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For hunting next month I have 2 whitetail doe tags, one any deer tag, and two antelope tags.

I have been working on (5) rifles in the shop full time for 2 weeks and need to leave for long range target practice with the rifles in 3 weeks:
1) expensive rifle Win M70 25-06
2) cheap rifle [$80 so far] Arisaka 99 308
3) lite rifle [6.5 # so far] Rem700 6mmBR
4) heavy rifle Rem700 7mmRemMag
5) original factory barrel Browning B78 25-06

I have the headspace right on the 4 barrels I worked on.
The 7mm is waiting for bottom metal to arrive before bedding. The other 4 are pillared and bedded.

Last year I built 3 rifles for 3 tags, but after target practice I gave up on one of them and only used the 6.5-06 and 300WM to fill the tags.