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I keep hearing of shortages but ivebeen able to find everything just at twice the price up here in beautiful British Columbia
Ya i hear ya and id just go broke twice as fast i suppose
This is one of the rifles i wanted to give it a go with also as yours it's 308Just because a rifle is accurate and reliable doesn't make it a match rifle. That's not to say there isn't value in competing with a business gun. There's no better way to built competence. It's just important to accept that there's a competitiveness line that a gun not set up for the sport will simply not be able to cross.
These two are the same gun. The first iteration was set up as a practical rifle, something not meant to be used in controlled conditions and definitely meant to be used against things other than steel and paper targets. It's a terrible rifle to use against a clock. Weighing only 9lbs and being in .308win and with a garbage brake it was almost impossible to spot my own impacts any closer than 300m.
Here's that same rifle (literally the same serial numbered receiver) set up as a competition rifle for PRS. It's a terrible rifle to walk almost any distance with. Apart from weighing >18lbs it's got more sharp edges than a bag of razor blades. It's now in 6XC and has so little recoil that I can spot my own impacts as close as 25m.
I've shot the rifle in PRS matches in both configurations and all the stages in between. That's actually how it ended up looking like the bottom version. I wanted my scores to go up which meant being able to get all my shots off inside the time limit. Every optimization for the match course made the rifle less usable for real world practical purposes. Try hunting with the bottom version, HAH! Try competing with the top version, HAH! Don't let this sound like advice to not try, just advice to have your expectations of your performance in line with reality.
