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Also built on a Remington action?

What comes out of the custom shop is a whole nuther ball game than stock production. I wonder who's barrels they will use? McGowen maybe.


It's kind of like a car company showing a race car to promote it's self. Ain't nuthin under that body stock.

Pugs already hit it on the head regarding upgrade vs. new. In the acquisition world it is vastly simpler to "upgrade" something instead of acquiring something new. Even if the "upgrade" shares almost nothing with the original.

I'm sure this will be very successful. Would you want to be moving around the mtns of Afghanistan knowing there are trained snipers with 300 WMs looking for you? Probably not a plan for success for the the bad guys.

Pretty sure you are out on that broken limb alone.

Been done for years and being done daily by guys in the sand box using Leupolds, NF and SBs.

A great system in a great caliber that has been used for years by some of the SOF units.

BH

Some of these boys just can't get over the fact that nobody competes with Remington actions when it comes to accuracy.

That sums it up.

Yep, that must be it.

Just a fact.

Isn't really so. What is true is that the tubular action is easier to tune/blueprint and bed. Savage makes a great action for tuning/blueprinting. Given equal money spent, and care taken, the Savage action gives up nothing to Remington.

Is that why David Tubbs was able to use a Winchester pre-64 action and kick the but of those using the Rem-700?

That's one

This is gonna be fun...

I've got a short action Rem "one Holer" that I built years ago,.....on a leeeeeean budget,...ALL of the resource available went into a quality barrel, and a Holland lug.

I've also got a CAN fulla' bust off Remington Bolt handles somewhere around here,...the two in the photo were chosen to illustrate how CRAPPY the production grade Copper braze process became, at one point,.......

I really don't have a dog in this fight, ......but it just seems WEIRD to recycle those actions, and I'll have to trust Pugs's call out on that.

PROPERLY planned refitting assumed, those "Run in" donor receivers have got potential for being the platform for WICKEDLY accurate 300WMs.

I'm just GLAD to see the services catching up to the ballistics that have been part and parcel of the 1000 yd competition game for so long, and hope those 220 messengers FEAST on our enemy's blood,.......IN SWARMS.

GTC

There's a distinct need for a sarcasm font on the campfire.

The only reason you guys are using Remingtons is that your laws prevent your troops having AI's or Sako TRG's...Even the Mk13 isn't a Remington action..

Well the UK is importing warmed over LMT's, no?

I ain't getting involved with this but I will set one thing right. You can't suppress a super sonic round but if you are getting shot at with a suppressed supersonic round, you cannot tell where it came from. You just hear the "crack" as the bullet passes you. That, is very important if you are the one pulling the trigger.

LMAO. First thing I thought of when I read it.....

Never shot with GD Tubb but everyone I ever saw at Benning or River Bend was shooting push feed Winchesters, if using that brand

Not saying they couldn't use CRF just never saw one myself.

Mike

So??? plus it's not a Remington!!