High power hunting rifle silhouette startup?

[ss shooter]

Howdy,
I'm looking for some input on a rifle for highpower. I am pretty much set on a 260 or 7mm-08, But pretty open as to make & model of rifle, also does it have to be a boltgun or can you use a single shot. I have never seen a Highpower match, but I have been shooting BPCR for about 4 years.
thanks .

[dave imas]

just like everyone else is advised...  go to a match.  see what is being used.  try a few rifles.  too soon to be spouting off which one might be best if you haven't been.  doesn't have to be a bolt gun but if you got all the folks using a single shot together at the same time you could eat dinner at a table for 4.  clearly exaggerating but you would be in the extreme minority.
dave

[rich5674]

I have a Remington ADL syntetic in 260. Remingtons new 700 SPS looks good, available in 7mm08,and 243 etc  24 inch barrel, synthetic stock.

[hh4064]

I would not use anything but the 700 Rem.. Only because there is sooooooooooo much after market stuff out there for it. And if you ever want to use that same action to move up to the heavy rifle??? Well again there is so many great products out there for it!!!! Yes you can use other actions, but, it will most likely cost you more. I believe Rem 700 gives you the best bang for your buck.....And still gives you options to change
good luck
mike

[Nobade]

I decided to be different and started with a Howa. I shot it for about 6 months with the factory stock and swapped out to a Weatherby style stock. That one works much better for offhand. I like it - it shoots like crazy, has a nice trigger once I worked it over, and holds 5 rounds in the magazine. .308 by the way - loaded to 2500 fps with 168's it doesn't seem to recoil more than my current .260 and I still shoot better scores with it than my new custom dedicated M700 silhouette rifle. (But I hope that will change with practice.) Would I do it again? I don't know. Maybe if I knew I didn't want to modify it I would. But starting with a Rem lets you trick it out to no end once you decide what you want, and there are so many different parts available for those.

[ss shooter]

Thanks for the replies, I was looking at the 700 for the same reason, all the aftermarket parts. Any thoughts on the Savage?

[CB]

I've been competing with a 27 year old Savage in STD for about 5years. Primarily I'm a tinkerer, I bought a $,$00.00 54MS Anshutz some years back and to me the stock felt like a 2X6 with the corners knocked off. So to my buddies horror to the belt sander it went. The Savage (a $250.00 investment) allowed me to swap out multiple barrels, develope my now state of the art trigger technique :roll: , as well as totally butch the stock in a miriad of different configurations over the years trying to find my "edge". It's now a brass fire forming and practice rig as I THINK (after 5 years) I have an idea what I want and am building another STD with slightly more investment $'s. It's a Remington. I've seen people show up and have a ball with T/C's, a BVSS Savage laminate skeletonized to make weight, M1 Garand, M96?Swede Mauser, Sporterized Mausers, AR-10, etc, etc. Figure up front no matter what you start with you're going to wear out barrels, so,,,,,rifle actions, scopes, spotting scopes, jackets, loading stuff and tooling: try to get the best of the best (unless you take a dump on the $$ selling used you're stuck with it the rest of your life) As far as rifles go, hard to beat a Rem, unless it's a Stiller, or a Hall or a ? Get something,,,, (hint,,.260) and  go wear it out having fun trying to hit them things!!
Carroll