Your long gun purchasing philosophy

[dom1104]

My 'philosophy' is to select a spectacular bullet, determine a suitable chambering with which to drive it as fast as is reasonable, then select a rifle with a mag box and throat that allow the above bullet seated in the above brass to reach the lands in repeater configuration. So my rifles currently start with something like a 75 AMax, 85 TSX, 105 AMax, 162 AMax, 30 Scenar....thats pretty much it.

Then depending on what I plan to do with the thing the other parts fall in line. For a fixed position rifle maybe a #4 contour, or #5 on a boomer. Stick with sporter weight on factory barrels. Maybe a laminate stock, or heavy fill McMillan A5 if I have one. For a hunting/walking around/utility rifle I tend toward LW contour barrels, an McM Edge or standard filled MR. Either way, cut the barrel to achieve proper balance.

Mount a good quality non-moon scope in good mounts, so Talleys for the latter and Seekins for the former unless I have something else laying in front of me.

There are a slight handful of stock rifles that fit into the above. The majority make useless concessions: pointless weight, bad balance and handling, bendy stocks, tight mag boxes, bendy actions, fragile, too many bolt lugs, lousy recoil lugs, etc etc.

Wow.

 

[Yeah]

I've never enjoyed doing things halfway, and I'd rather have one good rifle than 10 dozen lousy ones.

If it came down to cutting my own hair I could get the rest of the way through life with a single Kimber Montana in 243AI and a stack of spare barrels.

 

[ruger7722]

30 % at least profit or i am not buying.