Better than Black Friday, New BLACK GUN now available Nov 24th 2016

onetwentyish said:
I have been bouncing back and forth between barrel choices myself. I want to go CFW, but I am having trouble justifying $900 more.

The way I see it, the benefits of the Proof CFW barrel are the following:
-weight is kept similar to a light contour whill maintaining a heavy profile
-heat disapates much quicker to aid in better groups with less cool down time.

I am torn between the Proof CFW and medium contour SS barrel. Its going to be an all around rifle with fire rates from as high and non accuracy minded as CQB courses to as slow and methodical as printing groups.

Rick & others, in your opinion, what should I consider going with?
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That's what I was thinking about also. The medium contour is about a pound heavier than the CFW barrel. Right? A pound may make a big diff when you add optics, loaded mag, maybe a bipod.Also I'm thinking the Proof may be a more accurate barrel , over the SS. ( not sure on this). So with 7 months to pay the balance, might be worth the $900.
 
As far as I can tell, the lightest version you can get (while still being able to shoot a reasonable number of shots at a time) is the CFW barrel, Fortis 12" handguard, and collapsible stock. I'm hoping the CTR is not much heavier than the standard collapsible stock, since that is what I ordered. Also, hopefully Cerakoting only adds a few grams to the overall weight.
 
hend238 said:
Thank you for replying. Will you accept a customer supplied barrel blank?
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No. We are just not set up to do this at least at this time. Production runs get disrupted huge when weird stuff gets put into the mix. Maybe once we get the initial runs done we may consider this, but you won't save any money supplying your own blank.
 
alberta tactical rifle said:
No. We are just not set up to do this at least at this time. Production runs get disrupted huge when weird stuff gets put into the mix. Maybe once we get the initial runs done we may consider this, but you won't save any money supplying your own blank.
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That's fair.

However, I fail to see how I wouldn't save money. I can source a blank for much less than what ATRS is charging for one. It's your perogative of course to charge customers as you do so I will respectfully pass on a MV.
 
hend238 said:
That's fair.

However, I fail to see how I wouldn't save money. I can source a blank for much less than what ATRS is charging for one. It's your perogative of course to charge customers as you do so I will respectfully pass on a MV.
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Might I ask why you would want to supply your own blank? It is not like we are using offshore unknown brands of barrels.

We are having Lilja do the contouring , chambering and other assorted machinework on large numbers of barrels. For you to send us a blank would mean we are contouring, chambering and so on manually so will take considerably more time (expense) than what it would in a production set up.
The cost of the barrels are all figured into the cost of the rifle, to try and break out what the labor cost strictly for machinework on a barrel is unrealistic. To contour, thread, chamber, crown, engrave a blank manually takes minimally 2 hours, plus the cost of the barrel extension.

I am pretty sure that if you posed the same question to any firearms manufacturer they would tell you "you get what we offer, thats it."
I know BMW has that attitude on their cars. I am not a fan of Pirrelli winter tires and wanted to have Hakka's as my winter tires. The answer was "it comes with these if you don't like them you are free to change them at your expense and dispose of the Pirrellis as you see fit".
 
alberta tactical rifle said:
May we please have some time to build some guns? Once we have some photos will be posted. Meanwhile you can peruse our Modern Hunter gallery and just think 30% smaller:p
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I think he means on the MV page on the website. The pictures there aren't framed very well. They cut off the the stock and barrel and you only get a good look at the upper and lower.

It's just nice to see everything in frame.
 
Will the new Varmint Hunter production slow down the Modern Hunter production or extend the MH wait times?

This is what my friend thought might happen to his.

Anyways, congrats on another FRT approval and keep 'em comin'.
 
Gorgeous. Indeed, if there was a payment plan, I'd be more tempted as well. Maybe it's a good thing lol. Non-restricted to boot. Wowsers.

And don't listen to the lefties - left-handed people have no soul.

Cannon
 
I have a modern hunter, it is by far my favorite semi auto! Absolutely love it. I'd be all over purchasing a MV, but with the way thing are right now in the oilpatch I can't justify it. Plus my house needs a new roof next year. I saw the prototype upper (I imagine the same one as in the pictures) on my last days off when I was at ATRS seeing if a BCM KMR handguard would fit. I'll have to hold out and save some money to purchase one, maybe in 2017.

I believe it is good value for money, it comes with top notch components (Lija Barrel, Timney trigger, JP silent capture spring, etc), ambi bolt release, DLC hardcoating and craftsmanship that is 2nd to none. And awesome customer service, nothing beats being able to drive to ATRS and talk to Rick & his staff.
 
Rick, can you post the weights of all 4 barrel options please?

I think I may go with a light SS barrel and then upgrade to a proof CFW in the future if that is possible? Just dont want to spend another 7k upfront in the next year as I have already done that with the MV. If a barrel swap is doable in the future when funds are better, how much will it cost for the barrel and swap?

Thanks.
 
Faaaaack, im out due to delivery date... Not much use when I'm away at school! I'll be watching and will pick one up after grad.. Probably for the best, as id want a sb short dot to go ontop..
 
onetwentyish said:
Rick, can you post the weights of all 4 barrel options please?

Thanks.
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Once we actually have barrels here, yes. Being as we have just started to take orders for the rifles 2 days ago and have not yet placed orders for parts and barrels simply as at this point we do not know what quantities to order, we have nothing to weigh, yet. It will take a few months for our suppliers to produce and then ship these to us.
 
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