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Call "Jersey Jay's Taxidermy". Jason is a great guy with a shop in Clifton and one up in Sussex. http://www.jerseyjaystaxidermy.com/

Don't forget to budget for tools. You'll need an armorers wrench, torque wrench, and some decent punches.

If you get a "base" rifle, you will be upgrading it over time. If you want a great base rifle with absolutely the most available upgrades, the R700 is the king of the pile. There are more mods/stocks/triggers/etc. than I can shake a stick at (I shake a very good stick, BTW). Most of the aftermarket actions are patterened/spaced to the R700 so that they can take advantage of the huge aftermarket. Savage is number two. Distant, but number two. I have one and love it but I can't even find a 2 stage aftermarket trigger for it. Keep that in mind when shopping. However the Savage is a tinkerers gun. I can change my barrel in 15 minutes which is a pretty cool thing. I would serioulsy look at the offerings in 308 simply because there are so many match grade offerings out there at reasonable prices it's tough to beat. If you want cool and less recoil and can swing the ammo, a 6.5Creed would be my choice. Both will get you to 1k, the 6.5 with less wind issues. But, they'll both get you there. And don't discount the .243. It's an awesome cartridge that will do everything the others will. Lots of good loadings out there from the factory as well. If you reload, the world is your oyster. It doesn't look like you do, but if you do, consider any cartridge in 6.5 or 6mm. And don't forget to budget for glass. It makes the rifle. And it's not cheap. Good luck.

1 day, individual long distance training with Black Hat Training Corps. 23 April. New Holland Rifle Pistol Club in PA. I'm very much looking forward to it.

Over and over and over... No interest in it. Great round but too much work for me. I want either an absolute barrel burning, flat shooting little bullet OR something straight off the shelf. Honestly the 223 is in the lead for the amount of money I can save and accomplish everything I'm looking to do. Not to mention that there are a lot of parts at blowout prices to be had right now that the companies were apparently hoarding for her election victory. It would be an awesome semi-auto trainer for longer distance shooting. But I'm still going roundy-round on it.

If I skip the Grendel, which is looking likely, I will be doing a Wylde chamber. For sure. I don't have a lot of interest in the 6x45 as the case capacity is too small, to me, to gain any real benefit. It's an awesome little cartridge but akin to 300BO. Just a bit too weird with too little use for me.

I've bothered Ty on more than one occasion and he's generally my go to for parts on my relatively infrequent AR builds. Awesome prices and a serious base of knowledge. I ordered a BCM blem upper. Should be here end of next week. I guess that this means I need to hunker down on my caliber choice.

Thanks John. I've been going roundy-round on caliber for a while now. I'm not close to making a final decision just yet.

Read my response to Rob FWIW, I'm not busting balls here. But at this point caliber isn't the consideration. The "technical " aspects of the build are in question, nothing more. I pointed out distances I'm going to shoot to avoid someone saying it can't be done without a 30" barrel or some such. Sorry if it came across wrong.

Strongly considering a Rainier Arms Supermatch. But it'll all depend, ultimately, on caliber choice and what I can find in the specs I want.

Cool. Thanks. I hope I didn't come across as a dick it for sure wasnt meant that way. Yeah, I like to assemble everything and want to do it as "right" as I can. I'm a tinkerer, much to my detriment at times.

Agreed. However right now I'm trying to sort out parts for the upper and whether or not facing and/or bedding is worth it. Caliber doesn't come into play just yet. If I do a 223 I will load 70+ grain bullets in a 7 twist but caliber is undecided at this time.

Why? I'm "building" it myself. Not at all interested in pre-built uppers.

Undecided. Does it matter?

So I have a new build underway. I'm hoping to make this a sub-moa shooter. She will live most of her life on the 100/200/300 yard lines at CR but I will be taking it to 600-700 at some point as well. Longer distances will be on steel most likely, shorter on paper. The lower is built and it runs well. Trigger needs to smooth out just a touch but overall I'm very happy with it. Aero Precision Seekins extended mag release Timney Targa 2 stage My questions are regarding the upper. I'm most likely going to run an 18-20" 8 twist with rifle gas if I can find what I'm looking for. I'd for sure take a 7 twist if I find one at a good price as I do handload and will probably have a single round mag block for shooting at distance. Most likely I'll have it threaded for a comp just to completely minimize or eliminate muzzle jump. I'm betwixt and between getting a billet upper of some sort but am unsure of how much benefit I will receive from it. I've heard that I should just spend a bit more and grab a BCM M4 upper and go with that. Any suggestions? Additionally, does anyone here believe in lapping the receiver face and/or bedding the barrel extension with Lock-Tite? Any feeling on what that may get me as far as consistency and, by extension, accuracy? Thanks as always for any help.

MidwestPX.com Ty is awesome and a site sponsor. JoeBobsOutfitters.com Again, awesome folks.

Welcome aboard from Paramus area!

Momma always said: "if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing. " I think it's a great action being taken by both NSSF and the suicide prevention foundation. As to some of the other points that some have made... I'll shut up now

Shut down. Thanks to those that contacted me.

Howdy all. A couple of years ago I took a one day class with Freddy Wissing of Black Hat Training Corps. It was a lot of fun and quite challenging. After a cursory set up on the rifles, we proceeded to the live fire range and shot farther and farther out until we hit the 14" plate at 700ish yards. Well, I contacted Freddy and he's willing to do another "one off, one day" class for those folks that just don't have two days to attend a class thru the year. Range is in Pennsylvania and from northern New Jersey it's about 2 1/2 hours drive. Essentially it's 30 minutes from where the Oaks Gun Show is. Class date is 23 April 2017. Cost is $175 per student. You will need a capable rifle and glass and 200 rounds of ammunition, eyes and ears at minimum. Freddy will send a list of equipment that will help to make the class more comfortable. Any questions please reach out to me via PM, or Freddy directly. He can be reached thru his website, which has a host of info about his classes, at www.BHTCorps.com

Signed. Thanks.

Kinda stoopud... Why would anyone want a 6mm AR? Dontcha know that .223 is the king of the heap!!! If not that maybe a 450BushMaster. I know where you can get some ammo cheap!

Yay!!! Better than Christmas!!!

Scott Bach sucks. I'm not really interested in anything he has to say.

A caliber choice wrinkle. Investigators are in the scene. Will report back with findings.