01-14-2013, 07:44 PM
The savage action is a great set up for a production rifle their floating bolt head and barrel nut attachment set up allows for a very precise setup at a lower manufacturing cost that said the floating bolt head while it improves upon an not tried production fixed head can't get a hole lot better than it is and the barrel nut is kind of ugly, the the savage accutriger system is probably the best factory trigger out there hence it has been copied by other manufactures that said savage actions have a slow lock time as the bolt release is part of the trigger mechanism and it adds a lot of moving mass to the trigger compared to Remington style triggers
Now don't get me wrong savage makes a great gun I own a few and love them they are fantastic sporting arms that said if I was gong to build or buy a custom rifle I would use a Remington style action my next bolt gun will most likely be a custom built gun with stiller precision tac action I looked into building rifles for a profit a while back but decide against it I dint have the tooling and couldn't justify it based on the margins
That said here's my advice if you have good machines build your own action or if not fin a good custom action based on the Remington and there trigger set up there is a reason virtually all custom set ups use it as far as the barrel green mountian make great barrels but don't advertise that they are green mountian barrels just say custom and give barrel specs people will google green mountian and see their price list while they are great barrels they are also very reasonably priced and people tend to associate cost with quality as for the stock the medalist is a great stock and I wouldn't hesitate to use one intact I probably will on my next build hard to beat the aluminum chassis that said its custom you should offer fitting to other stocks as well like McMillan again people associate cost with better quality
Basically if your going to be a custom builder you should give a few options and seem equal to or better than the competition a lot also depend on what price point you going after
Now don't get me wrong savage makes a great gun I own a few and love them they are fantastic sporting arms that said if I was gong to build or buy a custom rifle I would use a Remington style action my next bolt gun will most likely be a custom built gun with stiller precision tac action I looked into building rifles for a profit a while back but decide against it I dint have the tooling and couldn't justify it based on the margins
That said here's my advice if you have good machines build your own action or if not fin a good custom action based on the Remington and there trigger set up there is a reason virtually all custom set ups use it as far as the barrel green mountian make great barrels but don't advertise that they are green mountian barrels just say custom and give barrel specs people will google green mountian and see their price list while they are great barrels they are also very reasonably priced and people tend to associate cost with quality as for the stock the medalist is a great stock and I wouldn't hesitate to use one intact I probably will on my next build hard to beat the aluminum chassis that said its custom you should offer fitting to other stocks as well like McMillan again people associate cost with better quality
Basically if your going to be a custom builder you should give a few options and seem equal to or better than the competition a lot also depend on what price point you going after