Blaser R8 or Custom build

[WARDY1]

Not been out for a couple of years due to niggly health problems but getting back to normal so I will be resuming my stalking.

I have had a custom rifle before- well semi custom but I'm looking at either a full custom or a R8.

What kind of price is a full custom coming in at these days?

Cheers

steve

 

[Rob1562]

Hi Steve,

think its a question of "how long is a piece of string" or really what you want/fancy !

You're not far away from Steve Kershaw in Howden, my advice would be give him a call and chew the fat over what you fancy, he'll give you a ball park figure I'm sure. He's built me two custom rifles and can't speak highly enough of his quality and workmanship (he's in the process of building me a third, but don't tell the wife !!!!)

Regards, Rob.

 

[deerstalker.308]

Do you want to get out shooting soon or in 2 years time? If the latter then go custom, if the former then the blaser wins.

 

[WARDY1]

Hi Rob

yes know Steve mate he's done a few re-barrels for me.

Steve

 

[jb1]

Do you want to get out shooting soon or in 2 years time? If the latter then go custom, if the former then the blaser wins.

I have not used any gun smith that takes more than 6 months to build a semi custom rifle. Don't know were you get the 2 years from.
As suggested have a chat with Steve he will sort you out something that will be nice and it will be a shooter. Or be like the rest of the sheep and get a Blaser, in black synthetic no doubt.

Cost of a full custom could be 3-4k if your going custom action, and depends if the Smith is putting his popularity price on it. There's one that's put 1k+ on just because he's getting allot of air time..

 

[artschool]

Or be like the rest of the sheep and get a Blaser, in black synthetic no doubt.

most of us have green synthetic.

yours sincerely,

The Sheep

 

[Greener Jim]

A Blaser (or any factory rifle at that price point) would do everything you want. However, that's not why you go semi or full custom.
The Shultz and Larsen's are great and cheap for what they are allowing you to spec them up a little before they are the same price as the Blaser.

I would go custom given the money, or something nice from Holts,but I like to have different things.

 

[thomas]

From personal experience I wish I had purchased an off the shelf rifle. A simple semi custom build which took an age, finally turned up with the specified 14x1 thread cut too small which enlarged the end of my mod for me, then the wonderful trigger I had been told was the business packed in after a couple of shots! Given the grief, I ended up getting the screw cutting redone and a Timney trigger fitted by someone closer to home at my own cost, a lesson well an truly learnt.....Oh and I had to buy a new mod too!!!!. The rifle does shoot well now its sorted, although I have put less than a dozen shots through it in the year since it arrived, I just don't want to use it. My Blaser is always first out of the cabinet. ...

 

[straightpull6547]

I have blasers and customs, for me the reason to go custom is if the blaser cannot be configured to suit your needs. For a hunting rifle, blaser every time. For something more specialist, have it built to suit.

 

[bowji john]

I suspect that a quality ''off the shelf rifle'' might be easier to resell rather than one customised to your own specific 'preference of the day'

 

[jcampbellsmith]

...Don't know were you get the 2 years from. ....

It's taken me more than two years to source a stock and have it fitted. The rifle smith was not the delay here, but sourcing a stock from the USA took a long, long time. Other quality components make take a significant time too.

Regards

JCS

 

[smokey]

if you go custom semi custom S Kershaw gets my vote and it will not be two year ******** any one who puts work with some one that quotes two years deserves to loose there money just do not use a American barrel unless it is in stock

 

[scooby doo]

I tryed to semi custom a Remington after market stock
new trigger plus other things then went out and brought
a R8 I think it's a great rifle the R8 and would recommend it

 

[Uncle f]

I have not used any gun smith that takes more than 6 months to build a semi custom rifle. Don't know were you get the 2 years from.
As suggested have a chat with Steve he will sort you out something that will be nice and it will be a shooter. Or be like the rest of the sheep and get a Blaser, in black synthetic no doubt.

Cost of a full custom could be 3-4k if your going custom action, and depends if the Smith is putting his popularity price on it. There's one that's put 1k+ on just because he's getting allot of air time..

I have green synthetic x2 not sure blaser do a black one but if they do I will get one of them as well they are that good
i love being a sheep!

 

[Uncle f]

Just a thought would this make me a black sheep?

 

[caorach]

The bottom line is you can buy a rifle made up of bits ordered off the internet and put together by some bloke in a shed, or you can buy a rifle designed on the most sophisticated software available, designed by the best firearms design engineers money can buy, built in a factory with machining and engineering capabilities at the leading edge of what is available today, and with all the bits built with the sole intention of them working together.

 

[Claret_Dabbler]

The bottom line is you can buy a rifle made up of bits ordered off the internet and put together by some bloke in a shed, or you can buy a rifle designed on the most sophisticated software available, designed by the best firearms design engineers money can buy, built in a factory with machining and engineering capabilities at the leading edge of what is available today, and with all the bits built with the sole intention of them working together.

Old, but gold.

 

[Claret_Dabbler]

I have blasers and customs, for me the reason to go custom is if the blaser cannot be configured to suit your needs. For a hunting rifle, blaser every time. For something more specialist, have it built to suit.

Though, I think this is actually the correct answer.

 

[bowji john]

The bottom line is you can buy a rifle made up of bits ordered off the internet and put together by some bloke in a shed, or you can buy a rifle designed on the most sophisticated software available, designed by the best firearms design engineers money can buy, built in a factory with machining and engineering capabilities at the leading edge of what is available today, and with all the bits built with the sole intention of them working together.

Or you could buy a Blaser .

Yup - Ill get my coat

 

[scotch_egg]

I have a few customs and now a lowly R93 with several barrels has joined them. The ability to choose which calibre I use for a given task is great. Plus if I haven't got rounds ready for one calibre I have the option to take the other barrel and use the same scope. One stock and scope is far more cost effective. All be it a curse having just looked at my 4th barrel

In my opinion the R93 off-road professional plastic stocks are terrible when compared to the likes of McMillan, PSE composites and Staffordshire Synthetic Stocks. I can't comment on the R8 because I have not used one in the field. It is something to take into consideration, especially given that have used a custom rifle before.

Other than that I love the Blaser. It was designed as a complete package and not put together with parts from different manufacturers working to different tolerances.