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No kidding-
$1250------ action
$300------- barrel
$500------- stock
$200------- bottom metal
$250------- paint/coating
$140------- trigger
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$2640 minimum and you either have to smith it yourself or spend another $350-$500.
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I don't have any "real" use for them any longer - but they sure are fun to shoot ![[Linked Image]](http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk168/Grizskins/P1000520.jpg) Cool Pic! I dig the krylon myself. Until I purchased one, I had never fired a TRG that was not kryloned by the end user. I intend to keep mine plain brown since it is not a work rifle, just a hunting/play toy.
THE CHAIR IS AGAINST THE WALL. The Tikka T3 in .308 Winchester is the Glock 19 of the rifle world. The website is up and running!www.lostriverammocompany.com
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...I do understand why people sell these rifles...they are accurately boring....  I had two Remington LTRs, one in .308 and the other in .223...they were both true .25 MOA guns for a far out as one could hold...but the stocks didn't fit me for prone shooting so instead of doing the smart thing and selling the original McMillian stock and buying something with an adjustable LOP and cheek rest I sold them... A few months ago a LNIB TRG-22 18" treaded .308 with a 16X IOR scope came up for sale for less than the price of just the rifle...so it replaced the two LTRs... Only had a chance to fire 20 round so far but once I learned how it like to be held the last 4 shot of some Lack City Match could be covered with a dime. The last two shots of the day were at 600 and they landed 2.5" apart. One thing I do have to buy is the riser that you both have...is this the same guy who sells on GunBroker? Great shooting all and have a great Christmas... Bob
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Good elk rifles, Just a bit on the heavy side... ![[Linked Image]](http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b109/IV_Troop/2011SanitizedElk1.jpg)
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THE CHAIR IS AGAINST THE WALL. The Tikka T3 in .308 Winchester is the Glock 19 of the rifle world. The website is up and running!www.lostriverammocompany.com
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Sharp rig; I like the Crown Royal rear bag!
Any chance those pictures are taken in Wyoming?
What caliber?
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The pics are all in Idaho.
The Crown Royal bag is something I came up with when I was shooting around other people and my bags would "accidentally" get picked up.
The one I am packing up the hill is a TRG 42 in 300 win. It is my dads. My wife and I were out looking to fill her cow tag last month and I am the pack mule. I carry the backpack and rifle. She carries the camera.
The second TRG is mine (the brown one) and is a TRG22 in .308
Great rifles.
THE CHAIR IS AGAINST THE WALL. The Tikka T3 in .308 Winchester is the Glock 19 of the rifle world. The website is up and running!www.lostriverammocompany.com
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Cool thread I wanted to bring back life...
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No worries,
I need to dust it off and go sit up on a hill top and kill some 'yotes or bunnies at dusk anyways. Now all I have to do is find the time.....
THE CHAIR IS AGAINST THE WALL. The Tikka T3 in .308 Winchester is the Glock 19 of the rifle world. The website is up and running!www.lostriverammocompany.com
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Regarding the "cool Elk rifle" post above...
Cool if you don't mind a 14lb carry. Best thing about the TRG-42 is ease of switch-barreling. TRG-S barrels thread perfectly, drop finished weight to about 8.5lbs and shoot like a house-on-fire.
Want even more fun? Get a .473 (12mm) bolt-body and rebarrel for .338-06 or one of the .280win variants.
Then there are the actual sporter-stocked TRG-s rifles which are fine rifles in their own right.
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I am pretty sure every poster here has much lighter rifles for mountain hunting or whatever task they choose. That being said, it is just plain fun to shoot the TRGs, and that is reason enough. It falls under the same reason why I hunt jackrabbits with .44 Mags. Because I can.  MS
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I'd hunt with a 14 lb rifle too if I had a Sherpa to carry it!  Cool rig; I'd like to shoot one some day.
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I have noticed that the TRG is not nearly as popular a rifle here as other places. The one I am currently shooting was a lot less expensive than some of the custom guns I put together in the past and in hindsight I should have purchased a TRG 22 and 42 a long time ago, along with a pair of top end scopes and called it good. I would have been a ton of money ahead. I cringe when I think of the $$ I have spent on custom rifles. Of couse the same goes for custom hanguns.... ![[Linked Image]](http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b109/IV_Troop/014-4.jpg) +1 I see you have the Sako bipod. I'm going to try and find/fit a less costly unit. Nice color, mine is green. 338 Lapua?
It is better to be judged by 12 than to be carried by 6.
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Saw a few today at a GS I hadn't ever been to.
Price was in the 3k range or so. Don't know exact because I wasn't looking at it all that hard. (Les Baer in the case below it had my eye for 1/2 that)
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TAK, Mine is not a rebarrel. Original Sako tube on this one.
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I have noticed that the TRG is not nearly as popular a rifle here as other places. The one I am currently shooting was a lot less expensive than some of the custom guns I put together in the past and in hindsight I should have purchased a TRG 22 and 42 a long time ago, along with a pair of top end scopes and called it good. I would have been a ton of money ahead. I cringe when I think of the $$ I have spent on custom rifles. Of couse the same goes for custom hanguns.... +1 I see you have the Sako bipod. I'm going to try and find/fit a less costly unit. Nice color, mine is green. 338 Lapua? The bipod shown is actually a Harris. The 6-9 swivel version with a track plate behind it. The track plate rides better over backpacks, bags, whatever and makes it harder to have an error due to canting the rifle. This TRG is the TRG 22 in .308. Green TRGs are easy to look at too.
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TAK, Mine is not a rebarrel. Original Sako tube on this one. My point is, what are you up against when it is time to rebarrel? I found a few vendors that offer barrels. VERY FEW that advertise their installation. I realize a lathe can be set up to cut any thread pitch, problem is getting some one to do it. A 700 Remington is the "small-block chevy" of the rifle world, mainly cause it is the cheapest, far and away, to work on. Just sayin'.
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