This is from the original ad where I purchased the rifle. It has been everything claimed. I am going to either sell the rifle and have a duplicate built or have it rebarreled with a carbon barrel to cut down on the weight. I have an additional 8lbs of powder and another 750 or so primers that will be included with the rifle. I prefer to sell the rifle separately and keep the Swarovski. I have shot the rifle a total of 4rds. I love the caliber and I will duplicate the chambering except in something less than 13lbs. The 4rds pictured were at 500yds on a super windy afternoon.
Rifle, rings, dies, powder, bullets, primers $2950 locally
Entire package is available for $5000 and I have boxes for everything in the package
I would consider a trade of a 7mm-08 custom rifle depending on the components
6.5 Ackley Improved i.e. a .280AI case necked to 6.5
-Stiller Custom action
-Helically fluted bolt, side bolt release
-M-16 extractor
-Hart Matchgrade Heavy Varmit Contour, straight flutes, 1 in 8" twist, 26" with custom muzzlebrake
-McMillan A5 Stock in McSwirly pattern (black, white, and tan. Don't know %)
-Gray Cerakote (baked on. not air dry) on all metal.
-BDL bottom metal.
-Jewell trigger set at 1.5 to 2 lbs
-Talley 30mm mounts
-Rifle weighs 12.9 lbs on my bathroom scales as pictured
-Shot .3's average with Berger 140gr Hunting bullets @ 3100fps
-All McWhorter rifles are Guaranteed 1/2 MOA and come fully broken in and load developed.
-Whidden Gunworks Full Lenth resizing and seating dies and bushing are included
-Approx 20 loaded rounds, 10 once fired Nosler Brass, and 20 resized(6.5mm necked) unfired/unloaded pieces of brass.
-To the best of my knowledge less than 50 (best guess 25-30) rounds thru the rifle
-I have one unopened box of .280AI Nosler brass, 4 unopened boxes of 140gr 6.5mm Berger 100ct bullets as well as a partial box (80ish), and 3 unopened 1lb canister, one 8lb jug, as well as a partial opened canister of Vihtavuori N165 Powder.
-I bought the rifle from someone who buys complete estate sales. Rifle was purchased in one of these sales, and I purchased from buyer once he took possession. I didn't get the loaded rounds that came from McWhorter with purchase. Judging from the bolt and bore the rifle hadn't been shot any past barrel break in and load development at McWhorter. McWhorter did provided me the load data. Once I got the correct dies with proper bushing to resize the necks the rifle easily shot 1/2 MOA. All my reloading stuff and data is packed up from a recent move, but I remember the average being 3080fps with a single digit ES. Rifle performed as expected.
Original thread over at 24hr:
***For Sale/Trade: McWhorter 6.5 Ackley Improved(6.5 X .280AI)***
***This is going off memory. I'll call McWhorter to confirm specs.*** -6.5 Ackley Improved i.e. a .280AI case necked to 6.5 -Stiller Custom action -Helically fluted bolt, side bolt release -M-16 extractor -Hart Matchgrade Heavy Varmit Contour, straight flutes, 1 in 8" twist, 26&...
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