My dream gun
 

This may be a little premature but I am working on getting my dream gun built. I won't know til Monday on the barrel but I have high hopes . If the barrel is a go then it's up to Bestill to pull this all together . This will be a long range conical gun built specifically for shooting 400+ gr lead conical with 70 to 90 gr powder
The gun platform is a Remington 700 ml
The stock is the Boyd's varmint stock I posted in another thread
The barrel I really want is a Krieger MUT profile
.408/.416 with a 1:16 twist .
Timney target trigger
AsG hunter nose bolt
Bestill plug and bushing
Scope is a Vortex 6 x 24
I am sure when he gets done it will be a Tack driver
My goal is an extremely accurate 500 yard conical gun
If the Krieger barrel falls through then my second choice is a Douglas .
I will post an update once it's underway
And thanks to Bestill over on MM for taking on this project :)

Jeff will get it shoot'n for ya.
Keep posting the progress ;)

Krieger barrel is a go !! :)

Wow, what's a project like this cost? I imagine its a pretty penny.

Ive wanted a 40cal for awhile now. Mostly for shooting 400ish grain conicals too. There are many good choices ranging from 408Cheytac, 405Win to 416Rem depending on the bore dimensions you are after.

Not a whole lot of 416 choices though in 1-16. Its a lot easier to find one in 408.

They offer a 416 in 1-16? Their site listed a 1-14 and a 1-12?

Oops nm, i just noticed they offer custom twists too.

This was a 1:16 listed in overstock inventory:). Truly a great find !!!
I really like Krieger barrels .its exactly what I wanted except it's a .408 / .416 and I wanted .409/.416 but that's close enough . I just have to get a sizer for my bullets as they are .410

You want the actual price or the price my wife thinks it cost ?:):)

I will likely go with 408Cheytac or 405Win (.411)barrel if/when i can afford it. I would prefer to be able to do conicals and sabotless 40s but that gets more complicated. 300gr sabotless at 2200ish fps would probably need a 1-14 and thats kind fast even for a 400gr conical.

We both know 1-16 works fine for the 400gr conical.

Yep and I am building this as a conical shooter specifically for the 400 to 410 gr bullet . Might seem dumb to build a gun specifically for one bullet but that's what I really want because I know that 400 gr with a good 1:16 ought to be deadly accurate. Should be a good target gun I hope . If I ever go to Friendship this would be the one I would want to take if it does what I hope it does .

Well if that's the case it's way to rich for me.

Back when Rick Bibby (RIP) had Pacnor make the first 40s for the Savage MLII he went with the 408 Cheytac in 1-16. That was the slowest twist Pacnor offered. He intended to shoot the 200gr SST and 195gr Barnes though. Not the 300gr bigguns we see today in the 40cal builds.

If we look at 405Win factory barrels nearly all of them are 1-13 or 1-14 and a 300gr at nearly 2200fps is the most common load. BH209 can match that velocity in a custom 40.

The big problem with either of these is most molds are for .406-.411 and 1-14 is pretty fast for soft lead. Even soft lead over 1.3in long. There are old 40cals like the 40-65 but thats only a 260gr-280gr bullet usually. I really would not want to go lower than say....350gr which is really close to a 40-90 Sharps (370gr)

As you can see building a 40 to be more bullet specific is far easier than a dual purpose build and a .408x.416 barrel has a few more bullet options although most are in the 400gr range. Down sizing just a couple thousandths is probably also a little less problematic than going from .411 down to .401

Krieger informed me that my barrel shipped today :) 2 weeks sooner than they said so that's cool :)

Boyd's At One showed up

Everything should be ready to head to "Bestill" next week for the build.

Gun is finished . I won’t rehash everything but those of you in MM can see it there :)
Stockys varmint thumbhole with aluminum chassis,brownells bottom metal,700ml action,callahan recoil lug,trigger tech straight trigger 2#,asg 209 breech plug,murphy 20moa base,burris rings,nikon monarch 3 6-24×50 scope and krieger .408/.416 1-16 twist mtu taper.

Beautiful rifle. Jeff does excellent work!
Time for some target photos???

More pics and info here
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...n__=%2As%2As-R

:D Already seen them ;)