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Just one expensive hobby.

Posted By: Scotty22

Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 04:06 AM

I just wanted to post a few of my rifles I have had built over the past couple years. I prob should tell the wife what the real price tag on these things are just incase anything ever happens to me or some of y'all might get one hell of a deal.


6.5 Saum


6-284 Lapua


338 Lapua AI


223


300WM
Posted By: P & Y

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 04:11 AM

Very nice rifles up
Posted By: Scotty22

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 04:19 AM

Thanks
Posted By: dee

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 12:21 PM

Quality is well worth the price.
Posted By: BobG

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 12:24 PM

Originally Posted By: dee
Quality is well worth the price.


Yep! rifle
Posted By: ccoker

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 01:09 PM

very nice!
Posted By: ChadTRG42

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 01:17 PM

How do they shoot?
Posted By: J.G.

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 01:20 PM

Acceptance is the last step in recovery.

Nice rifles.
Posted By: okierifleman

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 01:58 PM

I really like the 300WM. I am getting ready to start one of those myself.
Posted By: MDMORROW

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 02:09 PM

very nice
Posted By: bass461

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 02:15 PM

nice
Posted By: Paluxy300blk

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 02:16 PM

There are worse expensive habits. aim
Posted By: WileyCoyote

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 02:23 PM

I just saw a new 2015 Crew Cab sitting on your hood...oh well bolt
Ron
Posted By: HuntnFly67

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 02:35 PM

I'm really digging those spiral fluted barrels. Nice setups!
Posted By: Scotty22

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 03:42 PM

Originally Posted By: ChadTRG42
How do they shoot?


I don't have pics of all the groups that have been shot with these guns but they will easily hold .5 out to 1000 yards as long as I do my part. I shot the 338 at 1920 yards a few months back and had. 4 consecutive hits on a deer sized target. Here is a group shot with the accurate ordinance built 223 during break in. The gun only has 75 rounds down the tube but is a hammer.

Posted By: Scotty22

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 03:48 PM

Originally Posted By: FiremanJG
Acceptance is the last step in recovery.

Nice rifles.


I have accepted my addiction and I hope my wife one day will. The sad part is I just sold that 6.5saum 4 days ago so I could build another 6.5 Saum just with a longer barrel and using a custom short action instead of a Remington long action. There is no sense to my madness.
Posted By: WileyCoyote

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 07:37 PM

Thas 'cause you is a "RIFLE LOONEY" !!!! Welcome to the club.
Some of are more addicted...or simply got mo bux to throw at the endless chase for LR Perfection...but lots of us are in varuous phases of the deal...kinda like ownin' Race Horses...or Rail Dragsters looked at 'em one time, thank GOD I was stone broke at the time...did the 12 Step and sobered up....as my 1st born Son was getting nervous.
Ron
Posted By: Scotty22

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 07:57 PM

Haha thanks mine are still to young to understand where their college funds are going. I think I can squeeze another 10 years of collecting before they catch on. I've done the collecting of drag cars and streetable "race" cars this hobby is far cheaper.
Posted By: Phantom

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 08:42 PM

I am in the process of building a 338 lapua. I have been reading about the 6.5 saum. How do you like it?
Posted By: Scotty22

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/25/14 09:29 PM

Originally Posted By: brianl
I am in the process of building a 338 lapua. I have been reading about the 6.5 saum. How do you like it?

I love it. Hard hitting and flat shooting. I hunted and shot targets all last year with mine killed 2 deer and a few hogs with it and not one of them took a step. I'm shooting the 140 Berger hybrids out of it. Had confirm hits on steel out to 1600 with it no problem. I actually sold that rifle and in the process of building a new one right now on a defiance or big horn action with a 27in barrel instead of a 24in.
Posted By: CalebtheLee

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/29/14 06:34 PM

Those are sweet
Posted By: texasbass1

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 07/30/14 08:16 PM

Don't tell her what they are worth. Just leave a note in your gun safe, so she can find it after your gone and you don't have to listen to the lectures.
Posted By: shipwreck

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 08/03/14 01:20 PM

Quite a collection you go there. Impressive!

Guns are making me go broke too :p
Posted By: A2B

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 08/03/14 10:43 PM

Which one is your favorite?
Posted By: fast88

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 08/04/14 12:13 PM

Originally Posted By: texasbass1
Don't tell her what they are worth. Just leave a note in your gun safe, so she can find it after your gone and you don't have to listen to the lectures.


This is an excellent idea!
Posted By: Scotty22

Re: Just one expensive hobby. - 08/04/14 02:00 PM

Originally Posted By: A2B
Which one is your favorite?


Hmm I'm not really sure which is my favorite I like them all and I have 3 more being built out right now. But I really do enjoy shorting my 223 alot at long ranges. It's cheap to shoot compared to the rest of my other guns and a real blast to shoot steel at 600 yards with.
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