You can build custom rifles all day long, but if you can't afford to feed it, then, you know, it's not a lot of good.

Place your money in places that's gonna make your equipment the best it can be and

Still have some money left over to shoot. That's a very very important thing

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Welcome to episode 148. We are joined once again in this episode with the crew from snowy mountain rifles.

So we had them on back 20 episodes ago and episode 128 to talk about building a factory rifle and upgrading and customizing that versus going full custom build from the beginning.

It's a great primer, you know, if you're looking to get the most out of a rifle system to kind of help you understand the routes really like do you want to build.

Do you want to go full custom where should you spend the money where can you save, etc. That episode raised a lot of questions and we answer many of those questions in this follow up episode.

So again, we're talking more about factory versus custom and upgrading all that, but we also get really specific into some of the questions you guys had about where to spend your money, about balancing a lightweight rifle build, but still keeping a longer range accuracy.

Talk a bit about understanding barrel life when you need to rebarral what to look for in a gunsmith. We talk about acurizing a factory action versus going a full custom action.

Talk with Steve about his experience breaking in and shooting his snowy mountain rifle build and much more. So there's a lot in this episode. Hope you guys enjoy it.

Before we dive into the content for this episode, wanted to thank Eli Smith for their review on the podcast. We certainly appreciate you guys feedback.

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So again, shoot us an email, leave us a review. We'd love to hear from you guys. Okay, let's dive into this discussion with the guys from snowy mountain rifles.

Paul crew. Welcome back to the podcast. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having us. Absolutely. How you guys doing? Yeah, glad to have you guys back on the run me. Who's all here and then what your positions are with snowy mountain as well for the listeners.

Yeah, we got myself Paul here, Vice President snowy mountain. Greg Eisenberger, general manager,

Gerrard Schmidt gunsmith.

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