About twenty years ago I had Doc in Carrolton build a rifle for me. It started with a mid 90's Remington 700 action ( Classic 7mm Weatherby horribly innaccurate) and a Sendero 300 win mag take off barrel and stock. Doc set the barrel back an inch and ran a new match reamer in it and installed a Timney trigger. I bedded the stock unfortunately the stock has been cut down and a shotgun style recoil pad was added prior to me purchasing it. The rifle has less than 200 round through it as it sits (barrel came from a friend who never shot it rebarreled a new rifle to 7stw). Rifle shoots very well with heavy bullets. I never shoot this rifle anymore and have a friend wanting to buy it any ideas on value?
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Those are hard to put a value on. STd factory guns you can look on-line and see what same models/calibers sold for. Can't help you there other than suggesting you contact someone like Hill Country Rifles in New Braunfels and see what a new build would cost. -
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To me, it might be worth what you put into it. No more. From your description, it sounds like you had him rebarrel an action and install a trigger - not "build" you a rifle. A factory rifle rebarreled with a factory barrel, a new trigger and a home bed job done on a home butchered 2nd hand factory stock - that's not a custom rifle no matter who the smith is that set back the chamber, ran the reamer and installed a trigger. Not in my book, anyway. If he's your friend, and you want to KEEP him as your friend, figure out what you have in it and subtract some for shooting it.
The most renowned gunsmiths still do the most mundane of tasks every day. Just because they touch a gun doesn't make it 'their' gun or increase its value. To me, "building" a rifle implies a rifle benefitted from ALL of a gunsmith's talents and abilities: trued action, cut, chamber and crown a premium barrel blank (usually with a purpose-specific reamer), installed and tuned a premium trigger and performed ALL the stock work to fit and bed the action in a premium quality stock. These tasks are needed, at the very LEAST, to consider a rifle "built" by a particular smith.
JMO
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$5-600Comment
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Not much. Still a factory barrel. Honest truth is that it sounds like a half arse build and would make a lot of folks nervous. That is just based on the info given. Best bet would be to part it out. Trued action? $450ish. Free barrel with it lol. $100 trigger. Then whatever the stock brings. I highly doubt you'll get much more selling whole.Comment
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I agree with the above.
You basically have a pieced together sendero with a 1 inch shorter barrel and more importantly 1 inch less of chamber diameter to the barrel.
I think 5-600 is fair and likely a little less then a bone stock sendero from the 90's would bring.
If he's good with the price and happy with the rifle as is, stock / barrels issues and all then make him a good deal, that's what friends or for. Otherwise part it out and you'll still get 5-600.Comment
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As stated already too many mods to make a case for a true custom build...at least the right way. If you really want to sell it, the gun is worth what someone is willing to give you for it IMO.Comment
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Id say 500 tops.
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