It's nothing special but here are the specs ...
- Big Horn Arms LA SR2 action with 20 MOA rail
- 27" Lilja SS 1:9" Sendero contour 3-groove
- Chambered in .30 Lara (thanks to Dave Manson
) .30/8MM Rem Mag improved – 37.5 shoulder angle)
- XLR element chassis stock with folding adapter and tac lite buttstock and 5-round magazine (3.850" COAL)
- Timney Calvin Elite trigger (currently set at 8 ozs)
- Gunsmith: Dave Young (Young's Gunsmithing)
NOTE: With John Whidden's hydraulic forming die, I should be able to (I hope) pre-form the following brass sources; (1) 8MM Rem Mag, (2) 7 STW, (3) .375 H&H, (4) .300 H&H, (5) .416 Rem Mag, and (6) .358 STA. In addition, shoot a factory loaded .300 WBTY ammo in a pinch.
Pre-formed .300 H&H
Pre-formed 8MM Rem Mag
The sizing die will further shape the false shoulder angle.
I picked it up from my gunsmith not bedded Sunday. He felt that the folding adapter has too much slop that bedding it is not worth a darn and also just in case I need to return it to the source. Brought it home anyways because I wanted to shoot it to break-in the barrel and fire-form brass so I send the fired brass off the chamber to John Whidden to build the custom reloading dies for it.
I slapped on a temp scope laying around ...
(With Elite Iron Bravo suppressor installed.)
... so off the range I went Monday using 180g factory WBTY ammo.
Shots were at 100 yards with bipod without rear bags or bipod buddy support. I was not expecting any accuracy whatsoever but got the above anyways ...
The break-in process I used is as follows:
(1) Push wet patch using Butch's barrel shine (BBS) through the barrel (2) Wet bronze brass with BBS and stroke 5-10 times (3) Wet patch with BBS then followed by dry until clean (4) Repeat the above for each shot for the 1st 10.
The first 10 shot is un-suppressed (muzzle thread capped). Felt recoil is not too shabby at all.
Shots 11-15 and 16-20 are shot suppressed and the break-in process is the same as above except done for every 5-shots. The suppressor is quite impressive.
IMHO, I don't think the group is too bad considering the slop on the stock and it's during barrel break in process ... and meets the guaranteed accuracy noted on the ammo box.
One of the fire-formed brass with 220 ELD-X
I got the folding adapter slop fixed. I have another box of ammo to try then back to my gunsmith for bedding this weekend.
The estimated completion for the dies is 8-10 weeks so no loaded ammo until then.
Again, nothing special but I'm excited to explore it's capabilities nonetheless.
Sorry for the long post.
Cheers!
Ed
- Big Horn Arms LA SR2 action with 20 MOA rail
- 27" Lilja SS 1:9" Sendero contour 3-groove
- Chambered in .30 Lara (thanks to Dave Manson
) .30/8MM Rem Mag improved – 37.5 shoulder angle)- XLR element chassis stock with folding adapter and tac lite buttstock and 5-round magazine (3.850" COAL)
- Timney Calvin Elite trigger (currently set at 8 ozs)
- Gunsmith: Dave Young (Young's Gunsmithing)
NOTE: With John Whidden's hydraulic forming die, I should be able to (I hope
) pre-form the following brass sources; (1) 8MM Rem Mag, (2) 7 STW, (3) .375 H&H, (4) .300 H&H, (5) .416 Rem Mag, and (6) .358 STA. In addition, shoot a factory loaded .300 WBTY ammo in a pinch.
Pre-formed .300 H&H
Pre-formed 8MM Rem Mag
The sizing die will further shape the false shoulder angle.
I picked it up from my gunsmith not bedded Sunday. He felt that the folding adapter has too much slop that bedding it is not worth a darn and also just in case I need to return it to the source. Brought it home anyways because I wanted to shoot it to break-in the barrel and fire-form brass so I send the fired brass off the chamber to John Whidden to build the custom reloading dies for it.
I slapped on a temp scope laying around ...
(With Elite Iron Bravo suppressor installed.)
... so off the range I went Monday using 180g factory WBTY ammo.
Shots were at 100 yards with bipod without rear bags or bipod buddy support. I was not expecting any accuracy whatsoever but got the above anyways ...
The break-in process I used is as follows:
(1) Push wet patch using Butch's barrel shine (BBS) through the barrel (2) Wet bronze brass with BBS and stroke 5-10 times (3) Wet patch with BBS then followed by dry until clean (4) Repeat the above for each shot for the 1st 10.
The first 10 shot is un-suppressed (muzzle thread capped). Felt recoil is not too shabby at all.
Shots 11-15 and 16-20 are shot suppressed and the break-in process is the same as above except done for every 5-shots. The suppressor is quite impressive.
IMHO, I don't think the group is too bad considering the slop on the stock and it's during barrel break in process ... and meets the guaranteed accuracy noted on the ammo box
.
One of the fire-formed brass with 220 ELD-X
I got the folding adapter slop fixed. I have another box of ammo to try then back to my gunsmith for bedding this weekend.
The estimated completion for the dies is 8-10 weeks so no loaded ammo until then.
Again, nothing special but I'm excited to explore it's capabilities nonetheless.
Sorry for the long post.
Cheers!
Ed
