory rifle with a few upgrades? Accuracy wise, a Savage, Remington or tikka in a barrel contour of your choice, with a quality aftermarket stock, trigger, and optics would likely shoot just as well (or absolutely close enough for hunting with) and be thousands less. For a few hundred more you could replace the barrel with a great aftermarket barrel, and have everything you could want.

I have a tikka CTR I've been very happy with it. The CTR has a detachable mag but I'm not sure it fits the typical t3 stocks

I have 2 tikkas and love shooting those over anything else!

Alamo Precision, here in Texas, is doing the same thing as Redhawk for allot less

I DONT GET the cooper craze... Why pay that much... you can have a real custom built for that.

http://www.aprifles.com/pages/apr-rifles

Call Jason and Robert... they will take care of you

yalls poor man vocabulary is pretty fancy

Been hearing a lot of good things about their work

What goals are you wanting this gun to accomplish that a tika, savage, Remington, wby, ruger, etc. factory rifle cant other than cost more money?

A simple semi "custom" rifle would be the Tikka T3 builds we have done. Buy a new Tikka T3 and take off the factory barrel, and chamber a custom in a caliber you want with a precision barrel. We have built these for about $1600-$1700, depending on a few factors. I will guarantee less than 1/2 MOA with my custom ammo with these rifles. They are a very good build with a great rifle platform for precision shooting. I know shooters who have competed with these rifles.

This...

I bought a Tikka. Kept the action. Replaced the barrel and stock. I think I'd buy the less expensive stock from KRG on another build though.

Looked at their website, that is pretty much what I'm wanting. I like the spiral fluting etc.... I know it doesn't make it shoot better but a little "bling" is good sometimes lol.

Thanks for all the help/advice everyone, really appreciate it.

No matter which direction I go, a trip to Chad for load development is already planned.