Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats ~GRADOUS~ PartTWO Custom308 build!!!!!! PICS!!!!!

No problem, Lol.

YesSir!...

that is one studly action I also have one and also use HS bottom metal as well on it. man what a gun for a 12 year old. I hope he understands just how cool of a gun he has.

Im super jealous!!! Fantastic rifle & shooting!! All the best brother!

CC, he doesn't.....all he asked for was a custom .308 and this is what I came up with as per build and parts, so thankful for Mr. Graduous on making this a go for him!

LoL! Mr. Swagger I wholeheartedly appreciate it. Over the years while looking at your and Stoney's rifles it was without a DOUBT who I'd be using on this build the last one(Ti300Win) and the next ones......you guys sold me!

"9lbs 11oz"

Why so heavy?

My Kimber 84M Montana weighs 6# 6oz with it's 2.5-8 Conquest and has CRF, a state of the art stock, a M70 type 3 position safety and it stays sighted in!

Your Kimber should with the little barrel, and delicate action, not to mention the 13-15oz 2.5-8 Conquest!..........and you probably have the Talley lightweights on it too!

How do you know?

I keep track of all of my range shooting. The most important shot from any of my hunting rifles or pistols is the first one.

I record where that shot hits and what the range and range conditions were.

Here is a target I fired with my 6 # 6 oz Kimber 308 at 200 yds.

POS

That's sighted in?

Was thinking the same thing....hate to see the target when its not!!!

Yes that's good for a six pound deer rifle at 200 yds!

The first and second shots hit about an inch to the left at 200 yds.

Deer hunting up North is not easy. We spend the whole day out there in the cold. Most of the time we get no shot at all.

A light rifle like that is less tiring to carry and deal with.

My favorite and most used is my Savage 99F that I have used since 1966. It's reliable and effective and not as accurate as the Kimber 308 most of the time.

However most shots with it are at close range on a moving deer.

The whole day????

OMG, say it ain't so!!

What's the matter friend?

In fact I used to spend the whole day but can't any longer due to my age.

From sun-up all the way to sun-down?

That's stretching the bounds of human endurance. No way.

Not to change the subject, but when a guy posts a thread about his new custom rifle, why do some people feel the need to pooh-pooh his choice in rifles and post pictures of their own factory rifles on the same thread?

Got any idea?

A nine plus pound 308 was 'built'!

What's it best for?

The guy who had it built.

PS, I have a 9-lb. .308, a GAP, it shoots bug-holes. Forgive me if I don't post a pic of it with my targets on Popapi's thread. I plan to use it in the next week or so to kill a doe pronghorn. They're spooky, the shot could be 500++.

If I want to go to the mountains, I'd take a 6-lb-er.

We're allowed to own more than one rifle now.

this is pretty funny hating on a guy for a 10# rifle. notice the guys that are worried to death about exactly how much their rifle weighs are generally from back east somewhere. There are some exceptions with dall sheep hunters etc. generally the guys worried about light guns live in the south and east. There are no mountains to hike, and its often a 4 wheeler ride to the deer stand.

in order to have an accurate rifle that you need or want .5moa out of. IMO you can't build the gun with a whippy light barrel. I know people pipe in and say my 6 # rifle shoots in the 2's when I do my part. yeah yeah whatever. I personally like my guns to be about 8#'s bare maybe a scosh more. This lets me go with a magnum contour barrel.

besides if your gun isn't built to shoot .5 moa, why are you even building a custom, especially in 308. that is one stud of a rifle don't let the haters tell you how heavy it is and how bad that is. to that I say toughen up and exercise more.