My First and ONLY Rifle -- Pictures Page 1/20/25 -- Range Review Page 28 --
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Thank you kindly sir, I'm just happy I was able to balance beauty, performance and rarity! Although I have heard there have been a spike in sales of these things since I started posting about it (Steyr come sponsor me please
)... lol... although it might just be some people are mistaking it for the Savage BAT (had this happen a couple times already).Has been a long journey, but it really does feel worth it now!
Thanks,
- Koshy
You made a great choice, because you did the research, if I had that type of money laying around, I wouldn't get something that every one have in the block, I get something different, at lease you din't let any one per sway you otherwise. GREAT CHOICE.
My Choice would be Accuracy international, but then everyone seem to have one, Styer SSG08 is one of the Great choice...
My Choice would be Accuracy international, but then everyone seem to have one, Styer SSG08 is one of the Great choice...
Yea, Accuracy International is another great choice, but it is hard to stand out when everyone and their moms have the AICS skin haha
I look forward to seeing the new AI AX, not sure if you have heard about it, but it was debuted at Shot Show this year, looks pretty awesome, will be interesting to see how it performs, but it appears it has the proper components to be "great".
As far as I know AI AW's and AI AX's are far more expensive then even my rifle too... somewhere around 7-9k is it not (with all the proper bells and whistles)?
Thanks,
- Koshy
Yes, I know the Excitement about Accuracy Ai AX abit more than the Regular one, I already got a short action for 260rem, since already got reamer and s**t load of brass and bullet, I am going to build another one when barrel coming from TED, and will be waiting for the new AI AX, very exciting, already got a good scope for that, S&B, and waiting for another from Wolverine 12.5-50X56 P4F.
I thinking about making the next rem260 a 20" gun. if that is the case, I put a leupold on instead of S&B.
I thinking about making the next rem260 a 20" gun. if that is the case, I put a leupold on instead of S&B.
So, I did some reloading for this rifle for our friend here Koshy, and we discussed posting some loads up here incase other owners are curious of trial loads. Not only were these the first reloads he's shot out of it, its the first reloads I've ever made.
After we did all this, we moved on to shooting at 200m. Without this rifle being set up for a lefty (me), I uncomfortably managed to hit this, which was swaying in the wind decently at 200m, first shot, with 175 GMM (could have been 168). I thought it was pretty funny. It swung right around the post and ended up as you see here.
After we did all this, we moved on to shooting at 200m. Without this rifle being set up for a lefty (me), I uncomfortably managed to hit this, which was swaying in the wind decently at 200m, first shot, with 175 GMM (could have been 168). I thought it was pretty funny. It swung right around the post and ended up as you see here.
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100 yards or meters?
Looks like pretty good results. Shame you didn't have a chronograph with you.
Any reason in particular you chose 2.813" COAL? (nothing wrong with that, I'm just curious)
Looks like pretty good results. Shame you didn't have a chronograph with you.
Any reason in particular you chose 2.813" COAL? (nothing wrong with that, I'm just curious)
I believe meters. We were at silverdale incase anyone knows forsure.
I didnt yet have my comparator or anything like that. Gold medal match, we were measureing at 2.809-2.812.
I did a smoke test (first time) on the bullets to approximate where his lands were, since I didnt have the stoney-point setup yet, and determined his lands started around 2.823, so I used a 10 thou jump as a starting point, because it was closely related to federal gold medal, which shot good out of his rifle. Since I couldnt measure ogive easily to sort bullets, I at least sorted the bullets by length (I know sorting by ogive is the only way to go though)
Further testing should include at each powder load, jump, kiss, jam depths, but we didnt have the time, OR the amount of bullets. Why is ontario cleaned out of bullets? Once we realized this, we went around and bought up all the stock we came across
This was again, my first shot at trying this reloading stuff.
I am happy though, that I received in the mail today, the stoney point system, caliper comparator etc so we can be spot on.
Im also heading out tonight to buy a chronograph which should help.
Ill be getting my savage back friday, so its a repeat of this test sat morning with my rifle, and further tweaking with his.
**Note** At 44.3 grains of varget, we were seeing the primers starting to flatten. No sticky bolt lifts though. Since we're so green on pressure danger zones, Id like to do more reading, and have a better idea on signs of overpressure incase we push the envelope further.
