If you have a spare Rem 700 short action laying around...

[Gewehr98]

Here's one thing you can do with it:

They don't mention what happens to the factory safety once you JB Weld or Devcon your Remington action into the tubegun. Check out the colors available:

http://www.tubegun.net/Color.htm

 

[Steve Smith]

This is new to you? HP guys have been playing with this for a few years!


Most likely there isn't a safety. For a match gun, you are either ready to fire or you are not. If you are walking around with a loaded rifle, you are WRONG and will be disqualified. Actions are to be open at all times when away from the firing line.

 

[Smokey Joe]

Nice pic, Gewehr! On an (un)related subject, I'm in the market for a rifle shooting rest, and so want to ask you:
1. What brand is the one pictured? And about how much did it co$t?
2. Is it stable while shooting?
3. Where do you get such a one?

I know, I know, just shut up and get one from Sinclair. But I'd kinda like to spend <$200 on the thing, rather than the $250-$300 for the Sinclairs.

Yeah, I'm cheap. I want a Sinclair-level shooting rest, w/o paying a Sinclair-level price. The plastic Caldwell is too light, and the metal Hoppe's is too high and tippy.

 

[cdbeaver]

The shooting rest in the photo appears to be a dolled-up Caldwell "The Rock" sold by Midwest USA. On sale now at $74.99, including a portable target stand. I just got one last month. Mine is painted black; don't know where the pretty blue job came from.

 

[bogie]

If you want a good quality rest, that'll handle other "standard" rest tops, get a Hart or clone. The Midway el-cheapos won't handle the "standard" tops, and besides, they're not heavy enough.

Call Bob White at Shooter's Corner (look at complete rifles at benchrest.com), and see if he has any used rests.

 

[Gewehr98]

Steve, the AR-15 spacegun concept isn't new to me.

And you're right, the Tubb 2000 boltgun has been out for a while. I have to confess, I've not been keeping up on the latest High Power toys since I left California. The Air Force's deployment rate for my flying job makes certain of that. Don't even ask me how many times I've been to a firing range in the last year, although I'll give you a hint, most of my shooting time has been for duty-related qualifications, precious little was for myself. That's why I log in here with my laptop, I can at least shoot vicariously through you guys.

A buddy unhappy with the performance of his single-shot XP-100 bolt pistol sent me the link to the tubegun website. He is taking the XP-100 action and gluing it into a tubegun, after screwing in a new .260 Remington barrel.

I'll keep my actions in something more conventional. Just thought it was unique enough to share with my THR brethren.

Smokey Joe, it's not my gun, or my rifle rest. Mine is that red plastic one seen so often in my gun pics.

 

[4v50 Gary]

That incarnation of the Remington 700 is something the lads at Illion would never have dreamed of.

 

[artherd]

Mag fed version is pretty cool. I take it these are pretty accurate?

 

[Smokey Joe]

Rifle shooting rest info

CDBeaver, Bogey, and Gewehr: Thanx for the info. I'll check out the Hart rest, and Bob White, and becnhrest.com

 

[labgrade]

Maybe I'm missing somethnig here, but I've a couple+ Rem 700 actions that'll do sub 1/2 MOA - .22s-.30s = 300 yds+ ... I don't get the "thrill" somehow with an AR-type - unless it can do a "bells 'n whistles -drill."

A simple decently scoped/bolt-gun will do that all day long.

What's spiffy about a tricked semi-looking AR-thing? other than to look "tricked?" If it can't atcually put the bullets where they're supposed to be, they're just dressing.

& no disrespect intended = I've got a few & they're fun to play with & do a decent enough job, but to what point other than tagging paper? & "soft targets?' I DO hear ya there though. Nice to be able to put decent enough steel on target, & rapidly. A coupla mine do both.

But, nice enough pix ... howzit place bullets where you want - every time & with effect? Pretty enough, but howz it put bullets where you want? That IS the measure of a gun/load combo.

I've a few "obsolete" bolt-guns that'll do 1/2" MOA & can do that all day long = one - shot - at - a -time ---- at way over 300 yards, & then some. Nothing to sneeze at a properly placed 165 gr+ .30 cal bullet.

 

[Steve Smith]

The "trick" is that you get all the modularity of an AR. You can screw on a float tube instead of bedding the rifle and working out stock issues. You can add all kinds of adjustable pieces built for AR Match Rifles, you name it. I'm not a Match Rifle guy, but I know why they like this. It's essentially a cheap Tubb 2000.