I know its a simple question but i need details. I am interested in getting a rifle custom built in the States and sent to Australia as I am well aware of the outstanding build quality and amazing accuracy obtainable with these rifles. Although it is irrelevant I am looking at a BAT actioned behind either a bartein or krieger 260 remington set up with either an accuracy international or manners composite stock if you have any views/comments or reccommendations concerning that combination of components that would be appreciated
The export of the rifle requires two processes
1. In Australia, a Licensed Firearms Importer must obtain the necessary permits for your gun from the Australian government.
2. In the USA, a company must obtain an export permit for your gun from the US State Department.
Since you are looking at a BAT action, my suggestion would be that you contact BAT Machine and ask about companies that are already importing BAT actions into Australia.
As far as what you are thinking about,
BAT actions are top notch and very popular with competition shooters. I am using a BAT M action in my new F-Class rifle.
http://www.batmachine.com/
Bartlein barrels are also very in demand and Krieger is still the main barrel used by many people. I use Krieger’s because they don’t have a 6 month delivery time.
http://www.bartleinbarrels.com/
http://www.kriegerbarrels.com/
The AI stocks are top notch in the tactical arena, but you would have to get a BAT action that has the same "footprint" as an Rem 700.
Manners makes great stocks that are 100% hand laid carbon fiber cloth so they are very light and very rigid. I have dealt with Tom Manners and I commend him for being straight up with people on availability of stocks and not taking orders when he is too backed up to achieve a reasonable delivery time.
http://mannersstocks.com/
260 Remington would a good cartridge, I use the 6.5×47 Lapua because of the exceptional brass quality of Lapua. Even though the 260 Remington has slightly more powder capacity, the performance in terms of velocity of the two cartridges is identical for all practical purposes. The other main difference is the 6.5×47 Lapua uses a small rifle primer with a small flash hole vs the large rifle primer on the 260 Remington.
I shoot my 6.5×47 Lapua with Berger 130 grain VLD bullets and it works great at 1000 yards.
As far as final suggestions, if you have the gun built, I would have multiple barrels made and shipped with the finished gun so you always have your next barrel on hand and it is exact copy of your previous barrel. Get a barrel vise and action wrench so you can swap the barrels yourself.
Unless you are really needing a magazine, I would go with the Manners F-Class stock (3rd photo down on their website’s home page) and use a single shot action (right bolt, left port, right eject). Using the single shot would let you have a true multiple cartridge gun from 6 BR to 6.5×47 to 308 W or maybe a 30 BR and for high winds, a 284 Winchester to shoot 180 grain VLDs. It takes all of 10-15 minutes to swap barrels and cartridges and in a single shot, you don’t have to deal with magazine issues.
The export of the rifle requires two processes
1. In Australia, a Licensed Firearms Importer must obtain the necessary permits for your gun from the Australian government.
2. In the USA, a company must obtain an export permit for your gun from the US State Department.
Since you are looking at a BAT action, my suggestion would be that you contact BAT Machine and ask about companies that are already importing BAT actions into Australia.
As far as what you are thinking about,
BAT actions are top notch and very popular with competition shooters. I am using a BAT M action in my new F-Class rifle.
http://www.batmachine.com/
Bartlein barrels are also very in demand and Krieger is still the main barrel used by many people. I use Krieger’s because they don’t have a 6 month delivery time.
http://www.bartleinbarrels.com/
http://www.kriegerbarrels.com/
The AI stocks are top notch in the tactical arena, but you would have to get a BAT action that has the same "footprint" as an Rem 700.
Manners makes great stocks that are 100% hand laid carbon fiber cloth so they are very light and very rigid. I have dealt with Tom Manners and I commend him for being straight up with people on availability of stocks and not taking orders when he is too backed up to achieve a reasonable delivery time.
http://mannersstocks.com/
260 Remington would a good cartridge, I use the 6.5×47 Lapua because of the exceptional brass quality of Lapua. Even though the 260 Remington has slightly more powder capacity, the performance in terms of velocity of the two cartridges is identical for all practical purposes. The other main difference is the 6.5×47 Lapua uses a small rifle primer with a small flash hole vs the large rifle primer on the 260 Remington.
I shoot my 6.5×47 Lapua with Berger 130 grain VLD bullets and it works great at 1000 yards.
As far as final suggestions, if you have the gun built, I would have multiple barrels made and shipped with the finished gun so you always have your next barrel on hand and it is exact copy of your previous barrel. Get a barrel vise and action wrench so you can swap the barrels yourself.
Unless you are really needing a magazine, I would go with the Manners F-Class stock (3rd photo down on their website’s home page) and use a single shot action (right bolt, left port, right eject). Using the single shot would let you have a true multiple cartridge gun from 6 BR to 6.5×47 to 308 W or maybe a 30 BR and for high winds, a 284 Winchester to shoot 180 grain VLDs. It takes all of 10-15 minutes to swap barrels and cartridges and in a single shot, you don’t have to deal with magazine issues.
References :
1000 yard competition shooter
I am retired FFL dealer / importer
TX65 gave you an outstanding answer. He also has precisely shown why the CIFTA treaty is irrelevant, superfluous, and duplicitous nonsense. The Export License he refers to is in accordance with the Arms Export Control Act of 1976 and the regulations that govern that act, 22CFR120-130, the ITAR (International traffic in arms regulations). Pardon the interupption, but I try to get info against CIFTA into every forum that I can. Please write your Senators and ask them to reject CIFTA.
References :
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Arms%20Export%20Control%20Act