Bigfoot wrote:I'm curious. You mentioned that the gun laws are pretty tough round your parts (which country in Africa by the way). Do they extend to parts? The reason I bring this up is shooting high power you're going to send a lot more bullets down range than you think. Assuming the factory barrel you end up with is a good one, you're still going to end up shooting it out and having to replace it in 3-5 years.
Is it then a hassle to replace the barrel regulation wise or are they only having you register the action?
You've got a wealth of info on this string in the form of Mr McAllice. He needs to write a book (if he hasn't already) on Rem 700's. His only fault is his choice in caliber (the old duffer is shooting a 7-08). You see most sensible folks here in the states use a 6.5mm pill from various platforms be they 260 rem, 6.5x47 lapua or the real oddballs like myself the 260 bobcat (which I'm considering re-naming the 260 Bob McAliceCat).
Keep us in the loop with which way you go and most important. Post lots of pictures from your home range!
Bigfoot
I am based in Gordons bay a Suburb (town ) Of CapeTown Metropolitan, South Africa .
Our laws are really more burocratic and time consuming than faulty in substance so all doable it just takes time and lots of proofs and motivational procedure that creates a bit of a ball ache . To replace a barrel is not a problem you just need to scrap ( take old barrel off your name and destroy and re-licence new one ) a 3-5 week procedure or down time normally. I have a .308 Musgrave hunting rifle that on the odd occasion I have a go at steel and about 2000 shots into the barrel
this is my Hunting rifle and don't want to turn it into a competition Frankenstein - So a dedicated rifle for high power Silhouette , small Plains game may suite what I need - I still have to decide if a 6.5x55 is strong enough for Kudu and Oryx at 300m or will a 300WM be a better fit that obviously will not work for MS.
Been Living in Capetown for 6 years and originally from Northern regions hunting dence scrub and bush where the .308 with 180gr or .375 with 300gr rule the roost
as Shots are usually between 50-100m and 150m is a long shot. Down here 200m is standard with 300m not uncommon. .243/270 Win is the popular Smaller hunting calibres and 7mm/300 Mag the bigger ones - not really MS calibres thus the 6.5Swede or .260 ticks all the right boxes as a dual purpose
and since I have a .308 I would prefer the 6.5Swede to not have a potential component mix up with a .260 cartridge ending up in a 308 chamber.
Some of the Specialized chamberings like 6.5 Creedmoore is available but finding brass is just a huge cost and availability limited and such has poor resale because off that.
Will post some pics of local range , have the first shoot this weekend and forecast is hot and windy as it is peak summer here.
Thanks for all the pointers