Hill Country Rifles
02-10-2011, 11:49 AM
#11
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Northeast Texas
Posts: 214
You can buy a over the counter [otc] remington in just about any caliber you want with a syntheic stock and use premium ammo and shoot a 1 1/2" to 2" group. What ever you shot want know whether it shot a 1/2" group or a 2" group it will still just as dead. You can put that extra money you save on a hunting trip.
02-11-2011, 02:21 AM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Kansas
Posts: 3,902
You can buy a over the counter [otc] remington in just about any caliber you want with a syntheic stock and use premium ammo and shoot a 1 1/2" to 2" group. What ever you shot want know whether it shot a 1/2" group or a 2" group it will still just as dead. You can put that extra money you save on a hunting trip.
02-11-2011, 06:20 AM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Idaho
Posts: 1,081
You can buy a over the counter [otc] remington in just about any caliber you want with a syntheic stock and use premium ammo and shoot a 1 1/2" to 2" group. What ever you shot want know whether it shot a 1/2" group or a 2" group it will still just as dead. You can put that extra money you save on a hunting trip.
02-11-2011, 06:51 AM
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,695
There headquarters are only a few hours from where I live, and after talking to them extensively, I feel pretty confident in their work.
Here's what I've talked about doing.....
I'll take them my left hand Rem. 700 CDL .270 and have them replace the wood stock with a McMillan Remington Sporter with EDGE technology (lighter) add a 24" Hart stainless barrel (also going to change caliber to .280 Rem.) work all their accurizing majic and then Cerekote all the metal for me.
Cost is up to about $2500 for all the work.
What do you folks thing about Hill County's work and their pricing. $2.500 is a chunk, but most other places I've checked were as much if not more.
They guarentee it will shoot 3/4" 3 shot groups (worst case scenario. 1/2" to 2/3" more likely) with factory ammo or they dont ship it out to me.
Opinions?
Here's what I've talked about doing.....
I'll take them my left hand Rem. 700 CDL .270 and have them replace the wood stock with a McMillan Remington Sporter with EDGE technology (lighter) add a 24" Hart stainless barrel (also going to change caliber to .280 Rem.) work all their accurizing majic and then Cerekote all the metal for me.
Cost is up to about $2500 for all the work.
What do you folks thing about Hill County's work and their pricing. $2.500 is a chunk, but most other places I've checked were as much if not more.
They guarentee it will shoot 3/4" 3 shot groups (worst case scenario. 1/2" to 2/3" more likely) with factory ammo or they dont ship it out to me.
Opinions?
my vanguard will do 5 at 3/4" not 3
02-11-2011, 12:08 PM
#15
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location:
Posts: 5,130
Schoolcraft,
Is the end result to own a rifle that shoots 1/2" MOA ?
Or, do you want to own a customized rifle ?
Would any factory production rifle that shoots 1/2 MOA be fine with you (no matter what it looked like) ?
Is the end result to own a rifle that shoots 1/2" MOA ?
Or, do you want to own a customized rifle ?
Would any factory production rifle that shoots 1/2 MOA be fine with you (no matter what it looked like) ?
02-11-2011, 12:20 PM
#16
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: ****ifornia
Posts: 5,052
There's just something about having a custom rifle built just to your specs that NO over the counter rifle can compare to!! Plus, knowing that it WILL be accurate and WILL hit exactly where you aim over and over again...
02-11-2011, 01:40 PM
#17
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Northeast Texas
Posts: 442
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Williams
You can buy a over the counter [otc] remington in just about any caliber you want with a syntheic stock and use premium ammo and shoot a 1 1/2" to 2" group. What ever you shot want know whether it shot a 1/2" group or a 2" group it will still just as dead. You can put that extra money you save on a hunting trip.
And that, my friends, is the difference between a "shooter", and a "hunter"...
Exactly....
I like to shoot all year. Getting back into reloading.
Sure I can spend less, but it won't be 100% what I want.
This won't be a splurge that happens again anytime soon, so I really want to do it right.
I'm now thinking Stiller Predator magnum action, Hart stailness fluted barrel made for .300 Win. Mag., Mcmillan stock, and let Hill Country Rifles work their magic to get it under 1/2 MOA with factory ammo.....and then try to shrink that with reloads.
Originally Posted by Jim Williams
You can buy a over the counter [otc] remington in just about any caliber you want with a syntheic stock and use premium ammo and shoot a 1 1/2" to 2" group. What ever you shot want know whether it shot a 1/2" group or a 2" group it will still just as dead. You can put that extra money you save on a hunting trip.
And that, my friends, is the difference between a "shooter", and a "hunter"...
Exactly....
I like to shoot all year. Getting back into reloading.
Sure I can spend less, but it won't be 100% what I want.
This won't be a splurge that happens again anytime soon, so I really want to do it right.
I'm now thinking Stiller Predator magnum action, Hart stailness fluted barrel made for .300 Win. Mag., Mcmillan stock, and let Hill Country Rifles work their magic to get it under 1/2 MOA with factory ammo.....and then try to shrink that with reloads.
02-11-2011, 02:14 PM
#18
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Northeast Texas
Posts: 214
02-11-2011, 02:14 PM
#19
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Slippery Rock, Pa.
Posts: 393
I'm now thinking Stiller Predator magnum action, Hart stailness fluted barrel made for .300 Win. Mag., Mcmillan stock, and let Hill Country Rifles work their magic to get it under 1/2 MOA with factory ammo.....and then try to shrink that with reloads.
02-21-2011, 05:34 PM
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Kansas
Posts: 3,902
The orginal post stated he wanted to Hunt not pop paper. Popping paper is also fun but with a much smaller caliber like 17, 223, 22/250etc. Try shooting all day long at prairie dogs with a 270 or larger. The cost of ammo let alone the recoil would be a big factor for me. Oh, I forgot to mention I do both I hunt and I shoot. Jim
Like Ridge Runner's pic on Page 2 shows, a 1/2 minute rifle can do things that a 2 minute rifle never could. Nearly 800yrds with a 2 MOA rifle is a 16" group, a 1/2 MOA rifle is 4". Now tell me that a deer won't notice the difference in a lung shot, or a paunch shot? Or tell me a deer won't notice the difference in a lung shot and miss?
Arguing that a 2MOA rifle is just as good as a 1/2MOA rifle is idiotic.
