06-16-2021, 09:33 PM
A5BLASTER Wrote:Honestly the 243 you own now will be the cheapest route to go but it will never give you Precision out to 600 yards without handloads, a better stock and then it's not going to be very good at 600 yards due too a barrel with to fast of a twist too use the better long distance bullets needed to beat the wind.
Since your wanting it for your own training and enjoyment shooting to 600 yards. I say go grendel but understand dont go rack grade on the barrel. Have your barrel made custom, go with a 24 inch barrel to get the most speed you can get with factory ammo.
In fact my best advice is to call Mark at Precision firearms and tell him what your wanting to do and what he suggest from his products to get that best fits your budget and gives you the accuracy/ precision your hoping to have.
I think Mark still gives his new member first order discount.
Most of my shooting is honestly going to be 300 yards, since that's what my club has. I'll definitely want to get up to the 600 yard range periodically, but mostly I'll be at my own club. I will be handloading as soon as I can get rifle components again (unless you can figure out how I can use SPP or LPP for rifle loads
), but for now I was planning on trying a selection of factory ammo just to see what the gun likes (whichever direction I take). Mesa1978 Wrote:Savage.
You can change the barrel out on the 11 with the nut system, if the current barrel isn't satisfactory, as long as the barrel channel can accommodate the new barrel, or be made to fit, for less than a new precision Grendel, to see if you like the game.
Good thinking.
I think probably the way I'm going to proceed first is to get some decent glass on the Savage and see if the precision shooting bug bites me. I'm thinking it likely will, since I have natural tendencies to really enjoy the painstaking details of whatever I'm doing. Although I don't like to admit it in mixed company
, I really enjoy the precision and mechanics of reloading and count it as one of the highlights of the shooting hobby.Besides, there's nothing preventing me from getting a 6.5G upper as well, right?