SilentStalker
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Ok, I am interested in hearing your ideas on when enough is enough for diminishing returns on a price point of a rifle. I am into long range shooting and have found it to be expensive. I get that you are paying for every little bit of help you can get, from an adjustable stock to a trued barrel, but at what point do you say enough is enough?
This all came about with an argument at work kind of erupting over a guy saying his $400 rifle can do just as well as a $4200 rifle. Lots of guys I shoot with say there is no way, but he has a point. I actually witnessed him shooting his $400 hunting rifle against another co-worker shooting a rifle that was 10X the cost and the results at 100 yds were about a 1/4 of an inch difference. So, in a way I understand his point. That's a lot of cheese for 1/4 of an inch. I could argue that the heavier/better barrel of the expensive rifle will stand up to sustain fire longer and theoretically hold groups better over the cheap rifle round for round under sustained fire, but other than that what is there? I mean sure one might have an adjustable stock for cheek weld and length of pull and all of that but is that really worth the price difference? I don't know. You tell me.
I could also argue that one was a better shooter than the other but not really because one shoots all of the time, the guy with the expensive rig, and the other is just a hunter who rarely shoots. So, I guess my point here is if a guy that never shoots can take a $400 rifle and shoot almost as good as a guy who always shoots with a much more expensive rifle then why pay all of the extra cheese? Are we to assume the differences would have been more noticeable at longer distances? I guess its all in what you are to use it for. When hunting, at least in this area, you would rarely ever shoot at anything beyond 300 yds so for that either rifle would do just fine, I guess. I don't know someone chime in here and give me your thoughts.
And yes, this is somewhat coming up because I want a custom built rifle but am now wondering if all of this money i have in expensive rifles is really worth it.
This all came about with an argument at work kind of erupting over a guy saying his $400 rifle can do just as well as a $4200 rifle. Lots of guys I shoot with say there is no way, but he has a point. I actually witnessed him shooting his $400 hunting rifle against another co-worker shooting a rifle that was 10X the cost and the results at 100 yds were about a 1/4 of an inch difference. So, in a way I understand his point. That's a lot of cheese for 1/4 of an inch. I could argue that the heavier/better barrel of the expensive rifle will stand up to sustain fire longer and theoretically hold groups better over the cheap rifle round for round under sustained fire, but other than that what is there? I mean sure one might have an adjustable stock for cheek weld and length of pull and all of that but is that really worth the price difference? I don't know. You tell me.
I could also argue that one was a better shooter than the other but not really because one shoots all of the time, the guy with the expensive rig, and the other is just a hunter who rarely shoots. So, I guess my point here is if a guy that never shoots can take a $400 rifle and shoot almost as good as a guy who always shoots with a much more expensive rifle then why pay all of the extra cheese? Are we to assume the differences would have been more noticeable at longer distances? I guess its all in what you are to use it for. When hunting, at least in this area, you would rarely ever shoot at anything beyond 300 yds so for that either rifle would do just fine, I guess. I don't know someone chime in here and give me your thoughts.
And yes, this is somewhat coming up because I want a custom built rifle but am now wondering if all of this money i have in expensive rifles is really worth it.
