Stevens 200 budget project. Part 1

Part 1. Painting my new Stevens 200 in .308. Part 2 will be mounting of a scope (I hope) also maybe "fixing" the trigger.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Camo
• Stevens
• 200
• .308
• krylon
• long
• range
• project

[mhwright79]

I just got a Stevens 200, 270 cal for $180.00 at Academy Sports..sweet



[fierfox121]

@mhwright79 Man thats awesome! Is it on sale or is that the regular price?

[fierfox121]

I am by no means at all an expert. I can do 1moa at 100 yards depending on the day and i can hit a 12x12 inch steel plate at 400 yards. Nothing spectacular by any stretch of the imagination but I don't think its too bad.

[fierfox121]

@jliss217 we actually have a wholesale sports here locally in Oregon that I went to to buy mine.

[fierfox121]

@jliss217 good idea on caliber. Wish I had done that. I have basic weaver 2piece bases and am using Burris ZEE rings they are steel, very strong, and will hold your scope just where you put it. I'm truly wishing I hadn't gotten it in .308. I'm considering selling it because I cant afford to shoot it.

[jliss217]

can you please give me a detailed reply of where you bought this rifle, ive been looking and the cheepest is 320. thanks

[fierfox121]

@jliss217 I bought mine from Whole sale sports. They have a few locations around the country and they also have a good website. A quick Google search should get you some good results! At this moment (Subject to change) the website has them priced at $270.00 USD and I believe they will ship to a local FFL. So if you order online you can expect that price + shipping + how ever much your FLL charges for that sort of thing.

Hope that helped. If you have any more questions feel free to ask.

Fox

[hugh705]

My dad got me this before he got his disease. I think I might do this. Before he gave it to me he took it to a gunsmith and had him put iron sights and a full scope mount.

[SSBChar]

Nice moped, Mary Jane.

[xxxoutdoorsmanxxx]

@mhwright79 :o Dang, thats a good deal. I paid $400 for mine at Bear Mountain Sports. I got the package with the 3-9 x 40mm Bushnell scope, and rifle is camo. I think camo is more, and then they were out of stock, so I had to pay another $40 for them to ship one in. Did your gun come with a scope?

[naamanb]

why do you steel wool it after you paint it?

[jliss217]

i just bought savage stevens 200 .223-350$,nikon prostaff 4-12x40-180$,bipod w notched legs w swivle-50$,cheek rest-20$, Nikon tall turrents 1/4 moa-70$ WOW i spent more than i planed but this rifle will be sick !!! cant wait till it comes in next week! I plan to get a 26"barrel for around another 300 =D

[jliss217]

thats great! Im new to long range shooting and to be honest the longest ive shot is 100 yards, i know the difficulty in shooting long range, so i bought a book called "Applied ballistics for long range shooting" and ive learned tones about ballistics. if you want the true bc of your caliper just tell me what ammo you use. there are 250 pages of experimental data on different calipers that allowes you to make accurate drop compensating and wind drift c. you could easily push 1000 yards w practice

[jliss217]

thanks, looks like i might be spending 320 anyway lol, no big deal any way. here is a good place to shop for quality cheap ammo "ammo.net" hope you have fun shooting. by the way how experienced are you at shooting, like whats the best you have done?