chester Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 When you guys are looking for a donor rifle for your various projects, what factors are you looking for within the donor rifle, to make sure its up for the job? Long term I would love to go down the 17ah route, but not sure if I should save up for a cooper or look to go down this route? Any advice will be gratefully recieved Cheers Chester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Donor rifle? Well for me it would be overall action condition, bolt lug condition, ease of rebarreling, availablity of aftermarket parts and price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentsoulsleave308holes Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 one thing I would look at is cal's if you are wanting say a 308, for its many good reasons when you have finished building it such as barrel life, accuracy etc etc then a 308 donor is proberbly not the best cal donor action as it will have seen a lot of use because of its high round count however, find a 243 for example, that has a much lower round count per barrel and the action will proberbly be near mint because of this but they share the same action as the 308 so getting it re-barreld to 308 is no probs remys of c reg are supposed to be very good so I hear as they were a first run off a new machine (so I have heard) its also worth considering a long action for short round if one comes up what I mean is if you see a long action rifle you can still use this for say a 308 there are people that say "oh long action's are not as good" and all that crap but they have never used one my 300 is a long action and she has a massive fat long tube hanging off her that does sub 1/4"@100 so they cant be that flimsy and is probs more hear say look at the army m24 sniper rifle,,, its a long actioned 308/7.62 and is guaranteed to shoot sub 1/4" right out the box with fed premium of black hills so no-one can say it wont work shooting that good is hard with custom rigs and handloads let a lone factory rounds but have a look and you'll find that it comes with that guarantee sexy looking stick too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldon Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Silent, just expand on what you mean here please. "remys of c reg are supposed to be very good" Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldon Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Sorry wouldn't post then double posted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Serial number of action starts with a letter. C is supposed to be a good vintage - I think thats what Silent meant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest varmartin Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 serial number chart from The Big Green...>>>click here Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldon Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Cheers guys, that means my remy is 1986 errrm must have been on the shelf a while? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest varmartin Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 According to the date list my G******** is of 1986 vintage as well, but it did come with J lock ...go figure ?? Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Have to say I wasnt aware of any better year than another. I just buy my donors on condition as seen and go from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentsoulsleave308holes Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 ok the story is a machine and its tooling get used for thousands and proberbly a thousand more until its time to get put aside is up then another machine and its tooling get up an running and the cycle continues my 300 action is a G reg so it was produced in 1986 but I bought it as new a few years ago the G reg machine is supposed to go back into action in 2012 if you look at varmartin's link apparrantly there was a problem with the C reg machine (or the machine thats used to make C) and was replaced in 1982 so all actions out of that machine are to new tool tight tols thats the story as I read it but for all I know it may be a pile of poo but when you look at how they have worked out the serial number thing on their chart it does get you thinking anyhows it is a fact that a 308 going way more round than a 243 would be in more used condition so like I say a 243 action for example will normally be better/newer for use as a donor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldon Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Interesting point about the serial numbers. My G is the same as yours Martin, G reg with J lock yet bought new in 2004. Do's anybody actually use the J lock? I wondered if the parts were selected depending on final model as previously I had an ADL and the action and chamber were definetly tighter in the current VS. I had to resize the leftover adl ammo to fit this rifle. It wouldn't do if the cheaper models out shot the dear ones would it Just a thought, might be totally on the wrong track though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentsoulsleave308holes Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 i've had a E with a J lock and a G with out, mind you the G was a pss so dont spoze they would want it on a police model Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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