My Custom 7mm-08

LAH, not really a bad time with a Douglas, but in my experience Douglas is not up to the task of precision shooting. Good hunting barrel. OK varmint barrel. Not competitive at paper punching.
 
As asked, how much do you want? I have a Model 7 in 7-08 that weighs what your barrel does. I might be interested if I knew what your starting asking price is...........................
 
I had a 721 barreled with a Douglas a little over a year ago. 257 Roberts AI. I fired several groups at 3/8" at a 100 but no chance to really wring the rifle out as a couple 22LR, a 22-250 & 30-06 have taken my time. I am seeing more of them on the 1000 yard firing line including the one used by Douglas' owner, Tim Gardner & his shop foreman Stan Taylor. I think since the owner began shooting the bench game their barrel are improved.
 
As asked, how much do you want? ... I might be interested if I knew what your starting asking price is.....
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Well, I had been using PMs for that since I really didn't know if I actually waned to sell it. OK, laying all my cards down, I can say I have about $1400 into it (in today's dollars). But I realize some guns do not necessarily exactly keep pace with inflation. So possibly it is worth a little less than that? I don't know.

If I did want to sell it, I was going to look locally first to see if there might be interest, since I really am not excited about shipping it anywhere.

Since you asked what I wanted for it and I gave you a vague answer of how much I had into it, could you give me an equally vague reply of how much it might be worth? :-)

I am really finding it difficult to figure the value of it. It does have sentimental value to me, but I am even further from being able to determine a dollar value for that, and maybe I can't.

Lou
 
Hard to guess, Lou. You know what they say- it's worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it.

More information on the re-barrel work would be helpful. Was the receiver fully blueprinted by the gunsmith before the barrel was installed? Specifics as to the work done are relative to the value, particularly if receipts(s) back it up.

The problem is that you can only demonstrate a best group of .6 moa- which isn't the real standard used. It's what the rifle can consistently shoot...

Granted, you're handicapped by the fact that you didn't use match-grade bullets, and didn't do extensive load development.

If you had a load "recipe", together with a five-group, five shot each target all showing sub half-minute- it becomes a "proven" shooter rather than a "maybe", and the price is affected accordingly. If you want top dollar, it would behoove you to try to work up the most accurate load for the rifle.
 
LAH, they would have had to improve a lot to be up to paper punching. A factory sponsored shooter of anything never helps me inform my opinion of a product. We all know that the factory shooters are shooting run of the mill products straight off the production line.:D
 
I'm not a sponsored shooter & in fact haven't shot an IBS match in a 2 years & when I did it was a Krieger barrel. Just stating an opinion as I'm around many of their barrels mostly because I'm only an hour or so from the factory. Their barrels are much better under the current management than under Tim's father.
 
I might try one again on a hunting rifle and see how it does. I have kind of gotten hooked on Lilja. It would be nice is Douglas has improved their quality considerably because they are priced right. I was not implying you were a sponsored shooter. I was pointing out that the ones you mentioned are most definitely sponsored shooters.
 
I'd like to have a Lilja for one of my 22LR bolt guns. You are correct the Douglas isn't on enough win sheets to get real excited about paper punching but they are better than before & I think it's because Tim & Stan are "going public" on the IBS 1000 yard bench with the barrels. I've seen several 5 shot groups under 4" but you & I know that won't keep you in the winner's circle
 
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