I am putting together a new 30-06 rifle for hunting. I am interested in the 30-06 Serengeti German Salazar Match Grade reamer but having a hard time deciding what variant to choose. Does anyone have any experience with said reamer or variant? I reload and most likely be all over the place with bullets.
S.
Tag. Interested to read the replies.
I'll have to ping the gunsmith who assembled my hunting '06 way back when (he's retired). He chose to use a Serengeti reamer, but I never drilled down on the details of it.
All I told him was I'd be shooting 180 gr. Partition handloads @ 2700 - 2750 fps and I'd need to be able to shoot factory ammo in a pinch somewhere's in the world..
It's the most accurate big game custom rifle I own.
I know a few people on here have had one done, hopefully they chime in.
Explain the differences between the variants.
I've had 3 done with the serengeti over the years. One Broughton barrel, one brux, and one rock. I wS determined to build a go anywhere do anything rifle so I of course chose 30-06.
To be honest I never could get the accuracy I was looking for but I did them all on the same action, a single point trued stainless 700, and I think that is the week link.
I still have the barreled action in its last attempt with a 9.33 twist rock creek barrel on it. I gave up working with it about 7 years ago. It shot some loads ok but is a 1.25" moa gun on average.
I took the brux I had on it prior and had a local guy turn the threads down to standard rem threads and put it on a plain untrued rem action. I've only taken it out a few times but it seemed to shoot substantially better than it did on the trued action. I don't know if he had to set it back and chased the chamber with a different reamer and he passed away before I could ask him.
I tried all kinds of bullets in the 3 over the years from 208 amaxes down to 125 NBTs and lots in between. The serengeti is a good match type reamer but I'm not sure what different ones you speak of. Somewhere around the house I may have the reamer print of the one I used but I don't know if I could find it. I actually used 2 different smith's who both said they had serengeti readers. The second one sent me the print first.
Over a dozen years ago I had my 300 wsm built too on a stiller predator with a #4 24" fluted brux. It shoots amazing like I hoped the 30-06 does but took some work to get it to feed well and to eject without hitting the windage turret. I hate m16 style extractors on bolt guns. I sill would like a great shooting custom 30-06 on a Remington someday for the slick feeding, 5 in the mag, and worldwide ammo availability but I don't travel far to hunt anymore anyways.
If you know what bullet you want just spec out your own reamer. Tighten up the neck a bit, go with a better lead angle and tighter throat and set the depth to your preferred bullet. As long as its not too short everything else should work for it. Just make sure it has enough throat for a round nose too if you want to be able to use ammo picked up abroad in a pinch.
Bb
Interesting. This ones being built on a Defiance AnTi. Would like it to shoot 165s - 200s.
I have a timbeline with a 5r krieger that has the Serengeti chamber. I got the reamer from ptg for this project. I can't say it really made much of a difference in how well the rifle shoots compared to my other 06's. If I had it to do over, I would choose my bullets, seat it where i wanted and the send the dummy round to ptg to make a reamer for it.
Only difference is freebore length