ramcountryboy
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I joined this site to seek advice. I built a rifle 8 months ago and as much as I hate to do it Ive got to sell it in order to pay bills. Ive had it online for sale and yet Im wondering if Im either asking too much or if its just not really what a person would be interested in.
Here are the details I would post a link to the listing but dont know if that will violate the forum rules.
The rifle is a Remington 700
I started with a new Remington BDL short action barreled receiver.
I took the barrel off and from that point the following steps were done:
1. The receiver was trued
2. The bolt lugs were lapped for consistent and correct engagement
3. I purchased a Douglas Chrome Moly 30 Cal barrel in the number 8 contour blank, cut the shank, threaded it, lapped the threads to the receiver so that no end shake was present.
4. I then chambered it using a wildcat .308 chamber reamer and the head space is set at the minimum .308 spec which is 1.360"
5. The standard Remington barrel lug was replaced with an oversized barrel lug that was surface ground to a spec of plus or minus 0.0001" in terms of each face being accurate.
6. Remington uses aluminum floor plates. I replaced this with a solid steel floor plate and modified the interior of the mag to accept 6 rather than five rounds.
7. The scope base and rings are Leupold and I had all metal components finished by Walter Birdsong and Associates in the Black T finish.
8. The action was then bedded into a McMillan E2 stock using Marine Tex as the bedding compound.
9. One thing I did, was change out the front sling swivel on the stock with an M14 front sling swivel assy, so as to have the sling swivel to the rear and the mounting stud for the bipod forward of that. The attachments for this were all bedded in.
10. The scope is a Leupold Mark 4 M1 10X with a mil dot reticle (the scope is around a month old but since its not in the box it came in I cant really call it brand new.)
Its a sub minute of angle accurate out to 500 meters.
The only cosmetic defect is an extremely small area (less than the size of a match head) on the left side of the barrel where the Black T got knocked off during a sniper exercise.
I also included a harris bipod, a pelican case, a heavy duty M14 leather competition sling, 10 rounds of Military match 308 168 grain BTHP, as well as 10 rounds of Federal 168 grain BTHP and butt stock plates to adjust the length of pull. Ive fired around 200 rounds through the rifle.
Between the money Ive spent on it and the time I invested into it I dont want to lowball myself, but at the same time I dont want to be asking so much that noone takes an interest.
So for those of you that would know or have a suggestion please let me know a generally good price that would be reasonable to ask for all of this.
Thank you for any and all recommendations.
Ive been asking right around 2K for everything as a package.
Here are the details I would post a link to the listing but dont know if that will violate the forum rules.
The rifle is a Remington 700
I started with a new Remington BDL short action barreled receiver.
I took the barrel off and from that point the following steps were done:
1. The receiver was trued
2. The bolt lugs were lapped for consistent and correct engagement
3. I purchased a Douglas Chrome Moly 30 Cal barrel in the number 8 contour blank, cut the shank, threaded it, lapped the threads to the receiver so that no end shake was present.
4. I then chambered it using a wildcat .308 chamber reamer and the head space is set at the minimum .308 spec which is 1.360"
5. The standard Remington barrel lug was replaced with an oversized barrel lug that was surface ground to a spec of plus or minus 0.0001" in terms of each face being accurate.
6. Remington uses aluminum floor plates. I replaced this with a solid steel floor plate and modified the interior of the mag to accept 6 rather than five rounds.
7. The scope base and rings are Leupold and I had all metal components finished by Walter Birdsong and Associates in the Black T finish.
8. The action was then bedded into a McMillan E2 stock using Marine Tex as the bedding compound.
9. One thing I did, was change out the front sling swivel on the stock with an M14 front sling swivel assy, so as to have the sling swivel to the rear and the mounting stud for the bipod forward of that. The attachments for this were all bedded in.
10. The scope is a Leupold Mark 4 M1 10X with a mil dot reticle (the scope is around a month old but since its not in the box it came in I cant really call it brand new.)
Its a sub minute of angle accurate out to 500 meters.
The only cosmetic defect is an extremely small area (less than the size of a match head) on the left side of the barrel where the Black T got knocked off during a sniper exercise.
I also included a harris bipod, a pelican case, a heavy duty M14 leather competition sling, 10 rounds of Military match 308 168 grain BTHP, as well as 10 rounds of Federal 168 grain BTHP and butt stock plates to adjust the length of pull. Ive fired around 200 rounds through the rifle.
Between the money Ive spent on it and the time I invested into it I dont want to lowball myself, but at the same time I dont want to be asking so much that noone takes an interest.
So for those of you that would know or have a suggestion please let me know a generally good price that would be reasonable to ask for all of this.
Thank you for any and all recommendations.
Ive been asking right around 2K for everything as a package.
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