Huunter Class rules?

[2many7s]

I know everyone is now building the "Super" Hunter guns by buying a 1500 dollar barreled action and throwing away the barrel. Well that is way out of my league but I do have an older model 54 single shot with a nice 2 stage trigger. I doubt if the trigger will go heavy enough without some spring mods or something (it is most likely a 70 vintage) but I was wondering if a single shot is legal for Hunter Class. If I could use this action it would save me.. .well, 1500.00 bucks and make a "Super Gun" only ridiculously expensive versus unmanageable.

What do you think? Can anyone offer a ballpark price for a Pharr stock, Barrel, trigger work, and fitting?

[Evelio Mc Donald]

Factory single shot rifles are allowed in the humter class, as long as the barrel is tapered, and the trigger will pick up a two lbs. weight. No heavy target or thumhole stocks allowed.
Evelio.

[GeoNLR]

Sorry, short on time..

Yes - Legal. Was a single shot, still can be a single shot


Price

Stock, Inlet, TG, butt pad,m etc. $600- $700 Depending on ...

Barrel / action / trigger work = $600 or so

$1300 or so should get it might do it a bit less, or touch more...but close

[2many7s]

Thanks Guys

[CWS]

Just built such a rifle... on an old Match 54 action that had originally been a 1411 prone gun. The bbl is A Lilja #7 taper with fluting. By the time you get the work done on it and get it screwed into your action you will have MORE than George's optimistic quote tied up in it. The barrel alone is about $300, then you have to pay a really good smith to flute, thread, and screw it into your action in such a way that it'll shoot where it's pointed. Then it has to go in one of Mark's stocks (and IT has to be under 27 oz.) and, with hardware and inletting you're looking at a minimum of $500. The trigger is the easiest part. What you have is the 5071 trigger (no safety) and it needs to become a 5022. Takes 3 springs (from Neal Stepp for <$20) a little bitty set of forceps, a magnifiying glass, a large magnet (to help you find the springs...) and about a quart of a decent brand of whiskey. Or... you could go buy a new 1712 and be done with it.

[sobrbiker883]

Try to find a 1712 barrel that someone took off new and have it put on your action by someone that knows Annies, then look into a Pharr stock.

Actually if I were you I'd check for the above with the first guy that responded to your post, I hear he does okay silhouette builds.......

[BlauBear]

Actually if I were you I'd check for the above with the first guy that responded to your post, I hear he does okay silhouette builds.......

There is that rumor, and he probably has the spare parts laying around his playroom (shameless plug - Evelio has built some nice stuff for me and dang near every other member of my club!) Metalhead is another legend on this board if he's still interested in building silhouette rifles.

You can also start with a new, barreled 1712 action ($1,050 from Champion's Choice last time I looked) and have it built into your stock of choice. This would preserve your current rifle for collection or sale and get you into new hardware with the correct barrel and trigger already baked in. It is fashionable to replace the barrel, and stainless is much easier to clean, but a hand lapped Anschutz barrel is already pretty accurate.

[sobrbiker883]

I went against all the rage when Evelio built mine and opted to keep the factory barrel. I know I'll go to a Lilja tight bore when I shoot out my Annie's stock tube, but that gives me around 100,000 rounds to save up for the Lilja

[Evelio Mc Donald]

Only a few words to express my opinion. The Anchutz barrels were just about the best out of the box. In testing some of the new 1712 barrel actions even do they are pillar bedded in carbon fiber stocks, they are not as accurate as some of the older barrels. I have seen some older 1712, 1710 barrels capable of shooting 1/2 min. of angle all the way to 100 meters.
Again this is only my observation in testing some new rifles that I have build. This opinion relates only to the 1712, 1710 rifles, the 54.18 still seems to shoot pretty good.
Remember this tests are based on groups shot at 100 meters, with pretty much about the best ammo you can buy. For some reason ( I don't know why ) they seem to shoot fairly descent up to 50 yds. but they will not whole a consistent pattern at 100 meters.
Evelio.