The ultimate .30 cal. bench rest cast bullet rifle

[Ben]

If you were going to start from scratch and build this :

• What action would you use ?
• What barrel profile ?
• What barrel length ?
• What cartridge would you chamber the barrel in ?
• What twist would you select ?
• What style of stock would you select ?
• What other refinements would you want on this rifle ?
• ( Last minute addition, your choice of optics also )

This should be interesting ! !

 

[Brad]

Cost is not an issue?
Have it built up by an honest to goodness BR smith. Use a BR action like a Stolle. I would go with a 30 BR. 20 inch light varmint contour barrel.
Twist, use a 12 and figure on a 180-200 gr bullet.

Plan on spending 2500 bucks. Gonna need another couple hundred for the right dies to really get the most of it..

 

[Ian]

Ultimate, or Realistic?

I'm going with Realistic.

Savage 10 w/AccuTrigger
Heavy Varmint profile
21-3/4"
.30 BR w/.5° per side throat taper
5R, 1:11 or 1:12
Boyd's "4x4" heavy BR stock (ask Brad)
Dual steel pillar bedding, fill magazine well, plug bottom of receiver, heavy recoil lug, fill barrel threads, bed scope mounts.

 

[KHornet]

Loaded Question Ben, but since I will never be in the bracket will give it a shot!
#1 Ruger Action or equivalent
Heavy tapered fluted bbl, premium quality
30-30 or 30-40
1/12
Laminated/piller bedded, free floating
Top quality trigger

 

[Tony]

Savage Target Action, Right Hand Bolt, Left Port
Light Varmint Profile
22" or cut/crown at the tightest point in the bore
30 BR
Two barrels: one in 1:12, one in 1:18 (for 110 to 120 grain bullets)
BR stock (IBS/NBRSA rules compliant)
1.5 to 2 oz. trigger/Nightforce BR scope

 

[Ben]

This is getting interesting ! !

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Ben

 

[35 shooter]

Rem. 700 action
Hvy. varmint or bull bbl.
20 or 21" bbl. length
30br or .308
12 twist
Straight comb laminate stock with a wide flat bottom forend

Action "trued" and stock glass and pillar bedded. BBl. free floated.

 

[Brad]

Ok, I was way off on price. Figure on 4500 plus.

Want the best? It ain't gonna be cheap.

The man said ultimate.

 

[fiver]

can I have a 99yd long barrel?

 

[David Reiss]

Stolle / Hart 24" Undersized Heavy 1-12" / .30 BR / Kelby stock / Weaver 36

Put a bow on it!

 

[freebullet]

Not much of a bench rest guy myself.

Mine would go more like....
Custom ar308, 12 or 14 twist, jard trigger, zeiss glass, & a nice bipod to make my own bench in the woods and field edges I frequent.

Oooo, & a buncha mags.

 

[RBHarter]

I'm biased I guess .

Money is no object .

I'd start with a 700/40X action.
Kreiger 3 groove 30 cal 1-16 , 1.25 by 26"
Topped off in Ziess .
It would take me some research for a trigger but I'm pretty sure it would be some sort of a set trigger in the 5# to set it just barely feel it before it's gone .
The stock would have to be pretty out side . But inside it would be bedded to a matched cradle steel bed pre fitted to the action . The the stock fitted to the cradle then filled with Devcon 1010 .

I'm inclined to lean towards a cartridge best suited for a particular range but in almost certain that it would follow the long taper ,long shoulder ,long neck theme of 30-30, 30XCB , 300 H&H . Possibly starting with a 308 length 473 rim , perhaps like the 300 stopped at 2.1 " so that in 2000 rounds or so it could be moved out to the 7.62x57 30 XCB , then deep cut to 2.5" then to 300 H&H . Then be lopped off and started over again with just 24" .
I would of course have the work done by a good friend in Conway AR to ensure that the tolerance for my needs is exceeded .

 

[fiver]

I would probably start with a Bat or stole action and go with a 30" 1x13 twist barrel.
the 308X1.5 would get enough powder behind the boolit to move it out to 1-300yds easy enough.
a Nightforce X55 BR scope would provide enough sight.
as far as a stock I think it should just sit on the bench on it's own with minor adjustment toggles built in so I don't have to fiddle about with a front or rear rest.
I don't know if I could shoot better than the .2's with such a set up but I would like to find out.

 

[Creeker]

Might begin with one of these:

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And turn out to look something like this:

 

[RicinYakima]

I think this is close to perfect.

 

[fiver]

well something just about in the middle of the two would be about right to me.

 

[keith]

1903 Springfield with Remington 1943 2 groove 1-10 twist shorted 2 inches and draw filed 30-06 with Bishop sporter stock Pachayr pad Leupold VX-1 2x7x33 scope

 

[Intheshop]

I'm with Harter..

40x action,Kreiger brrl.

Make it a 6mm Rem.Leupold glass,run through our shop.I reckon we'd build a stock for it?But seriously,would be way more fun running a factory 40$ POS,flexi flyer stock...camo dejour.

 

[Bruce Drake]

Not much of a bench rest guy myself.

Mine would go more like....
Custom ar308, 12 or 14 twist, jard trigger, zeiss glass, & a nice bipod to make my own bench in the woods and field edges I frequent.

Oooo, & a buncha mags.

or rechamber a 300BLK AR15 barrel with a 1-8 twist to 308x1.5 and use 7.62x39 load data to start. The cartridge change will require replacing the 5.56 bolt to a .458 SOCOM bolt and you can either buy dedicated straight feed magazines at $24-$40 each or reuse standard AR15 magazines but with limited capacity due to the larger case (4 in a 10rnd mag, 8 in a 20 rnd ( prefer to load 5 in the 20s) and 14 in a 30 round magazine but the last two are a bit stiff to get into my military aluminum mags)
That said, in a 16 inch fast-twist (1-8) carbine gas length AR barrel, I'm hoping it will be sweet little woodwalker carbine with 150-190gr lead bullets.

 

[Rally]

I’m not a bench rest guy either, so I would stick with my Marlin 336 SS in .30-30 and use the rest of the money chasing pheasant in Sd. The next couple years.