I’m pretty keen on cerakoating my barrel the deer have picked up on the stainless barrel shining on bright sunny days. The thing about blued or parkerised barrels is the bore rusts out on multiple...
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I’m pretty keen on cerakoating my barrel the deer have picked up on the stainless barrel shining on bright sunny days. The thing about blued or parkerised barrels is the bore rusts out on multiple...
Bill999 I’m the same I hunt around a lot of water, rain, drizzle, low cloud and fog, it’s too much work looking after a non stainless steel rifle.
We only had 25m-30m max visibility getting this...
I thinks it was $950 fitted and threaded for a suppressor and then I had the bolt half cock safety at extra cost put on too but that was in 2015 don’t know the pricing now days. During lock I cleaned...
Yes rebarreled not reamed.
My rifle was a stock standard 1:12 223rem T3 that I picked up cheap on Trademe for $700 then sent it off to the gunsmith for a new 1:7 12” barrel with the same Tikka...
The other option is try and find a cheap stainless 222 or 223 and rebarrel it with a Trueflie or other top quality fast twist barrel.
Kimber Adirondack are the only factory stainless steel bolt action that I know of.
Gun city had some semi custom Howa, CZ and Tikka T3 in stainless made up a year or two ago with cheap suppressors.