A good friend is looking to build his 'ultimate' hunting rifle. He is unlike me in that he wants basically one REALLY nice rifle whereas I have 4 or 5 'nice' hunting rifles.
He is Left-Handed (not sure how much this limits choices). His use will be deer and elk, and he hunts in the open country of Eastern Oregon. His chambering of choice is 300wm. He is an experienced hunter, maybe not as knowledgeable as many of you in custom rifles. He wanted to get into LR tactical scopes and used a NXS 5.5-22x50 on his Abolt this year. He will be using that scope on this future build.
He is heavily favoring a Defiance Deviant Hunter LA. He was thinking a stock along the lines of a Manners MCS EH4, but is looking for ideas. Other thoughts at this point are HS Prec DBM and a timney.
This won't be a dedicated LR rig, more of an all-around with a hopeful rifle-only weight of around 7lbs.
Any thoughts on barrel length/contour he should choose (he wants fluting), and maybe a light-ish stock to get him a well-balanced rifle coming in at that weight?
Thanks in advance...
