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I am going to have a custom rifle built on a Remington short action in 7mm-08 rem can anyone help me with info. on a gunsmith/ rifle builder who does quality work and is somewhat affordable any help would be greatly appreciated thanks chad

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I just had some work done by Aquila Precision out of Texas. He did a great job, I was very pleased. Check out his website. www.aquilafirearms.com

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Try Mickey Coleman at: www.colemanrifles.com

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Give the Remington custom shop a look. They are the Remington experts.

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Affordable and good. I think they were written about in Field and Stream Magazine. MV out!

http://www.montanarifleman.com/index.html

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I have been looking into this for some time now. Iwant a 308 instead of 7mm-08. I would rather have someone in the same area as I am do the work. Iam having a custom AR-15 upper built in California. Lets just sayI have learned my lesson. I have found two inKansas that appear tobe reputable.
http://www.gaprecision.net/ in KC
http://www.vandykerifles.com/ near Hays

I have not made a final decision yet, but I haven't started buying parts either. I want to see what mistakesI made with my AR beforeI build my hunting rifle.

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spencer0071:

What lower are you going to use for the AR?? I want to build one in .243 but all the California legal lowers don't work.

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Rick Freudenberg in Everett, Wash.

http://www.freudscustomrifles.com/

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Try Chris Matthews. He is in Garden City, MO. Link is my sig line.

best of luck

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There are no prices listed on there!

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I have had a few rifles built by local gunsmiths. And from now on, no more. I took a look a Melvin Forbes NULA. Finest lightwight rifles available in my opinion. Shoots like a freaking benchrest gun. You can get it for 3K.

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To me, that hobby of collecting custom rifles is too pricey, I think a regular gun can kill anything as good, if not better than a custom rifle.

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I have decided on Long Shot Rifles by Chris Matthews. thanks for all of the help chad

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Why did you choose that riflemaker? I'm just curious.

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mostly by recommendation from past customers of the company and his shop is only about 2 hrs. from my house. I would rather spend my money close to home {Missouri} and be able to pick the rifle up myself so if there are any issues I can deal with them face to face and not have to play phone or e-mail tag as I have had to in the past. chad

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Yup, your right. Each rifle job for him is different...depending on how you want a rifle spec'd out. In my opinion, a reputable custom rifle person cannot list prices...when he/she is doing jobs based on customer requests.

best of luck

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Chad, IMHO...you cannot go wrong with Chris. He did a great job buildingus a competition/hunting rifle around an OLD .308rem 700 action.

best of luck