Building my first dedicated F-Class rifle in 308

Quick · Post by **Quick** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 5:10 pm

Gents, I'm going to post up the build progress of my first dedicated F-Class rifle. Here's how the specs should look:

Omark action
Lawton heavy varmint 1-12 308
F-class stock
Burris XTR Low rings
Weaver T-24 scope

Here's a pic of the stock in my BR rest and rear bag.

I will post a pic of the donor rifle in a bit. I will be shooting both F-Open and F/TR. I plan on running 155gr and 185gr in this rifle.

Let me know what your thoughts are gents.

Courtz Day · Post by **Courtz Day** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:43 pm

Nice stock Quick
It's made from British Std marine ply just so you know, an was meant to be the display model but thats alright there will be a new one sent to wara soon.
Look forward to seeing it finished an putting lead an copper down range.

Quick · Post by **Quick** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:20 pm

Courtz,

Cheers mate. Do you happen to know the weight of it?

Will the fact that its marine ply effect its performance at all?

IanP · Post by **IanP** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:19 am

Quick, it looks good to me and marine ply just means the laminations are glued together with a waterproof glue.

Get a short rail fitted to the bottom of the forestock so you can slide a bipod or a 3" wide plate in and you have FS, FO and F T/R covered. Looking at the photo, you might need to enlarge the barrel channel if you want to use a heavy barrel at some stage.

Good luck with the build!

Ian

Quick · Post by **Quick** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:24 am

Ian,

Thats the plan mate to be able to shoot all three class's.

Cheers for the tips.

IanP · Post by **IanP** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:41 am

Quick, One other thing I thought of is that you dont mention a trigger and a Davies trigger might be worth a look!
http://www.daviestriggers.com.au/

Ian

Quick · Post by **Quick** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:45 am

Ian,

Good point. I am probably going to use the trigger thats on the rifle and then if I dont like it, I'll get a davies for it. I didnt mind the trigger much when I was shooting TR with this rifle.

Brad Y · Post by **Brad Y** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:39 am

Sure you dont want a 6.5 barrel on the sucker :wink:

Quick · Post by **Quick** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:36 am

I do brad but I reckon shooting 308 for another season should help my wind reading and then I may rebarrel with a 6.5mm

Brad Y · Post by **Brad Y** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 11:00 am

Thats one thing I have thought about, with the 6.5x47L I had half or just over half of the wind wound onto the scope on the weekend as the 308 shooters did. The drift obviously isnt as bad due to the slippery bullets but I find shooting the 308 and learning to get my wind holds right helps out more when using the open gun. A 4 or 5 in FS seems to get a 5 or 6 in FO. Getting them in the middle in FS means more X rings for me when using the 6.5. I reckon its a sound idea mate.

Brocko · Post by **Brocko** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 4:25 pm

Quick,

Where was the stock purchased from mate? Not a Richards MicroFit is it?

Cheers, Brock.

Brad Y · Post by **Brad Y** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 4:44 pm

Brocko- these are available at the WARA shop or get in touch with Courtz Day on here as he and his father make them. They have a variety of styles they can do and different timbers as well. I have a new one sitting at home waiting for final inletting and bedding when my next barrel arrives. They make a good stock!

Brocko · Post by **Brocko** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:20 pm

Cheers Brad!

Quick · Post by **Quick** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:39 pm

Brocko,

Its a nice stock mate. Well made too. It will probs get a lil atleration by myself and my mate but should come up really good I hope.

This is just to learn how to shoot a rifle "sliding" as I call it instead of of a bipod

Btw, anyone know where to get a anschutz forend rail from?

Sam Walker · Post by **Sam Walker** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:49 am

Should be a nice rifle once you get it all together

I'm sure I've seen anschutz forend rails listed on the SARA store website