Designing your own dream gun?
 

If you guys could design your own dream gun what would it be? Would you put anyfeatures from other gunson it? (ie..safety postion, bolt style, bottom eject ect. ect. ect. Would you have any special engravings, checkering patterns, style of stock and forearm?
I know that I have seen some guns that I wouldn't mind adding a few of my ownadditions to.

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Remington beat me to it. The 700 SPS is just about all I need in a rifle. I have built up a few rifles on 700 Remington actions. One had a Douglas barrel and was chambered in 7mm-08. I had a 26 ich barrel and Timney trigger. I built this one for Steel Silhouette shooting quite a few years back. Any rifle that I would build would have a synthetic stock. I would again chamber it in 260, 270, 7MM-08 or 280. 26 inch minimum barrel length, I can always trim it back if I want it shorter. I am not much for fancy.

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Don't know how much I'd like it once it was made but the idea seems real good right now....

Take a Savage 99-ish idea. First put on a mannlincher stock made out of very high grade walnut. (WITHOUT that super shiny 'glass finish'[>:] Wood should feel as good as it looks and I personally think that style of finish ruins a rifle...for some reason shotguns are a different story to me[&:]) 22" barrel with iron sights, front sight with a hoop-cover-thingy.
-Now here's the neat part. Its what I'd call a 'double magazine'. The clip would hold 4 shells...and there would be a tunnel bore into the stock long enough to hold 4 spent shells. As you cycled through shells the action would NOT eject the shells but begin the fill the stock magazine. When the stock magazine is full the action would then begin to eject shells through a norma ejection port on the left. To empty the stock magazine just push a lever on the left side of reciever and a spring in hehind the shells plops out a nice pile through a second ejection 'hole' on the right side. (I could go into how this might work...but it I get brain cramps if I think about too long and I'm not exactly Clark Kent on a keyboard)

Now I'd build one in 6mm-08 7mm-06 8mm-06....and yes a 375-06. Probably 30-30 and 44 mag carbines too

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I call itPROJECT-X

I am going to have Kirby Allen build it for me I think. Going to use 700 action, Lilja barrel #7 contour, Chambered in 300rum, Black H.S Stock, Action and barrel coated in O.D green Gun-Kote, and thinking a Nightforce scope.
I hope to be able to punch paper out to 800 yards accuratley. Dont know how much I'll use it for hunting cause I already have a 300rum for that but I might wont shoot that far though.

I dont like pretty shiny engraved rifles they do nothing for me. I like stainless/synthetic or like the rem cdl's are nice looking.

I do want one of DM'S Ultimate triple barrels though.

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Id say a current sps with detach mag. Not sure what caliber.....260, 6.5WSMor 7-08. The kicker is..it has to weigh about 4 pounds:D

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A simple oil finished walnut stock with a raised cheek peice,nice fine cut checkering, a safety like on my Ithaca lsa 65, rich bluing and a medium caliber- 270-308-30-06, and It would need to shoot like a Savage! My dream gun.

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Nesiak hunter action or Dakota action
Keieger barrel in .358 1 in 14 twist, chambered in 350 RUM
Metal would be finished in a very very fine bead blast to give a fine, smooth satin finish. Bolt body, and magazine follower would be jeweled. Bolt handle would be three pannel checkered. Hinged floor plate would be engraved with a bugling bull image inside a scrolled border.

Stock would be exibition grade english walnut, similar to the pic, with recoil thru bolts capped with ebony. Shaped similar to Weatherbys design with a shadow line cheek piece, ebony forend tip and steel grip cap skeleton inlaid with ebony. Finished in hand rubbed oil and checkered with 22 lines per inch that wrap over the top of the grip and under the forend. Pillar bedded with stainless pillars and "glass" bedded around the recoil lug with devcon. Sling swivel studs would be fully inletted.

Bases would be Talley and rings wild be Talley fixed and finished to match the rifle.
Scope would be a Swarovski PV 2.5-10X42

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Sako action pillar bedded with a 26" Douglass barrel with grey/blue finishin 308 Win.
Presentation grade, oil finished French walnut stock custom checkered with rosewood end cap and forend.
5 shot removable magazine
Shilen trigger
Farrell 30 mm scope rings and bases
Leupold LPS 2.5 x 10 scope

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A Sako AV left handed stainless steel with detachable magazine in 338 win mag, and Leupold VX-III scope and McMillian stock.

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my dream guns would be on a Remington M700 actions with oversized bolt handles with 24" heavy sporter contoured kreiger barrels and jarden triggers chambered for 308 winchester, 300 win mag and 22-250 with parkerized finishes. the stocks would be Bell and Carlson with the freedom tan finish on the 22-250 and tan web on the other two. The scope bases will be a Near Perfection picatinny style with badger ordnance 30mm max-50 rings with a leupold LPS 2.5-10x45mm scope on the 308 and 300 WM and a leupold Mark 4 in a 8.5-25x50mm on the 22-250.

The 308 winchester version is in the process of being made I have the M700 short action, .30 cal barrel blank, trigger and stock. just waiting for my reputable gun smith and good friend to finish up a gun for one of his clients. My estimated total for this gun will be $2,250

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I would really like to do something special to a marlin exposed hammer pump shotgun. (Like the model 19 or 1898.)

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Hey soilarch,

Have you ever heard of the .243 Win.? Or the 280 Remington?

Drilling Man

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I've thought about this question since yesterday (speaking in rifle terms) and I realized that while I would like a safety like this, a stock like that, an action this smooth, a barrel that accurate... And THEN it hit me!!!

lol such a rifle already exists, it is called the 202 Sauer!!!
RA

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Searcy double rifle in 470NE
Regulated at 2200 fps at 50 yards
Ejectors not extractors
Butch's custom fitted stock
Express iron sites
Pure manual safety, no auto reset.

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Yep, those sound familiar DM[8D] But they aren't what I want if we're talking 'Dream Rifles'. Besides liking the idea that I could make all my handloads from 30-06 casing (I always flip-flop between 6mm-08 or 6mm-06) most of the cartridges would more closely resemble an AI .243 or AI .280


I was searching around a few months ago and found that I had already been beaten to my idea. http://www.z-hat.com/HawkCartridges.htm

...and I chose metric naming (yes I know the 30-06 half of the name isn't metric) because I really like the old mausers. In reality I'd be just as likely to by a 6.5swede or 7mm in a modern gun and handload it up to 'modern' levels.

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I think it might be a Mauser 1909 action by Built up by Kelingunther, in '06 or .308. I would choose a 5A Circasian walnut stock with the European comb. I want a nicely figured fiddleback walnut grain with an ebony forend tip. Simple oil finish. I want a traditional leather butt pad. I prefer a nice high gloss blue. Butter kife bent bolt handle and winchester 3 position safety. Shaw or Shilen sporter weight barrel and free floated.
With warne or Talley scope rings and a Zeiss Diavari 30mm riflescope in 2.5x10x42. A nice leather sling and a nicely tooled Safari style, fleese lined leather case.
Or just a stock Sako TRG42 with Zeiss Diavari 6-20x56 scope.
Of course, as I finish this post, I am already second guessing myself!
okcmco

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Gee DD, you arn't asking for much are you? Maybe with a 10 inch barrel.:D

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I'd like a ruger mkII action with the adjustable trigger and tang safety from the m77.

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I got this gun made up last year from Hart Barrels, I din't think it was a dream gun but since working out loads and hunting last fall with it is has become a dream of a gun for me, It shoots under .250", recoil is acceptable, ballance is great, shot a 200lb buck at 390 yards it was instant kill.

Rem 700 s/a action
24" Hart Premium Stainless
7mmwsm
Mcmillan Stock, bedded

weight 6lbs.7oz + scope 2.5 to 10 LPS
140gr Noslers at just under 3300 fps

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Well, you better LOOK at the .243 Win. again, because it IS a 6mm 08!!!

Drilling Man

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lol...if you'd like me to call it a AI.243 then I'll call it an AI.243, but it wouldn't be a factory .243 chamber.

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D-M I was wanting to ask that same question about the 6mm 08 but I figured it was some kind of joke and I didn't want to step in something. Just glad someone finally asked it!

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Soilarch, I think what he is getting at is that you wrote you wanted a 6mm-08 but a 6mm-08 is the exact same thing as a .243.

Now if you go an AI it or change it in any other way it then isn't a 6mm-08. It becomes something else.

Just technicalities(sp) but that's what gets people hurt with firearms. ;)