BlauBear wrote:Have you seen the new single shot action from Savage?

With Evelio's help.... Kitty and I have bigger plans for you

Must... resist... power... of the bling side...

Bob let's let 'Bear pick the color of the stock.....it's his gun after all.........Don't know if we can trust him with any other details.....remember his 504 fetish......notice he was talking about a savage single shot of all things.......we leave him to his own devices and may end up with a NEF Handi Rifle and a tasco 4X scope.......

Kitty

Hooo boy... This is not looking so good... Use the force...

Components aside, recoil management is the issue I have to address in this - back to the same reason I brought up the AR way back when.

Shakes, I strongly encourage you to get into HP silhouette, but proceed with caution. HP is the most expensive silhouette dicipline, period. There is nothing wrong with starting out with a factory hunting rifle, new or used, such as a Rem 700 SA, Sako, Ruger,Winchester, Browning, Kimber, etc. I am one that IS content to shoot a stock factory hunting rifle. I still shoot regularly with the first two rifles I started HP with 20 years ago. A lowly Rem 788 .308 & my favorite, the Ruger 77 MK1 7x57. The 788 still prints inch 200M groups after 4000 rds and shows little bore wear. The Ruger is what I shot my best three scores with, 32 two times and a 31. Yep.. a plain stock hunting rifle. With tuned handloads, factory rifles will keep up with the best customs. Yes, you will have to settle with "common" chamberings, but so what. Nothing wrong with the .260, 6.5x55, 7-08, 7x57, .308. They are all proven performers in the HP game. You can set up quickly and cheaply with a factory one gun HP battery, without waiting and spending a fortune on a full blown custom. And you will get plenty of seasons out of a factory barrel. The factory stocks represent the purest form in the description of a hunter rifle.
Do you handload? This will add another expence to shooting HP. Components are not cheap anymore. You will need good quality loading tools to assemble accurate match ammo.
I won state champ hunting rifle last year using my Rem 700 Classic .308 box stock factory hunting rifle. It cloverleafs at chickens.
Starting out with a custom build using a 700 action or highdollar custom is going to cost you big bucks. Action, tuning the action (needed?),quality barrel, trigger upgrade if you choose, fancy stock, and the labor the assemble it all.......then add optics.
There is alot of financial investment to consider when getting into HP silhouette, not just the rifle. My advice: start out with a Rem 700 SA...maybe a Classic in 7-08 or .308 or a DM in .260. You can still find them on the net or gunshows. Shoot the hell out of it. You can always upgrade later. The only point I am trying to make is that you are not handicapped using a stock factory rifle........Just my two cents worth, well maybe more like a dollar fifty.......Bob M.

BlauBear,

It just so happens that I have a heavy barreled 7mm-08 that I had Savage build me on their single shot action in 2004. It's not a catalog item and I had to wait on it until they found all the right pieces to build it with, but it was worth the wait. Restocked with a McMillan Master Silhouette stock and replaced the Accutrigger with a Rifle Basix. Shoots great, unfortunately I ended up having Mark Pharr build me a new HP and now this one is just gathering dust.

GTS

There you go Shakes....maybe GTS would make you a deal on that Savage!

Psst, Kitty;

Waddya think? Blau gets a stainless custom action polished chrome bright. Then you get it a Kandi Blau paint job with ghost flames on the fore end and cushy butt pad upholstered in tuck-and-roll to ease his shoulder. Then french the objective of his spotting scope and paint to match. I'm thinking a couple of little fuzzy bears hanging from that spoting scope or maybe a Blau Bear airbrushed onto the butt. Sond good?

dwl

Oh man does it ever.....I'm drooling

Kitty

jneihouse wrote:Oh man does it ever.....I'm drooling

Kitty

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Hmmmm, That's twice this week you've had the drooling thing going on. Think you may need to get that looked at

Looking at too many pretty rifles....

dwl wrote:Psst, Kitty;

Waddya think? Blau gets a stainless custom action polished chrome bright. Then you get it a Kandi Blau paint job with ghost flames on the fore end and cushy butt pad upholstered in tuck-and-roll to ease his shoulder. Then french the objective of his spotting scope and paint to match. I'm thinking a couple of little fuzzy bears hanging from that spoting scope or maybe a Blau Bear airbrushed onto the butt. Sond good?

dwl

How'd my spotting scope get drug into this?! Tuck-and-roll is reserved for the shooting jacket so the rifle can make weight, especially after all that paint!

Kitty

I think we got him scared and on the ropes. Soon he's gonna run for Evalio's corner thinkin' he's safe there! Keep the pressure on until we get our kickback.

dwl

Y'all are forcing me to innovate! Kitty knows what that means...