Who builds Rimfire Benchrest rifles and at what price?

[LRCampos]

I am just starting to have interest in Rimfire Benchrest.

I could not find many articles on this. Who are the bests gunsmiths to build such a rifle,web sites?) and what are the prices I can expect to pay?

Thanks!

 

[hethin]

-LRCampos

You can find what you're looking for at rimfirecentral.com. The members are absolutely great and will be happy to give you advice.

hethin

 

[LRCampos]

Thanks Hethin.

I "am" there too.
I want all the information I can get. Rimfire benchrest is so new to me! ,I have to learn how a tuner works, what the best models, rifles prices, accuracy needed on scores matches etc).

 

[TAJ45]

Kinda like the sign in the speed parts shop:

Speed costs money,

How fast do you want to go?

Same thing with accuracy.............If you go to the RimFireCentral board and check out their rimfire for sale board, you'll find a Calfee built shooter for low $3's as in 3K$.

 

[Thud]

To find alot of stuff about RimFire benchrest go to www.benchrest.com its the best site for that stuff.

 

[LRCampos]

After some research, talking and a great help from Mr. Joe Haller, from Michigan, I am building a custom Remington 40X with Brian Voelker.

I expect the rifle to be a shooter! And with a good rifle I will have to improve my shooting and table manners to really shoot BR Rimfire.

 

[TAJ45]

And wind doping abilities.............don't forget flags.

If a 5mph x wind will move 52gr spitzer .3" running 3200fps, imagine how a round nosed, 40gr at 1070 will be affected.

Sounds like a nice choice of platforms as well as smith. What ammo/chamber is he going to do for you?

 

[varminthunter1]

It sounds like Joe pointed you in the right direction. Brian Voelker is a great rimfire smith. If you haven`t picked out your components yet, Benchmark, Lilja, and Shilen barrels are on a lot of winning guns. Plan on buying a nice windage rest also. I `d check the benchrest dot com classifieds as well.
Jeff

 

[LRCampos]

Varminthunter1, I just bought a Sinclair Windage BR Front Rest a few weeks ago.
I let Mr. Brian Voelker decide barrel brand and he will use Broughton barrel on my 40X.

My next move are to buy a set of flags and learn about wind...

I expect to pick up my rifle around may/june as the McMillan stock will be the last component to be delivery.

 

[varminthunter1]

It sound like you are well on your way. I hope you don`t live on the west coast, and shoot IR50/50. I don`t need any more competition.
Best of luck,
Jeff

 

[graybeard]

varminthunter1
Come to Texas and shoot some unlimited 5050 with us next year. Maybe we can learn something from you.
Jim

 

[cagoat]

LRCampos how did that rifle turn out for you.

varminthunter Where do you shoot IR50/50. I'm new on the forum here and live on the west coast. Would like to get to some of your matches next year if not to far.

Dale

 

[BobCollins]

LR,
Where are you located at? There could be a very good Rimfire Gunsmith close to you that you could go visit and look at some of his work.
Bob Collins