Building 1000 yard rifles with no place to shoot them. Why?

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It's a Smith Corona 1903A3 Springfield with a 26 inch Mike Stone(I think I got the name right)barrel with an 8 groove flute. It's got a Jewell trigger and sit's in an old school Fajen laminated target stock with an adjustable butt plate and an accessory slot. I had it built 20 years ago or thereabouts. Oh yeah, it's a 30-06 but don't laugh, in the right hands it will do the trick with my handloads.
 
There will always be couch commandos. They will reliably buy or build things because they are tacticool, team-six uses them, or just for the "I'm a bad-@zz" effect they think it gives them. We tolerate them because it's illegal to slap sense into them on most occasions. We love them when they get into "tight spots" and need to part with their high dollar toys that they don't even understand much less use, and are willing to let them go well under cost.
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We tolerate clowns that think this way about other gun enthusiasts. Why?
 
AHA---I AM going blind... I read "Still have it and it's for sale"... Well then---I'll just say it sure is pretty
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Just wishful thinking on your part.:D I am glad ya like it tho. I think it's purty too. My gun builder put together two guns for me before he died and he gave me a really good deal on that one to get me into the sport. If I decided to TRY to sell it I could get maybe 150 for it at a pawn shop but 2 grand wouldn't touch it. I actually have a stock that looks exactly like the one in your top pic and after I did all the work opening up the barrel channel till the sides aren't much thicker than a piece of paper it's still too heavy to tote in the woods, so all I did was ruin a stock.:D
 
I must've typed in the wrong IP address...I could've sworn this was the firing line..to help people with gun problems and to discuss guns. Not a cry and moan website about people building guns... Weird... It never ceases to amaze me how much people care about what other people are doing with their own money. The real question isn't "why does so-n-so do this"; its "why do you care"? So, why do you care that joe blow went and spent his own money building something he wanted?
 
We tolerate clowns that think this way about other gun enthusiasts. Why?
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There's a huge difference between an enthusiast who works on FACT and the previously mentioned "couch-commando" that buys something mall-ninja style because it was in a recent movie featuring glorified SP OP's and they wanna be that cool but need the toys to do so. A true enthusiast can separate fact from fiction--or at least make a genuine attempt. Those who can't tend to cause the rest of us more headaches than anything. ;)
 
OK I get to be an armchair warrior with my 1000 yard rifle,

I get to be a Mall Ninga with my Service Rifle AR.

What does this contraption make me?

I bought it from CMP, now all I have to do is figure out what to do with it.

Mann Accuracy Device 5.56, 1:7, Rem 700 Action, 19 in barrel, 1 1/8 in in diameter.

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This is an older device being used. The newer ones like mine, are still being used today.

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I shoulder fired my custom built Shorty 18" 50 BMG just this morning. The recoil on it is the same as a 12GA. The report is loud and the back blast is awsome.
The cheap wanta be EOtech Site bit the dust today.
 
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Cool contraption.
What was the purpose of that odd looking "collar" milled as part of the barrel...a means of securing it on the bench?
 
Ah, a breath of fresh air:
There's a huge difference between an enthusiast who works on FACT and the previously mentioned "couch-commando" that buys something mall-ninja style because it was in a recent movie featuring glorified SP OP's and they wanna be that cool but need the toys to do so. A true enthusiast can separate fact from fiction--or at least make a genuine attempt. Those who can't tend to cause the rest of us more headaches than anything.
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Heheheheheheeeeeee!!!!! Frankenmauser, jealousy and envy are coarsing through my otherwise clogged arteries,,, You my fellow handloader/gun afficianado write the coolest threads..... Maybe it's testosterone but every American citizen is lucky enough to be free, free to build that 1000 yd goatsmoker!!! Hell me and you both have relation that gave the ultimate price, just to see to that.
I liken it to the fact that its the "Jones effect",,, whatever the Jones have, I want a bigger better one.
I would also be "that --shole" with the 1000 yd rifle and no place to shoot it, if I only had the mustard to tell my ole lady that my mid-life crisis was a 3000 dollar rifle that I would only shoot once a year,(cause gas prices and finding range, and killing my shoulder,,,etc.) was a smart investment. I could hear it now, there goes the idiot with the big rifle, that cost 3000 bucks, and his house is crumbling all around him!!!!
You bring up a valid point, "that long range shooting ain't for everyone" :D cool thread dude!!!:D:D:D:D;)
 
Where the deer and the antelope play.

Like many threads, this one has better information after the hijack. That Mann device is way cool. I'm a little disappointed by the crown. Looks like the old trick of re-crowning with a jack knife. If you don't like how it shoots, cut it again. Kraigwy, I can't imagine living in Wyoming without a 1K yd shooter.
 
What was the purpose of that odd looking "collar" milled as part of the barrel...a means of securing it on the bench?
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The device just sets in a "V" Trough. The collar would be a stop, push it up the trough until it stops on the edge of the trough.

If fires, slides back a bit, then just push it up until the collar stops it. then shoot again. It lays in the V the same way every time.
 
I have a friend with an AR-30 in .338 Lapua and an AR 50 in 50 BMG.

They both have factory muzzle brakes on them.They work.

Recoil is less than a .308 in a conventional rifle.Slow impulse,and more like my 257 .A skinny kid can shoot them.

Now,noise,more like concussion,is another matter.Its akin to having a military grenade simulator go off nearby.

Yeah,they are not cheap to shoot.But,3 shots out of the 50 gives a different reward than 200 rds of something else.Not saying better,different.

For me,the giggle of the Lapua or the 50,is just shooting the hill way over yonder;"see that pink rock to the left of the ponderosa 30 yds?' Boom.

Its the big dust puff.I like the big dust puff.
 
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