Austin's Custom Rifle
In 2005, I bought Austin a 243 Win caliber Remington Model 7. He's had a lot of success with it and harvested quite a few deer. I wanted to upgrade to a larger caliber but wanted to keep the same action as he harvested his first deer with the Remington Model 7. I engraved his name and year on the action when it was purchased. Hart makes the best barrels in the world. Austin and I took the barreled action out of his Model 7 and mailed to Hart for a new barrel in 7mm-08. Hart took the 243 Win barrel off and installed a Stainless Steel Hart 7mm-08 barrel. They also trued the action, fit and chamber and then bead blasted the barrel. It took around 6-months to get the barreled action back from Hart. Austin and I ordered a Bell and Carlson Carbelite stock. We installed and bedded the action in the stock. He's been hunting with my 270 Win a lot the last couple of years. I custom worked it a few years ago and it's nice. It has a Zeiss VM 2.5x10x50 scope on it. He loves that scope so we ordered him one like for his new rifle. The original 243 Win barrel had a Zeiss Conquest scope on it - we moved that scope to a 22LR. We cleaned the base and rings with Acetone and installed with Medium strength Loc-Tite. Mounted the scope. Put on a new Bone Collector sling.
We ordered a Redding Die, Norma Brass and Nosler Partition bullets. We're in the process of working up a load for the rifle. We should be settled on one in a couple of weeks.
It's a sweet little rifle!
Specifications
Caliber: 7mm-08
Action: Remington Model 7
Barrel: Hart
Stock: Bell and Carlson
Scope: Zeiss Diavari VM 2.5x10x50 30mm Tube #8 Reticule
Scope Base: Leupold
Scope Rings: Leupold
Sling: Bone Collector
Die: Redding
Brass: Norma
Bullet: Sierra GameKing 140gr
