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Saltydog235

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I'm looking for opinions on the company and workmanship of the product. Basically I want a swamp rifle in 7mm08 that I can carry through the muck, mud, water and crap to go sit in a tree stand and keep my Sako for other uses. I love the 7mm08 for whitetails but want a heavier barrel than is on most standard rifles if for no more than the looks and few extra shots on the rest at the range. Barrel is to be 20" or so. Its basically going to be a clone of the Savage 10 Precision Carbine in .308 that I already have only dipped in Mossy Oak Break-up and a different caliber. Yeah, I'm not gaining much but its what I want and I'm pleased with my Savages as much as any of my other guns, they just aren't very pretty to look at. $725.00 for a price tag isn't too bad either.

Thinking about doing this and puting a big ole Trijicon to sit late for a Swamp Donkey or a pig or twenty.
 
ER Shaw Rifles are just Savage actions with their barrels on it. I'd buy another M10 rifle and swap out the barrel myself before I'd buy the Shaw. I contacted Shaw a couple of years ago about building a rifle for me. What turned me off was 100% of the money up front and 18 month wait for the rifle.
 
yap they take a long time to build there rifles. and like taylorce1 said you can buy a m 10 or a stevens 200 and put there barrel on. id go the stevens way and do the stock triger and barrel
 
Yeah, the lead time is a bit excessive but I'm not really in a rush, I just can't believe they are that far behind schedule or production. I also realize its a Savage with their barrel on it, like I said I like my two Savages I already have. I thought the Stevens action was a little different than the Savage and there is no accu-trigger, so that would be on the replacemen list. Building on a Stevens could get expensive quick, $250-$300 for a barrel, $125-$150 trigger, $250 stock, $200-$250 donor action, it adds up to more than the package gun from Shaw.
 
Just get a Savage Model 16 FCSS, all stainless, comes with an accustock, accutrigger, and available in 7mm-08 from the get go.

If you want a thicker barrel then sell the one it came with and install a thicker one. Retail price can be found under $650.

Jimro
 
timney trigger is just over 110 bucks at midway and natchez

rifelbasix trigger is just under 100 bucks at midway and natchez

boyds stocks are right at 100 bucks and the glass to bed is about 25 or so

the action is the same just no accutrigger :D

im planning to build a few my self and they will be on the stevens action.One will be a 223 and the othere a 300 wsm.


i had though about the shaw rifle but the wait and my rifle was like $950 bucks and i can build it for alittle less and be proud i did it my self :D
 
timney trigger is just over 110 bucks at midway and natchez

rifelbasix trigger is just under 100 bucks at midway and natchez

boyds stocks are right at 100 bucks and the glass to bed is about 25 or so

the action is the same just no accutrigger

im planning to build a few my self and they will be on the stevens action.One will be a 223 and the othere a 300 wsm.


i had though about the shaw rifle but the wait and my rifle was like $950 bucks and i can build it for alittle less and be proud i did it my self
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Thanks for the info. I'd love to build it myself but I don't have any free time with young boys (3 and 1), wife, 60hr work weeks, Church, and other obligations, not to mention its hunting season(s) here and they're followed by fishing seasons, and then there's farm work and planning a house. That's the reason I was looking at just having Shaw build it, in the end it saves me money in the form of time plus I get pretty close to what I want sans the Mossy Oak Break Up finish. Shaws quote for what I want is $725.00, about the same as what my Precision Carbine cost.
 
Saltydog, all the work that M.O.A. listed shouldn't take you more than 4 hours to complete if you are half way handy. The trigger and barrel swap will not take you more than 30 min each the first time. That leaves you 3 hours to touch up some inletting and bedding a stock. I guess my real point is if I was going to wait on a semi-custom rifle build it sure wouldn't be a Shaw rifle, not when it takes so little time to put together one yourself.
 
So, you'd do a donor steven or savage action, Bartlein, Schilling, Hart or other barrel, Timney Trigger, heavy lug, and stock of choice and go shooting?

I've been exchanging e-mails with Shaw and am not impressed with a company that cannot tell me who manufactures their stocks or only offers one synthetic option.
 
Years back (About 20) I bought .250 barrel blank and it shot good. Maybe a year later I bought a 6.5 blank and then the crap started. I tried every kind of load and bullet combination and every trick I knew. I was scrubbing it out and thought I saw something weird. I cut about 10" off and it had a huge step in the bore. I sent it back and I will admit they sent another one with out a hassel. I tried to get something out of that and gave up. I gave it to someone and I think it is a jack handle now. Never again. If you can not get better than 7-8 inch groups going up the bullet weight scale I want nothing to do with it. Try to explain to a customer why their new barrel shoots worse than the one you took of.
 
I'm old school dude, and kind of nostalgic when it comes to rifles and the groups they shoot... so when you say 7-8 inch groups,,,,, I say that must be a shotgun! :eek: Cause if I purchase any rifle and don't get at least MOA it goes back!!!! (that's what I'm talking about). So gunplummer, if you would have said 1.5 and maybe 2 inch groups at one hundred,, the question "What are we talking about here", would of never left my mind pal.;)
 
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