I decided to bite the bullet and buy the rifle I've been drooling over for a while. Thanks to Prophet River for the help importing this beast.
The bore guide from Mike Lucas arrived, and I finally had time to go to the range and try out my new GAP rifle.
Since this is my first "custom" precision rifle I figured I might as well follow GAP's barrel break in procedure...what the hell, it couldn't hurt...right?
I loaded up some rounds for break in using 44g of Varget in Win cases with CCI primers all topped with Hornady 168g HPBT Match bullets...here are the results...
Here is the rifle:
Cleaning the beast between shots:
The results...these are all 5 shot groups at 100 yrds. The first target is really great (for me!), the second has one high round shot by my buddy who asked if he could try a shot...the light trigger caught him off guard, still not bad. The third target I pulled one a little left...maybe the wind picked up in that direction as well. I'm really impressed with this rifle and can't wait to try out some other loads with it at longer ranges!
UPDATE:...I tried neck sizing some once fired brass, then used the same load as before...here's the 100 yard target...5 rounds...a .300 group center to center.
And here is the 300 yard target...I stopped at 3 rounds because I was too chicken to spoil the group!...a .402 center to center.
The bore guide from Mike Lucas arrived, and I finally had time to go to the range and try out my new GAP rifle.
Since this is my first "custom" precision rifle I figured I might as well follow GAP's barrel break in procedure...what the hell, it couldn't hurt...right?
I loaded up some rounds for break in using 44g of Varget in Win cases with CCI primers all topped with Hornady 168g HPBT Match bullets...here are the results...
Here is the rifle:

Cleaning the beast between shots:

The results...these are all 5 shot groups at 100 yrds. The first target is really great (for me!), the second has one high round shot by my buddy who asked if he could try a shot...the light trigger caught him off guard, still not bad. The third target I pulled one a little left...maybe the wind picked up in that direction as well. I'm really impressed with this rifle and can't wait to try out some other loads with it at longer ranges!

UPDATE:...I tried neck sizing some once fired brass, then used the same load as before...here's the 100 yard target...5 rounds...a .300 group center to center.

And here is the 300 yard target...I stopped at 3 rounds because I was too chicken to spoil the group!...a .402 center to center.

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