My new baby shoots too!!!! hehehe

[Guest]

Had to fire today.. I fired 12... just couldn't wait ....

1st 6 .. 1 celan, 1clean, 1clean 3 shot group....

next 6 same thing..

You can see the last 2 shot are **** near on top of each other!! The 3 shot group is between the pen lines....

Mr. Matthews my hat is off to you!!!

 

[Jon Bischof]

How much does the whole outfit weigh?
By the way, those are great groups for a rifle that is not even half a box of ammo old!

 

[Guest]

Hi Ric
Early days but looks like a keeper! BTW what distance?
What was the plan behind this caliber? Push a little more weight than the WSM?
By the way how heavy is the complete rig?
Your earlier post with the initial photos showed a much darker camo job than you usually have?
Is Chris still with George at GAP or this a new venture? The Long Shot rifle bit?
All the best
APB

 

[Guest]

Chris @ [email protected] he works for GA as well but is venturing out on his own too...

those first 12 were fired at 100 yards
I havn't wieghed the rifle but it is around the 15 lb range.

I kinda wanted a dark color... and the reasoning for the WM was I wanted to push a bit heavier bullet.. 220's are my goal...

The WSM is an Ideal caliber for teh 190's but I feel any heavier and you need the case capacity of the WM....

 

[Guest]

So how does the new Badger brake work ,how would you rate it as opposed to say Vias or OPS as far as noise and recoil?

 

[Guest]

Did some more shooting.... ;-)

All I have to say is that I tried different powders... with different charge wieghts and never got a bigger group than .5
That is a testiment to the way Mr. Matthews builds a rifle... I am not even done with break in and this this is a screamer!

this is using the 220SMK

heres a load of
H 4831 SC 68.5 grs. + 2710 fps Avg.
1 fowler and a 3 shot group!!

Here is a group with H1000 74.0 grs = 2770 fps

1 fowler and a 3 shot group