First custom rifle

[Pugs]

Pugs,

That's an excellent looking rifle. I like everything about your component selection as well.

Barnes and Nosler make excellent hunting bullets but have you had an opportunity to try the Swift A-Frame?

Best Regards.

I've not done anything with an A-frame but I have a buddy who swears by them. I'm also going to try some Bergers.

 

[Flugelman]

Pugs,
I'm also a Silhouette shooter, mostly pistol but with some rifle thrown in. I've got a Rem 700 Varmiter in 7-08 that shoots the Sierra 168 gr like gangbusters. I've got it in an H-S thumbhole stock with Jewel triggerat 8 oz, and Lyles custom mounts under a Leupold 6.5X20. I printed a 7" group at 500m several years ago and it shot a .46" at 100 yds out of the box. Won my class (AA) with it at the Oklahoma State matches several years ago. Have you ever gone to the Nationals in Raton, NM? Is so, we may have met, as I go some years and officiate at the Rifle and BP Silhouette matches and shoot the Pistol matches.

 

[Pugs]

Pugs,
Have you ever gone to the Nationals in Raton, NM? Is so, we may have met, as I go some years and officiate at the Rifle and BP Silhouette matches and shoot the Pistol matches.

Haven't yet I've just been doing it for a year. I am heading to Raton for a get together with some other guys in late April though. I shot my 7mm-08 last year with the 168 Sierra in my Kimber and it was darn accurate but have to admit shooting 50 rounds or so with a 6 1/2 rifle got old hence the Cooper. I shoot up at Atglen PA. I'm loading the 168 in the .308 as well and it shoots 5 group 3/4" at 100 right now. With a move to NH hopefully this fall suspect I'll not be terribly serious about it again this year but hopefully after we get settled I can be a little more. After shooting registered skeet for a few years I vowed never to get serious about shooting games again but it's a lot of fun at this point.

The new rifle appears to have some strange issues. Ran out of both elevation and windage scope adjustments long before it was on target. Came home, pulled the mounts and checked the mounting holes which appear to be very straight. Going to remount tomorrow and and bore sight again tomorrow and see if I can figure it out.

 

[MasterBates]

Where in NH you movin to Pugs? My parents just moved there last year to escape MA.

 

[Pugs]

Where in NH you movin to Pugs? My parents just moved there last year to escape MA.

Southern someplace. Have to do the commute to Bedford MA or the Manchester airport if I stay with the same company. We've marked out a 23 mile SAM ring from the MA border at rt 3 and will work from there.

 

[MasterBates]

My parents live in Mont Vernon (just north of MILFord on Rt 13)

About an hour to BOS. MHT to my parents house is less than 30 min when I fly in.

Probably 45 to Hanscom Field (Bedford) with traffic.

PM me if you have area questions. I did not grow up there, but know the area fairly well.

Be prepared for sticker shock on property taxes (how they make up for no sales/income tax)

 

[Flugelman]

The new rifle appears to have some strange issues. Ran out of both elevation and windage scope adjustments long before it was on target. Came home, pulled the mounts and checked the mounting holes which appear to be very straight. Going to remount tomorrow and and bore sight again tomorrow and see if I can figure it out.

I had the same thing happen to a 3X7 Leupold that I had given to my uncle. Turns out it was an internal scope problem. I sent it to Leupold and they replaced it, free. Great customer support.

BTW, I've had some good luck with IMR 3031 in both .308 and 7-08. I had met a guy at the range in Ft. Worth that was shooting some bench-rest stuff. He worked for Bell Helicopter in their armament area. He told me that they reloaded a lot of the .308 (7.62) that they used in the mini-guns and had found 3031 to be the most consistent, so I gave it a try with good results.

 

[Pugs]

I had the same thing happen to a 3X7 Leupold that I had given to my uncle. Turns out it was an internal scope problem. I sent it to Leupold and they replaced it, free. Great customer support.

BTW, I've had some good luck with IMR 3031 in both .308 and 7-08. I had met a guy at the range in Ft. Worth that was shooting some bench-rest stuff. He worked for Bell Helicopter in their armament area. He told me that they reloaded a lot of the .308 (7.62) that they used in the mini-guns and had found 3031 to be the most consistent, so I gave it a try with good results.

If it won't boresight this evening or I mic stuff and can't find anything wrong a broken erector is my next guess. Suppose there's a reason to pay for a Leupold. I've never had to use their service before other than having a turret put on so but I expect nothing but the best.

I'm working hard to decrease the numbers of powders I use so I'm hoping I can find a Varget or H4350 load that works! I must have 6 or 8 part used cans of other stuff but I have two new 8 lb canisters of those two. Since I bought an RCBS Chargemaster I've given up picking powders on how well the meter! Still H380 has also been good to me.

 

[Pugs]

Be prepared for sticker shock on property taxes (how they make up for no sales/income tax)

Yep, it'll be about 3x MD but with the sales and income tax going up here again it should be about a 10-12% reduction in cost of living. (I hope)

Lived here long enough we'll be extracting a fair amount of equity from the house and buying into a down market.

 

[Pugs]

update on the Bob

All,

Working through the break in. Don't know what the issue was the first time I mounted the scope but R/R and it sighted in fine.

I have maybe 30 rounds through it and just getting the feel of it. Spent some time at the range today putting some 110 gr Nosler Accubonds and 115 Barnes TSX through it. Both ended up at about 3/4" groups. The Accubonds averaged 2636 fps and the Barnes 2891 fps.

A buddy has given me a bunch of other boxes of bullets to play with so looking forward to seeing how it works out.

This is the Barnes group

Here are the Accubonds