Decided to try something a little different...

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I've mostly been a bolt-action guy for the past 25 years or so, with my only semis being rimfires, shotguns, and pistols. But I made an impulse buy today that I'm hoping works out ;) Long story short, I don't have a .270 in the safe anymore so I obviously needed one, and decided to check out these weird BAR rifles at the same time. It's a bit heavy but I really like the ergonomics and balance, it has heft but points smooth and everything lines up beautifully when I bring it up on target. Topped it with Leupold base and rings and a Vortex Viper 3-9x40mm, stocked up on ammo, and it'll be sunny and 22 out tomorrow, perfect range day.

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Just a word of caution...I've owned Browning BARs and all shot pretty good. Years ago I read this rifle shoots better with 2 piece bases and not a one piece base like you have mounted on yours.
I've always only used the two piece bases on my BAR's mind you they were all the older models so don't know it make a difference now...:)
 
hawk-i said:
Just a word of caution...I've owned Browning BARs and all shot pretty good. Years ago I read this rifle shoots better with 2 piece bases and not a one piece base like you have mounted on yours.
I've always only used the two piece bases on my BAR's mind you they were all the older models so don't know it make a difference now...:)
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Good to know, thanks for sharing. What I found really weird was that the 1-piece base I bought has 3 screw holes. The receiver has 4. I checked and double-checked with Leupold and that is the correct base and part number, so I don't know what gives. But I'm also thinking of buying the Browning (Talley-made) one-piece rings and swapping the Leupold set out (it was only $14.99 at Cabelas for the base).

Tomorrow will be it's first outing so I won't get too far ahead of myself yet, but I've never owned a bad Browning (in fact my Silver Hunter is my favourite gun in the safe 10 years and counting).
 
hawk-i said:
Just a word of caution...I've owned Browning BARs and all shot pretty good. Years ago I read this rifle shoots better with 2 piece bases and not a one piece base like you have mounted on yours.
I've always only used the two piece bases on my BAR's mind you they were all the older models so don't know it make a difference now...:)
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I used a one piece Leupold base on my Bar Mark 2, and it was the most accurate Bar that I have seen.
 
Well it turns out that Prophet River had the Talley one-piece rings in stock for the BAR, so they should be arriving tomorrow sometime. I don't love the dovetail design in comparison, I doubt it'll impact the accuracy at all though. Which is fine since it seems to really like Winchester 140gr Accubond CT loads and the Sako Gamehead 156gr shoot really nicely as well.
 
Discipline, is the key, you don’t need to double tap every game animal in sight. Nice rifle, don’t be surprised if it’s a tack driver!
 
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