5R Milspec 308

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Hello all,

I'd be interested in hearing from anyone that has information on this rifle. I bought one from Ellwood Epps last year (Kevin is a great guy) and I love it. Remington does not offer much/any info on it. Apparently it comes from an outfit called Accusport. Would be grateful for any real world experience anyone has with this rifle.

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It's a 700. only distinguishing feature is the 1:11.25 twist rate (optimized for the army's sniper load). It's a great rifle, lots of upgrades available for the platform, and if you reload it should have great potential in terms of precision.
 
Hey there, you hit the nail on the head with that purchase I've had mine for a while and love it accurate as all hell. From what I understand the barrels are barrels that were made for the m14 sniper rifle but a select few get taken from that group and that's where they come from apparently I can try and find you the link that I read it from
 
jpbourque said:
Hey there, you hit the nail on the head with that purchase I've had mine for a while and love it accurate as all hell. From what I understand the barrels are barrels that were made for the m14 sniper rifle but a select few get taken from that group and that's where they come from apparently I can try and find you the link that I read it from
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*M24 sniper rifle. From what I understand the first of the 5r's had re-contoured barrels that didn't pass mil-spec tolerances, but now the barrels are made just like any other civilian market 700.
 
It is not that they did not pass tolerance. It is that they were overrun barrels. Mine shoots, everyone I know who has bought one now has a rifle that shoots.
 
Shabazz said:
It's a 700. only distinguishing feature is the 1:11.25 twist rate (optimized for the army's sniper load). It's a great rifle, lots of upgrades available for the platform, and if you reload it should have great potential in terms of precision.
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More then one distinguishing feature - Jeweled bolt (silky smooth), HS Precision stock (very stiff and solid) and of course the great SS 5 groove heavy barrel. I own one and love it.
 
Go to the Frontier Firearms site, click on the firearm section and click on the long range precision rifle section and then click on one of the 5R rifles. In the description there is a great write up.
This is a rifle with huge potential if you reload. My groups were 1-1.5 moa with factory. A friend was getting 1/2 that consistently with reloads in his rifle. You must buy quality optics though! Of course breathing control and trigger pull etc, etc are huge.
 
Gunnerlove said:
It is not that they did not pass tolerance. It is that they were overrun barrels. Mine shoots, everyone I know who has bought one now has a rifle that shoots.
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I realize that the debate is ongoing when it comes to the 5r. Sniper Central did a review of the rifle and here's part of it:

"The single big thing that makes the milspec unique, and consequently gives it the milspec name, is the barrel. The way the milspec came about, as told to me by a Remington LE division employee, was a byproduct of the M24 production line. There are specific tolerances that each M24 Barrel must achieve in order to pass inspection. As is normal in any production line some of the barrels will not meet those specifications and Remington would toss those barrels into the "no-go" pile and discard them (I am not sure where they used to go from there). It turns out that someone had the idea of taking those barrels that did not pass inspection and re-contour the barrel to the standard Remington heavy barrel contour, mount it to a Remington 700 stainless action, and call it a "Milspec" rifle. Since there are not a large number of barrels that do not pass inspection the rifle were considered a limited edition rifle."

They also say they are unsure about where the current barrels come from. At the end of the day is it a big deal? Not really IMO.
 
WOLF_5 said:
More then one distinguishing feature - Jeweled bolt (silky smooth), HS Precision stock (very stiff and solid) and of course the great SS 5 groove heavy barrel. I own one and love it.
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I was referring to features that are exclusive to the 5r, the stock and jeweled bolt are not.
 
I bought mine to shoot, then build.
I bed it into a B&C stock and leaving it as is. It shoots too well to justify a barrel swap.
 
I just picked one up. I centered the scope at 50 yards and the groups were about 0.05".

I hope to get her out this weekend at longer ranges. Range report to come.
 
Kosmic said:
50 thou wow!! ;)
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To be fair, my handloads, 32x scope and only 3 shot groups. A few of the groups were closer to .25. When I really buckled down with a cool clean barrel, I could almost put them on top of each other at 50 yards indoors.

I'll post a full range report at longer distances soon.
 
Nobody's seemed to mention it, but is the 5R radius or beveled rifling too? This is another thing that makes it unique.

I may be wrong, but that's what I remember discovering from my research when I was looking into one.
 
Had her out to 100 yards today. Best group was 0.223". Worst group was 0.715". The scope was an old Bausch & Lomb 12x-32x I've had since 1988. I need a new scope badly. The glass is OK, but the reticles are so thin they kind of fuzz out when on target. I upgraded the trigger to a Timney.

I suspect with a better scope and me doing my job, this baby would be a fairly consistent .5 MOA gun.


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They are highly regarded rifles and I've never read anyone saying bad things about them. Not sure that they're necessarily "better" than anyone elses comparable offering, but they seem to do the trick and owners are satisfied. Hard to argue with satisfied customers in the day and age of internet insta-bashing of products that don't perform.
 
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