Originally Posted By: Plant.Oneyou do have to appreciate that for many "custom built" means "assembled from parts i ordered from 6 different vendors" and not necessarily a true custom one-off from a builder that specialized in accurized firearms.
Other than cutting threads, there really isn’t so much custom about most firearms which are called “custom builds.” We have an entire sticky with page after page of bolt gun blueprints,” but what are they but a list of parts from different vendors? Not many places build their own bolt actions, nor make their own stocks, or triggers, or barrels. So while there’s a lot of skill required, and labor time too, to set up barrels to be threaded, all we’re really talking about in custom bolt guns is two pins to hang a trigger, three screws to hold the action and bottom metal to the stock, and barrel threading and chambering to mate the barrel to the receiver.
[beeep], with Remage conversion barrels, a guy doesn’t even need a lathe to assemble a custom bolt gun - so is it not a custom either if a guy buys a Surgeon action, screws on a McGowen Remage barrel, pins in a Jewel HVR trigger, and bolts it all into a McMillan stock with Badger bottom metal?