Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Custom Rifles & Wildcats Mistakes made on custom builds??

My biggest regret was always short magazine box and Long loaded cartridge OAL to where I had no room to chase the lands. NEVER AGAIN!!!

I found that expecting a gunsmith to work cheap or for nothing is really bad thinking.

Better success is found from a gunsmith if I provide my own reamer, barrel, stock, and action.

Give written instructions to the gunsmith in great detail.

Learned this the hard way, if you are wanting a super accurate rifle, then a #4 shilen contour is minimum and #5 Shilen contour is preferable, cut the barrel short if you want to save weight on the above.