Well as I posted last week, my new Medalist Stock from Bell and Carleson arrived. I hogged out the barrel channel and I placed my customized remington 700 action and Rob MaClennan 6mmBR barrel in.
I built this rifle for the Listowel Sniper Matches, which is brutal on barrels with 50 round in 30 minutes. The barrels get pretty warm. I currantly have 730 rounds down the barrel now and with four matches shot at the last competition, I totalled 192 for the day. Thats a lot of shooting.
I am pleased to report that the new stock is very comfortable to shoot. Better and more comfy than the Ultimate Sniper Stock it was formerly housed in. As shown below, the first and second 5 shot group are from the bipod, from a prone position using my off hand as a rear rest, just like we shoot in Listowel. The last group was shot using a rear rabbit ear sandbag and the bipod. All three groups were shot at 150 meters, as that is the distance of my range. (we aren't allowed to set up the targets any closer)
Needless to say, I'm thrilled that the 6BR cartridge is accurate beyond my capabilties. I have yet to try the tuner I got with the stock, but with the rifle on bags grouping in the 2xxs like that, I have some work ahead of me to shoot to the rifles full potential. I'm also concerned that with 50 rounds in 30 minutes, the tuner will throw shots around more than help them into one hole with the heating involved in the kind of shooting required for Listowel. I will give it a try in the future. I will bed the recoil lug and hopefully that will tighten things up a bit. There is a lot of action roll in the stock when the action screws aren't tightend down.
I built this rifle for the Listowel Sniper Matches, which is brutal on barrels with 50 round in 30 minutes. The barrels get pretty warm. I currantly have 730 rounds down the barrel now and with four matches shot at the last competition, I totalled 192 for the day. Thats a lot of shooting.
I am pleased to report that the new stock is very comfortable to shoot. Better and more comfy than the Ultimate Sniper Stock it was formerly housed in. As shown below, the first and second 5 shot group are from the bipod, from a prone position using my off hand as a rear rest, just like we shoot in Listowel. The last group was shot using a rear rabbit ear sandbag and the bipod. All three groups were shot at 150 meters, as that is the distance of my range. (we aren't allowed to set up the targets any closer)
Needless to say, I'm thrilled that the 6BR cartridge is accurate beyond my capabilties. I have yet to try the tuner I got with the stock, but with the rifle on bags grouping in the 2xxs like that, I have some work ahead of me to shoot to the rifles full potential. I'm also concerned that with 50 rounds in 30 minutes, the tuner will throw shots around more than help them into one hole with the heating involved in the kind of shooting required for Listowel. I will give it a try in the future. I will bed the recoil lug and hopefully that will tighten things up a bit. There is a lot of action roll in the stock when the action screws aren't tightend down.
I used a few of those today myself.
