I need some good advice for my rifle

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P.B.Walsh

P.B.Walsh

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Ok I have three different roads to take with this rifle. For the time being it is just a plain 700 SPS Varmit barreled action in need for aome clothes.

1. I buy an Eliseo RTS tubegun stock and add irons, sling - $1300

2. I buy a McMillian or Manners fiberglass stock, convert to ADL and add irons, sling - $1000

3. Buy a AICS or RTS tubegun and add a 1-4x scope (Vortex or the new S.S. if it gets released with a good reticle), barrel cut back to 16.5" with a flash hider, sling - $1500

The reason that I will possiblly convert to ADL with the McMillian or Manners is because you can hold the rifle better in some positions, no expensive magazines to loos or drop at inopportune times, and because of it's simplicitic function.

I will pretty do much everything with this rifle, and do not go to any competitions, except competing with nature itself when I deer hunt.

I will mostly hunt with this rifle, and keep in mind that I love iron sights.

Please help me out guys, this has been driving me crazy.
 
If you stalk-hunt as opposed to stand-hunting, I'd go with the lightest, fastest handling stock. I love scopes on varmint guns, but I'm rather ambivalent about them on committed deer guns since I hunt dense woods here in Kentucky. If I got a set of iron sights I liked, I'd go with them instead of the scope.

KR
 
Well, the scope will be a 1-4 so the ease of use is there, or I might even go with an Aimpoint or EoTech.

I also hunt in some thicker stuff sometimes and I know what you mean by the magnification part.

Thanks,
P.B.Walsh
 
Rifle furniture...

P. B. Walsh--Were the rifle mine, I'd handle each of the stocks being considered, and shoot a rifle in that stock if at all possible. Then I'd buy for the rifle, the stock that "fit" ME best; that felt the most comfortable and accurate when shooting.

I wouldn't go with what someone else thinks is best unless it feels right in your own hands and on your own shoulder. YOU will be shooting this rifle, not me.

BTW, what is a "tubegun stock?" I'm not familiar with that term. The bbl of any firearm is a tube, as I'm sure you know.
 
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