Platform of choice for distance in .308

[BPTactical]

My 1000 yd gun is built from a trued rem 700. It is the only remington I own. The rest of my bolt guns are all savages. A 700 is a good precision platform once it has been trued. A savage needs no such tweaking IMO to compare. The savage has as much aftermarket support as the 700. Shoot the sucker and see if it needs any tweaks. A new recoil lug will take about 10 minutes to replace. It will probably take longer to rebed the lug than it will to replace it. Might not need it.

Swapping barrels is so easy. Once you are ready to step up a custom barrel, you'll save a couple hundred in gunsmith fees by doing it youself.

Check out savageshooters.com and sharpshootersupply.com.

^This-
I will tell you I have never had to fill and redrill/retap the scope mount holes on a Savage, nor have I had to do trigger work because the firing pin released upon opening the bolt.
Both were instances on out of the box Remmies.
I think Savage puts out a better product from the factory.
JMHO....

[Pike10]

Here is mine. This has transformed over the last few months from an older bone stock Rem 700 .308 26" varmint.

What it has:

Badger bolt knob
McMillan A4
Jewell Trigger
M5 BDM w/ AICS mags
Larue 20 MOA Base
Leupold Mark 4 Med Rings
Leupold Mark 4 4.5 - 14 x 50 ERT TMR

What's left?

It's heading to back to the 'smith next week to get trued and fitted with a new Krieger 1-8.5 5R chambered in 260 Remington, finished length 24", with a new Badger recoil lug and FTE brake. They'll ceracote the barrel and action in OD Green. Lastly, some time in March next year it will be married up to a TBAC 30P-1.

I'm basing this building this off one I had the opportunity to shoot back in September. When done this should be a tack driver well past 1000yds.

[RARGUNS]

That is absolutely beautiful gear guys. I'm very impressed.

The only way I'm shooting anything at a 1000 yards is if I get in my car and drive up to it first.

[OgenRwot]

That's a pretty broad statement there Dirty. For one, the only cheaper "battle rifle" than the AR is a cheap AK. Secondly, precision 700s run comparably to other rifles out there. We're not talking hunting rifles, we're talking MOA or better out of the box. This is the Long Range/Precision Rifles forum. Pretty much everybody in here is going to be "modding out" their rifle. You have to in order to hit steel at 1000 yards.

Haven't even had the forum for one day and this guy is already calling everybody in here with an AR or 700 a douche bag.

[Graves]

The Rem 700 is like the ar15 of bolt guns, wannabe GI Joes love living paycheck to paycheck modding them out.

Some of us actually have the means and skills to support the habit.

BTW if the base price for an M700 is too rich for your blood, I guess I can see where you're comin from.

[theGinsue]

I've been wanting to get into a nice .308 long distance bolt rifle for some time, but two things stand in my way.

First, is the money. Yup, I'm poor and the wife doesn't want me buying any more guns (I'm getting sneaky though and starting to buy stripped lowers that I can slowly build up).

Secondly, as a lefty shooter it's damned difficult to find a left-handed bolt; particularly in .308. When I do find something, I don't have the funds to acquire it.

I love the rifles you guys have posted pics to.

GCrookston - all I can say it WOW. You made me drool! I'm envious.

[Graves]

By modding do you mean bolting on a pistol gripped stock to shoot factory ammo or pillar bedding, reloading, crowning, etc? where did i call anyone with an AR or 700 a douche bag? I do get a kick out of "gun nuts" who solely own AR's & 700's though.

Had varmint classic versions of the 700 in .22-250 & 6mm Remington & loaded my own for it, so if you want to talk go ahead. I just find it ironic that people will bash a Savage just because it cost less.

Sorry Graves, proceed to e-ball.

So who's bashing Savage? Don't cry about it bc you see more M700's here now as I'm sure more Savage owners will post. Personally I have 0 trigger time with one so I can't say anything there but of the Remmy's I do have (700p in .300wm and a 700sps tac in .308) I can say they're hard to beat for the money. I did however go the "wannabe GI-Joe" route and ditch the X-Mark Pro's (which are pretty nice for OE triggers) for Jewell's and I still had some milk money left over

ETA: I'm no "e-baller" by any stretch of the imagination, I know all too well how it is to not have the coin to get the things you want so I totally respect that. But to call folks out for going check to check to afford the things they have when you have absolutely no clue as to where their financial standing is = not cool.

[OgenRwot]

By modding do you mean bolting on a pistol gripped stock to shoot factory ammo or pillar bedding, reloading, crowning, etc?

You're the one that brought up modding and how do you know what someone shoots out of their rifle? And who cares if they do shoot factory ammo out of a $1500 rifle? It's their money, rifle, time etc. They can do whatever the hell they want.

where did i call anyone with an AR or 700 a douche bag? I do get a kick out of "gun nuts" who solely own AR's & 700's though.

I paraphrased, you said:

wannabe GI Joes love living paycheck to paycheck modding them out

And you don't have to own 37 different makes and models of firearms to consider yourself a gun nut. Here you are blasting people for spending money one way but in order to be an enthusiast you have to spend serious coin the way YOU think we should.

[OgenRwot]

Getting that rifle built was a learning experience. I would never do it again. One the other hand, I bought the Savage at Walmart for $350.00, then spent about 3x that on optics -- which is the correct way to build a tack driver.

Yeah but the M1A is history and that's the "cool factor" for me. It's like the appeal of a USGI 1911.

[Graves]

I just put a Hawke 8.5-25x42 on the sps tacticool yesterday. Can't wait to see how it compares to some of my others.

Hawke @ 25x 200yds:


It was a bit of a challenge to get the pic with my phone but as you can see the illumination isn't the greatest.