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8mm-06 or 9.3x62

416 Taylor, Keep going up. You have the bottom end pretty well covered.

Mad_Mikee,
With a line up like that, you simply have to have a 30-06 AI. You have gotten the bug with your .280AI and for those 1/4 % of 1% of the times you ABSOLUTELY need an extra 25 fps from your 200 or 220 grain bullets over your standard anemic 30-06's; you MUST AI this one!

Sell that rifle at a profit and look at better designs in chamberings that interest you more.

I don't see a .270Win...Grin ScottyO.

That's my vote, too.

Actually, the argument to sell off a pile of them and go on an exotic hunt somewhere is the best advise I've heard.....JMO tho.....

Im more of a shooter than a hunter. I do go out and shoot my one or two deer a year but I'd much rather spend time at the shooting and loading bench or in the shop working on my rifles.

I enjoy playing around with all the different cartridges and various types of rifles.

I'd say that most of the rifles I own have custom barrels on them, quite a few I installed myself.

To me, building guns is a learning experience and something I enjoy doing. I've mainly worked on the Rem 700 platform but I'm slowly starting to install barrels on other brands/models as well.

So far everything has been bolt action, but I might look into doing a Ruger #1 at some point.

There is a sense of accomplishment when you can get out and shoot something you've worked on.

Mad Mikee,

Compare the machinery, the CRF and decent trigger and safety on say a M70 or mauser to the 700. The 700 has a brazed on handle, a brazed on locking lug bolt section, troublesome trigger, cheap snap on extractor, plunger ejector etc.

Pick a well designed action to work on.

The just sell that 700 30-06 and move on to anything better. That's easy!

I don't see any Normas on there, how about a 375 Norma or 358 Norma. Open the bolt face install sako/M16 and you're good.

Adam

Lots of bases covered but you are determined to play,so....

How about a fast twist 22 on the 6mm Rem or 257 Roberts case and shoot those 75 gr Amax?

Today this idea is known as the 224 Texas Trophy Hunter or something like that...but years back it used to be known as the 224 Clark, a wildcat sort of ahead of the bullets available at the time.

It should give that bullet more velocity than the 22-250 case would and I hear from reliable sources the 75 Amax is a really good bullet.

Can't be a bad thing if it beats a 22-250 by a couple hundred feet per second, no?

The 7saum has always intrigued me...

a 26 nosler would be fun...until it burns out at 1000 rounds! lol

338 federal.

Also an interesting one to me, but I'd keep it on a short action.

The long action will be better suited for 250gr or longer bullets, which would be my pick. Makes a great bush thumper. Any smaller, I would just use a .308.

7x57

I was actually looking at the 338 Federal not too long ago. Might be handy to build it on a long action for the heavier bullets.

I was hoping to one day build a 338-300wsm on a Sako 75 platform. Just waiting to see how a friend likes the one he's currently building on a Kimber

You gotta build a .308. It's a travesty that you don't own at least one!

9.3x62mm

Laffin. Had Bobby Hart tell me years ago that bore scoped one of the first Sendero 7 STW's with aprox 800 rds down the tube and said that the first 4 inches of rifling were barely visible.

22TTH or 9.3x62 or 370 Sako (aka 9.3x66)