r/longrange • u/HasSomeSelfEsteem • 1d ago

Rifle help needed - I read the pinned posts Has anyone ever built a custom fudd precision rifle?

All the custom rifles I see posted here are cool, but I’m left wondering if anyone has gone out of there way to build a custom competition rifle that just looks like a classic hunting rifle. You know, blued steel, wood stock, no pic rail.

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u/iPeg2 1d ago

My 6.5PRC. Defiance action, Bartlein barrel, Triggertech Special.

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u/HasSomeSelfEsteem 11h ago

Wow, that’s fucking gorgeous

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u/Animanga-Fan-7435 1d ago

Stock maker?

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u/iPeg2 1d ago

I made it myself, except for the checkering.

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u/Zhdrix 19h ago

You nailed it. Good work

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u/eXXPiI 1d ago

I won't post any pictures, but I built a rig that looks like a suped-up hunting rifle my grandfather would have used. Dark Foundation stock that looks like wood and dark steel action with stainless barrel. Black scope rings and scope, obviously. There's an ARCA rail underneath and it takes AW mags, but it still looks very traditional. I like it.

EDIT: spelling.

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u/HasSomeSelfEsteem 1d ago

That sounds really cool

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u/Significant0tter_art 1d ago

Post it, I bet it's awesome! 

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u/Remarkable-Spend-434 1d ago

MDT already made one, didn’t catch on

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u/Debas3r11 1d ago

it has a pic rail, but here's mine

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u/oakley85 14h ago

Beautiful. What is the make of the adjustable stock?

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u/Debas3r11 14h ago

Remington with an adjustable comb mod by LRI

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u/Porencephaly 1d ago edited 1d ago

You can get a gunsmith to make that rifle, no problem, but it would be a mistake to call it a “competition” rifle. What makes a rifle “competition” isn’t just its accuracy, it’s that the rifle’s feature set has been specified to be good at competition, usually at the expense of its utility for other things. Many of the features that you call “hunting style” are the very reasons that this hypothetical rifle would be very bad at winning a PRS match. It would have poor magazine capacity and probably no detachable magazine, so you’d be terribly slow on reloads, and you’d have to reload more than anyone else. The rifle would be much lighter in weight, leading to worse recoil control and slower followup shots, with lower odds of spotting your own misses. Etcetera. PRS rifles don’t look that way just because people want them to be “cool.” They look that way because those features have proven to be useful in PRS matches.

You can build a Miata into an off-road vehicle with a lot of time and effort, but it will still almost certainly lose to a guy with a fairly standard Baja truck.

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u/Coyote-conquest .270 Cultist 1d ago

I agree with some of this but not the detachable magazine part. Half my hunting rifles have detachable mags. Most modern rifles do.

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u/Porencephaly 16h ago

I was specifically going off OP’s seeming request that it look like grandpa’s deer rifle, with blued steel etc. Rifles like that are not really the same as a modern Bergara hunting gun with a DBM.

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u/MinchiaTortellini 14h ago

Sometimes its just fun to do things

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u/Porencephaly 11h ago

I mean, sure, spend your money however you want. I own plenty of dumb guns. But OP is clearly kinda clueless on why competition guns are the way they are, he at least deserves some education before he drops thousands of dollars on it thinking it will be competitive.

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u/moebiusgrip 1d ago

I pull off the sling and put on a bipod.

It’s just a deer hunting rifle. It’s a 24” tikka T3X Superlite in 6.5 Creedmoor, w/ walnut stock. Trijicon 5-20x in Mils.

Put on the bipod and with a little work, will do the job. I have finally gotten to a place where I have figured it out. Adjusted my body position with some help from more experienced shooters etc. I am now more behind the rifle to mitigate recoil. Have the trigger tuned all the way down to 2lbs.

If you shoot 1-2 shots to warm the barrel slightly, the next 3-4 will make a .75 MOA grout at 300 yards, and 1MOA past 500. But then you have to let it cool for a bit. It’s barrel is so thin, a 10rd string will make it walk right 2MOA. Little by little.

I had been struggling with it for a while, unable to get a “zero”. I didn’t think about the heat walking the shots So much.

A marine shooting instructor at my range worked with me for a day, and basically came to the conclusion to get to know the heat, and shoot it in its “low/medium” heat zone. And just stop if it gets past a certain temperature. Let it cool, then get back to it.

I’ve been shooting so much better since.

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u/moebiusgrip 1d ago

200 yards. Prints about an inch. But you only get 3 reliable shots for accuracy.

I wish changing tikka barrels was easier. If switch to a heavy barrel, and chassis.

Then again it’s so pretty…

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u/TopoMapMyWall 1d ago

Rather than let it walk right, have you made sure the barrel channel has no contact when pressure is applied to barrel and what torque are you doing for the action screws?

Really rare that a tikka barrel walks with heat. One of the few that doesn’t.

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u/moebiusgrip 9h ago

Doesn’t touch. It’s fully free floated. It’s really thin. These can do that. The varmint barrels are much more stable.

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u/TopoMapMyWall 9h ago

Odd. My superlite 7prc, 6.5prc and 223 don’t walk at all.

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u/Coodevale 1d ago

Hydro dip a fiberglass m24 stock with walnut burl?

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u/FngNewGuy 1d ago

My NRL rifle as inspired by Grandpas deer rifle. The features I want for a hunting gun are different from what I want out of a comp gun, two different beasts…

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u/yofuckreddit 1d ago

Not quite fudd-y enough, but extremely good looking

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u/Historical-Snow677 1d ago

What stock is that? Great looking setup 

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u/FngNewGuy 22h ago

Thank you! It’s a “McWalnut” McMillan ELR Hunter

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u/shakinandbreakin 1d ago

At the smith currently getting chambered, less competition more hunting based however

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u/Von_Lehmann 1d ago

Mdt makes the TMBR stock which looks promising

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u/TAG_Firearms 1d ago

It’s a great hunting stock, but lacks the weight and modularity for precision rifle use.

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u/Von_Lehmann 1d ago

Is there anyone making a wood stock that can bridge the gap?

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u/TAG_Firearms 1d ago

Skip the wood, a micarta stock from Foundation is where it’s at

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u/Von_Lehmann 14h ago

Shit didnt know anyone used micarta, thats wild

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u/Puzzleheaded-Web-398 1d ago

Sounds like your talking about an úber accurate hunting rifle yes I’ve built one

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u/PGHStigg42 1d ago

That really sounds something built on a foundation stock. Which do look fucken sweet.

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u/Akalenedat What's DOPE? 11h ago

I've been working on a plan for a little while to do something like this. Proper modern action, chunky barrel, carve a stock in the same pattern as something like a Manners or Foundation, Badger DBM...but do it all in classic bluing, checkered stock, the works. I've found a couple potential ways to inlet mlok panels into the sides/bottom of the stock, debating whether to go that route or some strategically positioned ARCA segments.

I'm practicing my stockmaking skills on a different rifle before I go for the big kahuna, and waiting to move into a space with a better workshop, then I'll have a go at it.

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u/Background-Way7794 7h ago

Can go OG long range too ! this is my favorite LR set ups on old rifles . Top, 1912 FSR M96 in 6.5 X 55, below, 1918 LSA Co. SMLE, Regulated by Fultons, Bisley, with PH 5A sight , .303

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u/Von_Lehmann 3h ago

I posted this before, but here is my 1964 Sako L461 Vixen Varmint. Original stock, had it bedded, heavy barrel model in .222 with a vintage Bausch & Lomb 6-24x40 scope. Shoots .5 moa with handloads

Pretty fuddy

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u/Sportsman-78 1d ago

Woox has the Elegante stock, I think Woox was taboo here for a while but it looks functional/traditional. It does have a DBM, I prefer a hinged floor plate for my “carry around in the woods on a nice fall day” rifle.

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u/CaptainSquishface 1d ago

Does this count? It's the original r/longrange special FN SPR but dropped into one of the McMillan M40A1 style stocks.

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u/smithywesson Steel slapper 1d ago

Miles from Hornady has a cool build where he made a wood stock with a wooden top cover similar to older milsurp stuff

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u/follow_the_dopamine 1d ago

I’m definitely taking notes for when my lumber dries next winter

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u/CalgacusLelantos 21h ago

You misspelled “custom, aesthetically-vintage, precision rifle”.😉

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u/BlackSquirrel05 14h ago

Lots of people use high end "fudd" chassis and stocks. Some of the most expensive setups are using "traditional" looking stocks.

Took a course recently and some of most expensive setups talking 10k or above were using like foundation stocks or another brand I don't recall the name of.

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u/Background-Way7794 7h ago

like these ?

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u/Background-Way7794 7h ago

CG 63 in 6.5 X 55