Been away for to long, time to catch up

[Fiftydriver]

I will admit, there was a span of around a decade where i was spending hours each day posting threads, replying to comments and questions and just hanging out on LRH.com. In fact it was LRH.com that helped me get my business started 20 years ago now….. for the past several years however i have not had much of a presence here on LRH other then being a sponsor and occasionally popping in to see what was going on. Need to change that so i am going to do better at posting interesting customer projects as well as any new testing or developments with my products.

wanted to start today with just a bit of gun porn from some projects that have left the shop recently.

This is one of my APS Stalker Tac rifles. Standard features include:
- APS Stalker Hunter receiver
- Bartlein Stainless steel custom Stalker contour barrel, 27" length, fluted
- My small Painkiller muzzle brake
- Bead blast matte finish on barreled receiver
- Sunny Hill hinged floorplate internal mag system (single shot and detachable mag available also)
- Jewell trigger set at 1 lb pull weight
- McMillan A5 tactical stock with Adjustable CP and forend rail for bipod mount
- Pillar bedding

this one has a 50% white, 30% grey and 20% black marble finish. Usually not a huge fan of the arctic camo type colors but this one is quite striking. This one like many of my customer rifle builds are chambered in commecially available rounds. This one the great 300 RUM. Legit 1000 yard reach and extremely mild to shoot with very little recoil as my small PK brakes were designed specifically for use with this 90-120 grains powder charge range and hitting 1/2 moa targets at 1K yards or more is quite consistently easy.

 

[Southern 62]

Welcome back to posting!!! Pretty new and have been soaking up all the knowledge I can. I'll thank you in advance for yours. Looking forward to some great post. Great looking rifle

 

[MagMan]

Good to see you Kirby.

 

[Justice1327]

Welcome back! My wife would love that stock… is that custom or an option from McMillian? What shooting 'bench' is that?

 

[MallardAddict]

Welcome back! My wife would love that stock… is that custom or an option from McMillian? What shooting 'bench' is that?

It's custom in that each one is a one of a kind but McMillan will make a "Swirley" stock in pretty much any colors they have. If I remember right this one is 40% medium grey, 40 % white and 20 % black

 

[Fiftydriver]

Welcome back! My wife would love that stock… is that custom or an option from McMillian? What shooting 'bench' is that?

Its the standard A5 stock, the color is just the color percentages we asked to have the stock made in. Each mcmillan stock has the colors hand laid for the gel coat finished stocks so each is truly unique. That bench is an old Varmint Masters bench. In my opinion the very best portable bench ever made. Sadly, caldwell bought out the rights to build this bench. I purchased another one a couple years ago and while still the same basic design, fit was much less quality. Luckily owning a machine shop it was easy to machine shims to tighten up the main post fit but not all can do this as easily. Still one of the best out there by design but sadly not what they used to be.

 

[FEENIX]

Nice to see you back, Kirby. It is always nice to see some of your masterpieces.

Ed

 

[Fiftydriver]

Nice to see back, Kirby. It is always nice to see some of your masterpieces.

Ed

 

[HARPERC]

I like the "arctic" look. I've got 2 similar.

I just figured you were busy with back log.

 

[Fiftydriver]

I like the "arctic" look. I've got 2 similar.

I just figured you were busy with back log.

That is pretty much the case for sure bit need to get back into the community!

 

[Len Backus]

I will admit, there was a span of around a decade where i was spending hours each day posting threads, replying to comments and questions and just hanging out on LRH.com. In fact it was LRH.com that helped me get my business started 20 years ago now….. for the past several years however i have not had much of a presence here on LRH other then being a sponsor and occasionally popping in to see what was going on. Need to change that so i am going to do better at posting interesting customer projects as well as any new testing or developments with my products.

wanted to start today with just a bit of gun porn from some projects that have left the shop recently.

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This is one of my APS Stalker Tac rifles. Standard features include:
- APS Stalker Hunter receiver
- Bartlein Stainless steel custom Stalker contour barrel, 27" length, fluted
- My small Painkiller muzzle brake
- Bead blast matte finish on barreled receiver
- Sunny Hill hinged floorplate internal mag system (single shot and detachable mag available also)
- Jewell trigger set at 1 lb pull weight
- McMillan A5 tactical stock with Adjustable CP and forend rail for bipod mount
- Pillar bedding

this one has a 50% white, 30% grey and 20% black marble finish. Usually not a huge fan of the arctic camo type colors but this one is quite striking. This one like many of my customer rifle builds are chambered in commecially available rounds. This one the great 300 RUM. Legit 1000 yard reach and extremely mild to shoot with very little recoil as my small PK brakes were designed specifically for use with this 90-120 grains powder charge range and hitting 1/2 moa targets at 1K yards or more is quite consistently easy.

Good to see you!

Kirby built my 500 yard bolt action handgun which was very successful hunting deer and antelope.

In fact with it I met a bunch of specialty pistol guys including Ernie Bishop on a group antelope hunt in Wyoming.

Ernie spotted for me on my 500 yard kill shot and then ... he carried my meat miles back to the cars.

I was still in recovery from a knee surgery.

Kirby....more pictures please.

 

[MallardAddict]

Welcome back Kirby. I have always appreciated your being open with your experiences and telling your findings honestly. Smiths like yourselves that share freely (Wheeler, Pierce, Lane etc included) are a valuable asset here.

 

[ButterBean]

I will admit, there was a span of around a decade where i was spending hours each day posting threads, replying to comments and questions and just hanging out on LRH.com. In fact it was LRH.com that helped me get my business started 20 years ago now….. for the past several years however i have not had much of a presence here on LRH other then being a sponsor and occasionally popping in to see what was going on. Need to change that so i am going to do better at posting interesting customer projects as well as any new testing or developments with my products.

wanted to start today with just a bit of gun porn from some projects that have left the shop recently.

View attachment 383246
This is one of my APS Stalker Tac rifles. Standard features include:
- APS Stalker Hunter receiver
- Bartlein Stainless steel custom Stalker contour barrel, 27" length, fluted
- My small Painkiller muzzle brake
- Bead blast matte finish on barreled receiver
- Sunny Hill hinged floorplate internal mag system (single shot and detachable mag available also)
- Jewell trigger set at 1 lb pull weight
- McMillan A5 tactical stock with Adjustable CP and forend rail for bipod mount
- Pillar bedding

this one has a 50% white, 30% grey and 20% black marble finish. Usually not a huge fan of the arctic camo type colors but this one is quite striking. This one like many of my customer rifle builds are chambered in commecially available rounds. This one the great 300 RUM. Legit 1000 yard reach and extremely mild to shoot with very little recoil as my small PK brakes were designed specifically for use with this 90-120 grains powder charge range and hitting 1/2 moa targets at 1K yards or more is quite consistently easy.

Glad to see you back

 

[meatyrem]

Great to see your presence back on here.
The gun porn is always appreciated