Remington 700 build up.

[motoman]

Bring it over and we can lay stuff on it to see what you like before you commit to putting paint to it. I have plenty of different stencils.

What's your schedule like? I'm free tomorrow and off on Monday. Next days off would be the week of Thanksgiving.

[KBScobravert]

What's your schedule like? I'm free tomorrow and off on Monday. Next days off would be the week of Thanksgiving.

Monday would be best. I have the 3yr old until 5p by myself. Anytime after 5p would be fine.

Tomorrow is doable but would be a window from noon until 3 or 4ish.

[BMCSean]

I have shot the whiskey 3 chassis before, it's pretty nice, KRG makes some nice stuff.

[motoman]

Update

It's been roughly 3 months since I installed the KRG X-Ray chassis and I've put about 300 rounds through my rifle. Unfortunately the X-Ray isn't working out as I hoped it would for one main reason, felt recoil. This chassis dropped the weight of my entire rifle nearly a pound compared to my Bell & Carlson. In addition to the lighter weight, the fact the entire chassis is polymer has been a big contributing factor to a significant change in felt recoil. Because of this additional recoil, my follow up shots are slower because of having to readjust to get back on target. I honestly hadn't thought decreasing the weight of my rifle would have such an affect on my shooting, but it has.

Luckily KRG is working with me to get setup on a Gen 5 Whiskey 3 chassis and I hope to be in that in the next few months. In addition to the new chassis, I'm ditching the Vortex Viper PST and I'll be moving up to a Vortex Razor HD Gen 1 scope, and it's going to be a big improvement.

Since I've started shooting practical matches, my skills have quickly progressed as much as they can given my handicap of a caliber I'm shooting. It's hard to keep up with the 6 & 6.5mm shooters when you're shooting a .308, it's like trying to race your stock Mustang against a pro mod, you're going to lose every time. In order to keep on progressing, I need to shoot a caliber that allows me to be more competitive, and that's why I'm going to re-barrel to 6.5 Creedmoor.

I'm going to run a Bartlein M24 contour 6.5 Creedmoor barrel with 5R rifling in a 1:8 twist. I'm planning on running 140gr Berger Hybrids or 140gr Hornady ELD's at about 2730 fps.

The new barrel should be bought within the next couple weeks, then my gunsmith has about a 4 month lead time on work, so it'll be a while before I have a completed update. In the mean time, a teammate is going to loan me is 6.5CM in a savage action with a manners stock so I can still compete.

More to come.

[Probie]

I'm very glad I have not caught this bug. It sounds damn expensive

[Cobraman]

No kidding

[dee]

It's expensive but worth it. It is a very rewarding sport.

[DON SVO]

My dad and stepmom did bench rest for years. Stupidly expensive habit, and they went all over the place for tournaments.

[motoman]

I'm very glad I have not caught this bug. It sounds damn expensive

No kidding

The money invested is not for the faint of heart. My rifle was initially built as an entry level match grade rifle with right around $4K into after parts and smithing work. That's not including the cost of reloading ammo.

But as Dee said, it's a VERY rewarding sport to get into. We shoot with some of the top shooters in the country and the knowledge we gain from them is priceless.

My dad and stepmom did bench rest for years. Stupidly expensive habit, and they went all over the place for tournaments.

Benchrest is an entirely different beast. One of the guys we shoot with shoots benchrest and he's told me about those types of matches. Making 39 out of 40 hits and being in 8th place in a match.

[dee]

The money invested is not for the faint of heart. My rifle was initially built as an entry level match grade rifle with right around $4K into after parts and smithing work. That's not including the cost of reloading ammo.

But as Dee said, it's a VERY rewarding sport to get into. We shoot with some of the top shooters in the country and the knowledge we gain from them is priceless.



Benchrest is an entirely different beast. One of the guys we shoot with shoots benchrest and he's told me about those types of matches. Making 39 out of 40 hits and being in 8th place in a match.

I've shot with that benchrest group. At 250yds you shoot a mini clay pigeon and with a custom gun to it comes down to who cleans the match plus the best group for a tie breaker.

As for PRS it might not be the cheapest or easiest to jump into like the pistol stuff or 3 gun but for me it's much more rewarding just due to the complication.

[DON SVO]

Benchrest is an entirely different beast. One of the guys we shoot with shoots benchrest and he's told me about those types of matches. Making 39 out of 40 hits and being in 8th place in a match.

I love this story so here goes.

They went to a tournament my dad did well in consistently. 2nd round he set the All-Time tourney record with a 0.076 group at 100 yards.

To the uninitiated, that is 5 rounds from 100 yards with a differential of less than a tenth of an inch. Zero dot 076 thousandths.

20 minutes later someone shot a group of 0.073 to take away his record and the win.

[dee]

I love this story so here goes.

They went to a tournament my dad did well in consistently. 2nd round he set the All-Time tourney record with a 0.076 group at 100 yards.

To the uninitiated, that is 5 rounds from 100 yards with a differential of less than a tenth of an inch. Zero dot 076 thousandths.

20 minutes later someone shot a group of 0.073 to take away his record and the win.

That happens a good bit in br. It's a very touch competition.

[motoman]

Update

I hadn't mentioned this earlier but I've had some issues with my bolt and had to send it off to Fairbanks, Alaska to be fixed. Long story short, my bolt wasn't timed correctly, and wasn't timed for full case extraction. What does this mean? It means when I cammed the bolt arm all the way up, the extractor wasn't engaging, which left me having to muscle spent rounds out of my chamber.

Dan Armstrong with Accu-Tig fixed me up with a new bolt arm timed correctly.

My rifle is in the shop and waiting for the new barrel to be spun up next week.


After doing some more research on chassis systems I've decided to go with something different. Master Piece Arms makes a competition chassis that I consider to have more features than any other chassis on the market. The biggest benefit is the barricade stop system and how it works. The video below demonstrates how it'll be used.

[motoman]

The update is about halfway done. The bolt is now correctly timed for case extraction, the 6.5CM barrel and break are installed, and now I'm just waiting to pick up the chassis. A fellow shooter let me borrow this Manners A5 till I get my chassis. More to come.

[motoman]

Sighted the rifle in and put some rounds through the barrel today. Brand new Bartlein barrel with less than 60 rounds through it. Quarter MOA from a .264 projectile, sure why not.

100 yards.